Music Review

Trouble Is...

Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band
Reviewed by Scott Schinder | Nov 28, 1997
EW's GRADE
C-

Details Lead Performance: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band

This young guitar prodigy's second effort has little to offer other than his technically impressive but emotionally unengaging ax work. Kenny Wayne Shepherd's readings of Dylan and Hendrix are energetic enough, but his originals on Trouble Is... are standard-issue blooze rock, as are new frontman Noah Hunt's one-dimensional vocals. And Jerry Harrison's production sands off the rough edges that made Shepherd's 1995 debut bearable. C-

Originally posted Nov 28, 1997 Published in issue #407 Nov 28, 1997 Order article reprints

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