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On the final leg of the albums journey we have ‘Hey Mama’ before the penultimate ‘Destiny’. It can’t be ignored that Trout is a master of procuring his albums into stories with each song lending itself as a chapter within. ‘Hey Mama’ feels much like the reconciliation following the last good time blast before ‘Destiny’ acts as the end of night credits rolling soother.

Find sources: "Walter Trout"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( January 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) In 2015, Trout had recovered and returned to performing at the Royal Albert Hall in London. He was introduced onstage by his wife. [9]Marie Trout" Introduces "Walter Trout" @ The RAH". YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19 . Retrieved January 19, 2020. As Ride took form, such memories couldn’t help but flavour the music. “This album is obviously what I was going through mentally and emotionally,” he considers. “All I did was express it. I spent a lot of time crying, because I would dig down into my emotional core. I want my songs to have some sort of truth to them. Blues Blast Music Awards – Blues Blast Magazine". Bluesblastmagazine.com . Retrieved January 23, 2020. If the blues ever needed someone to cling on for its dear life, you can bet your bottom soul the name of perennial blues stalwart Walter Trout would be leaping out of the water. He’s recovered from a last-gasp liver transplant, survived addiction, and found sanctuary when thrown into the deep end without a paddle. Walter Trout, Mike Zito (Mar 26, 2018). Carlos Santana, Walter Trout & Mike Zito: One Life Saves Another.. And Another. Blues Radio International. Archived from the original on 2021-12-19 . Retrieved March 26, 2020.

This one-two punch of explosive guitar playing and relentless oomph is classic Trout and a reminder (if one were needed) of the brilliance when he steps his foot on the gas. However it’s not quite full steam ahead from this point as Trout (as he always does) pulls over for the occasional, soul-searching ballad. BREAKING: Blues Music Awards winners announced; Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo's 'TajMo' wins seven awards". Blues.org. May 11, 2018. Local bands never got the breaks, and in 1973, Trout made the death-or-glory move to LA, where he slept on couches and scrabbled for work. “I came out here and it was a overwhelming thing,” he says, “because I didn’t know anybody. I just started going around to clubs where there were bands playing and asked if I could sit in. My first gig, I was stand-up lead singer in a country band, singing Merle Haggard tunes. And with my third paycheque, I went and bought that Strat that’s still on the cover of all my CDs.” While his modern edge and sparkling energy are sure to electrify contemporary fans of the genre, the memories Trout bravely digs up about his dysfunctional childhood and unstable stepfather heavily shape this LP. Even Trout admits there were “times in this pandemic where I sunk into some pretty deep depressions”. The ballads here are gorgeously bleak. “Waiting for The Dawn” with a very Gary Moore sounding lead is proof. I’d also contend that this doesn’t sound much like any other Walter Trout record. It sounds more raw somehow, “Better Days Ahead” seems to implore by sheer will alone, but it’s balanced out by the more Country tinged “This Fertile Soil”. Naturally, for this record, things are worse than he remembered, and you wouldn’t want it any other way.Luther was one of the all-time greats,” Trout continues, “and it was just an unbelievably potent thing to watch him perform. Just the energy and commitment that guy had, he was one of a kind. We played together once, at the Jazz Fest that year, and just as we walked offstage, somebody pointed a camera and we hugged and smiled. And that photo is on the cover of the CD.”When he died [in 1997], the idea of this album was planted in my brain.

So Many Sad Goodbye’s’ and ‘High is Low’ are the creme de la creme of mid-tempo blues splendour. Trouts vocals on the latter are especially good. It’s the kind of husky outpour that reminds us why sometimes the classic arrangements are the best. Walter Trout 2018 04 21 Tampa, Florida - Skipper's Smokehouse - Full Show, archived from the original on 2021-12-19 , retrieved 2021-09-19 Reverb-cloaked, faintly Hendrixian and vocally influenced by Chet Baker, the stunning album closer Destiny gives an unvarnished account of the guitarist’s first meeting with Marie at a Danish blues festival in 1990. In 2019, Trout's album, Survivor Blues, debuted with two consecutive weeks on the Billboard Blues Chart at number one and stayed in the top ten for twelve weeks. [12] Metal Zone magazine, reviewed his performance in London by naming Trout "the ultimate, supreme bluesman of the 20th and 21st centuries." [13] Trout's career began on the Jersey coast scene of the late 1960s and early 1970s. He then decided to relocate to Los Angeles where he became a sideman for John Lee Hooker, Percy Mayfield, Big Mama Thornton, Joe Tex, and many others.

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LOOKING FOR BIGGER FISH TO FRY: The Walter Trout Band Heads for the Mainstream". Los Angeles Times. November 5, 1992 . Retrieved January 25, 2020. Trout may well have reached another high-water mark with Ride, which is amazing to consider. At the stage of life when many musicians choose to just play the hits, Trout is going artistically hard, pulling more out of his real self than ever and ripping the strings off of his guitar. We should all live this well.

Trout still speaks to the modern world with 21st Century energy but he found himself also writing lyrics about his darkest times gone by. These memories include growing up around a cruel, unstable stepfather who had been a prisoner of war, playing guitar for revered-but-difficult blues pioneers John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton, and a stint in an 80s Canned Heat lineup. All this and more gave Trout an endless supply of emotional truth to fuel his creative process. For Walter Trout, there is no ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Across his five-decade career, the great US bluesman’s music has always been a lifeline and call-to-arms, reminding listeners they are not alone. day ago LIES!: Dutch metallic hardcore gang drops video for “Propaganda” (ft. Hugo Zerrad – Worst Doubt) via Invisible Oranges; 2nd album comes early December

And that’s not even a digression in this case, because if “Ride” is anything, it’s the product of worry, of anxiety and self-doubt. In a way, that’s what makes it so wonderful, because if Walter Trout can feel like this, when he’s Walter Trout for goodness sake, then we can all feel like that. Consider this your permission. The New Jersey maestro spent time in John Mayall’s Blues Breakers and Canned Heat before embarking on a prolific solo career and his most recent releases have seen him at his most creative and powerful yet, from ‘The Blues Came Callin’ (2014) and ‘Battle Scars’ (2015) to ‘We’re All In This Together’ (2017), ‘Survivor Blues’ (2019) and ‘Ordinary Madness (2020). Released June 10, 2013 on Provogue Records, this latest collection was bottled at Hollywood’s Entourage Studios alongside producer Eric Corne: the same combination that birthed 2012’s acclaimed solo release, Blues For The Modern Daze. The atmosphere, remembers Trout, was one of spit, grit and seat-of-the-pants energy: “Spontaneity is so important with this sort of music. Everybody was saying, ‘Well, aren’t you gonna get together and rehearse?’, but you don’t want to over-analyse or get too sterile. This album was all pretty much first or second takes. It’s gotta have warts on it. It’s gotta have a bit of grease in it.”