Kenny Wayne Shepherd is eager to share the music he has created alongside 91-year-old blues legend Bobby Rush.

The pair released “Young Fashioned Ways” in March and are on a co-headlining tour that will stop at Sweetwater Performance Pavilion on Thursday. Combining Shepherd’s contemporary approach to blues with Rush’s traditional stylings, the album features five originals co-written by Shepherd and Rush, four reimagined Rush songs and a rework of Muddy Waters’ “Young Fashioned Ways” retitled “Young Ways.”

Shepherd, 48, is grateful for the rare opportunity to work with a traditional bluesman like Rush, but he says he isn’t scratching names off a list of dream collaborations.

“I wake up every day and see what opportunities present themselves,” he says in a July phone interview. “The thin

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