AMANDA GRESHAM Photography

Amanda Gresham has over a decade of experience as a professional photographer.  She earned her degree at American University in Washington, D.C. in her self -created major of marketing, graphic design and multimedia.  After graduating Gresham moved to New York where she worked as an on set photographer for HBO documentaries.

Today Gresham calls New Orleans home.  She is the founder of the Delta Music Experience which she continues to produce cruises.   Gresham was also the proprietor of the Royal Blues Art Gallery which she had to close after Hurricane Katrina. 

In 2004 Gresham was hired by Warner Records to document the filming and recording for 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads which was just released in January 2007.  Gresham's photos are used throughout the CD booklet and on the  10 Days Out  and Kenny Wayne Shepherd websites.

You can see Gresham next at select venues on the Legends Tour:  Blues From The Backroads.

10 Days Out Photography Featured at KBA Ceremony

While many people listen to the Blues, Amanda Gresham sees the music. Her documentary photography, which is featured in Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s 10 Days Out: Blues From The Backroads CD and DVD, will be on display during The Blues Foundation’s Keeping the Blues Alive Awards in Memphis on February 2 at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel. 10 Days Out will receive a Keeping the Blues Alive award in the Film, Television or Video category and has received Grammy nominations for Best Blues Traditional Album and the documentary was nominated for Best Long Form Video.

Gresham’s exhibit in the KBA award reception area will include works from the 10 Days Out project. She will donate the proceeds from any photographs sold to the Music Maker Relief Foundation and to The Blues Foundation. Warner Brothers hired Gresham in 2004 to document the filming and recording for 10 Days Out, which was released in January 2007. Her photography is featured throughout the CD booklet, in the PBS documentary, on the 10 Days Out DVD, as well as on the Kenny Wayne Shepherd website.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd
10 Days Out:  Blues From The Backroads
with Music Maker Relief Foundation Artists

A very special production and likely the most important blues release of the year, 10 Days Out:  Blues From The Backroads, documents the voyage of blues guitar great Kenny Wayne Shepherd as he travels the country to jam with, interview and generally pay homage to the last of the authentic blues greats. Beginning in New Orleans and ending with a grand finale concert at Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, Kansas, Shepherd's pilgrimage is a perfect lens into blues history and with absolutely exceptional cinematography and editing. This is a major-league production about what all too often is treated as a minor-league genre.

The guitar-slinger Shepherd, along with the Double Trouble rhythm section of Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton, begins in New Orleans, where they meet with Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Bryan Lee. Their tour busses rumble north to Shepherd's hometown of Shreveport where he and Buddy Flett jam at Leadbelly's graveside. They continue on into Mississippi to perform with B.B. King in his hometown of Indianola. Then it's over to Alabama to visit the home of Jerry "Boogie" McCain. The tour continues into rural North Carolina to meet with the Piedmont blues masters Cootie Stark, Neil Pattman, John Dee Holeman and Etta Baker. They turn West to jam with the great Henry Townsend in his St. Louis living room along with Honeyboy Edwards, who came down from Chicago for the session. Finally, the production ends at Blue Heaven Studios in Salina, KS. There, Kenny performs with surviving members of Muddy Waters' and Howlin' Wolf's bands. The concert included Pinetop Perkins, Bob Margolin, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Henry Gray and Hubert Sumlin along with guests Wild Child Butler, Lazy Lester, Jimmy D. Lane, Double Trouble and Noah Hunt. The performances are absolutely legendary and the beauty of the old church sanctuary with a revved up "congregation" is truly something to behold. 10 Days Out is a no-brainer for any blues fan, but it's also the perfect introduction to the blues. And consider for historic sake that since this filming in June 2004, six of the legends documented within have died, making 10 Days Out a crucial artifact in all future generations' explorations into such an integral part of American music history.