HowToPlay: Blue On Black - Kenny Wayne Shepherd
"Blue on Black" is a song by American blues band Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and was written by Shepherd with songwriters Mark Selby (musician) and Tia Sillers, and is a single from their second studio album, Trouble Is.... Noah Hunt, a Cincinnati, Ohio native, is the lead singer. Released on April 7, 1998, the track spent 42 weeks on the US Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and rose to No. 1, remaining there for 6 non-consecutive weeks. "Blue on Black" was regarded as the best rock song of 1998 by various media, including winning the Billboard Music Award for Rock Track of the Year and the song's popularity helped make Trouble Is... the 1999 Blues Album of the Year in Billboard. The song continues to be a top download of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd catalog, ranking at No. 1 on Rhapsody.