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Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his group exploded within the picture in the mid-’90s and garnered large sums of radio airplay on business radio, which historically is not a solid house for blues and blues-rock music, apart from Stevie Ray Vaughan in the mid-’80s. Shepherd was created June 12, 1977, in …

Billed as “the Idol from the Airwaves,” Jan Garber led a huge band within the 1930s which was the epitome of “special” music. His reed section’s quavering saxophones (sounding as though they were filled with feeling that nearly bordered on sarcasm) had been the band’s brand and, when it found …