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Meet Kenny Wayne Shepherd

November 1, 1995 by: James Lien

In the journeyman, dues-paying, endless one-nighter world of blues, isn't nineteen years old a little young to strike it big? Some would say you're supposed to suffer a little, or at least wait around at the crossroads a little longer than that, but not Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The young guitar player from Shreveport was apparently enough of a whiz kid that he was able to front his own band while still in high school, and picked up a contract with Giant Records soon after that. His new debut alb...

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