The last 5 questions were just for fun, the second place winner even got two of those correct! Great job!
Special thanks to Steve Conn and Jim Krizek who helped write some of the questions.
And again, thank you Sonny for so generously donating the personally autographed items and for autographing the tee-shirts and photos for me. Thanks to Judy from sonnyskrewe.org for giving me a great deal on the shirts and to Jim for the beautiful concert photo of Sonny.

The winners are:
1st place: Georgia G. from New York
2nd place: Julili F. from Georgia
For the prize list, click this link

1. Who toured with "Bayou Rhythm" for awhile in the early 1980's playing sax and keyboards?
C.J. Chenier

2. In what studio and town did Sonny record Way Down in Louisiana?
Crowley, LA and Master Trak

3. At which music store did Sonny work in Lafayette?
Prof Erny's source: Steve Conn and Sonny

4. What was the name of the first music video released by Sonny Landreth and what festival was going on during the filming of it?
Native Stepson, Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana source: Blues Access.com

5. Considering only Sonny's own recorded material, and not any guest appearances on others' material, and not Hiatt and the Goners material, what were the last two totally non-slide guitar songs Sonny recorded?
"'Ol Lady Luck" and "The Road We're On" source: Sonny's Lagniappe page

6. Sonny Landreth’s Grant Street CD won an award for Graphic Design in 2006, what was the award and who was the graphic designer?
Gold ADDY Award, Megan Barra source: acadianaadfed.com

7. Sonny has mentioned "Mississippi John Hurt" as one of his finger picking guitar influences. John Hurt made his first scratchy recordings in 1928, but like many other pre-war blues musicians, he resumed another occupation and fell into obscurity after the war. Happily for Sonny and another generation of guitar pickers, however, John Hurt was found, his recording career revived and his music rediscovered by the folk music generation of the 1960s on the basis of a single clue he left in one of the songs he recorded in 1928. Name the clue, and the title of the song.
"Avalon's my home town", Avalon Blues (Avalon, Mississippi) source: mindspring.com

8. The US Army Corp of Engineers intends to use the Atchafalaya River as a relief flood path for New Orleans in the event of extreme flood conditions on the Mississippi River upstream. Name the structure or project that was constructed to enable this exact function.
The Morganza Spillway and Floodway source: visi.com
Everyone thought it was the "old river control structure" which is a few miles from the Morganza Spillway and serves a similar purpose
Since everyone guessed the same thing, it didn't make a difference

9. Lafayette, LA is the home of the 3rd oldest oak tree recognized by the “Live Oak Society”. Where in Lafayette is it located and what is it called?
Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, “The St. John Oak” this tree is incredible, a must see if you're in Lafayette!

10. The Saint Charles streetcar line in New Orleans and the San Francisco, California cable cars both share this honor, what is it?
They are the nation's only mobile national monuments source: 50states.com

Just for Fun questions:

1. What was the name of the band Sonny formed in Estes Park, Colorado in 1975 with Steve Conn?
"Juke" source: Steve Conn

2. What was the name of the Boulder, Colorado night club where "Bayou Rhythm" played many Monday Night Madness gigs in the early 1980's?
"Jose Muldoon's" source: Steve Conn

3. What type of business did you have to walk through to get to the original Master Trak studio?
Beauty Salon (you always had to take the stairs because the elevator was broke and it was on the 3rd and 4th floors) source: Steve Conn

4. Name one of the songs on either of Sonny's first two 45's. (you know, those small vinyl things :o)
The first 45 was a Huey Meaux release and had "Ain't Gonna Worry" and "Looking for a Good Time."
The first on Master Trak records, was "The Lid's Off the Town" and "Silent Echo." source: Steve Conn and Sonny

5. Due to excessive levee and canal development, the natural subsidence of Louisiana delta land has been substantially increased in the past century over what it was in prehistoric times. On average, how much land has the state of Louisiana lost every day to the gulf from accelerated subsidence for the past few decades?
60 acres source: Scientific American magazine, October, 2001

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