Music CD - Kenny Wayne Shepherd: 10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)/ (CD/DVD)

	Music CD: 10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads)/ (CD/DVD) Artist: Kenny Wayne Shepherd List Price: $24.98 Our Price: $15.48 Your Save: $ 9.50 ( 38% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Prison Blues 2. Potato Patch 3. Honky Tonk 4. The Thrill Is Gone 5. Tina Marie 6. Born in Louisiana 7. Chapel Hill Boogie 8. Tears Come Rollin' Down 9. Knoxville Rag 10. Big Daddy Boogie 11. U-Haul 12. Red Rooster 13. Sittin On Top Of The World 14. Spoonful 15. Grindin' Man
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0093624929420 Label: Reprise / Wea Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea Number Of Discs: 2 Publisher: Reprise / Wea Release Date: 2007-01-23 Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Four Solid Stars but not Five Comment: KWS and his father have put together a very entertaining package here, which includes some heros of the blues no doubt, but the fact that the CD IS THE SAME AS THE DVD without the pictures is a chicken-out if you ask me! Why there aren't a few tunes on the CD that are not on the DVD falls short of my top rating....and my twenty bucks! Save up for the next one by Kenny Wayne is my answer. Customer Rating: Summary: One of the best ever Comment: I didn't know this DVD/CD set existed until I saw KWS recently and he played some of the DVD. Both are a real tribute to the old blues players that are still around (although some have passed since the making of the DVD) and a real keeper. Both discs are superb - visually and musically. KWS really played tribute to these men and the blues. Thanks KWS. Customer Rating: Summary: Awesome Blues Tribute Comment: Excellent Blues Tribute to the some of the well-known and lesser-known "Fathers of the Blues". Kudos to KWS for putting together such an outstanding tribute and rewarding his fans with a terrific bonus DVD. The DVD alone is worth the price of admission. Thanks, Kenny. Customer Rating: Summary: Great, especially for non-hardcore blues fans Comment: This product--the DVD in particular--is almost like a blues primer, an ideal introduction to what makes the blues not only the most authentic and original of American music, but the best category of music out there. For anyone who has found real blues (as in, say, anything mroe raw than the Allman Bros.) a little bit inaccessible, this is your answer. And for real blues fans, you owe it to KWS to support this very admirable effort. Great on every level. Customer Rating: Summary: An absolute MUST for blues fans!!! And a great introduction to this terrific music for the others Comment: What I knew of Kenny Wayne Shepherd prior to this wasn't exactly to my taste. It was good - no doubt about that. He is great guitar player. But his music was a bit too tough, too electric for my taste. As I never give up on good musicians, I looked and listened into this one - man, was I blown away!!!! The concept is quite simple, Kenny Wayne together with his friends Chris Layton and Tommy Shannon (of Double Trouble) visits the players he loves and adores and joins them to create this country blues jam-fest. It's improvised, just taped the way it was, but that's what makes it so special. Watching and listening to him play together with Etta Baker in her kitchen, or with Buddy Flett in a graveyard as a tribute to the late and great Leadbelly. With Cootie Stark performing U-Haul. Waiting for BB in his own hometown - ooooh these solos just hit me! WOOW! No matter which track you pick, there's so much love for the music jumping off the disc - amazing. And even for non-blues fans, this is something to watch. The fun these terrific musicians have playing together, sharing their craft and the joy will jump over to you, who knows, maybe in the end even turning you into yet another blues fan like me. It comes as a two disc set. The dvd is my favorite, but sometimes when you just want to listen to the music, then you pick the cd. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: 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 obscure (the late guitarist Etta Baker, who plays in her kitchen, is a highlight) and better known (Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and B.B. King) for a series of acoustic and electric jams, all of which feature Shepherd--who, to his credit, generally keeps his hot-dogging tendencies in check. A closing concert featuring members of Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters' bands never quite generates the heat it should, but country bluesmen Cootie Stark, Neil Pattman, and harmonica ace Jerry "Boogie" McCain provide plenty of sparks. Shepherd seems sincere enough, but the real stars are the ageing musicians who have maintained their chops and intensity through a lifetime of performing music that clearly comes from the soul. --Hal Horowitz