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Sonny Landreth and Cindy Cashdollar Take On Elgin Community College/Blizzard Theatre
Slide guitarist Sonny Landreth and steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar shared the same stage in a mostly duet performance. Sonny opened the show solo for four songs. He was then joined by Cindy Cashdollar.
Mr. Landreth’s performance was not disappointing. His playing style is quite unique. He wears the slide on his pinky finger unlike most players. This allows him three free fingers. He uses them to fret notes behind the slide. He can also switch between fretted and slide notes. Nobody really does this quite like him. Cindy played 3 different types of steel guitars lap style.
Landreth provided vocals on about one third of the songs, the rest instrumental. It was mostly original material with a few tasty blues covers. It was very nice to see two seasoned veterans at work. Sonny was in Joan Hiatt’s band a while and has shared the stage with Eric Clapton and a host of others.
Cindy’s credentials are too numerous to mention and was inducted into the Texas Steel Guitar Hall of Fame. Overall an outstanding performance.
My only criticism would be the mix clearly favored Landreth’s guitar. It was often hard to hear Cashdollar. Still highly entertaining to say the least. They truly saved the best for last. When they came back for the encore, it was the best song of the night. A beautiful piece dedicated to a fallen friend. Very nice indeed. Nice to see two musicians of this caliber come together for such and amazing performance.
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