Ledbetter Heights is a very strong debut album from Kenny Wayne Shepherd. Shepherd's guitar style is very reminiscent of the late, great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Most of the material here is very strong. The opening tracks Born With A Broken Heart and Deja Voodoo received extensive airplay on AOR radio and are both excellent tracks featuring Shepherd's outstanding playing. Other strong tracks include the slow blues of Shame, Shame, Shame, the soulful Riverside, and the driving Aberdeen. His version of Howlin' Wolf's I'm Leaving You (Commit A Crime) is also an excellent track. However, the best example of Shepherd's playing may be on the slow live track While We Cry and the killer ending title track which sounds like it would fit in nicely on Vaughan's Texas Flood album. Other tracks such as Everybody Gets The Blues and What's Goin' Down are decent, but not as strong as the rest of the album. A great debut, highly recommended to fans of blues guitarists such as SRV as well as the new breed of blues players like Jonny Lang.