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He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues rock artist. Shepherd was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is "completely self-taught", [ 6 ] and does not read music. Growing up, Shepherd's father Ken Shepherd was a local radio personality and part-time concert promoter, and had a vast collection of music.

Shepherd stated in a interview that he began playing guitar in earnest at age seven, about six months after meeting and being "pretty mesmerized" [ 6 ] by Stevie Ray Vaughan , Labor Day weekend in , 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, using "a cheap Yamaha wanna-be Stratocaster Blues musician Bryan Lee invited the thenyear-old Shepherd to play guitar onstage.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his group exploded on the scene in the mid-'90s and garnered huge amounts of radio airplay on commercial radio, which historically has not been a solid home for .

He subsequently made demo tapes, and a video was shot at Shepherd's first performance at the Red River Revel Arts Festival in Shreveport. It was this video performance that impressed Giant Records chief Irving Azoff enough to sign Shepherd to a multiple album record deal. Beginning in , Shepherd took seven singles into the Top 10, and holds the record for the longest-running album on the Billboard Blues Charts with Trouble Is In , Shepherd began a longtime collaboration with vocalist Noah Hunt, who provided the vocals for Shepherd's signature song, " Blue on Black ".

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In , Shepherd played guitar on the end title theme for the animated feature Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. This documents Shepherd as he travels the country to jam with and interview the last of the authentic blues musicians. In , Shepherd released "Something from the Road Vol. According to a statement from the organization, the decision was made over Confederate flag imagery displayed on Shepherd's The Dukes of Hazzard " General Lee " car replica.

Shepherd acknowledged the offensiveness of the flag on his car and said he had permanently covered it some time ago.