In April 2015, acclaimed American bluesman Kenny Wayne Shepherd will return live to Italy, 26 April in Mezzago (Monza Brianza) and 27 April in Romewill present in concert his seventh album 'Goin' Home"(released on 29 May on the Mascot Label Group label) accompanied by his band consisting of Noah Hunt (voice), Chris Layton (drummer of Stevie Ray Vaughen and Double Trouble), Tony Franklin (former bassist of the supergroup The Firm) and Riley Osbourn (former keyboardist for Willie Nelson).
Concert tickets are available on the Ticketone and points of sale Vivaticket.
The album "Goin' Home"is an overview of all the music that has influenced the bluesman over the years, containing covers of artists such as B.B. King, Albert King, Bo Diddley, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny 'Guitar' Watson, Lee Dorsey and others. To embellish the musical project, Kenny Wayne Shepherd involved numerous guests, including some of his close friends such as Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh and Warren Hayneswhich included special guest performances.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd, originally from Louisiana, discovered the music of Stevie Ray Vaughan at the age of seven and replaced the plastic guitar he had played with since childhood with a cheap Yamaha on which he began practising as a self-taught musician. The boy showed such perseverance and talent that at the age of thirteen he was invited to perform on stage by blues musician Bryan Lee. Soon afterwards, he started playing at various festivals, getting noticed by Irving Azoffhead of Giant Records, who offered him a contract.
Starting in 1995, Shepherd released seven singles that entered the US Top 10, earned five Grammy Award nominations and won two Billboard Music Awards, two Blues Music Awards and two Orville H. Gibson Awards. In 2007, the acclaimed "10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads" (Reprise Records), a CD and DVD set documenting Shepherd's journey across America to meet legendary bluesmen such as B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Cootie Shark; the work won two Grammy Awards nominations and a platinum disc in the USA. Further confirmation of the bluesman's talent came from the well-known guitar brand Fender, which in 2008 launched the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Series Stratocastera model designed by Shepherd himself.
KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD Band + guest
Sunday 26 April 2015 MEZZAGO (MB) Bloom
Via Eugenio Curiel 39- Doors open 20.30 - Concert starts 21.30
For the 'Bloom In Blues 6th Edition' festival in collaboration with Italian Blues River
Ticket price: € 25,00 + d.p.
Monday 27 April 2015 ROME Planet
Via del Commercio 3 - Concert starts at 9.30 p.m. Tickets cost: € 25.00 + p.p.
Tickets available on the circuit Ticketone and points of sale Vivaticket.
