{"id":15462,"date":"2019-04-12T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesmatters.com\/?p=15462"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:25:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T16:25:59","slug":"kenny-wayne-shepherd-band-the-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesmatters.com\/kenny-wayne-shepherd-band-the-traveler\/","title":{"rendered":"KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND The Traveler"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band<\/strong>\u00a0will be releasing their brand new album\u00a0\u2018The Traveler<\/strong>\u2019\u00a0on\u00a031st May via\u00a0Provogue\/Mascot Label Group<\/strong>, which will be accompanied by a series of European<\/strong> shows through the summer.<\/p>\n

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Gone is the young Louisiana<\/strong> gunslinger who erupted onto the early \u201990s scene with his burn-it-down guitar solos and gut-punch songcraft. The 41-year-old he\u2019s become is even more magnetic, still pushing his Fender Strat<\/strong> where others fear to fret. As a grown man and a father, there are different thoughts and feelings that have come into focus.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe album title comes from the song Tailwind<\/strong>,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe\u2019re all travelling together through this thing called life. These are testing times for us as a society, and it seems to me that it\u2019s been a bit crazy in the world lately, with so much division. Without making any kind of political point, it\u2019s like, \u2018Let\u2019s get through this together, appreciate one another and not always be trying to fight\u2019.\u201d The new songs typically began with a raw riff captured on Shepherd\u2019s<\/strong> cell phone. But they blossomed into full technicolour at Neptune Valley<\/strong>, Los Angeles<\/strong>, with the production of Shepherd<\/strong> and Marshall Altman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n