Kenny Wayne Shepherd

In this video, Kenny talks about his 61 Strat. The guitar is also mentioned on Kenny's official site they write about this guitar saying "This guitar is 'THE ONE'. Every guitar player dreams of finding that one guitar that they pick up one day and it fits like a glove. This is that guitar for KWS. Kenny describes it as an extension of his own body. He loves all of his guitars, but they all take a back seat to this one."

"Left to Right: stock Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Strat, Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Strat prototype, Fender Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Strat with GraphTech Ghost pickup system (used for the "Blue on Black"), Fender Jimi Hendrix Monterrey Pop Limited Edition," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

"Left to Right: Martin Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Acoustic prototype, Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Strat with GraphTech saddles and a custom neck (used heavily on his first album), National Resophonic Dobro Electric (used for "Aberdeen"), Guy Guitars Strat-style with lipstick pickups, built-in Roger Mayer overdrive boost, and Drop D lever," reads this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

Kenny Wayne uses a "Guy Guitars Strat-style with lipstick pickups, built-in Roger Mayer overdrive boost, and Drop D lever," according to this Premier Guitar rig rundown.

"Left to Right: Martin Kenny Wayne Shepherd Signature Acoustic prototype, Fender Stevie Ray Vaughan Signature Strat with GraphTech saddles and a custom neck (used heavily on his first album), National Resophonic Dobro Electric (used for "Aberdeen"), Guy Guitars Strat-style with lipstick pickups, built-in Roger Mayer overdrive boost, and Drop D lever." - Premier Guitar.

According to Premier Guitar, Kenny uses this guitar on "Aberdeen".

He has it in red.

Used this guitar for “Woman Like You”.

At 14:23 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny shows us his amps saying "tonight what I’m gonna be running through…the first one over here is the 1964 Fender Blackface Vibroverb re-issue, and you know originally they only made the Blackface Vibraverb I think for like one year…the total production only expanded for about years."

At 16:47 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny says "this is the super sonic twin; this is one of Fenders latest creations and if you know much about me the majority of my career I’ve been a Fender Twin guy. I used to run, for several years I just ran three Fender Twins wide open…For me I like a really nice round clean amp sound and I generaly use my pedals to get the distortion, but this is a really versatile amp."

At 19:00 Kenny Wayne Shepherd calls this amp the "secret weapon". He then continues to explain why.

Kenny was seen using a earlier version of Tribute Amps under its older name which was Revival Amps, in the left of the picture at a Belly Up Festival in San Diego.

At 22:19 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his custom pedal board and we're shown a still image with the Butler being seen in the left hand side of the image.

At 22:19 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his custom pedal board and we're shown a still image with the Butler being seen in the left hand side of the image.

At 23:47 in this “Rig Rundown” with Premier Guitar, Kenny says “this is an octave generator basically. You know this thing get’s all kinds of like trippy far out sounds.”

At 22:37 of this “Rig Rundown” with Premier Guitar, Kenny says about his pedals, “starting off in the single chain we have the Dunlop Univibe Re-issue. That is in particular I use that for the rhythm sound on “Blue on Black”. You know it just gets a really unique sound; it’s really ‘Hendrixy’”

At 25:23 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his wah pedal saying "I’m a big Dunlop user, have been for years basically, and this wah pedal - I’ve been in search you know now for the best sounding wah pedal…I have an original Vox Clyde McCoy wah pedal from the sixties, that’s like the Holy Grail of wah pedals. Everybody tries to emulate that and I’ve just been on the lookout for the one that sounds closest or sounds the closest to what I want a wah to sound like and this is it.”

At 27:26 of this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny talks about his Octavia re-issue saying "I have an original Tycobrahe Octavia at home that I reserve just for studio use. But these guys have really nailed the re-issue, I mean this an accurate re-issue of any other pedal I’ve ever seen."

At 34:54 in this "Rig Rundown" with Premier Guitar, Kenny says about his Bi-Chorus "so this is a really cool chorus pedal; it’s one circuit but he has the ability to have two independent settings…I have one side set for like a fast setting, which gives you more like a ‘Leslie’ sound. And then I have a very slow setting on the other side of it to sort of smooth things out."

On Dunlop's website, it lists an MXR MC-402 among gear used by Kenny Wayne Shepherd.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd's gear includes an MXR M288, according to Dunlop's website.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses a Joe Bonamassa Fuzz Face, according to Dunlop's website.

Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the Ibanez The Screamer TS808HW Pedal on his pedalboard.

Mr. Hugh Harris uses two Voodoo Lab Pedal Switcher on his pedalboard.

Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the Voodoo Lab Commander on his pedalboard.

Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the MXR M-103 Blue Box Pedal on his pedalboard.

Mr. Kenny Wayne Shepherd uses the Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner Pedal on his pedalboard.