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| The Place You're In | 
 enlarge | Artist: Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 85199
Format: Enhanced
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.7 x 0.4
MPN: 48866
UPC: 093624886624
EAN: 0093624886624
ASIN: B0002VKZPM
Release Date: October 5, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Alive | | • | Be Mine | | • | Spank | | • | Let Go | | • | Ain't Selling Out | | • | Believe | | • | The Place You're In | | • | Hey, What Do You Say | | • | Get It Together | | • | Burdens | | • | A Little Bit More |
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Album Description
The Place You're In, Kenny Wayne Shepherd's long-awaited fourth album, marks a stunning stylistic shift for an artist who almost single-handedly introduced blues-rock to a new audience. One of the most acclaimed guitarists of his generation not only leans more heavily toward rock,but also releases his first album featuring his vocals. Says Shepherd, whose first three albums went gold or platinum and who has earned seven Top 10 Mainstream Rock cuts and three Grammy nominations: "We're all growing and changing....We might as well get behind it and enjoy the ride." And enjoy The Place You're In.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 117 more reviews...
 I'm afraid he's lost me October 16, 2004
69 out of 80 found this review helpful
I was getting so excited leading up to this release. I put in the first three albums again and listened to them a few more times. Each one was progressively better than the last, so I just *could not wait* to hear what would be next!
The day it came out, I didn't have enough money, so I had to content myself with looking at it in a store. "Hmm, just Kenny Wayne Shepherd," I thought, "Not KWS Band. Hope that's not a bad thing."
Ouch. Bad thing.
I did what others apparently did - double-checked to make sure the disc hadn't been mis-pressed. I could have sworn after the first three tracks that I wasn't listening to Kenny Wayne Shepherd, even though I could *occasionally, slightly* hear his guitar style. It's not just the absence of the fantastic Noah Hunt on vocals (always such a distinctive and wonderful part of the whole KWS Band sound), no, the musical style is different too. Gone are the blues, and I lament their absence. I never minded a good straightforward rock song or three on the KWSB albums; on the contrary, they blended in nicely and rounded out the whole listening experience. This album has a homogenous and sadly dull and unexciting sound overall. It hurts to write this review. I'm frequently a defender of stylistic changes that bands go through, but this one just falls flat, and I do believe KWS has come close to losing this once-enthusiastic fan.
 Where Has All The Blues Gone? October 29, 2004
22 out of 25 found this review helpful
A few years back the blues rock scene was smokin' with young and very talented guitarist like, Jonny Lang, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Mato Naji of Indigenous, they were all doing some great blues rock stuff and getting noticed everywhere. My question is where has all the blues gone? None of these guys play the blues any more, everyone wanted to call all three of these guys the next SRV, but Stevie Ray never sold out the blues he just kept re-inventing it, I still believe there is hope for Mato Naji to get back on the blues track, but I have given up on Jonny Lang and it looks like I can count KWS out as well. If it wasn't for the Blues all three of these cats would have never been discovered! If you want real blues rock then get you a Joe Bonamassa CD you won't be disappointed like I was with this CD. All I have to say to Kenny is remember where you came from!!!
The Bandit
www.banditbluesradio.com
Whose cat snuck into the recording studio October 5, 2004
14 out of 23 found this review helpful
Whose cat snuck into the recording studio during the making of the new Kenny Wayne Shepherd album "The place you're in?"
After listening to all of the tracks, how embarrassing for this gifted blues guitar player to have promotional claims with comments like "Over eight months, Shepherd reached the requisite level of confidence to step forward as a vocalist." It's anything but. It took 8 whole months to get that Tom cat sound to come out of his pipes? Listeners will ask as they cringe, what did he sound like before? "At least half the new songs were written in the studio in the heat of the moment." In the heat of what moment? Cats mating? That's exactly what Shepherd's voice mimics on every track he sang on. Forget about the music, his whiney nasal weak voice killed any hope of the songs being taken for serious.
The album bio boasts " From it's opening notes, the artists reveals a fresh new dimension of his multi-faceted talent- that of an assured and accomplished vocalist." The only thing Shepherd accomplished with his vocals is that listeners will need to haul a boot towards the back fence at midnight, errr... I mean the screeching coming from any speakers that dares to crank out "The place you're in." Shepherd's voice is painful to anyone of us who isn't tone deaf. It's as if his voice is stuck on wha wha pedal. Even the blending his vocals with once lead singer Noah Hunt on track 4 "Let Go" can't save listeners from being subjected to the annoying cries of mating season.
This amateur vocalist is so bad on "The place you're in" that he made the contribution of Kid Rock's voice on the song "Spank"sound good on the album. Listeners will keep waiting for the British accent of Simon Cowell to appear on the record to inform Kenny Wayne "It was absolutely ghastly. Please do not give up your day job. You are not a singer." Shepherd just doesn't seem to get it. Track after track he makes futile attempts to copy Lenny Kravitz's sound and fuse it with a desperate Tom cat. Shepherd sounds more like Hanson bubble gum prepubescent rock with lyrics like "I knew all the tiiiiime you were gonna be miiiine." Someone sound the gong!
Shepherd revealed " All of a sudden I understood how making the songs my own as a vocalist would give so much more passion to my guitar playing and vice versa..." The only passion that Shepherd's voice and his trusted guitar playing make together on this album is the same passion prowling cats make around the garbage pail fighting over a fishbone. Not only is it just screeching and noise, it's a slap in the face from someone who knows better. This guy knew better a long time ago. Shepherd knew his first album out in 1995 that his voice wasn't there, and aptly hired a vocalist to front the band. In 1998 the song "Blue on Black" won rock song of the year on Billboards charts but you'll hear nothing near that quality on this album. For Shepherd to masquerade as a lead vocalist at $18.00 a disc is a travesty to music buyers.
For Kenny Wayne Shepherd's former Blues fans, there is irony to be found especially on a track called "Ain't selling out" where Shepherd squeaks out "Tell me what in the hell were you thinking?" That's what fans are asking on the worst of the tracks this album has to offer. The title of this track alone is exactly what long time fans will accuse him of after hearing it.
You won't even kinda like this one. The only honorable mention this album can claim are the two tracks established singer Noah Hunt provides lead vocals on "Believe" and "Burdens". The contrast between their voices is even more embarrassing for Shepherd. Hunt's voice just reminds listeners of what potentially could have been if egos had been set aside. Shepherd could have saved face had he not portrayed Hunt's voice on the album at all. Maybe Hunt's voice was supposed to be a comfortable break between howling sessions. All it did was magnify Shepherd's shortcomings and inability to sing.
Where did Shepherd get the inspiration to transform himself into a wannabe rock star? While he took hiatus from recording any new material over the past 5 years he must have been roaming the alley with Rocks biggest self promoting cat. Kid Rock.
Let this experimental album be a quick diversion in the career of a talented young blues musician. The panel suggests that Kenny Wayne Shepherd's singing career be humanely euthanized.
KENNY, KENNY, KENNY, LENNY, LENNY, LENNY... October 26, 2004
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
What a huge letdown...after waiting all of these years for the new KWS we get a poorly done Lenny Kravitz wannabe albumn. Kenny should let Noah do the singing and let himself do the guitar work. Speaking of guitars, this albumn was sub-par for Kenny. I thought that maybe after all of these years he would have gotten much sharper with all of the practice time he has had. Maybe he was visiting with Mr. Brownstone a little too much...I don't know? When people are comparing KWS to SRV, expectations are VERY HIGH. This albumn is by far the worst one he has put out. The only bright spot I could see was the song Noah sang in. Kenny, clean up and go back to your roots...ELECTRIC BLUES!
Disappointed October 28, 2004
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
If your looking for what we heard on KWS first couple of recordings you wont find it on this CD. This recording finds
Kenny doing most of the singing in a more Heavy Metal style,
sounding a little like Lenny Kravites.I dont like the style
change, the guitar is ok in some of the songs, but the hooks
and the songs arent very good. Unlike Kenny's first couple of
CD's these song's wont grap you or stay with you and you wont want to hear them again and again.
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