Shotgun Blues - Kenny Wayne Shepherd

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Shotgun Blues Lyrics

Whoa
Yeah all right
Whoa ooo oh
All right

Yeah
Now I'm a man baby
I ain't no boy no more
Well now I'm a man baby
I ain't no boy no more
I spent 12 years in prison
Here I am standin at your door

I go to work in the morning
Your other man come creepin around
Yeah I go to work every mornin
Saw your other man come creepin around
I shot him
Til I come home with this shotgun baby
He was dead before he hit the ground
I shot him down
Oh I shot him down

Oh I did my time baby
And I still want you here with me
Well I served my time baby
But with you I will never be free
A broken man all alone
Is what I ain't never gonna be

Whoa take it down
All right
Oooo whoo
All right
Oh baby
All right

Oh I ain't afraid of no man
Whiskey and wine are my only friends
Yes I ain't afraid of no man
Still got a shotgun in my hands
Well now I'm afraid to come inside
I just might do it all over again...

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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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