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Lead too short|date=December 2008BLP sources|date=January 2008Infobox musical artist | name = Kenny Wayne Shepherd| image = Kenny wayne shepherd jf.jpg| caption = Kenny Wayne Shepherd live at the New Orleans Jazz Festival on May 1, 2010.| image_size =| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_name = Kenny Wayne Brobst| alias =| birth_date = birth date and age|1977|06|12| birth_place = Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport , Louisiana , United States | death_date =| instrument = Guitar , Singing|vocals | genre = Blues , blues-rock , country blues | occupation = Musician , singer-songwriter | years_active = 1990-present| label = Roadrunner Records | associated_acts = Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band G3 (tour)|G3 | website = http://www.kennywayneshepherd.net/ Official Website| notable_instruments = Fender Stratocaster Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst , June 12, 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport , Louisiana http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1351849/bio IMDb - Kenny Wayne Shepherd Biography Accessed January 2008) is an United States|American guitarist , singer , and songwriter . He has released several studio album s and experienced a rare level of commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p21347|pure_url=yes Allmusic - biography page
Biography
Shepherd graduated Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana . The guitarist is "completely self taught", cite news | first= Nic | last= Harcourt | title= Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Guitar Center Sessions (interview with Nic Harcourt ) | date= air date February 12, 2011 | publisher= DirecTV and does not read music. Growing up, Shepherd's father (Ken Shepherd) was a local radio personality and some-time concert promoter, and had a vast collection of music. Shepherd got his first "guitar" at the age of three or four, when his grandmother purchased a series of several plastic guitars for him with S& H Green Stamps , which Shepherd has said he would "go through like candy".Harcourt Guitar Center interview, air date 02/12/2011Clarify|reason=ambiguous date format|date=February 2011 Shepherd stated in a 2010 interview that he began playing guitar in earnest at age seven, about six months after meeting and being "pretty mesmerized" by Stevie Ray Vaughan , in June 1984, at one of his father's promoted concerts. His self-taught method employed a process of learning one note at a time, playing and rewinding cassette tapes, utilizing "a cheap Yamaha wanna-be Stratocaster...made out of plywood, basically", learning Muddy Waters , Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Albert Lee licks from his father's vast music collection.
At the age of 13, Shepherd was invited on stage by the New Orleans bluesman Bryan Lee . After proving his abilities, he decided on music as a career. Demo tapes were made and a two-camera video was shot at Shepherd's first performance at the Red River Revel Arts Festival in Shreveport. It was this video performance that impressed Giant Records chief Irving Azoff enough to sign Shepherd to a multiple album record deal.
From 1995 on, Shepherd took seven single (music)|single s into the Top 10, and holds the record for the longest-running album on the Billboard Blues Charts with Trouble Is... . In 1996, Shepherd began a longtime collaboration with vocalist Noah Hunt , who provided the vocals for Shepherd's signature song, " Blue on Black ". Shepherd has been nominated for five Grammy Award s, and has received two Billboard Music Award s, two Blues Music Award s and two Orville H. Gibson Awards.
In September 2008, Fender Musical Instruments Corp. released the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Series Stratocaster, designed exclusively by Shepherd. In 2007, he released a critically acclaimed and two time Grammy nominated DVD–CD project, 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads . This documents Shepherd as he travels the country to jam session|jam with and interview the last of the authentic blues musicians. As they tour the backroads, Shepherd, with members of the Double Trouble Band, play with a host of blues greats including Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Bryan Lee, Buddy Flett (with whom he jams at Lead Belly 's grave), B. B. King , blues harp master Jerry McCain|Jerry "Boogie" McCain , Cootie Stark , Neal Pattman , John Dee Holeman , Etta Baker , Henry Townsend (musician)|Henry Townsend with Honeyboy Edwards , and a concert session with the surviving members of Muddy Waters' and Howlin' Wolf 's bands, including luminaries such as Hubert Sumlin , Willie "Big Eyes" Smith and Pinetop Perkins . In 2010 Shepherd was nominated for a Grammy for Live In Chicago which featured performances with Hubert Sumlin , Willie "Big Eyes" Smith , Buddy Flett and Bryan Lee. Most recently in 2011, Shepherd released his 7th CD entitled How I Go on Roadrunner Records.
Personal life
Shepherd married actor Mel Gibson 's oldest daughter, Hannah Gibson, on September 16, 2006,cite web|url= http://www.tmz.com/2006/09/18/mel-walks-his-daughter-down-the-aisle/ |title=Mel Walks His Daughter Down the Aisle |publisher=TMZ.com |date= |accessdate=2011-12-31 and they now have three children, a daughter born October 10, 2007, first son born in 2009, and a second son born March 12, 2011.cite web|url= http://www.usmagazine.com/momsbabies/news/mel-gibson-welcomes-third-grandchild-2011143 |title=Mel Gibson Welcomes Third Grandchild |publisher=UsMagazine.com |date=2011-03-14 |accessdate=2011-12-31
Live performances
Shepherd made a trip of ten days in the United States|U.S. to meet and play with his idols: B.B. King , Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown , Hubert Sumlin , Pinetop Perkins , Henry Townsend (musician)|Henry Townsend , David Honeyboy Edwards|Honeyboy Edwards , Cootie Stark , Neal Pattman , Etta Baker , Jerry McCain|Jerry "Boogie" McCain , Buddy Flett , Bryan Lee , John Dee Holeman , The Howlin' Wolf and the Muddy Waters Band.
Shepherd and Bryan Lee appeared as the musical guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on February 14, 2007.
On July 24, 2007, he opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Orange County Fair .
He was the opening act for The Rolling Stones during a stint of their 1999 in music|1999 No Security tour.
Shepherd performed some of his songs including a cover of Jimi Hendrix 's " Voodoo Child (Slight Return)|Voodoo Child " at the Dutch Mason Blues Festival in 2007 and 2009.
Has also opened for Aerosmith , Bob Dylan , the Eagles (band)|Eagles (originally on the Hell Freezes Over Tour), and Van Halen .
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon performance, Nov 2010 - Shepherd sat in with house band, playing the same white Stratocaster played by Jimi Hendrix during his historic performance at Woodstock .
Shepherd appeared at the Experience Hendrix tribute concert in Mesa Arizona on May 23, 2011.
Discography
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http://www.kennywayneshepherd.net/ Official website
http://www.tendaysout.net/ Ten Days Out
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p21347|pure_url=yes Shepherd biography at Allmusic website
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