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Kenny Wayne Shepherd (born Kenny Wayne Brobst, June 12, 1977, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He has released several studio albums and experienced a rare level of commercial success both as a blues artist and a young musician.
Shepherd graduated Caddo Magnet High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. The guitarist is "completely self taught", and does not read music. Growing up, Shepherd's father (Ken Shepherd) was a local radio personality and some-time concert promoter, and had a vast collection of music. Shepherd got his first "guitar" at the age of three or four, when his grandmother purchased a series of several plastic guitars for him with S&H Green Stamps, which Shepherd has said he would "go through like candy".[clarification needed]
Shepherd stated in a 2010 interview that he began playing guitar in earnest at age seven, about six months after meeting and being "pretty mesmerized" by Stevie Ray Vaughan, in June 1984, at one of his father's promoted concerts. His self-taught method employed a process of learning one note at a time, playing and rewinding cassette tapes, utilizing "a cheap Yamaha wanna-be Stratocaster...made out of plywood, basically", learning Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Albert Lee licks from his father's vast music collection.
Cry, baby cry
I hear what you say
You used to have a good man baby but you
Threw it all away
Live baby liv
While you still can
I can change your world baby
If you let me be your man
I want to get you out of the place you're in
I want to leave you in no doubt
I want to get you out of the place you're in
Right now, I want to get you out
Dream for the day
Open up your mind
It don't matter what happens girl
You got to leave it all behind
I want to get you out of the place you're in
I want to leave you in no doubt
I want to get you out of the place you're in
'Cause I, I see a bluer sky
I see a better life
So baby dry your eyes
I'm gonna get you out
I want to get you out of the place you're in
I want to leave you in no doubt
I want to get you out of the place you're in