Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Trouble Is… 25 (2022)

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Trouble Is… 25 (2022)

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Trouble Is… 25 (2022)

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Year : 2022
Style : Blues Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 148 mb


Bio:

Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues artist.In an era when rap and alternative music ruled the airwaves of America, a young guitarist from Louisiana stormed the stage with a blazing blusey style reminiscent of the masters of the Mississippi Delta and a technical virtuosity seldom witnessed before. Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been described as a blues prodigy, much like Stevie Ray Vaughn, who was one of Shepherd's mentors and earliest influences. Chris Layton, the drummer for Vaughn's band Double Trouble, remarked to Guitar Player's Rusty Russell that "Kenny can nail the style of about any great blues artist you can name, but he's very much his own guy. A young artist takes pieces from all his influencs, puts them together, and develops his own thing. I saw Stevie go through it, and I can see the same thing happening with Kenny." On his record label website, Shepherd remarked that "I'm a purist myself. I've been listening to blues since I was very young. I've researched it. But what I bring to it is a young person's approach to the blues. It's free flowing and wide open." He further commented to Russell that "if you're a kid and you're playing the blues, it's hard to prove yourself to those guys {the blues masters and legends}. They want to know you're not just messing around with it before they take you seriously."Shepherd, the Shreveport, Louisiana, native, was born in the late 1970s and at a very young age developed an avid interest in blues music which has influenced him ever since. He recalled being taken by his father, who was affiliated with the radio industry, to a music festival when he was only seven years old. The guitar virtuoso Vaughn was there performing with his band at the festival as well. Thanks to his father's intervention, Shepherd was able to meet Vaughn. Vaughn allowed the young Shepherd to sit on the side of the stage and watch the show from there.Around the same time, his father had noted that Shepherd was nosing through his father's blues records and trying to teach himself the riffs from a Muddy Waters song. Shepherd was hooked on the blues from then on. He then begged his parents to buy him a guitar so that he could learn the playing styles and techniques of Vaughn, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Albert Collins, and Albert King. Shepherd then proceeded to teach himself how to play guitar by copying what he heard off the records. The younger Shepherd continued to practice the guitar in his bedroom until he was 13. By that time, he had become something of a local phenomenon.Not long after this, Shepherd went with his family on a vacation to New Orleans. While there, he met the blind blues player Brian Lee. After much coaxing and persuading, Lee allowed Shepherd to play with him on stage one night. His debut public performance blew away not only Lee but much of the crowd as well. The impromptu gig with Lee not only cemented the relationship between him and Shepherd but it signaled the start of an inspired friendship between the two musicians. The show with Lee also proved to Shepherd that his plans for the future should include performing his beloved blues music.Shepherd he next few years spent honing and refining his craft through performances with other musicians and gigs at various radio conventions. He eventually formed his own blues band. In 1993, Shepherd was signed by Irving Azoff to Giant Records, which became Revolution Records. The following year saw the release of Jewel Spotlights the Blues Volume I and its companion Jewel Spotlights the Blues Volume II. Both of the albums featured tracks by Willie Dixon featuring some guitar over-dub work performed by Shepherd.With his backing band, Shepherd began to work on the sessions and songs that were to comprise his debut album, Ledbetter Heights. Ledbetter Heights was released in 1995 and almost immediately caused a quite a stir. Shortly after the sessions for the album were completed, Shepherd and his band were asked to open for the Eagles at their Austin, Texas, concert. Requests for their services as an opening act also came from Bob Dylan. Azoff remarked on one of the Shepherd websites that "he is truly a phenomenon. He plays like someone who's lived a lot longer than he has. You don't learn what he has, it's given to you." What was also given to Shepherd was additional accolades from the likes of blues legend BB King who was quoted on one of Shepherd's websites as saying that "if he continues to grow, he'll be fantastic."Ledbetter Heights garnered Shepherd a number of prestigious honors. It spawned three top ten singles on the rock charts including the smash hit "Deja Voodoo." Ledbetter Heights also received gold certification. The album had a lock on the number one spot on the Billboard Top Blues Albums chart for an amazing period of five months straight.The following year, Shepherd contributed a track for the motion picture soundtrack for Michael. He also began work on his sophomore album, Trouble Is. Trouble Is was released in 1997, and according to Shepherd it highlighted a more mature and greatly improved style of playing and writing than was evident on its highly acclaimed predecessor. In commenting on Trouble Is, Shepherd told James Rotondi of Guitar Player that "the real challenge on the fast tempo stuff is to avoid the temptation to play fast myself. The goal is to make just a few notes sound right and fit in.... My chops have gotten so much better from playing nearly every night, not to mention from the maturity that comes from playing for two years on a professional level. If I were to do Ledbetter Heights today, it would sound a lot better. I know I've progressed, that I've stepped up a level or two. I don't think I'm guilty of overplaying much any more, and I can hear that my rhythm work has gotten a lot tastier."After the release of Trouble Is, Shepherd took to the road to promote the new album. A support slot on Dylan's 1998 tour further helped to bring Shepherd's new bluesy revival to the masses and was yet another way Shepherd sought to educate, enlighten, and inform the newest members of the blues community. He related on one of his websites that, "I don't want people to just listen to my music. I want them to hear it. Having people appreciate what I do is the ultimate satisfaction for me. I think there's a big explosion in blues-based music and it's very exciting. I'm glad to be a part of it. I want to turn my generation on to it. I want to help keep it alive for them."

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The five-time-Grammy-nominated singer/guitarist KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD will release next December ”Trouble Is… 25”, a top-to-bottom reinterpretation of his seminal album ‘Trouble Is’, which struck the match that reignited modern blues-rock upon its release 25 years ago.”Trouble Is… 25” – which includes a bonus track of an unreleased version of “Ballad of a Thin Man” – has been fully re-recorded with the same musicians but a fresh approach.Since he burst from the blues clubs of Louisiana onto the global music scene with 1995’s breakthrough first album ‘Ledbetter Heights,’ followed by his career defining second album ‘Trouble Is’ in 1997, Shepherd has twisted those classic cuts into bold new shapes each night on the stage. Led by the pulse of the crowd, every last note alive in his hands, the ‘Trouble Is’ tracks have always been on the move, never settling into museum pieces.But to give a quarter-century-old album a second birth is another matter. And in more recent times, the multi-platinum-selling artist looked up the road and saw the 25th anniversary of Trouble Is on the horizon, he hatched an audacious plan: to join the dots from the hungry 18-year-old gunslinger who caught lightning in a bottle in 1997 to the still-questing master musician, with a lifetime’s soul under his fingers.To assemble the old crew from the original ‘Trouble Is’ sessions at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California and attack the track listing afresh.And to remind seasoned fans and new listeners alike how this album struck the match that reignited modern blues-rock.“One of the coolest things about re-recording ‘Trouble Is’ has been finding out – or verifying – how timeless this album really is,” says Shepherd, who is also leading a triumphant anniversary tour across the United States in 2022 and 2023, performing the album in full.“I’m so proud of what we accomplished, and also the fact I was just 18 years old when I did it. I mean, I had an experience with this album that most musicians can only dream about. ‘Trouble Is’ sold millions of copies. There’s validation in all of that for me.”Having pricked up ears with 1995’s sparky debut ‘Ledbetter Heights,’ ‘Trouble Is…’ hurled Shepherd headlong into contention. These were songs and performances that shouldn’t have been feasible from a teenager barely out of the classroom, yet the bandleader was already standing shoulder-to-shoulder with a veteran studio band that included the iconic Double Trouble lineup (drummer Chris Layton, bassist Tommy Shannon and keys man Reese Wynans).And while he had yet to find his own singing voice (then, as now, Noah Hunt handles powerhouse lead vocals on ‘Trouble Is…) Shepherd’s precocious guitar work was in a different class to the fading grunge scene, one moment white-hot on originals like “Slow Ride” or the title instrumental, the next rivaling Jimi Hendrix himself on a wiry cover of “I Don’t Live Today.”In the ensuing 25 years – a period in which Shepherd has released a further seven acclaimed solo albums, not to mention two with his all-star side-project The Rides, alongside Stephen Stills and Barry Goldberg – some aspects of the reborn ‘Trouble Is…’ album are unavoidably changed.The Record Plant closed its doors in 2008 (the new sessions went down at The Village in Los Angeles and Nashville’s Ocean Way), while Shannon has retired from the music scene (he’s capably replaced by Shepherd’s regular low-ender, Kevin McCormick).“Aside from Tommy, we got the whole crew back together, with Jerry Harrison co-producing once again,” reflects Kenny “And in the studio, it felt like no time had passed. If you play well together, you play well together. It worked back then and it worked just as well this time. It was all of us live in a room. That’s just how I do it, man. I’m old-school. Human beings need to be in the same room to be able to play music together.”After listening to both the original and the newly recorded ”Trouble Is… 25” one thing is certain, Kenny Wayne Shepherd was a phenomenal guitar player when he was 18 years old and he is still just as proficient if not more 25 years later in 2022.The album is as perfect as one can get when we speak about classic crock / blues-rock

Line-Up:

Kenny Wayne Shepherd – guitars, vocals
Chris Layton – drums
Reese Wynans – keyboards
Kevin McCormick – bass
Noah Hunt – vocals

Tracklist:

01. Slow Ride
02. True Lies
03. Blue on Black
04. Everything Is Broken
05. I Don’t Live Today
06. (Long) Gone
07. Somehow, Somewhere, Someway
08. I Found Love (When I Found You)
09. King’s Highway
10. Nothing to Do with Love
11. Chase the Rainbow
12. Trouble Is…
13. Ballad of a Thin Man


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