
Kenny Wayne Shepherd
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Biography
Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his group exploded on the scene in the
mid-'90s and garnered huge amounts of radio airplay on commercial
radio, which historically has not been a solid home for blues and
blues-rock music, with the exception of Stevie Ray Vaughan in the
mid-'80s. Shepherd was born June 12, 1977, in Shreveport, LA. The
Shreveport native began playing at age seven, figuring out Muddy Waters
licks from his father's record collection (he has never taken a formal
lesson). At age 13, he was invited on-stage by New Orleans bluesman
Brian Lee and held his own for several hours; thus proving himself, he
decided on music as a career. He formed his own band, which featured
lead vocalist Corey Sterling, gaining early exposure through club dates
and, later, radio conventions. Shepherd's father/manager used his own
contacts and pizzazz in the record business to help land his son a
major-label record deal with Irving Azoff's Giant Records. Ledbetter
Heights, his first album, was released two years later in 1995.
Ledbetter Heights was an immediate hit, selling over 500,000 by early
1996. Most blues records never achieve that level of commercial
success, much less ones released by artists who are still in their
teens. Although Shepherd -- who has been influenced by (and has
sometimes played with) guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King,
Slash, Robert Cray, and Duane Allman -- is definitely a performer who
thrives in front of an audience, Ledbetter Heights is impressive for
its range of styles: acoustic blues, rockin' blues, Texas blues,
Louisiana blues. The only style that he doesn't tackle is Chicago
blues, owing to Shepherd's home base smack dab in the middle of the
Texas triangle. 1998's Trouble Is... earned a Grammy nomination; Live
On followed a year later. In 2004 The Place You're In was released on
Reprise Records, the first album that featured Shepherd doing the
majority of the lead vocals (singer Noah Hunt handled the lead vocals
on the previous two albums). Shepherd's next project saw him traveling
in the American South with a documentary film crew and a portable
recording studio as he backed up several veteran blues players on their
home turf. The resulting album and film, 10 Days Out (Blues from the
Backroads), appeared in 2007. ~ Steve Huey & Richard Skelly, All
Music Guide
Written by Steve Huey