King's Highway - Kenny Wayne Shepherd

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King's Highway Lyrics

Walkin' down the king's highway
With a paper bag in my hand
Nothin' else but the clothes I got on
But I ain't lookin' back, I ain't lookin' back

I blame it on the midnight girl
And that wicked spell she cast
She pulled me in with them liquid eyes
But I ain't looking back, I ain't looking back

Oh what a tangled web she weaves
I was losing my mind
Starin' down the barrel of a gun
It's just a matter of time, yeah

Walkin' down the king's highway
Black cat crossin' my path
I know that's her trying to make me stay
But, I ain't looking back, I ain't looking back

Oh what a tangled web she weaves
I was losing my mind
Starin' down the barrel of a gun
It's just a matter of time, yeah

Kings highway, I ain't lookin' back
Kings highway, I got to travel that
King's highway, I ain't lookin' back
[Incomprehensible]


Oh, I ain't lookin' back
Ooh yeah
Ooh yeah
Ooh yeah
...

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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 blues and blues-rock music, with the exception of Stevie Ray Vaughan in the mid-'80s. Shepherd was born June 12, 1977, in Shreveport, LA. The Shreveport native began playing at age seven, figuring out Muddy Waters licks from his father's record collection (he has never taken a formal lesson). At age 13, he was invited on-stage by New Orleans bluesman Brian Lee and held his own for several hours; thus proving himself, he decided on music as a career. He formed his own band, which featured lead vocalist Corey Sterling, gaining early exposure through club dates and, later, radio conventions. Shepherd's father/manager used his own contacts and pizzazz in the record business to help land his son a major-label record deal with Irving Azoff's Giant Records. Ledbetter Heights, his first album, was released two years later in 1995. Ledbetter Heights was an immediate hit, selling over 500,000 by early 1996. Most blues records never achieve that level of commercial success, much less ones released by artists who are still in their teens. Although Shepherd -- who has been influenced by (and has sometimes played with) guitarists Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert King, Slash, Robert Cray, and Duane Allman -- is definitely a performer who thrives in front of an audience, Ledbetter Heights is impressive for its range of styles: acoustic blues, rockin' blues, Texas blues, Louisiana blues. The only style that he doesn't tackle is Chicago blues, owing to Shepherd's home base smack dab in the middle of the Texas triangle. 1998's Trouble Is... earned a Grammy nomination; Live On followed a year later. In 2004 The Place You're In was released on Reprise Records, the first album that featured Shepherd doing the majority of the lead vocals (singer Noah Hunt handled the lead vocals on the previous two albums). Shepherd's next project saw him traveling in the American South with a documentary film crew and a portable recording studio as he backed up several veteran blues players on their home turf. The resulting album and film, 10 Days Out (Blues from the Backroads), appeared in 2007.

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