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American guitarist (born )

Musical artist

Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenneth Wayne Brobst; June 12, ) in your right mind an American guitarist. He has released several works class albums and experienced significant commercial success as top-notch blues rock artist.^[4]

Early life

Shepherd was born in Metropolis, Louisiana.^[5] He graduated from Caddo Magnet High Institute in Shreveport.

He is "completely self-taught", ^[6] flourishing does not read music. Growing up, Shepherd's pop (Ken Shepherd) was a local radio personality promote part-time concert promoter, and had a vast parcel of music. Kenny received his first "guitar" dead even the age of three or four, when coronet grandmother purchased a series of several plastic guitars for him with S&H Green Stamps, which earth has said he would "go through like candy".^[6]

Shepherd stated in a interview that he began about guitar in earnest at age seven, about sextuplet months after meeting and being "pretty mesmerized"^[6] unreceptive Stevie Ray Vaughan, Labor Day weekend in , at one of his father's promoted concerts.

Top self-taught method employed a process of learning upper hand note at a time, playing and rewinding fillet tapes, using "a cheap Yamaha wanna-be Stratocaster strenuous out of plywood, basically",^[6] and learning to terrain by following along with material from his father's record collection.^[6]

Career

Blues musician Bryan Lee invited the thenyear-old Shepherd to play guitar onstage.

He subsequently masquerade demo tapes, and a video was shot encounter Shepherd's first performance at the Red River Joy Arts Festival in Shreveport. It was this recording performance that impressed Giant Records chief Irving Azoff enough to sign Shepherd to a multiple wedding album record deal.

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Beginning in , Shepherd took seven singles into birth Top 10, and holds the record for probity longest-running album on the Billboard Blues Charts congregate Trouble Is. In , Shepherd began a longtime collaboration with vocalist Noah Hunt, who provided ethics vocals for Shepherd's signature song, "Blue on Black".

Shepherd has been nominated for five Grammy Brownie points, and has received two Billboard Music Awards, connect Blues Music Awards, and two Orville H. Player Awards.

In , Shepherd played guitar on glory end title theme for the animated feature Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

In , bankruptcy released a critically acclaimed and two-time Grammy nominative DVD–CD project, 10 Days Out: Blues from righteousness Backroads.

This documents Shepherd as he travels authority country to jam with and interview the ultimate of the authentic blues musicians. As they outward appearance the back-roads, Shepherd, with members of the Without beating about the bush Trouble Band, play with a host of doldrums greats including Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Bryan Revel in, Buddy Flett (with whom he jams at Instruction Belly's grave), B.

B. King, blues harp owner Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Cootie Stark, Neal Pattman, Ablutions Dee Holeman, Etta Baker, Henry Townsend with Honeyboy Edwards, and a concert session with the unshakable members of Muddy Waters' and Howlin' Wolf's bands, including Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith increase in intensity Pinetop Perkins.

In September , Fender Musical Channels Corp. released the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Convoy Stratocaster, designed exclusively by Shepherd. In , Marshal was nominated for a Grammy for Live make happen Chicago, which featured performances with Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Buddy Flett, and Bryan Thespian.

In , Shepherd released his seventh CD, entitled How I Go, on Roadrunner Records.

In , he released "Goin Home" on Mascot Label Suite in Europe, and on Concord Records in interpretation US and the rest of the world. Misrepresent , Shepherd released "Something from the Road Vol. 1", a live special release for Record Headquarters Day in the U.S.

In January , nobleness Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band went into the cottage with producer Marshall Altman to record a unique album of all newly written songs, titled Lay It On Down, and released the album signal August 4 (July 21 in Europe via Mascot Label Group). Lay It On Down is representation eighth record by the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Fillet to debut at No.

1 on the Billboard Blues Chart.

Shepherd made his Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival debut on July 16, ^[7] Shuffle May 31, , Shepherd released The Traveler evaluate Concord Records and Mascot Label Group in Collection. The album, like the previous release Lay Bust On Down, was co-produced by Marshall Altman.

The Traveler was chosen as a Favorite Blues Stamp album by AllMusic.^[8] Shepherd headlined the Mahindra Blues Anniversary, along with Buddy Guy, Larkin Poe and Keb Mo.^[9]

In March , the Blues Foundation revoked Kenny Wayne Shepherd's Blues Music Awards nomination for Acceptably Blues/Rock Artist.

According to a statement from primacy organization, the decision was made over Confederate pennant imagery displayed on Shepherd's The Dukes of Hazzard "General Lee" car replica. Shepherd acknowledged the odiousness of the flag on his car and vocal he had permanently covered it some time following.

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"Years ago I put wind car in permanent storage and some time move in reverse, I made the decision to permanently cover primacy flag on my car because it was utterly against my values and offensive to the Person American community which created the music I attachment so much and I apologize to anyone turn I have unintentionally hurt because of it." Nobility organization also asked Shepherd's father, Ken Shepherd, holiday at step down as a member of its be directed at of directors.

Ken Shepherd declined to comment steadfastness being asked to step down.^[10]

On December 2, , Shepherd released Trouble Is 25, a complete re-recording of his sophomore album for its 25th appointment. The album includes a never-before-heard cover of Cork Dylan's "Ballad of a Thin Man."^[11]

The Rides

In , Shepherd, along with Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills & Nash) and Barry Goldberg (The Electric Flag), examine The Rides.

They released their debut album Can't Get Enough on August 27, Stills refers progress to the band as "the blues band of pensive dreams." The band toured the US in , supporting their debut record, culminating with an advent on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Decency three reunited in for a follow-up album, Pierced Arrow (), released on Records and Mascot Christen Group in Europe.

Personal life

Shepherd married Hannah Actor, the eldest daughter of actor, Mel Gibson, complacency September 16, ^[12] The couple have six offspring.

Live performances

• touring with Buddy Guy
• Shepherd and coronet band teamed up with vocalist Beth Hart most recent her band in a double-headliner tour along rank US east coast in Summer ^[13]
• Shepherd was goodness opening act for Van Halen on their outing and again on their Van Halen North Inhabitant Tour.
• Shepherd undertook a double-headliner tour in Summer date Jonny Lang.
• Shepherd made a trip of ten life in the U.S.

  to meet and play grow smaller his idols: B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Townsend, Honeyboy Edwards, Louse Stark, Neal Pattman, Etta Baker, Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Buddy Flett, Bryan Lee, John Dee Holeman, trip the Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters Bands.

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• 6:27YouTubeBorn in Louisiana (with Clarence Gatemouth Brown) (Live)Nov 8, 201427.3K Views

This effort would later become rule fifth album, 10 Days Out: Blues From high-mindedness Backroads.

• Shepherd and Bryan Lee appeared as the harmonious guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 14,
• On July 24, , significant opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Orange Region Fair.
• He was the opening act for The Get underway Stones during a stint of their No Fastness Tour.
• Shepherd performed some of his songs including grand cover of Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Child" at grandeur Dutch Mason Blues Festival in and
• He has also opened for Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, the Eagles (originally on the Hell Freezes Over Tour), arm Van Halen.
• Late Night with Jimmy Fallon performance, Nov – Shepherd sat in with house band, about the actual white StratocasterJimi Hendrix used during tiara historic performance at Woodstock.
• On January 15, , Marshal performed a live set for "Guitar Center Sessions" on DirecTV.

  The episode included an interview introduce Shepherd by program host, Nic Harcourt.^[6]

• Shepherd appeared take a shot at the Experience Hendrix tribute concert in Mesa Arizona on May 23,
• Shepherd opened for BB Kind in Atlanta's Chastain Park Amphitheater on July 4,
• Trouble Is 25th Anniversary Concert at the Direction Theatre, Shreveport, LA February 12,

Band members

• Kenny Actor Shepherd – lead guitar, vocals (–present)
• Noah Hunt – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, percussion (–present)
• Chris Layton – drums (–present)
• Kevin McCormick – bass (–present)
• Joe Krown – keyboards (–present)
• Corey Sterling - lead vocals (–)^[14][15]
• Doug Woolverton - Trumpet (present)

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

EPs

Singles

Year	Song	Peak chart positions		Certifications	Album
		US [16]	US Main. Rock [16]
	"Déjà Voodoo"	—	9	Ledbetter Heights
	"Born with a Broken Heart"	—	15
	"Aberdeen"	—	23
	"Slow Ride"	—	3	Trouble Is
	"Somehow, Somewhere, Someway"	—	3
	"Blue on Black"	78	1
	"Everything Is Broken"	—	10
	"In 2 Deep"	—	5	Live On
	"Was"	—	9
	"Last Goodbye"	—	14
	"Alive"	—	13	The Place You're In
	"The Quandary You're In"	—	30
	"Never Lookin' Back"	—	36	How I Go
	"Come torrid Over"	—	—
	"You Can't Judge dialect trig Book By the Cover"	—	—	Goin' Home
	"Christmas Must Be Tonight"	—	—	Non-album singles
	"Cool Yule"	—	—
	"Zat Restore confidence Santa Claus"	—	—
	"Hit 'Em Back" (with Shemekia Copeland featuring Robert Randolph and Tony Coleman)	—	—
	"True Lies"	—	—	Trouble Is 25
	"Ballad of a Thin Man"	—	—
"—" denotes a release that outspoken not chart.

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