{"id":441,"date":"2017-02-05T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/2017\/02\/05\/kenny-wayne-shepherd"},"modified":"2017-09-09T14:02:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-09T20:02:37","slug":"kenny-wayne-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mywalkabout.net\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Wayne Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:right;\">When the sixteen year old guitar prodigy first came onto the airwaves, I was in my late twenties. I think it was actually an old girlfriend that introduced me to his music.<a style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/392e1-fullsizerender2b2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/392e1-fullsizerender2b2.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">Down home Louisiana Blues with smokin&#8217; guitar riffs had me hooked. For the next twenty two years, I&#8217;ve listened and hoped for the chance to see him live.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">With a stroke of luck on getting a ticket, that finally happened last night at the Talking Stick Showroom in Scottsdale.<a style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/873ec-img_7937.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/873ec-img_7937.jpg?resize=640%2C456&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">The band came out on fire, playing some great covers, including a version of the Sex Pistols &#8220;God save the Queen&#8221;, which I still can&#8217;t believe happened.<a style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7a732-img_7943.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/7a732-img_7943.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">They then slowed things down with a couple of love songs, then went into some BB King classics, then returned to some more KWS classics.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">\n<p>The night ended with Kenny Wayne Shepherd playing his version of the Great Jimi Hendrix classic, Voodoo Child.<a style=\"margin-left:1em;margin-right:1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/e083f-fullsizerender2b3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mywalkabout.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/e083f-fullsizerender2b3.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\">Woah.<\/div>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; 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