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Article: Landreth's version of blues straight from bayou country.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- November 12, 2000
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Byline: Mark Guarino Daily Herald Music Critic
From north to south on the Mississippi River, the climate changes, and so does the music that was born alongside it.
The main export the river has historically transported up its muddy banks is the blues. In Chicago, the blues is hard-edged and almost abrasive, but down at the river's tip, in Louisiana, the blues loosens up and becomes how you'd normally describe the topography there: swampy.
Sonny Landreth plays swampy blues, the type with a swagger and a rhythm that's snaky, a bit sinister-sounding and always unpredictable. At his show Friday at FitzGerald's in Berwyn (the first of two nights), ...