Sonny Landreth

Sportsmens presents

Sonny Landreth

Saturday, July 26, 2025 8pm $40.00 ($44.10 w/online fee)

New frontiers fit nicely atop the boundary-breaking career of singer-songwriter and slide guitar icon Sonny Landreth. From performing live with Buddy Guy and John Hiattin theaters andarenas around the United States, to post-New Orleans Jazz Fest jamming on bayou rhythms withOteil Burbridge and Johnny Vidacovich, to recording and playing live with ukulele phenom JakeShimabukuro at The Blue Note in Hawaii, it’s been a noteworthy couple of years for the two-time Grammy nominee. And those are just hissideprojects

“One of the things I love about collaborations with other artists is the element of surprise,”Landreth says of his continually expanding musical horizons. “When the chemistry is there, it’salways inspiring tofind new twists and turns that up the game creatively.”

Landreth tours regularly in a duo with fellow slide guitar ace Cindy Cashdollar as well as with hisown electric and acoustic trio. From every edition of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival toWintergrass to Camp Cripple Creek for Jim Weider’s The Weight Band and beyond, Landreth andhis musical partners are always reaching for the unexpected and unexplored. He’s twice gracedthe cover ofGuitar Playermagazine, and he’s featured on the lead track of Shemekia Copeland’sGrammy-nominated albumDone Come Too Far.

Stretching in different directions, Landreth says, “gives you a broader perspective – and I thinkthat impacts every aspect of making music. I know it’s helped to make our shows morememorable and more fun for everyone onstage and in the audience too.”

Landreth apprenticed with zydeco king Clifton Chenier’s Red Hot Louisiana Band and a hostof other accomplished roots artists.

•Eric Clapton says, “Sonny Landreth is probably the most underestimated musician on theplanet, and also probably one of the most advanced.

”•Landreth’s innovative guitar techniques have opened doors to new sonic textures and acomplex tonal vocabulary. His expressive, ethereal guitar work can be heard on hundreds ofrecordings from artists ranging from John Mayall to Irma Thomas.