The album will be performed in its entirety
In 1997 rock and blues music fans were impatiently waiting for the sophomore release by, what the press still referred to as, a teenage phenom. On October 7th the world finally heard Trouble Is… by the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and it demonstrated to the press and public alike that Shepherd was an artist with a boundless future ahead of him.
In 2022, the band will launch The Trouble Is… 25th Anniversary Tour that will see the album performed in its entirety. Dates will kick off at The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, Louisiana – the very same theater they celebrated their inaugural record release of Trouble Is… 25 years before and work their way around the country. The February 12th show will be streamed and later in the year will be released on DVD/Blu-ray along with a very special anniversary package celebrating its 25th birthday.
After the wildly successful debut of his first platinum selling album, Ledbetter Heights, Shepherd set out to write and record his second album. “No one was expecting me to match the success of Ledbetter Heights, but when we got into the studio and the album started coming together, we knew we had something really special.”
Despite a select few (very few) critics, who tried to dismiss Shepherd as a “flash in the pan” due to his age, radio stations across the US added song after song to their playlists – in heavy rotation – and the fans devoured the music. Trouble Is… went on to sell over one million copies in the US and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. It featured four top ten hits, “Slow Ride”, “Somehow, Somewhere, Someway”, “Everything Is Broken” and of course, the No. 1 Mainstream Rock hit “Blue on Black,” spending an astonishing 104 weeks on the Billboard Charts. Shepherd won two Billboard Music Awards, including for Rock Song of the Year, and received his first of many Grammy nominations. Twenty-five years later, Kenny Wayne Shepherd is still releasing groundbreaking music, accumulating awards, touring the world and performing for ever-expanding audiences while those few critics have likely found new career paths.
iwas produced by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jerry Harrison and was the beginning of a long-term collaboration between Harrison and Shepherd. The album also features musical powerhouses including Chris Layton, Tommy Shannon and Reese Wynans as well as James Cotton.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd The Trouble Is… 25th Anniversary Tour Dates:
Feb 12 – Shreveport, LA @ The Strand Theatre
Mar 2 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
Mar 3 – Catoosa, OK @ Hard Rock Live
Mar 27 – Seattle, WA @ Moore Theatre
Apr 6 – Des Moines, IA @ Hoyt Sherman Place
Apr 7 – Kansas City, MO @ Uptown Theater
Apr 8 – Springfield, MO @ Gillioz Theatre
Apr 9 – New Buffalo, MI @ Four Winds Casino
Apr 13 – Warren, OH @ Robins Theatre
Apr 14 – Glenside, PA @ Keswick Theatre
Apr 15 – Greensburg, PA @ Palace Theater
Apr 16 – Carmel, IN @ Palladium
Apr 26 – Midland, MI @ Center for the Arts
Apr 27 – Champaign, IL @ Virginia Theater
Apr 28 – Milwaukee, WI @ Pabst Theatre
Apr 29 – Green Bay, WI @ Epic Event Center
May 1 – Fargo, ND @ Fargo Theater
May 3 – Sioux Falls, SD @ The District
May 5 – Fort Collins, CO @ Lincoln Center
May 6 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
May 7 – Pikes Peak @ Pikes Peak Center
May 19 – Norwalk, CT @ Wallstreet Theatre
May 20 – New Brunswick, NJ @ State Theatre
