10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads

It must have been great fun and an honor for Kenny Wayne Shepherd to work with all these blues legends. Too bad it's just an album with subpar versions of well known blues classics you can find on an abundance of compilations in better shape. It's nice to hear B.B. King, but as most of the contributors, he is var from his magnificent shape years ago. In the end it is ok as an album and nothing more.

Listening to the blues at this point feels to be approaching the territory of something like listening to chamber music; it may be a fine and traditioned thing but you're not likely to hear anything new. Of course not everything needs to be new. This was very good for what it was, and of course had a deep roster of featured singers and players. Just solid blues.

I appreciate the music but think this is more of a compilation of aged Blues Legends accompanied by some bloke I've not heard about than aything else. Why not have an album by one of the greats in their prime?

Lovely blues album

Well I'll be damned. I thought this was going to be a chore - an overly long blues album. But this took me by surprise. Perhaps it helped that I have no real connection with the genre and therefore only knew very few of the songs, but this felt like a nice greatest hits record. A glaring omission is Hank Doyle with 'Me and the Blues'.

a very tasty album of blues songs and standards.

Sounds like it's from about 50 years earlier than it actually came out. Really shows the influence of the blues on country, and vice versa, and I really liked it. Thanks for the suggestion

I never really felt the blues myself, but I was quite intrigued by the concept of 10 Days Out. There are some mighty legends on this record, and I’m sure that I would have enjoyed the film even more - it must have been a thrilling ride producing this. The record? Just another blues record - albeit with some crazy features throughout.

Not as bad as I feared but absolutely too long

Hour-long blues digression

Basically what it says it is. I dunno, it's ok. 3/5.

This just felt a little strange to me. Going around and playing with blues legends is fine and all, but the main artist doesn’t really make an impression. It’s sort of just a compilation of blues musicians playing some of their best songs live. I enjoyed it. I think it’s an odd pick. 3/5

Blues rock. Le iba a poner un 4 pero al final me ha aburrido. Ni fu ni fa.

Just an odd pick for the list all-around – Shepard inserts himself into some classics played by the all-time greats as a documentary soundtrack of sorts? Way better comps and actual blues LPs missing from the list that deserve an add. Not that this is a bad album per se, the greats are the greats for a reason, but this isn’t an artistic statement really - just a collection of tracks around a common theme produced as a byproduct of a film.

Interesting backstory that absolutely makes this a piece of musical history, but I'm also never really in the mood to listen to 50 minutes of worse and noodlier versions of blues classics. Cool submission though.