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General Admission, Starlight, and Patio doors @ 5:30 p.m.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band @ 7:30 p.m.
Growing up in Shreveport, Louisiana five-time Grammy nominated blues legend, Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s life was galvanized and his musical sensibilities awakened by “Hard Again,” an iconic 1977 album by Muddy Waters in collaboration with guitarist/producer Johnny Winter.
Fast forward to modern day and writing and recording ‘Young Fashioned Ways’ with Bobby Rush is his own personal ‘Hard Again’ moment. Shepherd and Rush – born about 44 years apart -joined forces at Royal Studios in Memphis for the heart and soul-transforming sessions that led to “Young Fashioned Ways”’ 10 stunning tracks featuring Shepherd’s electrifying trademark guitarisma and Rush’s soulful vocals, rhythm guitar and down-home harmonica playing. The animating spirit driving this raw, gritty, truly mesmerizing album by the two Louisiana bluesmen is captured in the first line the 91-year-old Rush sings on the title track retitled “Young Ways”: “Well I may be getting old, but I’ve got young fashioned ways.”
Shepherd was born in Bossier City and raised in Shreveport and Rush hails from an hour up the road(via I-20 and US-79 N) in Carquit alongside Homer and Haynesville. They also have lots in common when it comes to their impact on a genre that’s always been in their DNA. They’ve each won Blues Music Awards - Rush a whopping 16 out of 56 career nominations. At 83, Rush received his first “Best Traditional Blues Album” Grammy award for “Porcupine Meat,” and he’s been on fire ever since, winning the same category in 2021 (“Rawer than Raw”) and 2024 (“All My Love For You”). He’s also been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, and Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.
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