April 22, 2025 • 34 mins
Three-time Grammy® Award-winning blues legend Bobby Rush and five-time Grammy® nominated singer/songwriter/guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd, drop their new spectacular collection of blues songs today titled “YOUNG FASHIONED WAYS.” Written and recorded by the two artists together, Rush and Shepherd will embark on an upcoming 27-city U.S. tour in support of the new release starting April 25 in Kansas City, MO, with additional dates to be announced. Tune in to hear more from both legendary musicians!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey all, this is Nashville Recording artists Brandley Gilbert and
you're listening to the award nominated Backstage Pass. Oh KKTC
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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those podcasts out there. And of course they're coming through
to Santa Fe in Mexico, May seventeenth, through a big
tour out there, the new album called Young Fashion Ways
(00:34):
the legend Bobby Rush out there and blues and of
course a great guitar player and his all right, Kenny
Wayne Shepard, Bobby Kenny, how you guys doing.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm doing great, man, but glad to be here with you. Man.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, we're doing good. Thanks for having us on your show.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yes, sir, we appreciate you guys being here too. Let's
talk about this, Kenny, We'll start right there. Great, great collaboration.
It's becoming more of the norm in the industry now
across all genres of music. Talk about the story of
just connecting with Bobby on this record Young Fashion Ways,
and of course writing a lot of these great tunes
and really just keeping blues on the map.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Yeah, well, it's not every day that, even as a
successful musician, it's not every day that you get the
opportunity to go in the studio and record a record
with a living legend, and so, you know, this was
this was really special from the get go. And I've
always been such a fan of blues music and a
lover of the blues. And even though all my music
(01:30):
isn't always necessarily traditional blues, but I love playing blues,
and so you know, I've just I just had the
chance to go in and make a record with Bobby
and he you know, he I tell everybody he's one
of the originators. Like I'm a product of what he
helped create, you know, the genre. He helped mold that
(01:50):
and create it and help it evolve into, you know,
the kind of music that inspired me to do what
I do. So I'm a product of what he helped create.
And so to be able to go in and make
a real, authentic blues record with one of the most
real Uh, people that I know, Uh it was. It
was a win win situation for me, and I think
(02:11):
the end results is an incredible album.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No doubt. Bobby, let's talk about that. To give a
chance to work with a legendary guitar player Grammy nominated
in Kenny Wayne Shephard, I mean out there to to
come together, put your vocals, your harmonics with this. Bobby
had to be a lot of fun to collaborate with
Kenny on this record too.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Right, You have a lot of fun, a lot of faith,
and a lot of russ and a lot of respect
for each other and the music itself. Uh, Ken is
so much us about this music, about being the thing
who do it whatever. But he's such a great great
(02:47):
I don't say this because he here with his back
all the way about radio, the way he played, not
just the blues guy. He got this Texas thing and
he got there walk, he got the to Western, he
got all of the I'm just the blue mame. He
brings the best out of me. Man, that's all I
know how to do the blue hen how he got
(03:07):
three or four has he wear? And uh you can
see it in the music. We started doing this record.
I don't go to either one of them had any
ideal where we're gonna take us. We both enough to
know that he the music, take us of whore we
go there, we are here, we.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Are Yeah, and we're seeing that Kenny, you know mentioned
of those crossovers here at the top where you're seeing
the blues and country and different genres of music coming together.
I think it's a great thing for the industry too,
because everybody's got a gift to share and music is
kind of therapy.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Would you agree, Kenny, Oh, yeah, absolutely. And you know,
music is music. It's all related. You know, Bobby has
a very famous quote. I'm not gonna I'll let him
say it, but music is all related. In country music
and blues, you know, they all have to come from.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
The same thing. And rock and roll that all came
from blues music.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
But I think ultimately people just like to see talented
people collaborating together and making great music, you know. And uh,
and that's certainly what we have tried to do on
this record, and what we hope to do on this
tour is to bring the fans who come to see
us on this tour some really great music.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I want to say that and I haven't said this
a couple other interviews we deal with happening what.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'm seeing now.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
People enjoy the music and respect the music and the stuff,
but I think people really rating on someone to do
what we're doing. There's two men getting together, young and
the old man getting together, making good music and having
a feel for the music and a feel for each other.
At love for brother love man. I mean, that's all
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I can say. I just I can't explain it. I
can't put it in work to tell you have product
I'm to be involved with and to make a statement
to the world what we all should be done doing
things together.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No doubt well said there too. We gotta play a
little song here again across the affiliates there. We don't
just talk about music. We played here again young fashioned ways,
legends of Bobby Rush and of course Kenny Waite Shepherd
out there. It's called Hey Baby. Here it is again
across all the platforms out there, presented by The Kadian
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Speaker 7 (05:16):
Up, Hey Baby.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
Girl, you got me something?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Pus, Hey baby, you got me something?
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Why don't you tell me?
Speaker 10 (05:48):
Tell me? Movie? Wow?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
We going to do. One day you say you love me.
One day is say you don't. Some day you say
you will.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Girl, sometime you go. You got me so confused? Why
don't you tell me? Tell me, baby baby? What an't
we going to do? One day you want to leave me?
(06:55):
Next thing you want to stay?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
One day your birth and right next day? Okay, Hey
baby girl, you got me something?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Tell me to tell me?
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Baby baby? Why aren't we gonna do? One n you
hold my hands?
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Leave me?
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Can't they they you go to bed? You won't either
say good night?
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Hey, many.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Girl, you got me something?
Speaker 10 (07:34):
Pus?
Speaker 12 (07:38):
Why don't you tell me? Tell me, baby baby? What
are we gonna do? Why don't you tell me? Tell me, baby, bob,
what are we gonna do?
Speaker 9 (07:57):
Want you to tell me? Tell me baby? Tell me
what are we.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Going to do?
Speaker 11 (08:07):
What are we going to do? Tell me what are
we going to do? Baby? Tell me what are we
going to do? Tell me what are we going to do?
What are we going to do to do? Tell me
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what are we going to do? What are we going
to do to do? Tell me what are we going
to do? Tell me what are we going to do?
Tell me what are we going to do? What are
(08:54):
we going to do?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
What are we going to.
Speaker 13 (09:03):
What we're going can do?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Y'all?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
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Speaker 14 (09:26):
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Speaker 2 (09:38):
Add back here on the show again, the Backstage Pass
again powered by the Sports Guys Podcast dot col. Kenny Waite, Shepard,
Bobby Rush talking about young fashion ways here across our
affiliates out there too as well in radio land. So
this one, Kenny really had a great feel. Hey baby,
love the title what are we Gonna do? A great
guitar licks in it man, and of course here's one
that is just gonna be fantastic. When you got start
(10:00):
this tour had to be fun to work on the studio.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, absolutely, this was.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
This actually was a song that we were in the
middle of making the record and Bobby had a show
that he had to go do, so he left for
one day and he drove clear across the whole state
of Tennessee to go play his other concert.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
He played the show, and then he got in.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
His vehicle and drove all the way back down to
Memphis and showed up ready to work. But while he
was gone, this was one of the things that I
was working on, and I had put this track together
with this music. And when he showed back up, I said, man,
I was working on this thing, and I wonder if
you got anything for it. And you know, he walked
in the studio with this stack of lyrics that he
had written. I mean I'm talking like papers, like three
(10:40):
inches thick. It looked like hundreds of songs that he
had written. And so I said, you know, you got
something for this, and he is like, you ain't got
nothing that I don't have a lyric for And he
dug through his papers and he pulled out the lyric
and he started singing, singing those words to that song
right there, and it was just perfect.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
To be that he when I'm gone, this guy got
into my soul in a hard band and wrote a
song right on top of the liver that had already
been Man, this sold it. If this ain't soul brother,
I don't know. I didn't have to add anything to it.
Just come back and look through my little stack and
pick it out. Thank God, man, this this is not
(11:22):
I don't think. I don't think either want to combine
the words to about our while we did what we're
doing other than we've been blessed God put us together.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I don't know any other thing to say, but we've
been put together. We didn't plan to do this. We
didn't have any direct foundation that we're gonna work on.
We just know we're gonna do music to do out there,
do what we do and let the music take us.
Well we are now and we're hoping that that that
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the show were going to basically have together. But even
add to that and people receiver us and like us
what we're doing, I think if both of us going
be back like a cat in the ground crushed cristing
ground and go follow and feel good to backnom what
we're doing. I'm already on everything. If people have come
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to like us like what we're doing, that's gonna be
a double list.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, of course it's big tour is gonna kick off
here coming up this weekend, April twenty fifth of the
Kansas City, Missouri can't to ask you about the debut
single who Was That, which was a Lion's Gate upcoming
filmed It's ol Flight Risk, of course, with Mark Wahlberg,
that came out in late January. There Too, a great
song man really set the tone for this record. Talk
about that one?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, I like that one.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You know, it's an opening track for the record because
it's you know, it's an up tempo song. It has
the full band. We even put a horn section on it,
and it just it's an uplifting song. Even though you
know he's talking about that is that this woman was
cheating on him because somebody he caught somebody running out.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
The back door. But uh, it makes you feel good.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
It kind of reminds you that, you know, one of
the great things about blues music is that it's not
always so serious. There's a sense of humor to it,
you know, and so it kind of makes you smile,
makes you feel good. And so I thought it was
a great opening track for the record, and and we're.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Very happy that it made it into that movie.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It's it's in one of the very first scenes of
the of the film and and uh, you know, it's
just another great thing that's come from doing this project together.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Well, I, well, I just thought about what Kidd has
said about it.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I have a writular song.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I think it about this man who had a cheated
wife and someone were walking out of his back the cheating.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I was writing the song and I was I write.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
About who that the back do was going to be
a man or woman, And I wanted to write something
about some big footprints that's similarly. It could be a
made you know, but anyway, I laughed. I laughed about
that about what I was thinking about. You know, did
they It could have been a woman, a main teat
(14:02):
could have been a main a woman cheating and you know,
one one with the other. I kind of lead it
on myself in the main can it be? In the main?
I talked about that we don't related to somebody who's
who's Bobby pipping out in the backdoor?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, no doubt. And I love the fact. You know, Kenny,
this is gonna be a great way to share this
record too, because once the record's release usually artists get
behind it. Man, they go push it out there. It's
gonna be a twenty four city US tour I mentioned
starting April twenty fifth and going through August the twenty third,
and some other dates out there to be announced. Man,
you guys again, that just a living legend with Bobby
performing on stage. Man getting that rush in front of
(14:36):
a crowd, talking about how excited this is to hit
the road coming up April twenty fifth and carrying this
through August.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Well, I'm excited about it because you know, one of
the things that impressed me the most about Bobby.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Is his live performance and what he brings to the stage.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And so I know there's gonna be a lot of
my fans that are gonna come see these shows that
might be seeing him for the very first and you know,
he's just gonna win everybody over and they're gonna fall
in love with him, and they're gonna go, man it,
where where have I been.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
That I that I didn't know that this guy existed?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And they're gonna go back and learn about his history
and all the music he's created.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
But we're gonna show him a great time.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
We have a set worked up where we're opening the show,
me and him in a real intimate setting with a
stripped down version of the band, and we're gonna play
most of the songs from this record, and then we'll
take a little intermission and then come back out with
the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and do that thing, and
then bring him back up at the end of the
show for a big finale and and and do the
(15:38):
full band songs with him. So it's gonna be a
great experience for his fans and my fans. Anybody who
has come to see either one of us recently, they
haven't seen a show like this, so they're gonna get
a new experience and we're excited to bring it to him.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, if we play our next track, and Bobby, this
really sounds a lot because when you guys were collaborating
on this record, it's amazing how you know, blues you know,
comes together and a lot of different ways when it
comes to like that spiritual feel to you know, geographically
bringing people together to somebody could be going through the
hardest thing in their life. Bobby and I think a
lot of put the blues music on and let them
feel something.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Right.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I'm glad you said that, because not only is people
going through up and down the battles of what happened
in life, but when they see Kennygham, Kenny and I,
I think we're going to make a statement to the
world where we should be as people as a whole together,
And I think, I think, I think a lot of
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people come behind what we've done to make a better world,
make a better place to live, man, better thing to
do together, be you know, so separated in this world now.
So I think this is going to make a big
statement to not only just because of music, just for
people period together.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We've got to make it a better world. Too much
negativity going around out there these days too as well.
We're trying to play another one here off young fashioned
ways again, Bobby Rush, Annyway Shepherd joining us here. Here
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Speaker 10 (17:21):
That's a little man that's hot. The song.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Everybody calls on the easel.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Little name the same.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
We should have been him in the hollow Wood, the
one main play will give town.
Speaker 10 (17:46):
I should have been him, uncle, He's all with the town.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Why is the house? You know how off the pelical jump.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
He saw bou the stuff.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
He was a hard though he didn't know what to do. Well.
The sicht was the brand school.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Okay, she's all.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I had a nag, tied him up the room, Gon
go run the town?
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Oh yeah, lord, were running around? It's so hard.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Did you know what to do?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Grabbing hard, stout, crying the blue?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
If you went?
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Ok, he's off a pot of saw.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
They're just talking like a call saw.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Every night when the sun is down.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
There, we'll crawled down.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Pat the hood with going money all plans.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
The money gets coming, boy, Oh he's up. Oh us though,
you know that.
Speaker 15 (20:51):
For the pa night.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Jokes. Even know that.
Speaker 15 (21:00):
Hambob, the hambon, the hambone, the hambone.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Number. I just like the all.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I got shoes on his head.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Adam want to speaking.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Dragging wine.
Speaker 16 (21:49):
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Speaker 17 (22:00):
Hi all, this is Nancy Jones and you're listening to
the award nominated Backstage Pass on KYB in ninety eight
point one, your Bay Area Broadcasting network.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
And back here on the show again, Kenny way, Shepard,
Bobby Rush, you want to us here across iHeartRadio and
all the great stations out there, KKTC, True Country ninety
nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico, and our friends
at KYB in ninety eight point one in the Bay
Area out there, your Bay Area Broadcasting Networking in May seventeenth,
coming through there in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Will have
more on that particular show coming out there too as
Wealthy Buffalo Thunder Casino. Get your tickets now in Santa
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Fe for this big, big tour out there for Bobby
Rush and Kenny Wayne Shephard. I mentioned this one, Kenny,
this is a lot of fun out here.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Man, it's this thing kind of really brings both of
our Louisiana roots together. You know, we're both from Louisiana
actually not too far from each other, and so we
had that connection from the get go, and you know,
I don't know, man, like, there's something very special about
Louisiana and and about Louisiana musicians, you know, and and
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the understanding that we have about the musical culture that
comes out of that state. And not everybody can just
jump up and play a second line or you know,
perform on a song like this that has so much
of that kind of South Louisiana flair to it. And
so this kind of brought it all together for the
two of us. And it's a real nod to UH,
(23:25):
to our Louisiana upbringing. So it's a it's a lot
of fun, man, It's a very festive sounding song.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
I just want to say, Kenny, so thank you so
much for believing in me and and Uh in the music.
I was thinking about an ease when he did this.
I want to take a create for this. Kennanhead brought
the horn players in. He was so panned to tell
me what he was doing, but he gave me how
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we going to do it. We're talking about the alcas.
I went to Kyle Radler, Billy, go leave the hell
with this horn line on? Man, I just cried like
a baby. I said, what in the world I mean
put a horn line on? Sound like a bit of
goat and man, this this is so craggy. Man this man,
I just I could say a thousand things and it
(24:15):
still wouldn't be enough to say how great I am
about what he's done. He do and a great producer.
He is now great Uh, just a great writer and
a great enhance. He enhanced everything that everything I can
think I want to do, He's there.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'm just happy to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, I got to stick another one on this record too.
Out there for a little uh kind of plug on
this one. I love Floy's music when it goes here
you so fine. We got to go there, Bobby, let's
talk about this one.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Oh the kidding and I can talk about that, man.
You know pretty well we put from Losing Man a creole.
There ain't the only one look good, but they look
good all across the country.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know, I'm frying. Woman is fine, woman. I can
tell you one th we all we see a women's live,
you can bitch ninety eight of them leave that fall.
We like to play Jenny.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He's got a point there.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
He does absolutely.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
Man.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
You know, It's like I've always you know, there's a
lot of songs in blues music or in all music
really where it talks about heartache or cheating or scandalous
things or whatever. But I also enjoy writing and performing
the songs that helps like glorify women and talk about
how great they are, you know, and This is one
of those.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It sure is too, no doubt about it. Again, Young
fashion ways across all the DSP's out there, and again
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tis well and check out those great tickets out there.
Kenny gotta ask you, of course, be remiss if I didn't.
All the listeners kept asking me to coming on the show.
I said, Man, the song that really sticks with them forever. Man,
it's great guitar licks and of course a great story
(25:54):
told the vocals Everything Blue on Black Man, this is
one that's gonna live with you for a long long time.
I'm sure it gets old maybe talking about it too
as well, But this is one synonymous with you too,
and I'm sure that that has to be fun to
perform live with your band.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Oh yeah, well, you know, man, that song is now
getting you know, it's coming up on what we just
had the twenty fifth anniversary a couple of years back,
right of that record. So the song's over twenty five
years old, but it's I don't get tired of playing it,
I don't get tired of talking about it because first
of all, when I started my career, even though I
was really young, I always kept in mind that I
(26:30):
never wanted to write or record any songs that I
didn't feel proud of or that I didn't feel represented me,
you know, because you got a plan for the rest
of your life. And so the end result is that,
you know, it's a quality song, and so I'm not embarrassed,
but I don't shy away from it. We love playing it,
the fans love hearing it, and it still gets played
(26:50):
on the radio and online on the you know, streaming.
I mean, it's just the numbers are still huge to
this day, and so it's done a lot for me
personally and my fanamily and my band and everything. So, uh,
it's just one of those magical songs, and it's connected
with a lot of people, you.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Know, Bobby looking back at that this one too. I
love that last album you put out, All My Love
for You, which had some great, great tunes on there too,
And of course your record, you know, speaks for its
sill track record out there too, legend in the blues industry.
But a lot of those songs too that fans love,
Bobby just never probably get old to spread that message
right now.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
You know, when you think about the song, can you
have doing black? Because it See, it's hard for me
to try to album do that song. That's how I'll
do it. I'm up with something that's as good or better.
That's hard to do, man, because I had a hard
song to come. I know it's been twenty five years
ago since candidate. Man, it's a hard song to beat out.
(27:43):
But but you're always in competition with youself. We're doing
from now what you gotta do. It's like going to
a restaurant. You go to a restaurant, if the food
got good, you won't be back at food good. You're
returning to come back get more.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
That's what we gotta do.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
We gotta make as good as we was and even better.
And every time we do something, we got to be
better at what we've done. You know, how about did
you do you own that? That's sphere we live in too.
I want to throw some props out there to Kenny.
Y'all work with some great musicians here, a great veteran
team on there too, These great great veteran blues and
musicians that really perfected this record. From the instrumentalist standpoint
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talk about that too, because this was people that have
been on a ton.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Of records out there.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Well, yeah, I mean, one of the great things about
doing this album was, you know, in Memphis, Tennessee, is
that there's a lot of great players there and Bobby.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Knows all of them, you know.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
So once I started hearing different instruments on the h
in my head, you know, I was like, well, I
think maybe we can put an organ.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
You know, like Al Green, like that sound from the
Al Green record.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And I was like, oh, I know the guy.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I know, the actual guy that played all of that.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
And within like thirty minutes, he was in the studio
playing on our record, you know, and it was great
man and these players did. Drummer Steve Potts, he was
a friend of mine. He played on my first album,
Led Better Heights. He played on some of those songs,
and he played with the Blues Brothers and Booker T
and the MG's.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I mean, all these guys, you know, they.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Got their resumes are very long, and they're very talented,
and they really added a lot to the record when
they came in and played on.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It, no doubt, ye, Bobby. Here's some thoughts on the
musicians and those players mad on this on this album, love.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
It, yeah, but I'm the same with what can you say?
He's so right? But what can it have that he
don't talk about I talk about him about this. He
has such a.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Idea of what it should be, even before it finished.
He hear a song, he's even though I know who
to put on. He knows what need to go on,
and he knows when it's too much. He knows, uh
we sometimes less, it's more unless it's better, and he
(29:58):
know just when how to put it on. And he trusts,
he trusts his instinct and his music ability. And then musially,
let it take us, well it take us. You don't
try to twist it, make it be over, over produce it,
over play on it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
He just know just what to do.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
It takes a long time to get that position. But
one thing for sure, the musician as a whole want
to be heard and musician. And most of the time,
a lot of time musicians overplayed because the musician they
want to hit an instrument.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
But he's not like that. He can he want to
hear the vocal, You want to hit the background, You
want to hear the drum. All plays a pod and
he knows when to fold it. And that's that's what
I love about it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
The beauty of it. Kenny will finish with this one too,
and I'll bother get your take on it. And when
not doing music or this big tour coming up, what
are some things you enjoy Kenny? Personal life and me
some hobbies away from music? What do you what do
you like to do outside of music?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Well, I'm when I'm not working on the road or
in the studio, I have a pretty full life at home.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
My wife and I.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
We have six beautiful kids, and they're all still young
enough to be living in the house with us, So
that keeps me pretty busy. And then if I do
have some spare time, I like to go mess around
with my cars. You know, I'm a I'm a car lover.
I've loved cars as long as I've loved guitars, and
so thankfully the music has afforded me the chance to
pursue my passion with the automobiles, and so that's kind
(31:25):
of my my therapy, if you will, is to go
out there and just get out on the open road,
or go in.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
The garage and start wrenching on a couple of the cars.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Give me a pills, some paper, sit down in my
garage and write song idea. That's my third I write
twenty five a round o'clock. When I'm not on the state.
I'm on the state behind the door in the bathroom,
set up somewhere writing with a paper, write song coming
(31:58):
what idea? Every time I'm not a writing another song,
I like.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
You know it.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And as far as food goes, look, I'm a foodie.
I love to eat and I'm kind of find myself
in the gym. That's kind of my sanctuary too when
I'm not doing this radio show too at the same time.
But Kenny, for you, you like to cook. I mean,
of course on the road, I know it's tough there too.
But as far as eating out in food, man, what's
kind of the food that does it for you?
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Man, it's just whatever. Especially on the road. That's my
indulgence is food.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So, like, we go online and we try and find,
you know, a local place that's unique to the area,
has good reviews, and I'm pretty I pretty much like
just about everything. But we look for the highest rated
place that we could find as that's closest to the venue.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
And so we know we're going to get a good meal.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
I'm kind of seatbool got them not too much as
state level. A lot of seatfood, a lot of common stuff. Man,
it's green peas and or cut your boy, you know,
and you know I eat put it not too much.
Sweet little little little sweet hivyin. Then a lot of
the juices, and I kind of exercised a lot.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That's what I am.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Get up and do my little wall building, a little
bicycle line, and I just shot up boxing.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah that's hey, I am, you know, just a country boy.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, conry boy, keeping busy, no doubt about it too
as well. Well, well get you guys. Check out the
tour coming up again twenty four city US Young Fashioned
Ways across all the digital streaming platforms, coming right through
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Uh Maye the seventeenth, The Buffalo
Thunder Casino, the legends out there, Bobby Rush, Bobby Rush, Bluesman,
Dot Colvin of course, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Dot at the
websites out there too as well. Gentlemen, appreciate you joining
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us here on the backstage pass, say best of luck
with the tour of the album, and continued success going forward.
We appreciate you both. Thank you got it two of
the best out there too. More great music coming up
here on our stations across all the digital streaming platforms.
We'll talk to you guys soon. Take care, God bless.
Speaker 18 (33:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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tour out there, the new album called Young Fashion Ways
(00:34):
the legend Bobby Rush out there and blues and of
course a great guitar player and his all right, Kenny
Wayne Shepard, Bobby Kenny, how you guys doing.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm doing great, man, but glad to be here with you. Man.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah, we're doing good. Thanks for having us on your show.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yes, sir, we appreciate you guys being here too. Let's
talk about this, Kenny, We'll start right there. Great, great collaboration.
It's becoming more of the norm in the industry now
across all genres of music. Talk about the story of
just connecting with Bobby on this record Young Fashion Ways,
and of course writing a lot of these great tunes
and really just keeping blues on the map.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
Yeah, well, it's not every day that, even as a
successful musician, it's not every day that you get the
opportunity to go in the studio and record a record
with a living legend, and so, you know, this was
this was really special from the get go. And I've
always been such a fan of blues music and a
lover of the blues. And even though all my music
(01:30):
isn't always necessarily traditional blues, but I love playing blues,
and so you know, I've just I just had the
chance to go in and make a record with Bobby
and he you know, he I tell everybody he's one
of the originators. Like I'm a product of what he
helped create, you know, the genre. He helped mold that
(01:50):
and create it and help it evolve into, you know,
the kind of music that inspired me to do what
I do. So I'm a product of what he helped create.
And so to be able to go in and make
a real, authentic blues record with one of the most
real Uh, people that I know, Uh it was. It
was a win win situation for me, and I think
(02:11):
the end results is an incredible album.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
No doubt. Bobby, let's talk about that. To give a
chance to work with a legendary guitar player Grammy nominated
in Kenny Wayne Shephard, I mean out there to to
come together, put your vocals, your harmonics with this. Bobby
had to be a lot of fun to collaborate with
Kenny on this record too.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
Right, You have a lot of fun, a lot of faith,
and a lot of russ and a lot of respect
for each other and the music itself. Uh, Ken is
so much us about this music, about being the thing
who do it whatever. But he's such a great great
(02:47):
I don't say this because he here with his back
all the way about radio, the way he played, not
just the blues guy. He got this Texas thing and
he got there walk, he got the to Western, he
got all of the I'm just the blue mame. He
brings the best out of me. Man, that's all I
know how to do the blue hen how he got
(03:07):
three or four has he wear? And uh you can
see it in the music. We started doing this record.
I don't go to either one of them had any
ideal where we're gonna take us. We both enough to
know that he the music, take us of whore we
go there, we are here, we.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Are Yeah, and we're seeing that Kenny, you know mentioned
of those crossovers here at the top where you're seeing
the blues and country and different genres of music coming together.
I think it's a great thing for the industry too,
because everybody's got a gift to share and music is
kind of therapy.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
Would you agree, Kenny, Oh, yeah, absolutely. And you know,
music is music. It's all related. You know, Bobby has
a very famous quote. I'm not gonna I'll let him
say it, but music is all related. In country music
and blues, you know, they all have to come from.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
The same thing. And rock and roll that all came
from blues music.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
But I think ultimately people just like to see talented
people collaborating together and making great music, you know. And uh,
and that's certainly what we have tried to do on
this record, and what we hope to do on this
tour is to bring the fans who come to see
us on this tour some really great music.
Speaker 6 (04:17):
I want to say that and I haven't said this
a couple other interviews we deal with happening what.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'm seeing now.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
People enjoy the music and respect the music and the stuff,
but I think people really rating on someone to do
what we're doing. There's two men getting together, young and
the old man getting together, making good music and having
a feel for the music and a feel for each other.
At love for brother love man. I mean, that's all
(04:47):
I can say. I just I can't explain it. I
can't put it in work to tell you have product
I'm to be involved with and to make a statement
to the world what we all should be done doing
things together.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No doubt well said there too. We gotta play a
little song here again across the affiliates there. We don't
just talk about music. We played here again young fashioned ways,
legends of Bobby Rush and of course Kenny Waite Shepherd
out there. It's called Hey Baby. Here it is again
across all the platforms out there, presented by The Kadian
Gordon Show dot Com, Today's Best Country Mixed Crank it.
Speaker 7 (05:16):
Up, Hey Baby.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
Girl, you got me something?
Speaker 9 (05:33):
Pus, Hey baby, you got me something?
Speaker 8 (05:46):
Why don't you tell me?
Speaker 10 (05:48):
Tell me? Movie? Wow?
Speaker 8 (05:51):
We going to do. One day you say you love me.
One day is say you don't. Some day you say
you will.
Speaker 9 (06:03):
Girl, sometime you go. You got me so confused? Why
don't you tell me? Tell me, baby baby? What an't
we going to do? One day you want to leave me?
(06:55):
Next thing you want to stay?
Speaker 8 (06:57):
One day your birth and right next day? Okay, Hey
baby girl, you got me something?
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Why don't you.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Tell me to tell me?
Speaker 8 (07:12):
Baby baby? Why aren't we gonna do? One n you
hold my hands?
Speaker 11 (07:23):
Leave me?
Speaker 8 (07:24):
Can't they they you go to bed? You won't either
say good night?
Speaker 10 (07:29):
Hey, many.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
Girl, you got me something?
Speaker 10 (07:34):
Pus?
Speaker 12 (07:38):
Why don't you tell me? Tell me, baby baby? What
are we gonna do? Why don't you tell me? Tell me, baby, bob,
what are we gonna do?
Speaker 9 (07:57):
Want you to tell me? Tell me baby? Tell me
what are we.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Going to do?
Speaker 11 (08:07):
What are we going to do? Tell me what are
we going to do? Baby? Tell me what are we
going to do? Tell me what are we going to do?
What are we going to do to do? Tell me
(08:30):
what are we going to do? What are we going
to do to do? Tell me what are we going
to do? Tell me what are we going to do?
Tell me what are we going to do? What are
(08:54):
we going to do?
Speaker 7 (08:58):
What are we going to.
Speaker 13 (09:03):
What we're going can do?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
What's up?
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Y'all?
Speaker 2 (09:16):
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Speaker 14 (09:26):
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Speaker 2 (09:38):
Add back here on the show again, the Backstage Pass
again powered by the Sports Guys Podcast dot col. Kenny Waite, Shepard,
Bobby Rush talking about young fashion ways here across our
affiliates out there too as well in radio land. So
this one, Kenny really had a great feel. Hey baby,
love the title what are we Gonna do? A great
guitar licks in it man, and of course here's one
that is just gonna be fantastic. When you got start
(10:00):
this tour had to be fun to work on the studio.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Yeah, absolutely, this was.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
This actually was a song that we were in the
middle of making the record and Bobby had a show
that he had to go do, so he left for
one day and he drove clear across the whole state
of Tennessee to go play his other concert.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
He played the show, and then he got in.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
His vehicle and drove all the way back down to
Memphis and showed up ready to work. But while he
was gone, this was one of the things that I
was working on, and I had put this track together
with this music. And when he showed back up, I said, man,
I was working on this thing, and I wonder if
you got anything for it. And you know, he walked
in the studio with this stack of lyrics that he
had written. I mean I'm talking like papers, like three
(10:40):
inches thick. It looked like hundreds of songs that he
had written. And so I said, you know, you got
something for this, and he is like, you ain't got
nothing that I don't have a lyric for And he
dug through his papers and he pulled out the lyric
and he started singing, singing those words to that song
right there, and it was just perfect.
Speaker 6 (11:00):
To be that he when I'm gone, this guy got
into my soul in a hard band and wrote a
song right on top of the liver that had already
been Man, this sold it. If this ain't soul brother,
I don't know. I didn't have to add anything to it.
Just come back and look through my little stack and
pick it out. Thank God, man, this this is not
(11:22):
I don't think. I don't think either want to combine
the words to about our while we did what we're
doing other than we've been blessed God put us together.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
I don't.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I don't know any other thing to say, but we've
been put together. We didn't plan to do this. We
didn't have any direct foundation that we're gonna work on.
We just know we're gonna do music to do out there,
do what we do and let the music take us.
Well we are now and we're hoping that that that
(11:54):
the show were going to basically have together. But even
add to that and people receiver us and like us
what we're doing, I think if both of us going
be back like a cat in the ground crushed cristing
ground and go follow and feel good to backnom what
we're doing. I'm already on everything. If people have come
(12:16):
to like us like what we're doing, that's gonna be
a double list.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Yeah, of course it's big tour is gonna kick off
here coming up this weekend, April twenty fifth of the
Kansas City, Missouri can't to ask you about the debut
single who Was That, which was a Lion's Gate upcoming
filmed It's ol Flight Risk, of course, with Mark Wahlberg,
that came out in late January. There Too, a great
song man really set the tone for this record. Talk
about that one?
Speaker 4 (12:40):
Well, I like that one.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
You know, it's an opening track for the record because
it's you know, it's an up tempo song. It has
the full band. We even put a horn section on it,
and it just it's an uplifting song. Even though you
know he's talking about that is that this woman was
cheating on him because somebody he caught somebody running out.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
The back door. But uh, it makes you feel good.
Speaker 5 (13:01):
It kind of reminds you that, you know, one of
the great things about blues music is that it's not
always so serious. There's a sense of humor to it,
you know, and so it kind of makes you smile,
makes you feel good. And so I thought it was
a great opening track for the record, and and we're.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Very happy that it made it into that movie.
Speaker 5 (13:17):
It's it's in one of the very first scenes of
the of the film and and uh, you know, it's
just another great thing that's come from doing this project together.
Speaker 6 (13:25):
Well, I, well, I just thought about what Kidd has
said about it.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I have a writular song.
Speaker 6 (13:30):
I think it about this man who had a cheated
wife and someone were walking out of his back the cheating.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
I was writing the song and I was I write.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
About who that the back do was going to be
a man or woman, And I wanted to write something
about some big footprints that's similarly. It could be a
made you know, but anyway, I laughed. I laughed about
that about what I was thinking about. You know, did
they It could have been a woman, a main teat
(14:02):
could have been a main a woman cheating and you know,
one one with the other. I kind of lead it
on myself in the main can it be? In the main?
I talked about that we don't related to somebody who's
who's Bobby pipping out in the backdoor?
Speaker 2 (14:15):
You know, no doubt. And I love the fact. You know, Kenny,
this is gonna be a great way to share this
record too, because once the record's release usually artists get
behind it. Man, they go push it out there. It's
gonna be a twenty four city US tour I mentioned
starting April twenty fifth and going through August the twenty third,
and some other dates out there to be announced. Man,
you guys again, that just a living legend with Bobby
performing on stage. Man getting that rush in front of
(14:36):
a crowd, talking about how excited this is to hit
the road coming up April twenty fifth and carrying this
through August.
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Well, I'm excited about it because you know, one of
the things that impressed me the most about Bobby.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Is his live performance and what he brings to the stage.
Speaker 5 (14:53):
And so I know there's gonna be a lot of
my fans that are gonna come see these shows that
might be seeing him for the very first and you know,
he's just gonna win everybody over and they're gonna fall
in love with him, and they're gonna go, man it,
where where have I been.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
That I that I didn't know that this guy existed?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
And they're gonna go back and learn about his history
and all the music he's created.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
But we're gonna show him a great time.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
We have a set worked up where we're opening the show,
me and him in a real intimate setting with a
stripped down version of the band, and we're gonna play
most of the songs from this record, and then we'll
take a little intermission and then come back out with
the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and do that thing, and
then bring him back up at the end of the
show for a big finale and and and do the
(15:38):
full band songs with him. So it's gonna be a
great experience for his fans and my fans. Anybody who
has come to see either one of us recently, they
haven't seen a show like this, so they're gonna get
a new experience and we're excited to bring it to him.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Yeah, if we play our next track, and Bobby, this
really sounds a lot because when you guys were collaborating
on this record, it's amazing how you know, blues you know,
comes together and a lot of different ways when it
comes to like that spiritual feel to you know, geographically
bringing people together to somebody could be going through the
hardest thing in their life. Bobby and I think a
lot of put the blues music on and let them
feel something.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Right.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
I'm glad you said that, because not only is people
going through up and down the battles of what happened
in life, but when they see Kennygham, Kenny and I,
I think we're going to make a statement to the
world where we should be as people as a whole together,
And I think, I think, I think a lot of
(16:32):
people come behind what we've done to make a better world,
make a better place to live, man, better thing to
do together, be you know, so separated in this world now.
So I think this is going to make a big
statement to not only just because of music, just for
people period together.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We've got to make it a better world. Too much
negativity going around out there these days too as well.
We're trying to play another one here off young fashioned
ways again, Bobby Rush, Annyway Shepherd joining us here. Here
it is on the backstage bass again powered by the
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Speaker 10 (17:21):
That's a little man that's hot. The song.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Everybody calls on the easel.
Speaker 10 (17:32):
Little name the same.
Speaker 9 (17:37):
We should have been him in the hollow Wood, the
one main play will give town.
Speaker 10 (17:46):
I should have been him, uncle, He's all with the town.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Why is the house? You know how off the pelical jump.
Speaker 10 (18:12):
He saw bou the stuff.
Speaker 8 (18:16):
He was a hard though he didn't know what to do. Well.
The sicht was the brand school.
Speaker 10 (19:01):
Okay, she's all.
Speaker 8 (19:02):
I had a nag, tied him up the room, Gon
go run the town?
Speaker 10 (19:18):
Oh yeah, lord, were running around? It's so hard.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
Did you know what to do?
Speaker 8 (19:26):
Grabbing hard, stout, crying the blue?
Speaker 4 (19:28):
If you went?
Speaker 15 (20:00):
Ok, he's off a pot of saw.
Speaker 8 (20:13):
They're just talking like a call saw.
Speaker 10 (20:19):
Every night when the sun is down.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
There, we'll crawled down.
Speaker 10 (20:30):
Pat the hood with going money all plans.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
The money gets coming, boy, Oh he's up. Oh us though,
you know that.
Speaker 15 (20:51):
For the pa night.
Speaker 10 (20:54):
Jokes. Even know that.
Speaker 15 (21:00):
Hambob, the hambon, the hambone, the hambone.
Speaker 10 (21:11):
Number. I just like the all.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
I got shoes on his head.
Speaker 8 (21:28):
Adam want to speaking.
Speaker 11 (21:34):
Dragging wine.
Speaker 16 (21:49):
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Speaker 17 (22:00):
Hi all, this is Nancy Jones and you're listening to
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Speaker 2 (22:14):
And back here on the show again, Kenny way, Shepard,
Bobby Rush, you want to us here across iHeartRadio and
all the great stations out there, KKTC, True Country ninety
nine point nine in Taos, New Mexico, and our friends
at KYB in ninety eight point one in the Bay
Area out there, your Bay Area Broadcasting Networking in May seventeenth,
coming through there in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Will have
more on that particular show coming out there too as
Wealthy Buffalo Thunder Casino. Get your tickets now in Santa
(22:37):
Fe for this big, big tour out there for Bobby
Rush and Kenny Wayne Shephard. I mentioned this one, Kenny,
this is a lot of fun out here.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (22:44):
Man, it's this thing kind of really brings both of
our Louisiana roots together. You know, we're both from Louisiana
actually not too far from each other, and so we
had that connection from the get go, and you know,
I don't know, man, like, there's something very special about
Louisiana and and about Louisiana musicians, you know, and and
(23:05):
the understanding that we have about the musical culture that
comes out of that state. And not everybody can just
jump up and play a second line or you know,
perform on a song like this that has so much
of that kind of South Louisiana flair to it. And
so this kind of brought it all together for the
two of us. And it's a real nod to UH,
(23:25):
to our Louisiana upbringing. So it's a it's a lot
of fun, man, It's a very festive sounding song.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You know.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
I just want to say, Kenny, so thank you so
much for believing in me and and Uh in the music.
I was thinking about an ease when he did this.
I want to take a create for this. Kennanhead brought
the horn players in. He was so panned to tell
me what he was doing, but he gave me how
(23:53):
we going to do it. We're talking about the alcas.
I went to Kyle Radler, Billy, go leave the hell
with this horn line on? Man, I just cried like
a baby. I said, what in the world I mean
put a horn line on? Sound like a bit of
goat and man, this this is so craggy. Man this man,
I just I could say a thousand things and it
(24:15):
still wouldn't be enough to say how great I am
about what he's done. He do and a great producer.
He is now great Uh, just a great writer and
a great enhance. He enhanced everything that everything I can
think I want to do, He's there.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
I'm just happy to Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Well, I got to stick another one on this record too.
Out there for a little uh kind of plug on
this one. I love Floy's music when it goes here
you so fine. We got to go there, Bobby, let's
talk about this one.
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Oh the kidding and I can talk about that, man.
You know pretty well we put from Losing Man a creole.
There ain't the only one look good, but they look
good all across the country.
Speaker 10 (24:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
You know, I'm frying. Woman is fine, woman. I can
tell you one th we all we see a women's live,
you can bitch ninety eight of them leave that fall.
We like to play Jenny.
Speaker 2 (25:10):
He's got a point there.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
He does absolutely.
Speaker 13 (25:14):
Man.
Speaker 5 (25:14):
You know, It's like I've always you know, there's a
lot of songs in blues music or in all music
really where it talks about heartache or cheating or scandalous
things or whatever. But I also enjoy writing and performing
the songs that helps like glorify women and talk about
how great they are, you know, and This is one
of those.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
It sure is too, no doubt about it. Again, Young
fashion ways across all the DSP's out there, and again
a tour coming to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Make sure
you guys get out there. Buffalo Thunder Casino out there
tis well and check out those great tickets out there.
Kenny gotta ask you, of course, be remiss if I didn't.
All the listeners kept asking me to coming on the show.
I said, Man, the song that really sticks with them forever. Man,
it's great guitar licks and of course a great story
(25:54):
told the vocals Everything Blue on Black Man, this is
one that's gonna live with you for a long long time.
I'm sure it gets old maybe talking about it too
as well, But this is one synonymous with you too,
and I'm sure that that has to be fun to
perform live with your band.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
Oh yeah, well, you know, man, that song is now
getting you know, it's coming up on what we just
had the twenty fifth anniversary a couple of years back,
right of that record. So the song's over twenty five
years old, but it's I don't get tired of playing it,
I don't get tired of talking about it because first
of all, when I started my career, even though I
was really young, I always kept in mind that I
(26:30):
never wanted to write or record any songs that I
didn't feel proud of or that I didn't feel represented me,
you know, because you got a plan for the rest
of your life. And so the end result is that,
you know, it's a quality song, and so I'm not embarrassed,
but I don't shy away from it. We love playing it,
the fans love hearing it, and it still gets played
(26:50):
on the radio and online on the you know, streaming.
I mean, it's just the numbers are still huge to
this day, and so it's done a lot for me
personally and my fanamily and my band and everything. So, uh,
it's just one of those magical songs, and it's connected
with a lot of people, you.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Know, Bobby looking back at that this one too. I
love that last album you put out, All My Love
for You, which had some great, great tunes on there too,
And of course your record, you know, speaks for its
sill track record out there too, legend in the blues industry.
But a lot of those songs too that fans love,
Bobby just never probably get old to spread that message
right now.
Speaker 6 (27:22):
You know, when you think about the song, can you
have doing black? Because it See, it's hard for me
to try to album do that song. That's how I'll
do it. I'm up with something that's as good or better.
That's hard to do, man, because I had a hard
song to come. I know it's been twenty five years
ago since candidate. Man, it's a hard song to beat out.
(27:43):
But but you're always in competition with youself. We're doing
from now what you gotta do. It's like going to
a restaurant. You go to a restaurant, if the food
got good, you won't be back at food good. You're
returning to come back get more.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
That's what we gotta do.
Speaker 6 (27:58):
We gotta make as good as we was and even better.
And every time we do something, we got to be
better at what we've done. You know, how about did
you do you own that? That's sphere we live in too.
I want to throw some props out there to Kenny.
Y'all work with some great musicians here, a great veteran
team on there too, These great great veteran blues and
musicians that really perfected this record. From the instrumentalist standpoint
(28:21):
talk about that too, because this was people that have
been on a ton.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Of records out there.
Speaker 5 (28:26):
Well, yeah, I mean, one of the great things about
doing this album was, you know, in Memphis, Tennessee, is
that there's a lot of great players there and Bobby.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Knows all of them, you know.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
So once I started hearing different instruments on the h
in my head, you know, I was like, well, I
think maybe we can put an organ.
Speaker 4 (28:43):
You know, like Al Green, like that sound from the
Al Green record.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
And I was like, oh, I know the guy.
Speaker 4 (28:48):
I know, the actual guy that played all of that.
Speaker 5 (28:50):
And within like thirty minutes, he was in the studio
playing on our record, you know, and it was great
man and these players did. Drummer Steve Potts, he was
a friend of mine. He played on my first album,
Led Better Heights. He played on some of those songs,
and he played with the Blues Brothers and Booker T
and the MG's.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
I mean, all these guys, you know, they.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Got their resumes are very long, and they're very talented,
and they really added a lot to the record when
they came in and played on.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
It, no doubt, ye, Bobby. Here's some thoughts on the
musicians and those players mad on this on this album, love.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
It, yeah, but I'm the same with what can you say?
He's so right? But what can it have that he
don't talk about I talk about him about this. He
has such a.
Speaker 6 (29:37):
Idea of what it should be, even before it finished.
He hear a song, he's even though I know who
to put on. He knows what need to go on,
and he knows when it's too much. He knows, uh
we sometimes less, it's more unless it's better, and he
(29:58):
know just when how to put it on. And he trusts,
he trusts his instinct and his music ability. And then musially,
let it take us, well it take us. You don't
try to twist it, make it be over, over produce it,
over play on it.
Speaker 3 (30:15):
He just know just what to do.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
It takes a long time to get that position. But
one thing for sure, the musician as a whole want
to be heard and musician. And most of the time,
a lot of time musicians overplayed because the musician they
want to hit an instrument.
Speaker 3 (30:32):
But he's not like that. He can he want to
hear the vocal, You want to hit the background, You
want to hear the drum. All plays a pod and
he knows when to fold it. And that's that's what
I love about it.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
The beauty of it. Kenny will finish with this one too,
and I'll bother get your take on it. And when
not doing music or this big tour coming up, what
are some things you enjoy Kenny? Personal life and me
some hobbies away from music? What do you what do
you like to do outside of music?
Speaker 5 (30:57):
Well, I'm when I'm not working on the road or
in the studio, I have a pretty full life at home.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
My wife and I.
Speaker 5 (31:03):
We have six beautiful kids, and they're all still young
enough to be living in the house with us, So
that keeps me pretty busy. And then if I do
have some spare time, I like to go mess around
with my cars. You know, I'm a I'm a car lover.
I've loved cars as long as I've loved guitars, and
so thankfully the music has afforded me the chance to
pursue my passion with the automobiles, and so that's kind
(31:25):
of my my therapy, if you will, is to go
out there and just get out on the open road,
or go in.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
The garage and start wrenching on a couple of the cars.
Speaker 6 (31:37):
Give me a pills, some paper, sit down in my
garage and write song idea. That's my third I write
twenty five a round o'clock. When I'm not on the state.
I'm on the state behind the door in the bathroom,
set up somewhere writing with a paper, write song coming
(31:58):
what idea? Every time I'm not a writing another song,
I like.
Speaker 3 (32:04):
You know it.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
And as far as food goes, look, I'm a foodie.
I love to eat and I'm kind of find myself
in the gym. That's kind of my sanctuary too when
I'm not doing this radio show too at the same time.
But Kenny, for you, you like to cook. I mean,
of course on the road, I know it's tough there too.
But as far as eating out in food, man, what's
kind of the food that does it for you?
Speaker 10 (32:24):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (32:24):
Man, it's just whatever. Especially on the road. That's my
indulgence is food.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So, like, we go online and we try and find,
you know, a local place that's unique to the area,
has good reviews, and I'm pretty I pretty much like
just about everything. But we look for the highest rated
place that we could find as that's closest to the venue.
Speaker 4 (32:44):
And so we know we're going to get a good meal.
Speaker 6 (32:47):
I'm kind of seatbool got them not too much as
state level. A lot of seatfood, a lot of common stuff. Man,
it's green peas and or cut your boy, you know,
and you know I eat put it not too much.
Sweet little little little sweet hivyin. Then a lot of
the juices, and I kind of exercised a lot.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
That's what I am.
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Get up and do my little wall building, a little
bicycle line, and I just shot up boxing.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yeah that's hey, I am, you know, just a country boy.
Speaker 2 (33:20):
Yeah, conry boy, keeping busy, no doubt about it too
as well. Well, well get you guys. Check out the
tour coming up again twenty four city US Young Fashioned
Ways across all the digital streaming platforms, coming right through
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Uh Maye the seventeenth, The Buffalo
Thunder Casino, the legends out there, Bobby Rush, Bobby Rush, Bluesman,
Dot Colvin of course, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Dot at the
websites out there too as well. Gentlemen, appreciate you joining
(33:42):
us here on the backstage pass, say best of luck
with the tour of the album, and continued success going forward.
We appreciate you both. Thank you got it two of
the best out there too. More great music coming up
here on our stations across all the digital streaming platforms.
We'll talk to you guys soon. Take care, God bless.
Speaker 18 (33:58):
Hey y'all, this is Bruce Wallace of the Little River
Van and you're listening to Brandon on the Backstage Pass
exclusively on KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine at Tausan,
New Mexico.
Speaker 4 (34:10):
Hey y'all, this is recording artist Will Moseley, and you're
listening to the award nominated Backstage Past podcast on KKTC
True Country ninety nine point nine and on KYBN ninety
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