Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Kenny Wayne Shepherd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, United States on June 12th, 1977 and is the Guitarist. At the age of 46, Kenny Wayne Shepherd biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst; June 12, 1977) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.
He has released numerous studio albums and enjoyed significant commercial success as a blues guitarist.
Personal life
On September 16, 2006, Shepherd married Hannah Gibson, Mel Gibson's oldest daughter. The couple has five children: three daughters and two sons.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd's 2021 Blues Music Awards nomination for Best Blues/Rock Artist was withdrawn in March 2021 by the Blues Foundation. The decision was made over Confederate flag graphics on Shepherd's The Dukes of Hazzard "General Lee" vehicle replica, according to a statement by the company.
Shepherd confessed to the flag on his car and said he had covered it permanently some time ago. "Years ago, I put the car in permanent storage, but a few years ago, I made the decision to permanently cover the flag on my car because it was utterly against my beliefs and insulted to the African American community, which is responsible for the music I love so much, and I apologize to anyone that has innocently suffered as a result of it." In addition to Shepherd's acknowledgement, the Foundation has requested Shepherd's father, Ken Shepherd, to resign as a member of the Board of Directors. Ken Shepherd was reluctant to talk about being asked to resign.
Life and career
Shepherd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated from Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport. He is "completely self-taught" and does not read music. Shepherd's father (Ken Shepherd) was a local radio host and some-time concert promoter, and had a large collection of songs as he grew up. Shepherd's first "guitar" came at the age of three or four when his grandmother purchased a series of plastic guitars for his grandmother with S&H Green Stamps, which Shepherd said he would "go through like candy."
Shepherd said in a 2011 interview that he started playing guitar in earnest at the age of seven, about six months after being "pretty mesmerized" by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Labor Day weekend in 1984 at one of his father's promoted concerts, according to him. His self-taught method involved learning one note at a time, playing and rewinding cassette tapes, and learning to play by following along with material from his father's album.
Bryan Lee, a blues musician, was invited to perform onstage. He made demo tapes, and a video was shot at Shepherd's first appearance at the Red River Revel Arts Festival in Shreveport. It was this video performance that attracted Giant Records chief Irving Azoff enough to sign Shepherd to a multi-album contract.
Shepherd has made seven singles debuts on the Billboard Blues Charts from 1995 to 2008. Trouble Is holds the record for the longest-running album on the Billboard Blues Charts. Shepherd began a long-awaited collaboration with vocalist Noah Hunt, who provided the vocals for Shepherd's hit song, "Blue on Black," in 1996. Shepherd has been nominated for five Grammy Awards, two Blues Music Awards, and two Orville H. Gibson Awards have been given to her.
Shepherd performed on the end title theme for the animated film Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, in 2000.
The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Series Stratocaster, exclusive to Shepherd, was released in September 2008. 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads, a critically acclaimed and two-time Grammy nominated DVD–CD project, was released in 2007. Shepherd is a historian who visits the United States to talk with and interview the last of the authentic blues musicians. Shepherd, along with members of the Double Trouble Band, performs with a number of blues legends, including Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Bryan Lee, Buddy Flett (with whom he jams at Lead Belly's grave), B. B. B. b. Bentley "Boogie" McCain, Cootie Stark, Neal Pattman, John Dee Holeman, Etta Baker, Henry Townsend with Honeyboy Edwards, and a concert session with Muddy Waters' and Howlin Wolf's bands, including Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Pinetop Perkins, are among the featured performers. Shepherd was nominated for a Grammy for Live in Chicago in 2010, which featured performances with Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Buddy Flett, and Bryan Lee. On Roadrunner Records, Shepherd's seventh album, titled How I Go, was released in 2011. "Goin Home" was released on Mascot Label Group in Europe in 2014, as well as Concord Records in the United States and the rest of the world. "Something From the Road Vol. 3," Shepherd wrote in 2015. "A live special edition of Record Store Day in the United States," a live special edition.
In January 2017, Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and producer Marshall Altman partnered in recording a new album titled Lay It On Down, which was released on August 4 in Europe on Mascot Label Group). Lay it On Down is the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band's eighth album to debut at No. 1 in the United States. Billboard Blues Chart No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Chart.
On July 16, 2019, Shepherd made his Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival debut.
Shepherd Unveiled The Traveler on Concord Records and Mascot Label Group in Europe on May 31, 2019. Marshall Altman co-produced the album, which was similar to the previous release Lay It On Down. AllMusic selected the Traveler as a 'Favorite Blues Album.'
Shepherd, Buddy Guy, Larkin Poe, and Keb Mo. were among the headlines at the 2020 Mahindra Blues Festival.