From the first compelling minutes of TEN DAYS OUT: Blues From The Backroads, it’s immediately evident that bluesman Kenny Wayne Shepherd is up to something different. Shepherd embarked on a ten-day trek into the heart of America. Traveling highways and byways with a roving documentary film crew, a portable recording studio, portable house band—the esteemed Double Trouble, and producer Jerry Harrison, Shepherd visited blues veterans in their homes, backyards and local clubs, creating as intimate and intense a blues film as has been seen in many a year. The resulting film allows music lovers to join in the exploration and witness the artistic creation of both the film and the accompanying live CD.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, who ably walks the line between bandleader and accompanist, is joined by a stellar lineup of collaborators. His guests include some of the most renowned blues artists like B. B. King, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, Hubert Sumlin and more. Partial proceeds of this project are being donated to Music Maker Relief Foundation, a non-profit organization committed to helping impoverished blues artists.
“We could have stopped in every city in the US,” says Shepherd, the platinum-selling guitarist and vocalist, “and we’d find somebody, whether an old cat who is an original product of this music or else a kid my age or younger—but we’d have found someone who is a fan of the blues and trying to do it justice. We could lay out a world map, throw a dart, and go there to play blues—and people are gonna love it.”
With a career that began at age 16, Kenny Wayne Shepherd has a storied decade in music’s big-leagues. His first three albums mixed blues and blues-rock; his 1995 debut Ledbetter Heights has sold over a million copies, making it a platinum record. Trouble Is…was released in 1998 selling over a million copies and Grammy-nominated. Live On followed a year later, and also got the Grammy nod. (The latter two were produced by Jerry Harrison, who returned to produce TEN DAYS OUT.) On his most recent record, 2004’s The Place You’re In, Shepherd took most of the album’s lead vocals for the first time. “I cut my teeth as a blues artist,” says Kenny Wayne Shepherd. “My first three records mixed my styles, and the last one, The Place You’re In, was a pretty heavy dose of rock and roll. So this became a perfect time to present a solid dose of the blues.”
With TEN DAYS OUT, Kenny Wayne Shepherd continues his love affair with America’s homegrown music, introducing his fans to a varied lot of his blues predecessors. The goal was to get intimate recordings in intimate places, and maintain authenticity: the album has no overdubs, no high-tech fixing. “Live as it went down,” says Shepherd. “What happened is what you hear. We kept it as real as possible.”
MAD RESPECT KENNY YOUR FREIND JOEY JUST STOPIN IN TO SAY MARRYCHISMAS HOPE YALL COME OUT THIS WAY JUST WANT TO JAM WITH YOU ONE TIME ARE YOU DOING A ANOTHER JIMMIE HENDREX TOUR IN GEORGA IF SO I WOULD LOVE TO COME TO IT WITH MY GUITARS AND GET SOME BUY SOME BACK STAGE PASES FOR MY FAMILY THANKS YOUR BIGGEST FANS FAMILY ROCKERS JUST LET ME KNOW PEACE
The show in Niagara Falls was great! as usual!! Thank you for doing what you do. I enjoy ever minute of you guys on stage. Kenny thanks for being so kind when I bumped into you in the hall. I wish I could have bumped into Noah too!! You guys rock! come back to NY again
Kenny and the Band what a great show at Rams Head Baltimore Nov 19th. Thanks for adding a show to Charm City Baltimore City; we love way you stop by to jam out. Looking forward to your new Cd's. Take care
Totally wanted to come to the Chameleon, it was even my birthday, but I was sick as a dog......sucks.....I will def be looking for you to be in PA again!!!!
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