And on another note, I think all the bagging on Kenny needs to stop. Not saying a whole lot of people do it here, but everywhere I look somebody's ragging on him for some stupid friggin' reason. Forget saying some bs about passion or anything, that's objective, what leaves me cold might give you the warm and fuzzy's. As a guitar player, he is a very good blues guitarist. Period. He puts out good hard rockin' blues rock. He gives credit to his heroes. He's tried to distance himself from the Stevie Ray Vaughanabe crap (which honestly was never deserved....would SRV have ever put out a song like Deja Voodoo? Exactly). Hence came The Place You're In. And as Joe said, he's one of the stars of the blues, we should push him hard. Joe will give you more variety, and can probably play different styles of music on the guitar. But on stone-cold blues, Kenny and Joe are very good, two of the best going. Both approach it from different styles. That's what makes them different. Give the guy more credit. What hurts Kenny more than anything is the way his career has been managed, whether it's his doing of his dad's doing. He may tour a lot, but his stuff does not get pushed. And the frequent pushing back of release dates on The Place You're In and the upcoming Ten Days Out documentary, coupled with the huge layoff between Live On and The Place You're In, and the absolutely LACK of information you can get out of the web site as far as what Kenny is doing, have led to losing a lot of fans. But, as a musician, he's one of the best blues guitarists in the business, I don't care what anybody says. Even if you don't like Kenny's music, you can't deny that with the Ten Days Out documentary that he's trying to shine a light on lesser known artists than he, and that is commendable. He learned his biggest lesson from SRV, which is to always show respect to your elder musicians, and try and help get their name out as much as possible.
I would love in 5 or so years to read about the artists that saved the blues, and have that list include Joe, John Mayer, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Jonny Lang, Mato Nanji, Doyle Bramhall II, Robert Randolph, and Eric Sardinas. I look at these artists I mentioned as each having their signature style and approach. We have a lot of variety of great roots artists. We need to realize how good we've actually got it.
"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make"
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