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This story is featured in the March 22 issue of CityBeat.
If guitar is your passion, whether through listening or playing, one of the more inspirational shows of the year will be the six-string nirvana pairing of Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar at the Southgate House Revival on March 30. Landreth, a Louisiana-based bluesman, has been a renowned slide player for decades, earning his cred way back as a young prodigy and eventually developing into a master. Blacktop Run, his most recent release in 2020, combines electric, Cajun blues instrumentals, Southern swamp-rock and acoustic roots anchored by his emotional vocals and fingerpicked National steel guitar. Landreth’s history also includes gigs as a member of John Hiatt & The Goners, as well as collaborations with John Mayall, Allen Toussaint and Eric Clapton.
Landreth discusses his diverse influences with Premiere Guitar, and explains, “I heard BB King when I was 16, and at a funky little club in Louisiana I heard Clifton Chenier for the first time — the Zydeco King. He invited me inside and my world changed that night. I also saw, heard, and met Jimi Hendrix in the late-‘60s when he played Baton Rouge.”
A former member of Asleep at the Wheel, the veteran Texas swing band, Cindy Cashdollar is a lap-steel, dobro-playing virtuoso. Like Landreth, she has collaborated with the best, adding her steel guitar twang on many records by artists including Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Dolly Parton as a studio musician. Landreth and Cashdollar share the stage as a seated duo on this tour, accompanying each other on guitar and vocals as they deliver country and blues standards and their own music.
Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar play the Southgate House Revival March 30. The Suitcase Junket opens the show. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8 p.m. Info: southgatehouse.com.
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This article appears in Mar 8-21, 2023.