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...Landreth said the lawsuit’s complexity has kept it out of the public eye. During commencement, the students plan to distribute information to explain the intricacies of the lawsuit...
...point is that there is a serious issue here that people have brushed under the rug,” said Natalie A. Landreth, a third-year law student who is organizing the action...
...Sonny Landreth/"Levee Town...
...Sonny Landreth, who made his name as the guitarist for John Hiatt on the "Slow Turning" album about 10 years ago, manages to dodge both of these bullets on his second solo outing, "Levee Town," turning out a sturdy batch of bluesy "swamp pop" that's fairly dripping with riffsome virtuosity. Landreth's bailiwick is electric slide guitar, to which he brings a a killer sound and a revved-up attitude that takes the legacy of Ry Cooder and Lowell George and gooses...
...sounds like greased lightning with legs; imagine a guitar equivalent of Blues Traveler harpist John Popper, and you're halfway there. But it's not mere flash; the songs hold up on their own even as they provide showcases for the guitarist's highly evolved style. The lyrics reveal Landreth's deep preoccupation with his Louisiana heritage, and most of the songs revolve around a kind of Cajun mythology, with an occasionally felicitous turn of phrase like "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"; musically, Landreth filters the zydeco and Crescent City traditions through a more modern roots-rock lens. But the blues...