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Trouble Is... | 
| Artist: The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Rating:  96 reviews
Sales Rank: 2401
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 24689
UPC: 759924689234
EAN: 0075992468923
ASIN: B000002L5I
Release Date: October 7, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Slow Ride | | • | True Lies | | • | Blue on Black | | • | Everything Is Broken | | • | I Don't Live Today | | • | (Long) Gone | | • | Somehow, Somewhere, Someway | | • | I Found Love (When I Found You) | | • | King's Highway | | • | Nothing to Do With Love | | • | Chase the Rainbow | | • | Trouble Is... |
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Amazon.com
It's not hard to understand the appeal of Kenny Wayne Shepherd, currently being hailed as the heir to Stevie Ray Vaughan. He's young (an increasing rarity in blues and blues-related genres), he writes catchy songs, and his "Blue on Black" is widely played on rock radio. Trouble Is . . . is an enjoyable listen, from rockers like "Slow Ride" and "Chase the Rainbow," to swingy mid-tempo songs like "True Lies" and "(Long) Gone," to slower almost-ballads such as "Nothing to Do with Love" and the all-pervasive "Blue on Black". Expect to start hearing "I Found Love (When I Found You)" at high school proms and homecoming dances. It remains to be seen how Shepherd will develop, but he's among the most promising young guitarists out there today. -- Genevieve Williams
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| Customer Reviews: Read 91 more reviews...
 Because he's not Stevie Ray he sucks? September 20, 2005
Albert J. Shepard (Lexington, KY)
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I think KWS has a wonderful gift of playing the blues with passion and intensity. No he is not Stevie Ray and how in the hell are you going to say he sucks because he isn't? And Stevie Ray is no John Petrucci or Al Dimeaola so I guess he sucks as well. Come on people, stop being such music snobs. I highly recommend it.
 Entry Portal for the Blues February 9, 2005
Mr John Bowers (Syndey, NSW, OZ)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
For young people coming from a rock/metal background it can be pretty hard to put on the breaks and start to dig the Blues. The closest a metal head may come to authentic blues is Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. For rock/punk fans they can start with The Black Keys and their Punk Blues revival but for metal heads it can be a hard transition. Kenny Wayne Shepherd gives them a transitory experience which they can then use to delve into the 60's R&B scene (The Yardbirds, John Mayall & The Bluesbrekaers/Eric Clapton, Savoy Brown, etc). And from there they can descend into the delights of Albert King, Albert Collins, Roy Buchanan, Otis Rush, Robert Johnson, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, etc.
Kenny sounds like a kid who has just discovered that people dig his guitar playing. His enthusiasm shines through the music. This is a cat who just loves to play. He loves to rock, he loves to boogie. And he also likes fireworks. His solo's are often relatively simple but come off sounding bigger and more impressive than are through the mastery of his bending, raking and shuffling.
I recommended any intermediate guitarist picking up some of his tab. Give some of his solo's a burl, they shouldnt be too hard to grasp and will provide you with some ideas of how effective the minor pentatonic can be. (Make sure once you have got him down pat you move on to Stevie Ray Vaughan for a real challenge). For anybody else who like to get into the blues but dont know where to start, Give this a go.
GOOD BLUES/ROCK FUSION December 6, 2004
HARBINGER (Kentucky, USA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
Interesting sound. Kind of a cross between Eric Clapton and Southern Rock. Great vocals. Good guitar work and fine backing musicians. Listen to the samples provided by Amazon to see if it is to your liking. I did and it was/is.
Great July 7, 2005
T. Forrister (Murphy, NC)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a type of CD that you can just lean back and listen to. There is a little of evreything. Kenny has one of the best feels for playing "alive" music in stead of cookie cutter music. It is very hard to find radio stations that play this music and it is nice to have in a library to pull and enjoy.
Best album in a long time February 13, 2003
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was driving through Philadelphia about the time this CD was released. I turned on the radio and caught only the last minute of "Slow Ride" on WMMR. I just had to know what tune they'd just played. I pulled over and did something I never do -- called the DJ to ask what he'd just played. I immediately drove to the nearest music store and bought "Trouble Is". The point of this little story is that the music on this CD was so refreshing in it's hard hitting blues and rock, and so distictive, that it stands out from the clutter of Pearl Jam/Creed wannabees. The music reminds me of all the things I enjoyed about rock and blues in the late '60's and early '70's. And more importantly, though Kenny Wayne Sheperd was obviously influenced by Stevie Ray Vaughn, his sound is unique for this day and age. This album built upon the roots he established with "Ledbedder Heights", and is a worthwhile addition to anyone's music collection (provided you eschew the likes of Brittany and J Lo). Rock on.
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