OffBeat’s April cover artist, local painter Dona Simons, has painted Sonny Landreth more than 30 times.

Her Lakeview house is full of him: Sonny standing on a bed of sea coral surrounded by floating guitars; Sonny jamming with a friend on a festival stage; Sonny playing a naked woman in front of Gallier Hall. She also has a series of paintings of just his hands.

“Why would you need to do that many portraits of one person?” Si...