Kenny Wayne Shepherd

[Ian Price]

Anyone on here into him? I read about him in Guitar Buyer and was sufficiently intrigued to check him out on youtube. Maybe I was not in the right frame of mind but I was distinctly unimpressed. Quite a weedy tone and nothing like the SRV-style referred to in the article*. I wasn't too impressed by his posturing either - it seems to me like he wants to be the centre of attention even when his singer is actually singing.

Like I said above - I may have been in a bad mood when watching. Maybe I'll take a look again in a few days time.


*there's lots of vids on him, I picked 2 at random.

[Philly Q]

Haven't heard anything much since his teen-prodigy days, but I always thought he sounded like SRV-Lite, with pretty poor songs.

At least Jonny Lang had (and has, presumably) an awesome singing voice.

[Matt77]

I wasn't too impressed by his posturing either - it seems to me like he wants to be the centre of attention even when his singer is actually singing.

It is called the Kenny Wayne Shepherd band.
He sings backing vocals nowadays

I have his 2nd album and really like it.
This is one of the songs on it which sounds pretty much in the style of SRV to me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ti-72KavxHQ

He's a decent player but there are others I like more

[Ian Price]

Yeah - I know it's his band, just thought he was playing up to it too much. I'm far from a show off so will probably never understand that attitude.

He has some cracking guitars though. Strats all the way - very nice.

[lulusg]

Kenny Wayne! I like him, have seen him few times. He started playing with SRV in mind, that was his role model. He is also a BB King protege. Just straight up blues with a heavy influence. I like Jonny Lang too, seen him few times. These guy are very popular here in the South, kind of a circuit they have been working on for a long time.