While We Cry/Yellow Ledbetter

bucket1988
bucket1988 Posts: 212
edited August 2006 in Other Music
Does anyone know the Kenny Wayne Shepherd song "While We Cry"? It is an instumental song with the exact same chord progression, guitar style, and general mood of Yellow Ledbetter. And the album is appears on is called "Ledbetter Heights." Does anyone know if there is a connection?
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  • Pearl Jam and toast
    Pearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    dunno, but i believe YL is just a standard type of blues progression anyway.

    Do a search, I know it's been brought up before.
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  • DCGARDEN
    DCGARDEN Posts: 515
    I don't know this song. But YL always recalled Hendrix's Little Wing for me
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  • carolinabeerguy
    carolinabeerguy Kernersville, NC Posts: 2,517
    I remember hearing this song and it is EXACTLY like YL. Not similar, the same song. At least the beginning.
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  • lamperti77
    lamperti77 Posts: 365
    I do like "while we cry" but don't know of any relation except both blues-type songs.
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  • Sathogwa
    Sathogwa Posts: 227
    I've heard "While We Cry", and my guess is that he DID rip it off from "Yellow Ledbetter." He was really young when he did that, and that would be my guess as to a reason why. KWS hadn't developed enough as a songwriter on his own at that point.

    I don't know what Ledbetter Heights is, or what a Yellow Ledbetter is, but Hudie Ledbetter is blues/folk artist Leadbelly's ("In the Pines") real name.
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  • cookie5798
    cookie5798 Posts: 396
    I have this cd and the first couple of times I heard it I thought he was actually covering Yellowledbetter. It does sound very similar though. KWS is a kick ass guitar player. Great talent at a young age!!
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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    adam42381 wrote:
    I remember hearing this song and it is EXACTLY like YL. Not similar, the same song. At least the beginning.

    Ya man......

    It's a little ridiculous.
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  • Thumbing My Way
    Thumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    http://www.kennywayneshepherd.net/photos/SD/SD7.jpg

    Even look at his guitar........

    If you haven't heard this song, download it and see for yourself.
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