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You can’t go wrong with the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, with five-time Grammy nominated blues/rock guitarist, singer and songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Noah Hunt on vocals and guitar, Chris Layton on drums, Joe Krown on keyboards, Scott Nelson on bass, Joe Sublett on sax, and Mark Pender on trumpet.
Filmed at the Leverkusen Jazzstage in Germany, at the start of a tour cut short by the pandemic for those starved for live blues/rock music, grab this straight away. Straight To You Live is a must see. It’s about as live as you can get and its filmed beautifully, crisp and clear, with great sound and multiple camera angles so you really feel like you are there.
The seven-piece band takes the stage, most dressed in all black, including Kenny Wayne Shepherd with Stratocaster in hand. Though his name sits atop the marquee, Shepherd avoids turning the event into a vanity project by sharing time with the other six members of the band. On songs that hew closely to traditional blues structures like “I Want You,” “Shame, Shame, Shame,” and Elmore James’s “Talk To Me Baby,” the supporting cast receives nearly as much instrumental space as Shepherd himself, and their contributions loom large throughout the show.
