Kenny Neal

Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisiana, is also the birthplace of swamp blues, the blues of the bayou. A funky music, spiced with a Creole twist, and very rhythmic.

This is where Kenny Neal grew up, coming from a family of bluesmen who always knew how to shake up that good old Black Cat Bone to shake us off life's turpitudes.

A particularly exciting guitarist on a Fender Telecaster, with which he often evokes the rather technical playing of Roy Buchanan or the sharpness of Albert Collins, an impressive bassist (he has an easy slap funk...), an expressive harmonica player, and a singer with a broad, virile timbre, Kenny Neal undoubtedly puts on a show. After starting out as Buddy Guy's bassist, for the past twenty years he has embodied the next generation in a style that blends swamp and Chicago blues.

Kenny is the son of harmonica player Raful Neal, a pillar of the Baton Rouge scene since the late 1950s, who hosted a weekly radio show featuring his friends Slim Harpo, Eddie Bo, and Rockin' Tabby Thomas.

After health issues forced him to step away from both the studio and the stage in the mid-2000s, the Louisiana native returned with the album "Let Life Flow" in 2009, which was nominated five times for a Grammy, and then "Hooked on Your Love" in 2010.

Surrounded by his brothers Noël, Larry, Raful Jr., and Riley, Kenny returned to the spotlight in 2016, highlighted by the success of his album Bloodline, for which he earned two more Grammy nominations!

1988 : Big news from Baton Rouge (Alligator)

1989 : Devil child (Alligator)

1992 : Bayou blood (Alligator)

1994 : Hoodoo moon (Alligator)

2002 : Easy meeting (Isabel) avec Billy Branch

2008 : Let live flow (Dixiefrog)

2010 : Hooked on your love (Dixiefrog)

2016 : Bloodine (Cleopatra Records)

YouTube links (HD):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixXLOKANaWI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJl7J1PEv3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS8kvUznqK8