Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Live! In Chicago (CD)

Live! In Chicago

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Kenny Wayne Shepherd: Live! In Chicago, CD

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Label: Roadrunner
Erscheinungstermin: 15.10.2010

Kenny Wayne Shepherd begann sich in einem Alter selbst das Gitarrespielen beizubringen, in dem sich die meisten Kids ausschließlich für Spielsachen und Sandkästen interessieren. Er war erst 13, als ihn New-Orleans- Blues-Urgestein Bryan Lee auf die Bühne holte, um dem Publikum sein außergewöhnliches Talent und die Präzision vorzuführen, mit der er Gitarre spielte. Vier Grammy Nominierungen, zwei Billboard Music Awards und Millionen von verkauften Alben später, schloß sich der Kreis, als Shepherd und seine Band eine generationenübergreifende Gruppe von Blues Legenden im Chicagoer House of Blues auf der Bühne versammelten und auf dem brandneuen Live Album „LIVE! In Chicago“ für die Nachwelt konservierten.

In der Guitar World Liste der besten Blues Gitarristen rangiert er auf Platz 3 hinter B. B. King und Eric Clapton und als ein Künstler, der sich auch in der Rock Szene zu Hause fühlt, war er schon immer bemüht, gerade die jungen Fans an die großartigen Blueskünstler der Vergangenheit heranzuführen. Genau wie bei „LIVE! In Chicago“, einem beispiellosen Projekt.

Dieses legendäre Konzert im House of Blues war Teil seiner US-Tour, die Kenny für sein preisgekröntes Werk „ 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads “ geplant hatte. Die Dokumentation zeigt Shepherd auf einer 10-tägigen Reise, auf der er Blues Ikonen, wie die noch lebenden Mitglieder von Muddy Waters oder der Band von Howlin‘ Wolf besucht, sich mit ihnen unterhält und mit ihnen jamt.

Auf „LIVE! In Chicago“ finden sich neben einigen Kenny Wayne Shepherd Hits auch Klassiker, die speziell für die besonderen Kollaborationen auf der Bühne ausgewählt wurden. Die Lebensläufe der Gäste auf „LIVE! In Chicago“ lesen sich wie ein Geschichtsbuch über den Blues und Rock n Roll. Mit dabei sind u. a. Hubert Sumlin , Willie Big Eyes , Brian Lee und Buddy Flett !

Kenny Wayne Shepherd started teaching himself guitar at an age when most kids are still focused on recess and lunch boxes. And he was just thirteen when New Orleans bluesman Bryan Lee brought him onstage to showcase his innate talent and already precision honed chops. Four Grammy nominations, two Billboard Music Awards and millions of albums later, life came full circle when Shepherd and his band assembled several generations worth of blues legends, including Lee, at the House Of Blues in Chicago, captured for posterity on the brand new Live In Chicago album.

Shepherd released his first in a string of platinum albums while still in high school, but the Shreveport, Louisiana born guitarist / singer / songwriter has never forgotten his roots nor his influences. Placed behind only B. B. King and Eric Clapton in a Guitar World list of blues guitarists, and a guy who also specializes in rock, Shepherd has graciously utilized his own stature, acting as a gateway for younger fans, to shine a spotlight on the great bluesmen of the past—most notably on Live In Chicago, the penultimate culmination of a multi-faceted, unprecedented project.

The landmark concert was part of a nationwide tour Shepherd put together in support of the award-winning 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads project. The DVD / CD documentary shows Shepherd, whose own Trouble Is... album boasts the longest run in Billboard Blues Chart history (hitting the 2 year mark), traveling around the country on a ten day trek interviewing and jamming with icons from the blues scene, including the surviving members of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's bands.

"We played with these guys on their front porches, in their backyards, stuff like that," Shepherd, now 33, explains. Directed by Noble Jones, 10 Days Out was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Kenny soon devised the idea of taking some of these guys on the road with his band - vocalist Noah Hunt, drummer Chris Layton, bassist Scott Nelson and keyboardist Riley Osbourn. They toured for two months, joined by Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Buddy Flett and Bryan Lee.

"We had such a great time that I decided we should capture some of it," Kenny says. "I first intended on recording this just for my own private, personal benefit - just to have it for myself. It was just a real special experience for me. We recorded a couple of nights of the tour."

Tommy Shannon, who with Layton formed the rhythm section in the late / great Stevie Ray Vaughan's band, flew in for the Chicago gig, which cemented the evening as one for the record books. Kenny was extremely sick that night and worried that he may not even be able to perform. Thankfully, adrenaline took over as he stepped onstage. A breathtaking performance followed.

Live in Chicago features well-known staples from the Kenny Wayne Shepherd catalog alongside a batch of classic material chosen specially for these onstage collaborations. "The music we played with these special guests actually isn't even the music from the 10 Days Out project," Kenny says. "It's a good balance.”

The respective résumés of the guests on Live in Chicago read like a history book of blues and rock n' roll. Hubert Sumlin joined Howlin' Wolf's band in 1949 at the age of eighteen. Hailed as one of the greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone, he's beloved by everyone from Jimmy Page to Carlos Santana. "He's influenced people like Clapton and Keith Richards," Kenny says.

Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, like Sumlin, played with Muddy Waters. He co-founded the Legendary Blues Band with Pinetop Perkins, Louis Meyers, Calvin Jones and Jerry Portnoy, racking up six Grammy Awards and memorably playing John Lee Hooker's backup band in "The Blues Brothers."

"We also had two people I looked up to tremendously growing up and learning to play guitar," Kenny says. "Buddy Flett is from my hometown. He's one of the hottest guitar players from my area." And of course Bryan Lee, who gave Kenny Wayne Shepherd that big break early on.

With Kenny's strongest tunes from his best loved albums, his scorching band, that pedigree of guests and one of the most noteworthy performances in any genre in recent memory, Live in Chicago is truly something special. "Usually a live record is just live versions of all of your old stuff," Shepherd rightly points out. "This collection is a great, diverse combination for the fans." (roadrunnerrecords. com)

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"A must-have release for Kenny Wayne Shepherd fans and will serve as a quality introduction for the unfortunate few who have not yet heard his dynamic chops. And for everyone in between…this should push them over the edge to become serious KWS fans!
In Kenny’s own words: “Usually a live record is just live versions of all of your old stuff, but this collection is a diverse combination for the fans.” " (theguitarbuzz. com)