Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band Release Official Video For 'Woman Like You'

The new album from the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band ‘The Traveler,’ is released today via Provogue. To celebrate the band releases an official video for the song 'Woman Like You''. The band will come to Europe for an extensive tour this summer and will return for more dates in November.

Gone is the young Louisiana gunslinger who erupted onto the early-’90s scene with his burn-it-down guitar solos and gut-punch songcraft. The 41-year-old he’s become is even more magnetic, still pushing his Fender Strat where others fear to fret. As a grown man and a father, there are different thoughts and feelings that have come into focus. Shepherd’s song ‘Blue on Black’ (From ‘Trouble Is...’) was recently covered by Five Finger Death Punch and Brian May with all proceeds going to the Gary Sinise Foundation. The video has already had over 10.5m views in just over a month, you can watch it

World-class guitar playing has always been his calling card, but in his forties, Shepherd knows when to blaze and when to breathe. “There’s some restraint on ‘The Traveler’,” he considers. “As I’ve gotten older, I’ve started to lean towards the approach of less is more. I play for the song now.“ Taking a cue from his side project, The Rides, the super group he co-founded with Stephen Stills and Barry Goldberg, Shepherd shares more vocal responsibilities with his long-time singer, Noah Hunt, than on past releases, allowing the band more versatility. “I still don’t sound like Muddy Waters,” he smiles. “But I’ve definitely grown as a vocalist. I owe a lot of the credit to Stephen Stills for pushing me to sing more in The Rides.” The album was recorded at Neptune Valley, Los Angeles, with the production of Shepherd and Marshall Altman.

He may move amongst legends, but the modest Shepherd brushes off any suggestion that he belongs in the same breath as the blues greats he collaborated with on 2007’s platinum-selling and Grammy-nominated documentary, ‘10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads’. Yet he’ll accept that with the old guard fading, there’s a responsibility to carry the torch. “The inescapable reality is that I’m getting older, and the generation of blues artists that went before, well, y’know, nobody lives forever. If I live long enough, I’m gonna wind up in the category of the older statesmen of the blues. For anyone in that position, I think it’s our duty to pass it on. It’s not all about me and my music, the goal is a broader one of keeping the genre alive and relevant.”

EU/UK Shows

Tickets available from: kennywayneshepherd.net/tour

• 29 Jun – Verti Music Hall, Berlin, GERMANY
• 30 Jun – Loket Castle, Loket CZECH REPUBLIC
• 01 Jul – RuhrCongress, Bochun, GERMANY
• 03 Jul – Stadtpark Open Air Bühne, Hamburg, GERMANY
• 05 Jul – Musiktheater REX, Bensheim, GERMANY
• 07 Jul – Chiari Blues Festival, Chiari, ITALY
• 09 Jul – Tollwood festival, München, GERMANY
• 10 Jul – Kaufleuten Klub, Zürich, SWITZERLAND
• 13 Jul – North Sea Jazz Festival, Rotterdam, NETHERLANDS
• 17 Jul – Boiler Shop, Newcastle, UK
• 18 Jul – Leadmill, Sheffield, UK
• 19 Jul – City Hall, Salisbury, UK
• 16 Aug – Keeling the Blues Alive Mediterranean, Barcelona, SPAIN
• 01 Nov - Blues Heaven Festival, Fredrikshavn, DENMARK
• 02 Nov - Blues Paradise Festival, Naestved, DENMARK
• 04 Nov - Q-Factory, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
• 06 Nov - Alhambra, Paris, FRANCE
• 07 Nov - Leverkusener Jazztage Festival, Leverkussen, GERMANY
• 09 Nov - Cheese & Grain, Frome, UK
• 11 Nov - Junction, Cambrigde, UK
• 12 Nov - Shepherd's Bush Empire, London, UK
• 13 Nov - Opera House, Buxton, UK
• 14 Nov - Town Hall, Birmingham, UK

Tracklisting

1. Woman Like You

2. Long Time Running

3. I Want You

4. Tailwind

5. Gravity

6. We All Alright

7. Take It On Home

8. Mr. Soul

9. Better With Time

10. Turn To Stone