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Kenny Wayne Shepherd
to record and produce a documentary highlighting the great blues players of our time. Proceeds will benefit Music Makers Relief Foundation.
“It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive characteristic.” – James Weldon Johnson
Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s objective is simple – to record and produce a musical and narrative piece of history. Slated to be a television special, the project will include an Audio/DVD featuring performances with Kenny and some of the greatest blues players of our time – all the while, raising some money for the Music Maker Relief Foundation.
This project will allow knowledgeable blues fans to enjoy a compilation of the purest blues talent in the country, and at the same time, enable new fans to experience the traditional blues genre.
The artists involved in this project include both legends and lesser-known musicians, but all are essential and historical blues players – performers that reflect Kenny’s reverence for his musical roots.
Kenny, along with long time friends Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon of Double Trouble, Noah Hunt, Joe Nadeau and Jimmy Wallace will travel to the hometowns of some of these artists in June 2004 to record sessions in their own environment, be it a local juke joint, club or on the artist’s own front porch. They will begin in New Orleans, Louisiana, and end up in Salina, Kansas to record a show at the Church at Blue Heaven Studios with several members of both Muddy Waters’ and Howlin’ Wolf’s original bands. Filmmaker Noble Jones will capture each stage of this project on film. The producer of Kenny’s “Trouble Is…” and “Live On” albums, Jerry Harrison (Talking Heads) will produce the audio.
Artists that Kenny will be featuring include Bryan Lee, Gatemouth Brown, B.B. King, Hubert Sumlin, Pinetop Perkins, Bob Margolin, Jerry McCain, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, Sam Lay, “Wild Child” Butler, Henry Townsend, Honeyboy Edwards, Cootie Stark, Essie Mae Brooks, John Dee Holman, Neal Pattman, Etta Baker and Buddy Flett among others.
The reunion of the Muddy Waters Band and Howlin Wolf’s Band will be open to the public Friday June 18th at the Church of Blue Heaven Studios in Salina Kansas. Only 500 seats are available. Tickets are $40 and will be available beginning Friday June 4th via telephone at 800-716-3553.
A limited number of tickets will be made available to KWS Fan Club member in advance of the public ticket sales. Valid Fan Club Members can purchase tickets in advance June 1, 2 and 3rd by calling toll free, 877-669-4440. Please have your Fan Club Membership number and credit card available when you call. We will also have hotel information available.
The Music Maker Relief Foundation www.musicmaker.org will be receiving a substantial share of the profits from the sale of the Audio/DVD. MMRF is a remarkable foundation offering assistance to the pioneers of the Southern music tradition, ranging from food and shelter to medical care. They record, produce and distribute recordings by their artists as well as assist in obtaining tour dates or simply buying a new instrument for an artist to play.
The yet to be titled Audio/DVD will be released in the spring of 2005 following the release of Kenny’s 4th studio album, due in early September 2004.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd has sold millions of albums worldwide with three straight No. 1 blues albums, a string of No. 1 mainstream rock singles, two 1998 Billboard Music Awards for Rock Track of the Year ("Blue on Black") and Blues Album of the Year (Trouble Is…), two Grammy nominations, one in 1998 for “Trouble Is…” and the other in 2000 for “Electric Lullaby”. Kenny also was awarded the 1998 and 2001 Orville H. Gibson Awards for Best Blues Guitarist.
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Movie Crew Films Shepherd's Music Tour
Jun 15, 8:11 AM (ET)
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - A movie crew is documenting every stop of guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd's tour of the South and Midwest.
Filming started in New Orleans with a segment with Gatemouth Brown, then moved to Shepherd's hometown of Shreveport for a stop at the grave of bluesman Huddie Ledbetter, better known as Leadbelly.
"I searched out some guys that I think are like the hidden treasures of the blues today," Shepherd said. "The majority of the artists are people who I feel are like very talented musicians who have contributed a lot to the music business but maybe haven't gotten all the recognition they deserve."
After visits to Alabama, North Carolina and Missouri, the trip will end with a concert June 18 in Salina, Kan., where Shepherd will play with blues veterans including musicians who played with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.
Noble Jones, who has directed music videos for singer Mary J. Bilge and others, is directing the movie, which is expected to be released on DVD with a companion compact disc in 2005.
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| jb |
Thanks martha.. |
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| scope |
I look forward to this. I've been a Kenny fan for a while and he's been away for some time. The knock on Kenny is that he doesn't have his own style and copies others, but I sure do enjoy listen to him pick that Geetar!
Thanks Martha. |
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| parmeda |
Kenny is one of the featured performances on June 29th at the Milwaukee SummerFest.
11 days...12 Stages...Tons of MUSIC
For a complete line-up ---> http://www.summerfest.com/home.php |
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| jb |
Thanks pam!!! |
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| polksalad69 |
Never been a fan of him or that other great white dope. Sounds like he's doin good. |
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