Reuters - Dec 14, 2007
Kenny Wayne Shepherd came in at No. 1 on the Top Blues Albums chart for 2007 with 10 Days Out: Blues From the Backroads. The Reprise/Warner Bros. record is part of a CD/DVD package that documents a...
More »Reuters - Jun 20, 2005
The JVC Jazz Festival couldn t have picked a more deserving subject for a tribute than Les Paul, feted Sunday at Carnegie Hall in commemoration of his 90th birthday (which actually occurred June 9)....
More »Reuters - Jan 21, 2005
Through the years, some larger-than-life figures have appeared on the Billboard charts. In 1963 alone, Pope John XXIII, Cassius Clay, President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made their...
More »Reuters - Sep 25, 2004
Thirty-four years after his death, Jimi Hendrix continues to enthrall his fans and attract new ones. In a control room at Electric Lady Studios, the facility Hendrix was building at the time of his...
More »AP - Jul 16, 2004
The sounds of soulful music can be heard floating down Hanna Street on Sunday afternoons in this Mississippi Delta town surrounded by endless rows of cotton fields. Musicians strum their guitars, tickle...
More »AP - Jun 15, 2004
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...
More »Reuters - Jun 11, 2004
Kenny Wayne Shepherd is spending a good part of this month filming a blues music documentary that will raise funds for Southern musicians in need. Across a 10-day period that began June 8, the blues...
More »USRN - Nov 9, 2000
(11/9/00, 10 a.m. ET) - Guitar hotshot Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Pearl Jam s Mike McCready, and alt-jazz trio Medeski, Martin & Wood top a list of artists who will participate in a week-long tribute to Jimi...
More »USRN - Feb 10, 2000
(2/10/00, 5 p.m. ET) - Kenny Wayne Shepherd will show off his blues-guitar talents at the NBA All-Star Game on Sunday (Feb.13) in Oakland, Calif. Although the performance -- a two-minute solo at halftime...
More »USRN - Jun 23, 1998
(6/24/98) - The International Country Music Fan Fair, Nashville s weeklong confab of fans and country stars, has concluded, but for the first time in years, the jury is still out regarding the event s...
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