Additional Information about Ledbetter Heights by Kenny Wayne Shepherd (CD, Sep-1995, Giant (USA)) Portions of this page Copyright 1948 - 2012 Muze Inc. All rights reserved. Album FeaturesUPC:075992462129Artist:Kenny Wayne ShepherdFormat:CDRelease Year:1995Record Label:Giant (USA)Genre:Blues, Contemporary BluesTrack Listing1. Born With a Broken Heart2. Deja Voodoo3. Aberdeen4. Shame, Shame, Shame5. One Foot on the Path6. Everbody Gets the Blues7. While We Cry8. I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime)9. (Let Me Up) I've Had Enough10. Riverside11. What's Goin' Down12. Ledbetter HeightsDetailsPlaying Time:61 min.Distributor:WEA (Distributor)Recording Type:MixedRecording Mode:StereoSPAR Code:n/aAlbum NotesThe Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band: Kenny Wayne Shepherd (vocals, guitar); Corey Sterling (vocals); Joe Nadeau (guitar); Jimmy Wallace (keyboards, percussion); Will Ainsworth (bass); Kevin Smith (drums).Producers: David Z, Ken Shepherd.Engineers: David Z, Rob Smith & Associates.Recorded at House Of Blues, Memphis, Tennessee; Oceanway Studios, Hollywood, California; Funkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Includes liner notes by James Brown.Personnel: Kenny Wayne Shepherd (vocals, guitar).Recording information: Funkytown, Minneapolis, MN; House of Blues Studios, Memphis, TN; Ocean Way Recording Studios, Hollywood, CA; Red River Revel, Shreveport, LA [live].Unknown Contributor Role: Bill Ainsworth.Since Stevie Ray Vaughan's untimely death in 1990, there has been a fear that the future of popular blues died with him. Kenny Wayne Shepherd's debut does much to dispel these concerns. Hugely influenced by the late Texan, this 18 year-old prodigy first picked up the guitar after watching an SRV show from atop one of Vaughan's amps when he was eight. Shepherd's decade-long woodshedding pays off on an album that incorporates versatility and passion missing in musicians twice his age.The Shreveport native moves naturally from traditional country blues, combining steel guitar and a biting slide ("Aberdeen"), to slow Buddy Guy-styled emotiveness that gets fleshed out by southside-Chicago piano lines ("Shame, Shame, "Shame"). While Shepherd channels Howlin' Wolf's "I'm Leaving You" with the same aggresiveness that Vaughan did, his finest moment comes on a live instrumental called "While We Cry." Starting out inspired by Hendrix's gentler side, Shepherd builds up to a Claptonian pitch egged on by an appreciative crowd--at once defining himself and resurrecting the muse that was seemingly lost on a foggy night in 1990.Editorial Reviews3 stars out of 5 - Rock-solid 1995 debut from precocious, flaxen-headed bluesman....those fingers generate some heat.Q (20000801)