The Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band with special guest Bobby Rush

Kenny Wayne Shepherd, a five-time Grammy nominated blues legend himself, was born and raised in Shreveport/Bossier City, Louisiana, and Bobby Rush hails from an hour up the road (via I-20 and US-79 N) in Carquit alongside Homer and Haynesville. They have lots in common when it comes to their impact on a genre that’s always been in their DNA. They’ve each won Blues Music Awards - Rush a whopping 16 out of 56 career nominations. At 83, Rush received his first “Best Traditional Blues Album” Grammy award for “Porcupine Meat,” and he’s been on fire ever since, winning the same category in 2021 (“Rawer than Raw”) and 2024 (“All My Love For You”). He’s also been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame and Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame.

In addition to his multiple Grammy nods, Shepherd has received two Billboard Music Awards, two Orville H. Gibson Awards which honors the world’s greatest guitarists, a Blues Music Award and a Keeping The Blues Alive Award,. He’s also scored eight Top Ten singles on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart shares the record with B.B. King and Eric Clapton for the longest running albums on the Billboard Blues charts with his second album “Trouble Is…” In addition to his15 solo albums (recently including two volumes of “Dirt on My Diamonds”), Shepherd also recorded two albums as one third of The Rides in the mid-2010s with Stephen Stills and Barry Goldberg from Electric Flag. Meanwhile, Rush has released over 30 solo albums since the late 70s.

With #1 hits like "Blue on Black," "Slow Ride" and "Deja Voodoo," you don't want to miss this live performance by blues guitarist & Louisiana's favorite son Kenny Wayne Shepherd along with his legendary friend Bobby Rush at Oaklawn's Event Center for one night only.