{"product_id":"shepherd-kenny-wayne-ledbetter-heights","title":"Ledbetter Heights","description":"The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Kenny Wayne Shepherd (vocals, guitar); Corey Sterling (vocals); Joe Nadeau (guitar); Jimmy Wallace (keyboards, percussion); Will Ainsworth (bass); Kevin Smith (drums).\nProducers: David Z, Ken Shepherd.\nEngineers: David Z, Rob Smith \u0026amp; Associates.\nRecorded at House Of Blues, Memphis, Tennessee; Oceanway Studios, Hollywood, California; Funkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Includes liner notes by James Brown.\nSince Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely death in 1990, there has been a fear that the future of popular blues died with him. Kenny Wayne Shepherd's debut does much to dispel these concerns. Hugely influenced by the late Texan, this 18 year-old prodigy first picked up the guitar after watching an SRV show from atop one of Vaughan's amps when he was eight. Shepherd's decade-long woodshedding pays off on an album that incorporates versatility and passion missing in musicians twice his age.\nThe Shreveport native moves naturally from traditional country blues, combining steel guitar and a biting slide (\"Aberdeen\"), to slow Buddy Guy-styled emotiveness that gets fleshed out by southside-Chicago piano lines (\"Shame, Shame, \"Shame\"). While Shepherd channels Howlin' Wolf's \"I'm Leaving You\" with the same aggresiveness that Vaughan did, his finest moment comes on a live instrumental called \"While We Cry.\" Starting out inspired by Hendrix's gentler side, Shepherd builds up to a Claptonian pitch egged on by an appreciative crowd--at once defining himself and resurrecting the muse that was seemingly lost on a foggy night in 1990.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenre: Blues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReleased: 4\/13\/2019\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Shepherd, Kenny Wayne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44589759758569,"sku":"64XLER-MG68-00","price":53.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/3523\/8633\/files\/shepherd-kenny-wayne-ledbetter-heights_tSAk8.jpg?v=1759059223","url":"https:\/\/www.vibinvinyl.com\/products\/shepherd-kenny-wayne-ledbetter-heights","provider":"Vibin' Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}