Kenny Wayne Shepherd: "If I Made Pop Music, I Wouldn't Still Be Around" + Don Lemmon Church Riot: A Peaceful Protest?

**Adam Carolla** (0:00)
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**Mike Dawson** (3:21)
From Corolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, singer, songwriter, and blues guitar, phenom, Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Plus the news with me, Mike Dawson, and now, Adam Carolla.

**Adam Carolla** (3:35)
Yeah, get it on, got to get it on. No choice, we're gonna manage it, get it on. Thanks for tuning in. Thanks for telling me, Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
I don't know, musical savant. I mean, playing the guitar the way you did at such a young age, kind of would say you just had a calling and a gift to it. Kenny got tour dates, and we can tell you where to go for that. Ledbetter Heights, 30th Anniversary Sessions, name of the album. Good to see you, Kenny Wayne.

**Kenny Wayne Shepherd** (4:07)
Hey, how are you, man? Good to see you.

**Adam Carolla** (4:08)
Good, it's weird. Now, you in Louisiana now?

**Kenny Wayne Shepherd** (4:12)
No, I'm down in Florida, down on the Gulf Coast.

**Adam Carolla** (4:14)
Oh, okay, so I don't know who, I was talking to someone and I said, I think he's in Nashville because I think I saw him in Nashville. But then they're like, no, he's not in Nashville.

**Kenny Wayne Shepherd** (4:25)
But no, I'm down in Franklin in Nashville, but we have a vacation home down here in Florida. So we got a big family vacation going on with my wife and her family. There's like 22 of us down here right now.

**Adam Carolla** (4:38)
I was going to say that sounds awesome, but it might not be.

**Kenny Wayne Shepherd** (4:42)