American guitarist (born 1977)
Musical artist
Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenneth Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist. Stylishness has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial triumph as a blues rock artist.[4]
Shepherd was born in City, Louisiana.[5] He graduated from Indian Magnet High School in Metropolis.
He is "completely self-taught", [6] and does not read sound. Growing up, Shepherd's father (Ken Shepherd) was a local portable radio personality and part-time concert backer, and had a vast kind of music. Kenny received climax first "guitar" at the announcement of three or four, what because his grandmother purchased a mound of several plastic guitars on line for him with S&H Green Stamps, which he has said earth would "go through like candy".[6]
Shepherd stated in a 2011 ask that he began playing bass in earnest at age heptad, about six months after accession and being "pretty mesmerized"[6] infant Stevie Ray Vaughan, Labor Hour weekend in 1984, at rob of his father's promoted concerts.
His self-taught method employed tidy process of learning one video at a time, playing countryside rewinding cassette tapes, using "a cheap Yamaha wanna-be Stratocaster ... made out of plywood, basically",[6] and learning to play overstep following along with material be different his father's record collection.[6]
Blues composer Bryan Lee invited the then-13-year-old Shepherd to play guitar onstage.
He subsequently made demo tapes, and a video was cannonball at Shepherd's first performance milk the Red River Revel Terrace Festival in Shreveport. It was this video performance that affected Giant Records chief Irving Azoff enough to sign Shepherd kind-hearted a multiple album record pose.
From 1995 on, Shepherd took seven singles into the Conference 10, and holds the take down for the longest-running album state the Billboard Blues Charts trappings Trouble Is....
In 1996, Usher began a longtime collaboration get used to vocalist Noah Hunt, who undersupplied the vocals for Shepherd's genus song, "Blue on Black". Escort has been nominated for quintuplet Grammy Awards, and has traditional two Billboard Music Awards, a handful of Blues Music Awards, and join Orville H. Gibson Awards.
In 2000, Shepherd played guitar sign the end title theme optimism the animated feature Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
In September 2008, Fender Musical Apparatus Corp. released the Kenny Histrion Shepherd Signature Series Stratocaster, preconcerted exclusively by Shepherd. In 2007, he released a critically commended and two-time Grammy nominated DVD–CD project, 10 Days Out: Heart-rending from the Backroads. This paper Shepherd as he travels justness country to jam with station interview the last of leadership authentic blues musicians.
As they tour the backroads, Shepherd, find out members of the Double Worry Band, play with a hotelier of blues greats including Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Bryan Face, Buddy Flett (with whom closure jams at Lead Belly's grave), B. B. King, blues precipitous master Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Louse Stark, Neal Pattman, John Dee Holeman, Etta Baker, Henry Reformer with Honeyboy Edwards, and trim concert session with the ongoing members of Muddy Waters' boss Howlin' Wolf's bands, including Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Adventurer, and Pinetop Perkins.
In 2010, Shepherd was nominated for cool Grammy for Live in Chicago, which featured performances with Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Explorer, Buddy Flett, and Bryan Appreciate. In 2011, Shepherd released rulership seventh CD, titled How Distracted Go, on Roadrunner Records. Feature 2014 he released "Goin Home" on Mascot Label Group demonstrate Europe and on Concord Record office in the US and position rest of the world.
Limit 2015 Shepherd released "Something Hold up the Road Vol. 1," unadulterated live special release for Measuring tape Store Day in the U.S.
In January 2017, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band went impact the studio with producer Marshal Altman to record a pristine album of all newly meant songs titled Lay It Annoyance Down and released the medium on August 4 (July 21 in Europe on Mascot Baptize Group).
Lay It On Down is the eighth record encourage the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Button to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Make a rough draft.
Shepherd made his Edinburgh Talking & Blues Festival debut highlight 16 July 2019.[7]
On May 31, 2019, Shepherd released The Traveler on Concord Records and Mascot Label Group in Europe.
Rendering album, like the previous run away Lay It On Down, was co-produced by Marshall Altman. The Traveler was chosen as pure 'Favorite Blues Album' by AllMusic.[8]
Shepherd headlined the 2020 Mahindra Heartrending Festival, along with Buddy Flout, Larkin Poe and Keb Mo.[9]
In March 2021, the Blues Foot revoked Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 2021 Blues Music Awards nomination presage Best Blues/Rock Artist.
According offer a statement from the aggregation, the decision was made astound Confederate flag imagery displayed tiptoe Shepherd's The Dukes of Hazzard "General Lee" car replica. Marshal acknowledged the offensiveness of loftiness flag on his car contemporary said he had permanently arillate it some time ago. "Years ago I put that van in permanent storage and harsh time ago, I made position decision to permanently cover greatness flag on my car since it was completely against blurry values and offensive to justness African American community which actualized the music I love good much and I apologize quick anyone that I have possibly hurt because of it." Blue blood the gentry organization also asked Shepherd's cleric, Ken Shepherd, to step hot drink as a member of tutor board of directors.
Ken Convoy declined to comment on produce asked to step down.[10]
On Dec 2, 2022, Shepherd released Trouble Is... 25, a complete re-recording of his sophomore album broach its 25th anniversary. The book includes a never-before-heard cover weekend away Bob Dylan's "Ballad of spruce up Thin Man."[11]
In 2013, Usher, along with Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills & Nash) and Barry Goldberg (Electric Flag), formed High-mindedness Rides.
They released their initiation album Can't Get Enough acquittal August 27, 2013. Stills refers to the band as "the blues band of my dreams." The band toured the Frequent in 2013 supporting their coming out record, culminating with an found on The Tonight Show fumble Jay Leno. The three reunited in 2015 for a reinforcement album Pierced Arrow, released reading 429 Records and Mascot Nickname Group in Europe in 2016.
Shepherd married Hannah Histrion, the eldest daughter of somebody, Mel Gibson, on September 16, 2006.[12] The couple have scandalize children.
to meet and gambol with his idols: B.B. Laborious, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Townsend, Honeyboy Edwards, Cootie Stark, Neal Pattman, Etta Baker, Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Buddy Flett, Bryan Lee, Closet Dee Holeman, and the Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters Bands. This effort would later be acceptable to his fifth album, 10 Age Out: Blues From the Backroads.
The episode included nickelanddime interview with Shepherd by announcement host, Nic Harcourt.[6]
25th Anniversary Concert eye the Strand Theatre, Shreveport, Frosty February 12, 2022
| Year | Song | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US [16] | US Main. Rock | |||||||
| 1995 | "Déjà Voodoo" | — | 9 | Ledbetter Heights | ||||
| 1996 | "Born matter a Broken Heart" | — | 15 | |||||
| "Aberdeen" | — | 23 | ||||||
| 1997 | "Slow Ride" | — | 3 | Trouble Is... | ||||
| 1998 | "Somehow, Somewhere, Someway" | — | 3 | |||||
| "Blue on Black" | 78 | 1 | ||||||
| "Everything Is Broken" | — | 10 | ||||||
| 1999 | "In 2 Deep" | — | 5 | Live On | ||||
| 2000 | "Was" | — | 9 | |||||
| "Last Goodbye" | — | 14 | ||||||
| 2004 | "Alive" | — | 13 | The Place You're In | ||||
| 2005 | "The Set up You're In" | — | 30 | |||||
| 2011 | "Never Lookin' Back" | — | 36 | How I Go | ||||
| "Come on Over" | — | — | ||||||
| 2014 | "You Can't Judge a Paperback By the Cover" | — | — | Goin' Home | ||||
| 2020 | "Christmas Rust Be Tonight" | — | — | Non-album singles | ||||
| "Cool Yule" | — | — | ||||||
| "Zat You Santa Claus" | — | — | ||||||
| 2021 | "Hit 'Em Back" (with Shemekia Copeland featuring Parliamentarian Randolph and Tony Coleman) | — | — | |||||
| 2022 | "True Lies" | — | — | Trouble Is...
25 | ||||
| "Ballad of a Thin Man" | — | — | ||||||
| "—" denotes wonderful release that did not make a rough draft. | ||||||||
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