Trouble Is

Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Format: Audio Cassette

Product Details

• Audio Cassette (October 7, 1997)
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002L5J
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (99 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #679,094 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Slow Ride

2. True Lies

3. Blue on Black

4. Everything Is Broken

5. I Don't Live Today

6. (Long) Gone

7. Somehow, Somewhere, Someway

8. I Found Love (When I Found You)

9. King's Highway

10. Nothing to Do With Love

11. Chase the Rainbow

12. Trouble Is...

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Because he's not Stevie Ray he sucks?, September 20, 2005

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Albert J. Shepard "Albert" (Lexington, KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trouble Is (Audio CD)

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.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BLUES/ROCK FUSION, December 6, 2004

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HARBINGER (Kentucky, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Trouble Is (Audio CD)

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.

22 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Entry Portal for the Blues, February 9, 2005

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Mr John Bowers "The Karmanoodle" (Syndey, NSW, OZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trouble Is (Audio CD)

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.