Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been making music since he was 13 years old, but he waited until the ripe old age of 18 to release his debut album, 'Ledbetter Heights.' This week the blues guitarist looked back on his debut album 30 years later, talked about his upcoming Rock covers LP, and his desire for a Country cover of "Blue on Black" with Rob Stone of the Rob + Holly Show.

"It's a monumental record. I mean, this is ground zero. This is the beginning for us," Shepherd says of 'Ledbetter Heights,' which was released in 1995. "This is the introduction of, you know, me and my music and my band to the world. And it's like the foundation, it's like we met our fan base and started building our fan base on this record. And now here we are 30 years later."

Kenny tells us he's currently working on a Rock covers album, and took some time to talk about the covers of "Blue on Black" that exist in that genre and his hopes for a Country version to eventually emerge.

"'Blue on Black' for me, we released it in 1997 and it was a massive hit for us and it set a record at the time for the most consecutive weeks at number one on the Rock charts in the history of the Rock charts," remembers Shepherd. "Then 20 years later, Five Finger Death Punch, which is a heavy, heavy Rock band, they contacted me and said, you know, 'we're gonna record this for a new album, and then we want to do another version of it and have you play on it.' And I'm like, 'OK, great.' And then they had Brantley [Gilbert] come in, and then he became part of it. And then we had Brian May from Queen playing guitar on it. So it was like all these different worlds coming together."

"20 years later, it was like exactly 20 years later, they put it out and it shot up to number one all over again on the Rock charts."

"I would love nothing more than for some Country artist to come and cover that song, I think, because it's a hit song no matter what, no matter what format it is, and I think that the right artist covering that song can have a#1 hit within Country radio too, and I hope that happens."

To hear much more from Kenny Wayne Shepherd, check out the full interview above.

Priscilla Block has learned a lot since her debut took Nashville by storm. Now the 30-year-old singer is back with her sophomore album, 'Things You Didn't See,' letting listeners in with a vulnerable, open new effort.

Talking with Rob + Holly during the 'Friday Night Takeover,' Block took us inside the making of 'Things You Didn't See,' talking about her journey from moving to Nashville at 17 to finding success, and unpacking the meaning and stories behind songs like "Couldn't Care Less."

"When I wrote 'Couldn't Care Less,' it really kind of just felt like therapy that I didn't even know I needed," Priscilla reveals. "My album was actually done last year, like it was gonna be a full different project and I was listening through to the songs and I just didn't know what was missing, but I knew something was. I realized it was my life, like it was what I was experiencing just as a human, and I wrote that song. I put pause on the record that I had and I was just like, 'I think I need to keep writing.'"

"I just felt like it was my letter to people that maybe assume that just because I'm a big personality or I'm confident or whatever that I'm like bulletproof, and the song is being vulnerable and being like, 'I actually care a lot' and I wanted to say that on this record."

"I knew it was my time to show kind of a different side and I just feel like it's my letter to anyone that maybe hasn't gotten it. It's interesting the response that I've had to it because so many people are like, 'dude, like this is my life.' I feel like people don't realize that you're human, like you're a real person. Do you know what I mean? They see the person I guess on social media."

"Obviously there's always the trolls online," Block adds. "I find new things out about myself every day, but some days those comments hurt a little bit more than they would have the day before. I think that that's the human thing in it. It's like, I might be confident, but if I see something negative, some days it really, it hurts a lot more than it maybe would have."

To hear more from Priscilla Block, check out the full conversation with Rob + Holly above.

During a talk with Rob + Holly for the 'Friday Night Takeover,' HARDY spoke proudly about his new album, 'COUNTRY! COUNTRY!,' but even prouder about his wife Caleigh and their baby, Rosie.

"I've always known she was tough, but it's different now," HARDY says of his wife after she delivered their baby girl in March. "I just have a different respect for her. Obviously, immediately watching my wife give birth was insane, but the big thing now is now that I'm going back on the road because I have to, it's my job, and she stays at home. I know how the nights can be and I know that they're hard and she doesn't really get a break. We don't do the nanny thing or anything like that."

"it's just us and the help that we have from our family that lives in Nashville, but she's doing it all on her own while I'm gone, and that's the respect I have for her now. That's why when I come home, I'm gonna help as much as I can because she's grinding while I'm gone for sure."

It's been tough to bring Rosie on the road for the new parents, as she has trouble staying asleep on the bus. As for the family not having a nanny, it comes down to wanting to raise their daughter themselves, together. It's a sentiment supported by fellow Country dad Luke Combs.

"There's no judgment toward anybody that has any help, but Luke Combs told me one time, it was just me and him, we were sitting out by a fire somewhere random, and he was like, 'man, we don't do it.' He's like, 'I go home and we're putting the kids to bed and we're giving them baths. That's just the way that we want to do it.'"

"Caleigh and I are just gonna try it because that's how we were raised and we want to raise our kids in a very nuclear mom and dad family, and we're just gonna try as hard as we can to not have any sort of paid help."

"Even though it's not gonna be normal, that'll come with its own set of challenges when it's like we wanna go to the county fair and walk around or we wanna go out to eat or whatever, and our kid having to deal with maybe that, but hopefully I'll be washed up by the time she's a teenager," he jokes.

To hear more from HARDY about dad life, his new album, meeting Metallica frontman James Hetfield and more, check out the full conversation above.