KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD

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The following program contains views and opinionsthat do not reflect those of this station
or its advertisers. The Law DanShow. This is the Outlaw D Show
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girls in the corn rain, Iclashed the race card ver side. I've
cheated, I've stole and I mindI've been baptized before God. I spoke
the joint in front of my mind. He's a very naughty boy. I
bought cards promise about a home.I saw Elvis in the ask doone.

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I thought my heart. I battlewith the booze. I bought my picture
on the cover of the Public News. This is the Unbow D show.

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The girl, I see you inmy dreams. Its every team night.
Now you got me going to thisstream. You see the cow stronger right
now, I'll make your mind onthe day I sound that some way.

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You sn't read me. Not youcan't the little one now, I could
give you a bairl with them.I'm being done. Now make you someday,
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him. I just can't be shewonder what just going, no bab and

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the night ruses something ever stands thefat school. You can turn it away,
but I don't. You are regrettingif I ever had my way.

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You think you good? My DA'sgonna happen some day. Sail where some
baby, I'm gonna I'm some day. So iself wear someway, Awake your

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mind, hoiday, so iself bearsaway? Who is somehow, somewhere,

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some way the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band. That song was featured on his sophomore
effort, released twenty five years ago. They have re recorded the album with
the original producer than them, forthe most part, the original musicians.
It holds the distinction of being onthe Billboard one Blue Starts top for the

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longest period of time, five timeGrammy nominee, two time Billboard Music Award
winner, too Orville Gibson Award winner, two Blues Music Awards. Got to
perform with Double Trouble. Recorded withDouble Trouble BB King Stephen Stills Tonight on
the program We Visit with Kenny WayneShepherd, He's Your Friend on kp RC

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nine fifty. This is the OutlawedDave Show on KPRC nine fifty night.
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your tone by long Black Tears onthe River was shown a shove that don't
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back Move one Black, Black Tearson the River, push on the show.

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It don't mean much to gold onjack I Shanta, fire Cold on
Ices, It didn't messinas. Whisperon the screen doesn't change a thing.
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on the show. That don't meanmuch to go on jack I Shanta,
Fire Cold on Ices, It didn'tmessach. Whisper on the screen doesn't change
a thing doesn't bring you bad,prove all back. Thank you for calling

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the Outlaw Dave Show. Hi,I've got Kenny on the phone. Hello,
Hello, how's it going good.How's it going for you? Man?
I'm doing good, just you know, doing a lots of interviews and
talking to a lot of people aboutthis new version of the Trouble Is Record.
Kenny, Wayne Shepherd, This isOutlaw Dave, your old friend.
Right on, Dave. It's goodto talk to you. But now you're

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all big time and you got apublicist and you're probably connected to some studio.
I mean you were literally today doinginterviews all around the globe. I
look at it this way. It'slike, I'm glad people want to talk
about the music and want to talkto me. It's much better to have,
you know, about three or fourhours of interviews back to back then
to not have anybody you know callingon the other end of the phone.

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So it's great. I'm grateful.You know this is right. It's a
radio station in Houston, Texas,where twenty five years ago your dad dropped
you off at the front door ofa radio station with your guitar while he
went and parked the truck and youcame into the studio to a long haired,
leaping hippie gnome named Outlaw Dave,who said how old are you?

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I think you were twenty at thetime. And I said, well,
I can't buy you a beer,but we can go get a tattoo when
we're done with the interview. AndI gave you some words of advice.
And that was twenty five years ago. Man, look at you. I
told you twenty five years ago,I said, enjoy the ride. And
I have watched. I've come andsee you obviously over the years, but

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I've watched what you've done from yoursophomore efforts. Trouble is right out of
the gate. That was your secondalbum, and it takes the Billboard Blues
right longest longest time on the charts, and since then Grammy's accolades, played
with BB King Stephen Stills, andit's just been this amazing ride. And

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I know, Ken, your dadkept his hand on your shoulder and guided
you to be your own man andyour own destiny, and it's just been
amazing. And I'm so proud ofyou, and I'm so impressed, and
I'm happy, and I hope thatin spite of all the rigors of everything
you've endured that you've enjoyed it.Man. You know what, We've had

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a hell of a run. Imean, my career is going on thirty
years. We're celebrating the twenty fifthanniversary and my second album, Trouble Is,
and we just did a new versionof that record and it came out
on December second. We did adocumentary film telling the story of the making
of the original record and all thateverything that went into actually making that album
happen. And we're doing a tourwhere we're playing the whole album live and

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concert for the first time ever,and that's selling out. It was doing
so well that it got extended threetimes, and that's been extended into the
next year, twenty twenty three.And you know, I'm just going,
man, you know, this isa career that's nearing thirty years long,
and and there's no shortage of newthings happening. There's new fans coming to

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see us in concert all the time. We're still building the fan base,
we're still growing the brand. Andit's like, I'm just grateful. Man.
Not everybody can say that they've hada career like that or you know,
it's hard enough just to have acareer in the music, but it's
the one that's been going on threedecades, and you know, I'm just
grateful. Dude. You were barelyin your twenties when you were stepping up
with Double Trouble. I mean,I mean, damn, damn son.

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It's just so, I was readingeverything and I watched the recording, the
video of you and Noah as yousing a blue on black, and man,
this what an iconic song. AndI was reading some of the notes
about it and it says that onceagain you got together with Jerry Harrison to
revisit that as you've put out ofthe twenty fifth anniversary Trouble is dot dot

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dot twenty five. And I didn'trealize the Jerry Harrison that produced the original
as well as the anniversary album isJerry Harrison from the Casual Gods and the
Talking Heads. Yeah, Jerry producedthe second album. Was the first time
we were together. And yes he'sfrom the Talking Heads. He had the
Modern Lover or I mean, he'syou know, he's a member of the

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Rocking Wall Hall of Fame, theLegendary Game and uh, you know that
was my first experience working with himwith on the Trouble Is record, and
that began a decade long friendship.And uh, you know, we've done
many albums together over the years.We were actually just in the studio back
in October making another album together.So it's really true to be a great

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relationship and and somebody who I valuedearly. This is the Outlaw d Show
on KPRC nine fifty. Well,all right, all right, all right.
Our guest is the Kenny Way andShepherd of the Kennyway Shepherd Band celebrated
the twenty fifth anniversary of the TroubleIs All. The fact they've rereleased it,

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rerecorded, it reimagined, it gotsome bonus tracks now it still includes
the Jimmie Hendricks with the Bob Dylancover. And it's been twenty five years
since this guy popped into our lives. Kenny got a parcel of kids.
Now, yeah, man, wegot a big family. You know,
I never knew I was gonna havea big family, but um, you
know, my wife and I havesix beautiful kids, and you know,
it's like it just my life haschanged in so many ways and been enhanced

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to so many ways. Um,you know, since I started my family
with my wife, and so nowyou know, my goal is balanced.
You know, it's all about balancebetween my commitment to my fans and my
commitment to my family. Yeah,yeah, yeah, yeah. When we
met, I was just hitting mystride. I was in my thirties and

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and now here we are twenty fiveyears later. I also, I've got
four kids and my youngest right nowis gonna remember she's eight. Now how
old your youngest? She's four anda half, So yeah, is fifteen,
and the youngest is four and ahalf. I've got one to twenty
seven. But that's not with mywife. But that's a whole different story.
And this story today is about you. Your anniversary tour earlier this year

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back back home right in Shreveport.Yeah, that was the beginning. So
that was the first show of theTroubleist Anniversary tour back in February, and
we filmed it and released it asa live concert DBD. So you know,
we have start of the Troubleist Anniversary. We have the new version of
the record, we have the documentarytelling the story the making of the original

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album, and then we have thelive concert DVD from the first night of
the tour, and that's when welaunched the tour. We played at the
Shran Theater my hometown of Shreeport,which was the same theater that we did
the original album release parties twenty fiveyears earlier. And seeing the tour and
we had no idea, you knowthat it was going to I mean,
I knew it would be fun todo. I didn't know the fans were

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going to be so fired up aboutit started selling out everywhere, and it
just kept getting extended, you know, and extended again. And now we're
carrying this tour into next year andwe're gonna take it over to Europe.
They're asking forward overseas and yeah,it's just do that. It's great.
I mean, it's just a testamentto this music. You know that the
music is holding up and uh youknow that I really I've accomplished what I

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set out to, which was tomake timeless music that people have been enjoyed
for decades. You have you havenow I gotta I got. And you
know, do you still live inyou know Louisiana? Right? Uh?
Well we wey. My businesses allrun out of Louisiana still, Um,
we had places there right next doorto my dad up until just a few
months ago, and uh, we'rewe're up in Tennessee currently. So so

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when you were so when you gohome to Louisiana, like, are there
people that are you know that thatlake Oh I was the one who encouraged
him to play guitar, or arethere people that like I discovered him?
There have to be people that takesome sort of ownership of your your success
or your talents and uh, andthat's always one of those weird things.

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But I mean, obviously your yourfather and your own innate skill U shaped
you. But when you go home, are there people that just are so
just so proud of you? Yeah? Absolutely. I mean, you know,
my hometown has always been proud ofme. They've supported me from the
very beginning, and you know,at the end of the day, it's
like it makes me happy for allof them to take some ownership in the

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success that I've had, because youknow, they were the people that supported
me back when nobody even knew whoI was. All right, so let's
tell the story your dad, yourdad's doing in music. Fat your dad
was a disc jucket, your radioguy there in Louisiana, and so uh,
it's nineteen eighty something or other andhe sets you up on a like
a drum case or something and you'rewatching who perform. Well, that was

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the first time I saw Stevie rayVaughan for that was. Yeah, it
was an inspirational day for me.It was like, you know, that
was the day that I kind oflift the fire inside of me to want
to learn how to play guitar withpassion, you know, like he like
he had, and uh, itjust gave me all the motivation I needed
to really sit down and put intowork to learn how to play well.

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And then then not even a decadelater, you're on stage with Tommy Shannon
and Chris Layton. Yeah, anduh in the studio with them as well.
I mean I made Chris Layton wason my first record, and then
I had the whole Double Trouble bandon the second and third albums, And
Chris has been in my band now, um in the live concert situation for
a long time more than probably fourteenyears or so, and you know,

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it's just great. I mean,those guys were like my band before I
had a band, which it wasreal natural. So Whipper was on the
first album too. Yeah, hegoes all the way back to the very
first I did. I did notknow that that's been. I just saw
him for his birthday a couple ofweeks ago. He was with the Archangels.
Tommy wasn't there, but it wasa Doyle and Charlie and it was

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just they played in this really intimatelittle theater here in the in the in
the Houston and the Heights, andit was just so great to see them.
Also, I guess that was Archangelswas what thirty years ago? All
you guys have just created this timelessmusic that has been so gratifying as a
as a fan and as a asa proponent of music, especially live music.

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Uh, I'm beside myself and Ijust I remember seeing you in the
beginning and your dad being so seriousand so focused, and I felt like
we were playing a couple of ourbig concerts with the radio station KLOL,
and uh, I felt like hewas going, I gotta keep my kid

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away from these guys. They aretrouble and uh and we we weren't trouble,
but we weren't trying to corrupt you. Well yeah, man, Well
you know what, I dude,I grew up around a radio station.
My dad was that's what he did. So, but it's always good to
have him, you know. Andhe and we still run the business together
today. And uh, it's goodto have that kind of support, you

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know, especially when you're young.You know your parents are gonna are you
at least expect your parents to belooking out for you and interest in mine.
And I think he did. Isaw a picture him the other day.
He's got long hair and it lookedlike it was all white. It
looked good. Yeah, I knowhe blames the gray on me, but

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well make sure make sure you tellhim that out lawd Day've asked about him.
Uh, and uh, I don'tthink that you have a Houston date
and I'm sure. I'm sure you'regonna get here. Eventually. We were
looking at we do a downtown musicfestival. I was like, well,
we'll just get Kenny and I'll bughim when I talked to him like a
couple of weeks on the phone.But you're gonna be in Europe in the
springtime. And that's just having beenstationed over there in the military. It's

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so beautiful when you're gonna be thereand you're you're in Germany, you're in
England. That's just that's so exciting. And I know you've been there before
and you're well received over there,but man, I I'm so excited for
you. Well, I appreciate it. Man, you know, I'm pretty
excited myself. I'm glad that we'restill doing this and that the fans continue
to show up and support us.And I think we're making the best music
that we've ever made today and playingthe best concerts that we've ever put on

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it. So you know, there'sreally no complaints. Hell yeah, all
right, you guys go to oursocial media page. We've got some links.
Uh No, we're not sharing thewhole album. I want you to
go get that. I want youto download that on your own. Make
sure you put some jingle in thisman's pocket as he traverses the world and
represents the American blues scene. KennyWayne Shepherd from the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

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on the program today, Edie Ediespecial words for the holiday man. You
know, we just uh, youknow, for me, obviously, it's
the time of reflection and a timeto kind of be still and just be
in the moment and appreciate my familyand so you know. I just hope
everybody the same opportunity and and uh, you know, just appreciate the ones
you love and get ready to thenext year. Do you remember the story

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you used to tell about Blue onBlack and how after you Noah wrote it,
how you knew it was going tobe a success. Well, I
don't know. There's been a numberof stories told about that song. I'm
not gonna tell the story you toldtwenty five years ago. Because we're we're
We're all. Discretion is the betterpart of valor. All Right, we

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love you, guys, We're superhuge fans, and we appreciate you taking
the time to talk to us today. Thanks, thanks for having me.
All Right, Kenny, I'll talkto you soon. Held he's your friend.

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Tomorrow Just will I live tomorrow?Will? I just can't say it.
Will. I'm no fal Shore.I don't live to day. No

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sun coming through my window feel likeI'm living at the bottom of a grave.
Sun coming through my window, feellike I'm living at the bottom of
a grave. I wish you haven'texcuse me. I gonna be in my

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miserable way, but I don't todaytomorrow. I can't tell you any man,
But I tell't today. It's sucha shame to spend your time to

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day tomorrow. I can't sell today. It's such a same t spend your
time away like this existing. Thisis the outlawed to each show. This

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is the outlawed to each show onKPRC nine fifty. Now don't find I

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stands in my tail. Shot thedown when the edge of my hand,
when I says my time, shotit down, when the edge of my
hand. Then I be the brotherpieces making up a little saying I'm a

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boy child shot up to mean totake about your sweet time, even right

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back to you. One of thesedays I'm feed to take up on your
sweet time, get it right backto you. One of these days.

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I don't meet you no more onthis world. I'll meet you on the
next one. Told me because I'ma shot h m M. D Landy's

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gentleman. That is our sow Fardayevening. Thank you for coming. Please
leave bay as have now forget thespeakers. Daniel M.