Kenny Wayne Shepherd
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd (Kenny Wayne Brobst, Jr) (born June 12, 1977) is an American Blues musician. Shepherd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Self-taught, he began playing at age 7, figuring out Muddy Waters licks from his father's record collection.
At the age of 13, he was invited onstage by the New Orleans bluesman Bryan Lee. After proving his abilities, he decided on music as a career.
Using his own contacts in the record business Shepherd's father and manager helped his son land a major-label record deal with Giant Records. Kenny Wayne's father, Ken Brobst Sr., a longtime Shreveport Radio personality had used "Ken Shepherd" as his Radio Name. Shepherd being the last name of Ken Sr's ex wife, mother of Kenny Wayne. Since his father already had established contacts within the recording and promotions industry, Kenny Wayne adopted "Shepherd" as his stage name as well.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd has sold millions of albums worldwide, with two Grammy nominations, three straight No. 1 blues albums, a string of No. 1 mainstream rock singles and two Billboard Music Awards. He was also awarded the 1998 and 2001 Orville H. Gibson Awards for Best Blues Guitarist.
Shepherd married Hannah Gibson (eldest child of Mel Gibson) on September 16th, 2006.
[edit] Trivia
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd made a trip of ten days in the US to meet and play with his idols (B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Townsend, Honeyboy Edwards, Cootie Stark, Neal Pattman, Etta Baker, Jerry "Boogie" McCain, Buddy Flett, Bryan Lee, John Dee Holeman, The Howlin' Wolf Band and The Muddy Waters Band ).
This new release is a combo of CD/DVD. The CD is the soundtrack of the DVD documentary. We found some compositions of the meeting bluesmen and for one time the CD is a full 80 minutes of pure blues. There is a good mix between acoustic and electric.
The DVD is very good but it’s a documentary and not a live DVD. Of course we can see some part of the performance but necessary complete except for the last day who was a live show in a church with members of the Howling Wolf Band and after with the members of the Muddy Waters Band.
Partial proceeds of this project are now being donated to Music Maker Relief Foundation.
You can hear and see some samples in legality on the KWS Management team website at this link: www.ksmgt.com/links/
- Shepherd contributed to and played the opening and ending credits of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.
- Shepherd and Bryan Lee appeared as the musical guest on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 14, 2007.
- Shepherd produced his first CD "Ledbetter Heights" when he was only 17.
[edit] External Link
- The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Information Center the official website
- Ten Days Out the official ten days out project website
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| Founding Members |
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| Joe Satriani | Steve Vai |
| Invited Guitar Players: Eric Johnson | Adrian Legg | Kenny Wayne Shepherd Robert Fripp | Michael Schenker | Uli Jon Roth | John Petrucci | Yngwie Malmsteen | Paul Gilbert |
| Discography |
| Albums and DVDs: G3: Live in Concert | G3: Rockin' in the Free World | G3: Live in Denver | G3: Live in Tokyo |
