Ledbetter Heights

Ledbetter Heights

Infobox Album | Name = Ledbetter Heights
Type = Album
Artist = Kenny Wayne Shepherd
Released = October 1995
Recorded = 1994-1995
Genre = Blues/Rock
Length = 60:55
Label = Giant Records
Producer = Kenny Wayne Shepherd,
David Z.
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:avp1z87aoyvj~T1 link]
Last album =
This album = "Ledbetter Heights"
(1995)
Next album = "Trouble Is..."
(1997) |

"Ledbetter Heights" is the debut album by the blues solo artist Kenny Wayne Shepherd. He released it in October 1995 when he was 18 years old. Its name refers to a neighborhood in Shepherd's home town of Shreveport, Louisiana. The album featured lead singer Corey Sterling on vocals. "Ledbetter Heights" was certified Gold by the RIAA in 1996, and certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2004.

Title of album

The Ledbetter Heights neighborhood, traditionally known as "The Bottoms", is one of the earliest parts of Shreveport to be settled outside the original downtown district, dating back to the 19th century. For almost all of its history, it has been predominantly African-American. In the early 20th century, there was a red-light district with legal prostitution within this neighborhood, and musician Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter, after whom the neighborhood is now named, lived and performed there. The renaming of the neighborhood to Ledbetter Heights in the 1990s was part of an effort to rehabilitate the area's image, as it had become known as an economically depressed and crime-ridden area.

Shepherd named his debut album after this neighborhood as an homage to the blues tradition of his home town.

Track listing

# "Born With a Broken Heart" (Shepherd/Tate) – 5:56
# "Déjà Voodoo" (Selby/Shepherd/Sillers) – 6:09
# "Aberdeen" (White) – 4:15
# "Shame, Shame, Shame" (Nadeau/Shepherd) – 6:05
# "One Foot on the Path" (Selby/Shepherd) – 3:49
# "Everybody Gets the Blues" (Michael) – 5:58
# "While We Cry" (live) (Shepherd) – 6:17
# "I'm Leaving You (Commit a Crime)" (Howlin' Wolf) – 4:16
# "(Let Me up) I've Had Enough" (Nadeau/Selby/Shepherd) – 2:43
# "Riverside" (Bowe) – 3:46
# "What's Goin' Down" (Nadeau/Shepherd) – 5:30
# "Ledbetter Heights " (Shepherd) – 6:11

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - Billboard (North America)


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