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Jonathan Horsley

“There is a certain sound you can only get from pushing the air, by turning the amps up, running those tubes super hot”: Kenny Wayne Shepherd on what it takes to cover Hendrix, his fistful of Dumbles and the secret to a cookin’ overdrive

Kenny Wayne Shepherd plays his signature Fender Stratocaster capo'd at the second fret during a 2024 performance at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall. He wears a wide-brimmed hat, black leather jacket and black T-shirt.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd is one of the great connoisseurs of electric guitar tone. Over the years he has refined his tastes to Fender Stratocasters, Dumble tube amps, Analog Man stompboxes… The finer things in life.

His epicurean appreciation of guitar sound is all over his latest studio album, Dirt On My Diamonds Vol 2, a record that might well send tone hounds back to the drawing board in search for what’s missing in their own sound.

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