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10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)/ (CD/DVD)
Posted by admin on Jun.22, 2010, under General Comments Off
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This “back-to-the-roots” road-trip documentary CD/DVD from blues-rocking guitarist Kenny Wayne Shepherd can be viewed in two ways–it’s either the culmination of a long-held desire to promote and play with some unheralded blues veterans before they pass away (as six had already done since the recording was made, 2½ years before its early 2007 release) or a way to regain the blues audience Shepherd all but alienated on his artistically and commercially disappointing 2004 hard-rock release, The Place You’re In. Ultimately, it succeeds on both accounts. Regardless of the project’s inspiration, the results by and large justify whatever the means might have been to get this show on the road–literally and figuratively. Shepherd hit the highway for a week and a half along with producer Jerry Harrison (ex-Talking Heads), a portable studio, and backup musicians including the rhythm section from Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble. He searched out blues artists both (more…)
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