Got to provide production for Roy Rogers, John Hyatt and Stevie Ray Vaughn back in the day….what an honor! What a show! This was during Stevie’s Live Alive! tour.
John Hiatt rocks! I saw them live in NYC around this time. The best. Sonny's playing is sick! I think his biggest influence must be Johnny Winter. This band is perfection. Great clip.
Sonny Landreth is a freak of nature. Hiatt has back to back albums (Bring The Family & Slow Turning) with Ry Cooder & Sonny Landreth respectively. Has a singer songwriter EVER had that caliber on consecutive albums?
@Marktuber1 My pleasure. I was aware of John Hiatt as a songwriter in the late '80s, but I didn't appreciate him as a live performer until late one night in 1988 when he and The Goners tore it up on Late Night With David Letterman doing "Slow Turning." Fell in love with that song and with that unforgettable slide guitar lick from one Sonny Landreth. Always make sure to see them live whenever they tour the Pacific Northwest.
Saw him once, in a small bar, maybe 50 to 100 people total. I was less than 10 ft away from him for the whole show. Had no idea how THAT worked out that way.
True. And even worse in my opinion is that they didn’t start with the riff-thing, wrong beat, and it has a weird backup thing that was not in the original
saw him end the newport folk festival with this song solo / great to watch the line of grim state police in front of the stage smile at the last line where he's in prison/
Die Band "Aaschglatt" hat das Lied auch gecovert. Zwar anders, aber mit dem Einfluss von Hiatt. Der Song heißt "Sex, Drugs und Rock'n Roll. Auch gut...
I went to see this band on the Bring The family tour. I was picking up my tickets in the afternoon before the gig and bumped into the band and had a quick chat. John wasn't with them. They were not a happy bunch and didn't seem to be enjoying the tour. I went away saying to myself, "Blimey, his band don't like him".
@@garyclements6946 , there's an excellent video on RU-vid of Sonny playing on "Dreams" with Warren Haynes, the Allman Brothers and a sax player. It's mesmerizing.
