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Musicbrainz DBCongo Square
Sonny Landreth, Mel Melton, Dave Ranson
might be superstition but some kind of somethin'
goin' on down there
it might be superstition but some kind of somethin'
goin' on down there
it's an old time tradition when they play their
drums at night in Congo Square
you can hear 'em in the distance
and the old folks up the bayou say a prayer
you can hear 'em in the distance
and the old folks up the bayou say a prayer
that's when the voodoo people gather
and they play their drums at night in Congo Square
... voodoo people
my eyes were not believin'
what I seen there but I could not turn away
my eyes were not believin'
what I seen there but I could not turn away
they had that mojo in motion
and I seen 'em dance in trance with that snake
... snake dance
it might be superstition
but when I hear 'em in the night I say a prayer
yeah it might be superstition
but when I hear 'em in the night I say a prayer
because I respects tradition
like the kind they carry on in Congo Square
... Congo Square
| rromulus | Posted: May 10, 2013 - 09:53 Yeah! This guy can channel Stevie-Ray and yet still be himself rockin all over the place! |
| nicolewe | Posted: May 10, 2013 - 09:52 Screamin' geetar right there.  |
| wrangler (swamps of jersey) | Posted: May 10, 2013 - 09:52 just back from jazzfest - love that n'awlins! saw the black crowes in a theatre just off congo square  |
| shellbella (so california) | Posted: May 10, 2013 - 09:52 Looking forward to seeing Sonny at the Doheny Blues Fest this year!! |
| DaidyBoy (Bristol, UK) | Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 06:08 helgigermany wrote: Thanx for information(serios). I also try to download only the songs i like. Sometimes not easy, specially with new cds. Try on Spotify for free before wasting your money. Works a treat |
| Ghiaap (Haarlo, The Netherlands) | Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 06:04  |
| Rotterdam | Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 06:03 WonderLizard wrote: A guitar player's guitar player. Dude's amazing, especially live. I don't play guitar myself, but I think he is terrific. Can't even think of adjectives/adverbs to describe what I feel... |
| LizK (Houston, Texas) | Posted: Mar 08, 2013 - 18:27  Everybody in my swamp loves this! . |
| Pedro1874 (Newton-le-Willows, England) | Posted: Feb 05, 2013 - 10:38 helgigermany wrote: Thats my music! Yeah, yeah, yeah!! Oh YEAH, mine too  |
| ch83575 | Posted: Feb 05, 2013 - 10:38 WonderLizard wrote: A guitar player's guitar player. Apparently so... I don't play guitar, and I just cant stand this! |
| WonderLizard (2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise) | Posted: Feb 05, 2013 - 10:29 A guitar player's guitar player. Dude's amazing, especially live. |
| Ericocean (Cumberland, Maryland) | Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 09:27 He's good. If I remember correctly, I saw him at the Boathouse in Norfolk Va with John Hiatt as a member of the Goners (before a hurricane blew it down). I think he plays with Jimmy Buffett too. |
| newbaby (houston texas but wish is was home in new orleans) | Posted: Nov 03, 2012 - 09:24 i'm from new orleans and you have NO IDEA how this makes my soul dance inside and out. thanks radioparadise! |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 00:07 billybob123 wrote: Bought this studio album after hearing it here. Wife's a big blues guitar fan, me less so, but I like this song. The album is really lame though. Some supremely weak tracks. Shoulda just downloaded a couple tracks. Thanx for information(serios). I also try to download only the songs i like. Sometimes not easy, specially with new cds. |
| helgigermany (Germany) | Posted: Oct 02, 2012 - 23:57 Thats my music! Yeah, yeah, yeah!! |
| q4Fry (Currently stateside) | Posted: Sep 02, 2012 - 20:26 Wikipedia says this album was released in 2005 |
| BBOGDA (Oswego) | Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 11:03 Like it a lot. |
| marcel (some 10.000 km east of paradise) | Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 10:59 Great stuff. First got confused, because I heard Paul Brady's voice, but the music wasn't really his, was it now.... |
| DD rabbi_phil (beach) | Posted: Sep 01, 2012 - 10:56 (pretend green italics).... everyone in my kayak loves this song |
| ziakut (Albeit In The Meantime) | Posted: May 29, 2012 - 16:54 I'm likin' this live version of this tune very much! Yep. |
| billybob123 (Southern California) | Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 13:27 Bought this studio album after hearing it here. Wife's a big blues guitar fan, me less so, but I like this song. The album is really lame though. Some supremely weak tracks. Shoulda just downloaded a couple tracks. |
| gemtag (Texas) | Posted: Feb 24, 2012 - 13:26 Sonny can play. He is the best |
| djengs | Posted: Jan 23, 2012 - 20:34 Sjaaks wrote: Wow! I love the way he makes the guitar cry and scream... Yeah, I think a lot of players would be thrilled to hit half the notes by accident that he hits on purpose. |
| raga (Italy - Como) | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 02:41 please meake it STOP |
| Sjaaks (Horst, Netherlands) | Posted: Dec 23, 2011 - 02:40 Wow! I love the way he makes the guitar cry and scream... |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 09:07 I'm usually a big fan of kitty-torture guitar playing, but there is something about the tone of Landreth's guitar I just don't care for. |
| jt1 | Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 09:07 This song proves that Einstein was right about time being relative. For the lovers of the music, the time until it ends passes far too quickly, and for anyone not enjoying it this will seem like a rough demonstration of eternity. ...good value if you select it on a jukebox though! |
| HazzeSwede (Vinyl Land) | Posted: Nov 21, 2011 - 09:06  ...I just love live music !  |
| Cynaera (In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | Posted: Oct 20, 2011 - 19:03 Listening to this song after learning of Muammar Quaddafi's death just makes me realize, more than ever, that things are no longer the status quo. The balance is shifting, and I'm a little bit afraid of what will happen. I thought we had a voice, but all these things have taken place without my contribution. |
| calypsus_1 | Posted: Aug 13, 2011 - 21:53 Mark Knopfler & Sonny Landreth - Je Suis Désolé, Live |
| Alexandra (Hopefully, departing the Gem City VERY soon) | Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 09:39 aelfheld wrote: Then we're both going to Hell. And me too......I can appreciate this guy's amazing guitar talent, but it does run on...............it would probably be best heard live. |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 09:38 Sonny has done several incantations of this old song and they are all absolutely rocking! The best Congo Square I've ever heard was played by the Grambling university Marching Band some 20 years ago ... Big Chief of The Congo Nation, Senior lives on .... |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Jul 18, 2011 - 09:31 8—>9 |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: May 16, 2011 - 02:47 Excellent! Some sh1t-hot guitar to wake me up on a Monday morning, after the snoozesom double Dead-fest earlier. Can this guy play the feckin' blues guitar, or what? 8 from the Nottingham jury. |
| Businessgypsy (Deepest, Darkest Florida) | Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 13:12 Who's joining me at Jazz fest for Sonny's set? Coming right up! |
| vandal (arriving somewhere, but not here. . .) | Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 13:10 Abso-freaking-lutely crushes that obscenely lame version by the Nevilles. . . |
| Andy_B | Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 13:09 meuks wrote: One of the great "unknowns"! Prior to hearing this on RP, a complete unknown for me but he's definately worth a 9 at first blush. |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Apr 14, 2011 - 13:08 Had a Sonny Landreth CD years ago that I never really liked. This song makes me wonder why the hell I didn't, though. To me, his guitar is such a nice combination of occasional crazy abandon with mostly veiled - but almost ominously well-coiled - restraint. Love it. The drumming (except the solo - thankfully short in my opinion) expertly and tastefully punches away beautifully in the background. The CD? Oh, yeah, it was called "South of I-10" and, like I said, I wish I had it back to listen to now. Not only that, it had a studio version of this song on it. Evidently I am an idiot. Clearly, however, this is purely opinion - not to mention one not shared by everyone below - and that's ok. |
| meuks | Posted: Feb 10, 2011 - 17:16 One of the great "unknowns"! |
| (former member) (Phoenixville, PA) | Posted: Jan 10, 2011 - 10:27 I have his CD version of this and hit replay on the Shuffle when I'm running and it comes on. When I heard the first few bars of this version I knew I knew it but it wasn't the same and I'm enjoying this as well. |
| ri_shelton (A few clicks up the river) | Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 12:09 Huh. I like this version better than the one I heard yesterday, and the one the day before. I guess winter break becomes my opportunity to sample the entire RP playlist. |
| fingerpin (oHIo) | Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 12:00 7 fer singin' 'bout voodoo.  |
| aelfheld | Posted: Dec 30, 2010 - 11:56 Jamunca wrote: Maybe it's blasphemy but if I never heard this song again in my life, I'd be ok with it. Then we're both going to Hell. |
| Jamunca (Asheville, NC) | Posted: Nov 28, 2010 - 19:51 Maybe it's blasphemy but if I never heard this song again in my life, I'd be ok with it. |
| nu11 | Posted: Oct 29, 2010 - 11:58 I am standing here at the heineken music hall listening to that song bein performed LIVE now it is awsome |
| sailorgirl | Posted: Oct 07, 2010 - 13:21 Really?? Not for me sorry  |
| ianmoff (Nr London UK) | Posted: Oct 07, 2010 - 13:21 keller1 wrote: Contentious type that I am, I couldn't disagree more. One of a very short list of beefs that I have with the programming choices made here is that music like this, which I'll loosely term jam music, is underrepresented. This tune is a testament to monumental chops and a groove a mile deep, and in my view RP could use a lot more of this and a lot less Radiohead. "and in my view RP could use a lot more of this and a lot less Radiohead.' Or reggae :-( |
| 2cats (Oklahoma) | Posted: Oct 07, 2010 - 13:20 my oh my |
| hedgie (Pleasantville) | Posted: Oct 07, 2010 - 13:19 Sonny was a killer opening act for Crossroads this year. Loved it. |
| paulmack (the hissing swamps) | Posted: Oct 07, 2010 - 13:16 paulmack wrote: might be going from an 8 to a 9 for me... This time I am pushing this song up to a '9'. |
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