For those unaware, Provogue Records is proud to announce the 25th anniversary re-issue of Kenny Wayne Shepherd�s highest selling album to date, Trouble Is ..., which has been re-recorded for a new physical product run.

The re-issue will be available on CD+DVD, CD+Blu-ray, Earbook, and for the very first time, a 2LP vinyl configuration that wasn�t part of the initial 1997 release.

The initial run of Trouble Is... sold 1 million copies, and was certified platinum in 1999. The album had 4 Top 10 hits including Slow Ride, Somehow, Somewhere, Someway, Everything is Broken, and the No. 1 hit, Blue On Black.

Additionally, the song Blue On Black won the award for Rock Song of the Year at 1998 Billboard Music Awards. Trouble Is ... 25 is available everywhere December 2nd, 2022.

1.�Slow Ride
2.�True Lies
3.�Blue on Black
4.�Everything Is Broken
5.�I Don�t Live Today
6.�(Long) Gone
7.�Somehow, Somewhere, Someway
8.�I Found Love (When I Found You)
9.�King�s Highway
10.�Nothing to Do with Love
11.�Chase the Rainbow
12.�Trouble Is
13.�Ballad of a Thin Man

This frenetically-charged album opens on the gut-wrenching, Stratcoaster blues of Slow Ride and the funky blues of True Lies and backs those up with the smoothness of the hit single Blue on Black, a simply smoking version of Bob Dylan�s�Everything Is Broken, a haunting cover of Jimi Hendrix�s�I Don�t Live Today, and then comes the harmonica-driven foot-tapper�(Long) Gone.

And while Kenny had yet to find his own singing voice (then, as now, Noah Hunt handles powerhouse lead vocals on �Trouble Is��), his precocious guitar work was in a different class to the fading grunge scene and thus is stamped all over this pulsating album.

Up next is the Stevie Ray Vaughn-esque Somehow, Somewhere, Someway and the piano-driven, Gospel-imbued I Found Love (When I Found You) and they are in turn backed by a glorious assault of sound on King�s Highway, the smooth jam of Nothing to Do with Love (which was written by Jerry Lee Williams a great song writer from Leonard, Oklahoma, then we get the gently frenetic blues rock of Chase the Rainbow and Kenny�s crackling guitar on the fully blown, titular�instrumental Trouble Is.

And while the track-listing is almost the same, there is one outlier that fans will notice, for the recording now comes to a close on a rather spectacular version of Bob Dylan�s iconic song, Ballad of a Thin Man, where the piano is reminiscent of the original, but the guitar is typical of Kenny.

�I wanted to do Bob Dylan�s �Everything Is Broken� because I had just been on tour with him and he was so good to me and such an inspiration. Our producer, Jerry Harrison, had suggested another Dylan song, �Ballad Of A Thin Man.� But I was concerned that might be too much of a step outside the box for the fan base, and �Everything Is Broken� was closer to an actual blues song.�

�Jerry was fighting hard for �Ballad Of A Thin Man� so we butted heads, had a miniature battle over those songs. Ultimately, I prevailed and although we recorded �Ballad Of A Thin Man,� it was �Everything Is Broken� that went on the record. But what�s really cool is that for this new recording of �Trouble Is�,� we went in and very faithfully re-recreated that version of �Ballad Of A Thin Man� from 1997, and included it on this box-set.�

Great songs are not set in stone. Since he burst from the blues clubs of Louisiana onto the global music scene with 1995�s breakthrough first album �Ledbetter Heights, followed by his career defining second album �Trouble Is�� in 1997, Shepherd has twisted those classic cuts into bold new shapes each night on the stage.

Led by the pulse of the crowd, every last note alive in his hands, the �Trouble Is�� tracks have always been on the move, never settling into museum pieces. But to give a quarter-century-old album a second birth is another matter. And in more recent times, the multi-platinum-selling artist looked up the road and saw the 25th anniversary of �Trouble Is�� on the horizon, he hatched an audacious plan.

To join the dots from the hungry 18-year-old gunslinger who caught lightning in a bottle in 1997 to the still-questing master musician, with a lifetime�s soul under his fingers. To assemble the old crew from the original �Trouble Is�� sessions at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California and attack the track listing afresh. And to remind seasoned fans and new listeners alike how this album struck the match that reignited modern blues.

�During the �Trouble Is�� anniversary tour,� says Shepherd, �everybody was commenting on how this album could be released today and still be just as relevant as it was 25 years ago. Making this album in 1997 was just a really monumental achievement. The new recording was a serious trip down memory lane for me. And I�m still so proud of these songs��

The DVD contains the Trouble Is... 25th Anniversary Show, recorded in The Strand Theatre in Shreveport, LA, and a documentary about the making of Trouble Is...25.

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