[INTERVIEW] Guitar legend Kenny Wayne Shepherd brings landmark album to Iowa
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One of the world’s top rock-blues guitarists has added one Iowa stop to his international tour this spring. Kenny Wayne Shepherd will celebrate the 30th anniversary of his breakout debut album, playing “Ledbetter Heights” in its entirety.
Growing up in Louisiana, Shepherd started plunking on a plastic guitar his grandmother bought him with S&H Green Stamps at age four, but things changed just a few years later when he saw Stevie Ray Vaughan live in concert.
“That was a life-changing experience for me,” Shepherd says, “because the way he affected me, the way he played the instrument, it was like, ‘Wow, I have got to get an electric guitar and I’ve got to learn how to play with that passion and intensity that he plays with.’ And so it wasn’t long after that at age seven that I got my very first electric guitar and I still have it.”