Blacktop Run

Description

A percussive burst of acoustic resonator guitar pushes the narrator on a journey between the life I left and the edge of next in the title cut of guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Sonny Landreths new album Blacktop Run. As the singer feels the wind at his back, a rising bass line intersects Landreths vocalizing to stretch the fingerpicked tune into Far Eastern melodicism. The south Louisiana artists groundbreaking work has long mixed familiarity with experimentation, and his latest ten-song collection stretches from hard-edged electric instrumentals to wistful acoustic ballads. The projects range is the fruit of a renewed collaboration. Producer RS Field who helmed Landreths trio of breakout albums joined the six-stringer and co-producer Tony Daigle to finish the record which mixes genres and styles across a landscape of lyricism and rootsy grooves.