Posted on 2025-04-06 DJ Hairy Larry Presents John Shepherd Playing I Want To Be The One https://sbblues.com/2025/04/06/dj-hairy-larry-presents-john-shepherd-playing-i-want-to-be-the-one/ It all started one year at Blues Fest. John Shepherd played the first part of his set without a band and Vivian loved it. Well, I did too, so I got in touch with John about recording a solo album and although it was a little bit outside of his comfort zone he was game. Now I’m going to have to try to find that Blues Fest performance. It was probably in 2008 because … I recorded John Shepherd at HairyLarryLand on February 21, 2009 and March 21, 2009. All tracks are John Shepherd, guitar and vocals, with no overdubs. So it’s essentially a live album. And he wrote all the songs. We called the album “So Low” and it’s just killing all the way through. I picked the song “I Want To Be The One” to play today because of it’s deep lyric and exceptional blues guitar. He showed up to play with just a guitar case. He said, “Don’t worry, there’s an amp in there too”. And sure enough when he opened his case there was a Pignose amp. I had John set up to sing in one room and I put the amp in another room with a close mic for sound isolation. So I was able to get John’s vocals right on top something that can be difficult to do when he’s singing with a loud band.