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Wild side slide: Sonny Landreth reveals his behind-the-bottleneck secrets.
John Hiatt steps back from the mic and nods to the wiry guitarist to his right. Swooping notes and stuttering double-stops fill the cavernous rehearsal hall in Nashville's Soundcheck complex as Hiatt's band, the Goners, shifts into high gear. Riding a churning wave of drums, bass, and flat-top, ace slider Sonny Landreth leans toward his Matchless cab to coax searing tones from his battered sunburst Gibson Firebird. Riffing his way up to the twelfth position, he reaches behind his quivering bottleneck to stroke the strings. As Landreth's silvery overtones swell into feedback, Hiatt pounds out the song's closing cadence. "Awesome," he says with an approving grin.
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