Blues-rock guitarist and songwriter Kenny Wayne Shepherd first achieved success at a young age and since the mid-'90s he has released a string of popular albums that show off his aggressive and hard rocking country-blues style. His 1995 debut album, Ledbetter Heights, garnered massive radio airplay and media attention on its way to topping the blues charts and being certified platinum. Several of the albums that followed zoomed to the top of the blues charts and a number of singles, like 1998's scorching "Blue on Black, have been hits. 2014's Goin' Home not only hit number one at blues but landed inside the Top 100 on the U.S. album charts. Shepherd had a string of number one albums on the Billboard Blues charts into the 2020s, a period of time where he honed and expanded his sound, leading him to the soul-injected 2023 set Dirt on My Diamonds, Vol. 1.