Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band - Lay It On Down (Deluxe) 2017 ak320
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 both as a blues artist and a young musician. Shepherd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He graduated Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport. The guitarist is "completely self-taught", and does not read music.
Shepherd got his first "guitar" at the age of three or four. Shepherd stated in a 2011 interview that he began playing guitar in earnest at age seven, about six months after meeting and being "pretty mesmerized" by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Labor Day weekend in 1984, at one of his father's promoted concerts. At the age of 13, Shepherd was invited to play guitar onstage by blues musician Bryan Lee. He subsequently made demo tapes, and a video was shot at the Red River Revel Arts Festival in Shreveport. Records chief Irving Azoff signed Shepherd to a multiple album record deal.
From 1995 on, Shepherd took seven singles into the Top 10, and holds the record for the longest-running album on the Billboard Blues Charts with Trouble Is.... In 1996,Shepherd has been nominated for five Grammy Awards, and has received two Billboard Music Awards, two Blues Music Awards and two Orville H. Gibson Awards. In September 2008, Fender released the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Stratocaster, designed exclusively by Shepherd. Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band played opening act for Van Halen on their 1998 tour and again on their Van Halen 2015 North American Tour. Shepherd made a trip of ten days in the U.S. 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 and the Muddy Waters Band. He was the opening act for The Rolling Stones during the 1999 No Security tour. Has also opened for Aerosmith, Bob Dylan, the Eagles (originally on the Hell Freezes Over Tour)he opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd and Toured with Johnny Lang.
Tracklist
- Baby Got Gone.mp3
- Diamonds & Gold.mp3
- Nothing But The Night.mp3
- Lay It On Down.mp3
- She's $$$.mp3
- Hard Lesson Learned.mp3
- Down For LOve.mp3
- How Long Can You Go.mp3
- Louisiana Rain.mp3
- Ride Of Your Life.mp3
- Lay It On Down (Acoustic Bonus Track).mp3
analogkid Bonus tracks
12 Voodoo Chile(Bonus).Live 13 Everything Is Broken(Bonus).Live 14 Born With A Broken Heart(Bonus).Live 16 Little Wing (Bonus).Live 15 Blue On Black(Bonus).Live 17 Deja Voodoo(Bonus).Live
Members of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band include Shepherd, Noah Hunt, lead vocals; Chris Layton, drums; Tony Franklin, bass guitar and Riley Osbourn, B-3 and keyboards