Sunday, July. 20th, 2014 at Dallas House of Blues
The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band (consisting of singer Noah Hunt, ex-Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble drummer Chris Layton, former Firm bassist Tony Franklin, keyboardist Riley Osbourn, and of course Kenny Wayne Shepherd on guitar) performed at House of Blues Dallas last night.
Despite some sound issues early in the set, the band pushed on with high energy performing songs from the newest release Goin’ Home, including a blistering rendition of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s House is Rockin’.
Goin’ Home also features the talents of “Joe Walsh, Warren Haynes, Keb’ Mo’ and Robert Randolph, Ringo Starr, Fabulous Thunderbirds frontman Kim Wilson, the Rebirth Brass Band and co-producer Blade’s father, Pastor Brady Blade Sr., who lends a bracing dose of preaching to Shepherd’s version of Bo Diddley’s You Can’t Judge a Book by the Cover.”
Beginning his career at the young age of 16, Kenny Wayne Shepherd actually picked up guitar at the age of seven. The self-taught blues prodigy remembers being “mesmerized” at one of Vaughan’s 1984 concerts promoted by Shepherd’s father, radio personality / concert promoter Ken Shepherd.
One-man-band Joe Tucker opened the evening with his polka/blues-esque renditions of hits by bands such as The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, and Soft Cell.
Photos: Daniel Work / Staff Photographer
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