The festival was created by Shepherd and his crew as an extension of a blues documentary and album he released back in 2007 titled “10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads." The inspiration came ...

Blues great Bobby Rush is still making music and touring at 91 Nashville-area resident Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Rush recorded "Young Fashioned Ways" in Memphis. Grammy Award-winning blues musician ...

Last summer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd launched the Backroads Blues Festival, a traveling showcase of established and rising talent. The Louisiana native is back on the road for a second year ...

or Bobby putting lyrics he wrote to a new riff or melody Kenny presented to him. On some tracks, Rush and Shepherd were accompanied by a full band made up of veteran blues and R&B musicians.

But I'm the guitar player. I don't sing. And I'm doing blues.'" From the start, Shepherd's dad has been his business manager. "Kenny Wayne had to be involved in every business decision that was ...

Louisiana blues-rocking veteran Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been on a post-COVID roll. After the pandemic squashed much of his touring to support The Traveler (2019), Shepherd and his veteran band ...

Jul. 18—MIDLAND — After celebrating the 25th anniversary of his second album "Trouble Is," Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his band are looking to the future as they continue to create blues-infused ...

Blues-rock icon and 5 time Grammy-nominated guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd has a new album, Dirt On My Diamonds, Vol. 1. He’s in town for a performance at the Four Winds Casino tonight!

Kenny Wayne Shepherd penned a chunk of his new album ... which is the most down song on the whole record. It’s back-alley blues, you know? And then you pick up Vol.2 with I Got A Woman, which ...

Kenny Wayne Shepherd is a throwback in so many ways. The veteran singer-songwriter is a blues guitarist, who not only makes albums but also releases records in a series. "Dirt on My Diamonds ...

With the roar of Harley-Davidson motorcycles all around him, blues icon Kenny Wayne Shepherd started a weekend of Harley Homecoming festivities at the Harley-Davidson Museum on Thursday night.