Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne - Inspired By The Blues (2018)

Boogie Woogie Hall of Famer Kenny 'Blues Boss' Wayne's new release includes guests Billy Branch on harmonica, guitarist Duke Robillard and BB King's long-time bass player Russell Jackson. The zoot suited 'Blues Boss' tours Russia, South America, and Europe, in addition to playing various North American clubs and festivals. Living Blues Magazine named him the "Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard)" for 2015. "There's no boogie-woogie-blues piano man out there today who pounds the 88s with his conviction." - Chicago Sun-Times

Inspired by the Blues is Kenny’s fourth album for Stony Plain Records. His 2011 first album for the label, An Old Rock On a Roll, garnered him a nomination for the Pinetop Perkins Piano Award from the Blues Foundation, as well as being awarded two 2012 Living Blues magazine awards, one for “Best New Contemporary Blues Recording of 2011” and one for Wayne as “Most Outstanding Musician (Keyboard).”

Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne is a veteran blues and boogie piano player and also a three-time Juno Award nominee (Canada’s Grammy), including a win for his Let It Loose CD. His main influences are Fats Domino, Ray Charles and Chuck Berry’s long-time piano player Johnnie Johnson, as well as Amos Milburn, Bill Doggett and Johnny Otis, king of the West Coast blues sound of the ‘50s.

He was raised in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Orleans, but has been a long-time resident of British Columbia. A touring musician from his teens onward, Wayne settled in Vancouver some 30 years ago, and is now based in Kelowna, BC, but is rarely home — thanks to extended tours in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. His bass-heavy boogie piano work, as well as his original songs, makes for powerful live performances, enhanced by the flashy splendor of his boldly colored, French custom-tailored stage suits.