Sonny Landreth fans should prepare for a special treat at his local concerts this week. Now working on his first all-instrumental recording, the Louisiana-born king of the slide guitar will play some of his newer all-instrumental songs that he plans to soon release as a new album. In crafting the album, Landreth had plenty of material from which to choose, but said he has spent more time tweaking the songs than he expected, thus slowing the project a bit.

“So far we have cut about 13 songs,” he said. “I could probably do three instrumental projects in a row if I wanted to [because of all the material I have]….I have actually gone in pretty deep, compositionally speaking, with how I would like it to relate to the voice of the guitar and the concept.”