Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Blue on Black

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 10/27/2016 at 12:36 • Filed to: oppo tunes

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fhrblig > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/27/2016 at 12:39

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I friggin’ love that song.

Jcarr > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/27/2016 at 12:39

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Oh man, this takes me back. I remember when my dad brought this album home.

Xyl0c41n3 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/27/2016 at 12:40

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And suddenly I’m back in high school, where my friends were mysteriously fond of this shitty song.

Why, Rover, why?

RallyWrench > Xyl0c41n3 10/27/2016 at 12:44

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What makes this a shitty song? Of all the things from high school in 1998 (yes, me too), this is pretty damn good. Compared to shit like Sugar Ray, this is transcendent. He’s a hell of a guitarist in any case, puts on a good live show.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Xyl0c41n3 10/27/2016 at 12:49

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...because I’m also mysteriously fond of it? There’s something I really, really like about the riff, the instrumentation is in the best tradition of both bluegrass Nashville + Jacksonville rock and of older folk descent like Ten Years After , and while it does have opaque and incoherent lyrics, they sound cool in the right frame of mind, and aren’t all in a warbly alt whinge-muffin style. It’s got elements of an ordinary journeyman generic song, but some elements that are quite strong.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 10/27/2016 at 12:52

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It’s a fuckin’ excellent song in the trappings of a mediocre one. The first time I heard it I was like “oh, more quasi-Southern Rock meandering... wait, what is this?. Ok, continue” Then I immediately tried to figure out who performed it because I wanted to hear it again a bunch of times.

Jcarr > Xyl0c41n3 10/27/2016 at 12:52

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Bite your tongue! KWS is a wonderfully talented blues guitarist.

Jcarr > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/27/2016 at 12:54

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Another young blues talent from that era.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/27/2016 at 13:00

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This. I wasn’t sold on Kenny at first, but I really like this song. I think it’s a great riff, particularly on bass. I’ve now seen him live a couple of times and he rips.

Xyl0c41n3 > RallyWrench 10/27/2016 at 13:03

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Don’t make me admit that I actually like this song. Don’t do it! I won’t admit it!

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Sigh. Fine. I’m just mad because I like this song, too.

RallyWrench > Xyl0c41n3 10/27/2016 at 14:10

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Blind, now I see, truth lies and in between...

Xyl0c41n3 > RallyWrench 10/27/2016 at 14:11

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...I hate you.

*cries*

RallyWrench > Xyl0c41n3 10/27/2016 at 14:13

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Tears on a river...

PatBateman > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 10/27/2016 at 14:15

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TIL that Kenny Wayne Shepherd is married to Mel Gibson’s daughter.

Thanks, Wikipedia.