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Tommy Castro - 73% match to Sonny Landreth

Albert Cummings - 67% match to Sonny Landreth

Coco Montoya - 67% match to Sonny Landreth

Santa Monica, California, USA. Montoya first rose to prominence in 1972 when a chance meeting in Culver City, California, led him to join Albert Collins’ band as drummer. He took every opportunity to study the master guitarist closely over the five years they worked together. Thereafter Montoya concentrated on his day job, until another chance meeting shaped his future. Read more

Willie & Lobo - 62% match to Sonny Landreth

Walter Trout - 61% match to Sonny Landreth

Jill Barber - 59% match to Sonny Landreth

Tinsley Ellis - 59% match to Sonny Landreth

4 June 1957, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Like many American musicians of his generation, Ellis first took up the guitar at the age of seven, inspired by groups in the late 60s British blues rock invasion. While playing in rock bands, he took an increasing interest in the work of Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker and particularly in guitarists Freddie King, Buddy Read more

James McMurtry - 58% match to Sonny Landreth

18 March 1962, Fort Worth, Texas, USA. Raised in Leesburg, Virginia, McMurtry’s father is award-winning novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry. Encouraged by his mother, an English teacher, James began playing guitar at the age of seven and soon began showing musical ability and a liking for country and rock. He began writing songs during his teens, occasionally perfo Read more

Chris Duarte Group - 57% match to Sonny Landreth

Dave Hole - 56% match to Sonny Landreth

30 March 1948, Heswall, Cheshire, England. Hole’s family moved to Perth, Western Australia, when he was four years old. The music of the Rolling Stones inspired him to pick up the guitar, and through them he discovered Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. He had been playing for some 10 years before he took up slide guitar. A broken little finger caused him to play over Read more

Tab Benoit - 55% match to Sonny Landreth

17 November 1967, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA. Benoit started out playing classic rock cover versions in local bands. A gifted young guitarist, he was satisfied with this kind of music until a friend played him a copy of a Buddy Guy record. His musical world turned upside-down, Benoit set about recreating Guy’s deep-rooted emotion, adopting his style and researching mor Read more

Robben Ford - 52% match to Sonny Landreth

Robben Lee Ford, 16 December 1951, Woodlake, California, USA. A jazz, blues and rock guitarist, Robben is the most celebrated member of the musical Ford family. His father Charles was a country musician, and his brothers Patrick and Mark are bluesmen, playing drums and harmonica, respectively. Inspired initially by Mike Bloomfield and Eric Clapton, Ford’s first professi Read more

Bodeans - 51% match to Sonny Landreth

Indigenous - 51% match to Sonny Landreth

Bluesy hard rock is not usually associated with American Indians, but bands such as Indigenous prove to be an anomaly. Originating from the Nakota Sioux Nation, the members of Indigenous were raised on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota, USA, and include two brothers, Mato Nanji (vocals/guitar) and Pte (bass), a sister, Wandbi (drums), plus a cousin, Horse (percussi Read more

Delbert McClinton - 48% match to Sonny Landreth

4 November 1940, Lubbock, Texas, USA. This white R&B artist honed his craft working in a bar band, the Straitjackets, backing visiting blues giants such as Sonny Boy Williamson, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Jimmy Reed. McClinton made his first recordings as a member of the Ron-Dels, and was noted for his distinctive harmonica work on Bruce Channel’s Read more