Somebody Done Growed Up While I Wasn’t Paying Attention. Holy Cow Have I Missed Out

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I remember hearing about Kenny Wayne Shepard way back in the 90’s when he was like some child prodigy Blues Guitar Player.

Later I remember he had a couple of hits and then for some reason he just dropped completely off my radar.

Until Mike over at Cold Fury put up a post featuring him today.

Now Mike ain’t no slouch to begin with. He can rip your face off in his own right when he gets tuned up and rockin’.

So when he features a musician or a band in one of his posts, I generally pay attention.

Today?

Mike posted some Kenny Wayne Shepard videos that blew my socks off.

He asks if Kenny Wayne Shepard is The Second Coming?

As in the second coming of Blues Superstars Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jimi Hendrix?

I cordially invite you to head on over there and judge for yourself.

As for me, if I closed my eyes and just listened to him play, I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference from the originals.

It’s like they both came back from the dead to kill it one more time.

Thanks Mike.

I didn’t know what I had been missing.

6 thoughts on “Somebody Done Growed Up While I Wasn’t Paying Attention. Holy Cow Have I Missed Out”

  1. Thanks for the linkage and compliments, ‘nucksie! KWS played at the dear, departed Double Door Inn in CLT (the BP’s home away from home) when he was still a teenager–a show I missed for some reason or other. Probably didn’t even know about it at the time, although I damned sure heard plenty later.

    There’s another fun connection betwixt Kenny Wayne and Stevie Ray, besides Chris Layton: Double Trouble bassist Tommy Shannon has also played and recorded with Shepherd a fair bit himself. That’s all the endorsement anybody ought to need, if you ask me. Not that anybody did, natch. 😉

  2. Some mighty fine music there. I also hadn’t heard anything regarding Kenny Wayne Shepherd in quite a while. I’m glad to see him still going strong, cranking out some great tunes.

  3. Yeah, good stuff. I first heard Kenny back in the 90s – I think he was only 18 at the time. His Blue on Black is a great song, and probably one of the smartest things he ever did was get with Noah Hunt as his singer because Kenny’s voice is nowhere near as good as Noah’s. Him and Joe Bonamassa were both born in 1977. Both excellent guitarists that have continued into the present after SRV left us.

  4. First chord was pure SRV. Definitely going to dig in deeper. Thanks for the heads-up!

    Midwest Chick

  6. His sound is great, comes off a tiny bit “cleaner”(??) than SRV, but damn. Makes me wish I had been able to see him play more than the once when he had Jeff Beck as the opener in Philly. (late 80’s maybe??)

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