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Child Of Another Day by Walter Trout
Walter Trout
Artist Biography For Walter Trout
Walter Trout Born March 6 1951 Ocean City New Jersey Is An American Blues Guitarist Singer And Songwriter. Trout’s Backstory Is A Page-Turner You Won’t Want To Put Down. Five Decades In The Making It Is Equal Parts Thriller Romance Suspense And Horror. There Are Musical Fireworks Critical Acclaim And Fists-Aloft Triumph Offset By Wilderness Years And Brushes With The Jaws Of Narcotic Oblivion. There Are Feted Early Stints As Gunslinger In Bands From John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers To Canned Heat And The Solo Career That’s Still Blazing A Quarter-Century Later.
The Veteran Bluesman Has Seen And Done It All With Just One Omission He’s Never Made A Covers Album Until Now.
“Luther Allison’s Blues Is My First ” Trout Notes. “I’ve Thought About Doing This Album For Years. It Was Just Time.” Of All The Peaks In Trout’s Trajectory His Abiding Memory Of The Late Chicago Bluesman Is Perhaps The Most Literal. It’s 1986 And High Above Lake Geneva At The Palatial Alpine Chalet Of Late Montreux Jazz Festival Svengali Claude Nobs Lunch Is Being Served. “So We’re Up At The Top Of The Alps ” Trout Recalls “in This Big Room With John Mayall Buddy Guy Junior Wells Robert Cray Otis Rush And As We’re Eating Dr. John Is Serenading Us On Acoustic Piano. I Was Sat There With Luther Allison And We Had A Great Talk. “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. 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.” None Of Which Should Imply Luther Allison’s Blues Was A Throwaway Project. “At Times It Was Like Have I Taken On Too Much Here?” Admits Trout. “Like Am I Actually Capable Of Doing Justice To This? To Me Cherry Red Wine Is One Of The All-Time Greatest Blues Songs Ever Written And Luther’s Original Version Is So Unbelievably Passionate And Emotional That Even To Sing It Was A Daunting Task. If I Had My Way With This Album It Would Reignite Interest In The Man And His Work Make People Go Back And Check Out The Originals.” Trout Knows All About The Life-Shaping Power Of A Great Record. Rewind To The Mid-Sixties And He Was Put On His Path By An Older Brother With A Habit Of Blasting The Family Home In New Jersey With Seminal Blues-Rock Platters From Paul Butterfield’s 1965 Debut To John Mayall’s Seismic Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton. “He Brought Home John Mayall And Told Me ‘You Gotta Hear This Guy!’” Reflects The 62-Year-Old Guitarist Who Was Soon Inspired To Buy His First Gibson Les Paul While On A Day Trip To Philadelphia. “I Have Fond Memories Of All Those Records. I Still Listen To Them.” 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.” In A City Of Hicksville Hopefuls Trout’s Ferocious Talent On Lead Guitar And Gift-Of-The-Gab Soon Marked Him Out. “I Went To A Party And That’s Where I Met Jesse Ed Davis Who Was The First Really Famous Guy I Played With ” He Remembers Of The Sideman Era That Also Saw Him Work Alongside Big Mama Thornton Lowell Fulson And Joe Tex. “I Just Weasled My Way Into His Band And I Was With Jessie For Two Years. By 1981 Trout Had Switched To West Coast Boogie-Blues Titans Canned Heat For A Period He Diplomatically Recalls As “turbulent” But Even This Gig Was Topped Three Years Later By A Fantastical Phone Call From John Mayall Dangling The Revered Guitar Slot In His Iconic Bluesbreakers Outfit. “As Far As Being A Blues-Guitar Sideman That Gig Is The Pinnacle ” States Trout. “That’s Mount Everest. You Could Play With B.B. King Or Buddy Guy But You’re Just Gonna Play Chords All Night. This Guy Features You. You Get To Play Solos. He Yells Your Name After Every Song Brings You To The Front Of The Stage And Lets You Sing. He Creates A Place For You In The World. Where Do You Go From There…?” Trout Would Answer That Question In Emphatic Style On March 6 1989. As Guitarist His Tenure Had Brought Thrilling Flammability To The Breakers’ Sound And Produced Stone-Cold Classics Including One Life To Live But As The Newly Sober Guitarist Played A Lavish Show At A Gothenburg Symphony Hall On His 38th Birthday He Sensed The Hand Of Destiny. “To Walk Away From The Bluesbreakers ” He Admits “a Lot Of People Thought Was Completely Crazy Because I Could Have Stayed With John As Long As I Wanted. I Mean John To This Day Is Like A Dad To Me. He Was Behind Me When I Was All Screwed Up Kept Me In The Band Believed In Me And Gave Me The Opportunity To Progress And Grow Up In A Certain Way. So That Was A Huge Decision And It Was Scary But I Had To Do It Because I Knew I Had More Y’know?” Quarter Of A Century Later What Seemed Like Career Suicide Has Been Vindicated By A Thrilling Catalogue Of 22 Solo Albums A Still-Growing Army Of Fans And Accolades Including A Nod As “the World’s Greatest Rock Guitarist” In Legendary DJ Bob Harris’s Autobiography The Whispering Years And A #6 Placing On BBC Radio One’s Countdown Of The Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time. Meanwhile Trout’s Most Recent Original Album Blues For The Modern Daze Was Heralded By Titles Like Classic Rock Blues As Perhaps His Finest To Date. “I Feel Like With Modern Daze ” He Nods “I Found The Style I’ve Been Searching For Over 20 Albums. It’s Working It Comes Out Good And I Can Play It Well.” A Lesser Artist Might Rest On Such Laurels. As Walter Trout Powers Into His 25th Year As A Solo Star There’s No Whiff Of The Ennui Or Creative Autopilot That Hobbles The Later Output Of Most Veterans. On The Contrary There’s A Sense Of Growing Momentum Perhaps Even Of A Little Surprise. “It’s Hard To Believe I’m Still Alive To Be Honest ” He Smiles. “I Should Have Been Dead By 30 With The Life I Was Leading. But I Still Have A Career And At 62 I’m Still Climbing The Ladder Which Keeps It Exciting Instead Of Trying To Rekindle Past Glories. I Feel Like I Play With More Fire Than When I Was 25. I’m Still Reaching Y’know…?” Walter Trout Battles Liver Disease - Update
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July 19 2014 Great News Yesterday We Managed To Get The Financial Aspects Handled And Walter Was Immediately Transferred To The State-Of-The-Art Rehabilitation Center Here In Omaha NE. It Is On A Hospital Campus So In Case He Needs It The Hospital Services Are Available To Him. However Their Focus Is To Work On Strengthening And Rehabilitating Exclusively! So Walter Will Be Working With Occupational And Physical Therapists All Day And Will Be Able To Progress More Efficiently. As We Were Waiting For The Financial Aspects Of The Transfer To Come Together Walter Got Up And Took A Walk With Me. He Boogied Down The Hospital Hall Faster Than He Has Been Able To Walk Previously. He Has A New Leg Brace That Is Helping Correct Some Temporary Issues With His Right Foot. I Could Barely Keep Up As I Clung At Times Almost Horizontally To His Gate Belt While He Sprinted Past Supply Carts And Rounding Doctors! Then He Actually Ate Half Of An Ice Cream Sandwich! Both Very Encouraging Events! Other Than That He Is Continuing The Tube Feeding At The Rehabilitation Center. But The Ability And Willingness To Actually Put Food In His Mouth…. Awesome! Thank You To All Of You Who Continue To Support Us And Surround Us With Your Positive Energy And Love. We Really Feel It! And It Makes A Big Difference. I Have Skyped And Been On The Phone With Our Sons And They Are Doing Well At Home. The Neighbors Hear Them…. I Have Confirmation Of That Too As They Are In The Garage Practicing Jamming And Playing Music To Their Heart’s Content From Early To Late…. Thank You Patient Awesome Neighbors!!! If All Continues To Go Well I May Even Be Able To Get Home To Them Next Week For A Little While To Partake In The Festivities…. We’ll See. The Ebb And Flow Of Life Continues To Pulsate Through Our Lives. The Rollercoaster Ride Continues. The Intensity Of The Ups And Downs Is Mind-Altering! Literally! And I Find That As I Move Through It All Pain And Fear Are Not As Scary As My Fear Of Them. I Think Of The Emotions As Colors. Is There A Bad Color? No Just Different Ones That All Contribute To The Rainbow Of Potentiality Of Experience. The Trick For Me Is To Keep Moving Through Them And Not Get Stuck. Writing Here Helps As Do Your Comments And Love And My Morning Walks. All Of It Helps Me Gain Perspective To Keep Moving And Seeing Clearly. As I Was Contemplating This Analogy Of Emotions Being Like Colors And The Importance Of Moving Through Them And Not Get Stuck The Universe Provided Me A Beautiful Synchronistic Affirmation. On My Morning Walk I Altered My Route Slightly From My Normal One. Suddenly I Saw People In Work-Out Attire Coming Towards Me One More Colorful Than The Other. When I Got Close Enough I Saw That They Were All Going To Attend The “The Color Run”. A 5K Run Here In Omaha That Celebrates “healthiness Happiness And Individuality.” Yesterday Another Affirmation I Had Just Finished Writing About Emotional Lock-Down In My Journal And I Got Up Feeling I Had Moved Through It And I Found A Key To The Front Door That I Had Missed For A Long Time. It Was Hidden In My Glasses Case In The Cloths I Use To Clean My Lenses. Seeing Clearly And Wiping Off My Lenses Of Interpretation Unlocks Emotions To Just Be What They Are Colors Of The Emotional Rainbow. The Trek Continues. We Keep Moving. And Walter Is Exactly Where He Needs To Be Now. What Joy! Marie
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Walter-Trout - The Outsider
Born In 1951 And Raised In A Music-Loving Home In Ocean City New Jersey Walter Trout Felt The Calling To Music At A Young Age. His First Instrument Was Trumpet Playing In The School Band. A Chance Meeting With The Mighty Duke Ellington Catapulted Trout's Pursuit Of A Professional Music Career - What Walter Terms "a Turning Point" In His Life - When The Walter's Mother Orchestrated A Meeting With Jazz Legends Ellington Cat Anderson Johnny Hodges And Paul Gonsalves For The Youngster's Tenth Birthday. The Seed Was Planted About A Career Playing Music. In The Mid-1960's Trout's Instrument Of Choice Switched To Electric Guitar After Hearing An Album Which Was To Change His Whole Appreciation Of Music. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Featuring Mike Bloomfield Cemented Walter's Musical Ambitions Towards The Blues Genre And The Electric Guitar. In Those Vinyl Grooves Walter Heard The Guitar Speaking To His Soul Expressing What Words Could Not. Walter Trout Promised Himself To Learn This Musical Language And Dedicate His Life To The Guitar. For Hours Days Weeks Months He Was Locked In His Bedroom Practicing Until His Fingers Bled - The Obsession Unfortunately Turning The A-Student Into A High School Dropout. As A Shy Teenager Growing Up In A Turbulent Household His Singular Solace Became His Rapidly Developing Ability To Express His Feelings Playing The Guitar And His Vision Of Becoming A Professional Musician. In His Late Teens And Early Twenties Trout Played In Numerous New Jersey Bands Competing At The Time For Rank With "Steel Mill" Featuring A Young Bruce Springsteen. In 1973 He Packed Up His Belongings In A VW Beetle And Drove Cross-Country To The West Coast Arriving In Los Angeles With Only A Few Changes Of Clothes A Trumpet A Mandolin And His Guitars. He Developed Into An Ace Sideman Befriending And Backing California Blues Artists Often Being The Only "white Boy" In The Black Neighborhood Clubs. His Technique Accelerated Rapidly As He Played With Finis Tasby Pee Wee Crayton Lowell Fulsom And Percy Mayfield Among Others. The Extremely Meager Pay Was Compensated By The Satisfaction Musical Expression Brought The Young Musician. Unfortunatley He Was Also Developing The Detrimental Habits Of Drug And Alcohol Abuse Shared By Many Fellow Artists. Walter Often Teamed With Hammond B3 Wizard Deacon Jones And The Apprenticeship Continued In The Bands Of John Lee Hooker Big Mama Thorton And Joe Tex. By 1981 Trout's Reputation Led To The Invitation To Join Venerable Blues Rock Band Canned Heat Where He Remained Through 1984. In Canned Heat He Quickly Learned The Ways Of A Touring Musician Traveling The US And Abroad Further Refining His Already Stunning Abilities Playing Night After Night And Confirming His Reputation As A Top Flight Lead Guitarist. Trout's Substance Abuse Was Further Enabled In A Band With A History Of Hard-Partying. When The Call Came To Join The Legendary John Mayall's Bluesbreakers Trout Jumped And Found Himself Sharing The Spotlight With Fellow Guitarist Coco Montoya. Trout And Montoya Lifted The Band To A New Level As Mayall's Bluesbreakers Enjoyed Unprecedented Album Sales And High Profile Tours In The US And Abroad. Walter Felt That Playing With Mayall Was As Close To His Childhood Dream As He Could Get. At The Same Time Walter's Unhealthy Habits Reached A Fever Pitch The Band's Rider Required A Nightly Bottle Of Jack Daniel's For Trout's Consumption. An Epiphany Came When The Band Was In East Berlin Doing Shows Along Side Of Carlos Santana. After Seeing Walter Playing In An Intoxicated State Carlos Took Him Aside And In A Heartfelt Conversation Related That Trout Was Squandering The Gift That God Had Given Him. It Was A Turning Point In Walter's Life As A Master Musician And Idol Confided An Appreciation Of The Young Man's Talent And Concerns Of His Self-Destruction.... In Fairly Short Order Walter Trout Quit Drugs And Alcohol. As Trout Became Clean He Felt He Had More To Give Than A Few Blazing Solos As A Side Man With The Bluesbreakers. A Danish Record Label And Touring Agency Was Already Interested In His Solo Potential After Witnessing An Inspired Performance When Walter Led The Bluesbreakers Band While Mayall Was Out With Illness. Walter Did Much Soul Searching And Decided It Was Time To Go Solo. He Gathered Musicians He Knew From Los Angeles And Called It The Walter Trout Band. The 1989 Break With Mayall Quickly Segued Into Immediate Extensive Touring Of Europe Playing Large Venues And Music Festivals And His Music Was Heard On Mainstream Radio. In The Early 1990s Walter Had Several Radio Hits In Europe And Charted With His Unique Style Of Blues Rock. Throughout The Decade He Continued A Non-Stop Touring Pace Releasing 8 Recordings Steadily Each Lifting His Profile Higher. His Commercial And Critical Success In Europe Kept Him So Busy Outside Of The US That His Arrival Back Home Found Him Only Resting To Go Back To The Frantic Pace His Popularity Demanded Overseas. Like Many American Blues And Roots-Music Artists Walter Trout Had Developed An Incredible Following In Europe But Came Home To Little Fanfare. This Was Fine With Trout As He Now Had Started A Family And His Down Time Was A Valuable Escape From The World Of Touring And Playing. Amazingly The Self-Titled WALTER TROUT Released By Ruf Records In 1998 Was His First "official" Domestic CD. Shortly After The Band Renamed As Walter Trout And The Free Radicals And Began An Extensive Touring Pace State Side Steadily Building A Fan Base And Bringing Their High Energy Impassioned Live Performances Back Home. It Did Not Matter If He Was On Stage In Front Of 50 000 People Or Performing In A Small Club For A Couple Hundred - What Mattered To Walter Was Reaching People's Hearts Through His Artistry And Relaying The Passion He Had For All The Musical Styles Which Helped Shape His Sound. Since Then Ruf Records Has Released Half A Dozen CDs In The US And Walter Effectively Continued His Frequent Touring Splitting Time More Evenly Between Continents. His European Fans Have Stuck With Him As He Has Taken More Time To Build His Fan Base In America. With The Release Of FULL CIRCLE Walter Trout Demonstrates His Passion For Music Is Just As Great Today As It Was When He Started His Career As A Teenager More Than 35 Years Ago. He Considers The New Album A Tribute To The People And The Times That Have Helped Shape His Musical Career Demonstrating How The Many Styles Within The Blues Genre Can Co-Exist And Mutually Enhance Each Other Without Fight For Rank Or Authenticity. It's Always Been Trout's Dream To Break Down The Barriers Between The Labels Which Get Attached To Musical Genres And Show WHAT You Call Music Is Not Important. Ultimately What The Music Makes One Feel Is The Only Thing That Matters To Walter Trout.
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Walter Trout Born March 6 1951 Ocean City New Jersey Is An American Blues Guitarist Singer And Songwriter. Trout’s Backstory Is A Page-Turner You Won’t Want To Put Down. Five Decades In The Making It Is Equal Parts Thriller Romance Suspense And Horror. There Are Musical Fireworks Critical Acclaim And Fists-Aloft Triumph Offset By Wilderness Years And Brushes With The Jaws Of Narcotic Oblivion. There Are Feted Early Stints As Gunslinger In Bands From John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers To Canned Heat And The Solo Career That’s Still Blazing A Quarter-Century Later.
The Veteran Bluesman Has Seen And Done It All With Just One Omission He’s Never Made A Covers Album Until Now.
“Luther Allison’s Blues Is My First ” Trout Notes. “I’ve Thought About Doing This Album For Years. It Was Just Time.” Of All The Peaks In Trout’s Trajectory His Abiding Memory Of The Late Chicago Bluesman Is Perhaps The Most Literal. It’s 1986 And High Above Lake Geneva At The Palatial Alpine Chalet Of Late Montreux Jazz Festival Svengali Claude Nobs Lunch Is Being Served. “So We’re Up At The Top Of The Alps ” Trout Recalls “in This Big Room With John Mayall Buddy Guy Junior Wells Robert Cray Otis Rush And As We’re Eating Dr. John Is Serenading Us On Acoustic Piano. I Was Sat There With Luther Allison And We Had A Great Talk. “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. 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.” None Of Which Should Imply Luther Allison’s Blues Was A Throwaway Project. “At Times It Was Like Have I Taken On Too Much Here?” Admits Trout. “Like Am I Actually Capable Of Doing Justice To This? To Me Cherry Red Wine Is One Of The All-Time Greatest Blues Songs Ever Written And Luther’s Original Version Is So Unbelievably Passionate And Emotional That Even To Sing It Was A Daunting Task. If I Had My Way With This Album It Would Reignite Interest In The Man And His Work Make People Go Back And Check Out The Originals.” Trout Knows All About The Life-Shaping Power Of A Great Record. Rewind To The Mid-Sixties And He Was Put On His Path By An Older Brother With A Habit Of Blasting The Family Home In New Jersey With Seminal Blues-Rock Platters From Paul Butterfield’s 1965 Debut To John Mayall’s Seismic Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton. “He Brought Home John Mayall And Told Me ‘You Gotta Hear This Guy!’” Reflects The 62-Year-Old Guitarist Who Was Soon Inspired To Buy His First Gibson Les Paul While On A Day Trip To Philadelphia. “I Have Fond Memories Of All Those Records. I Still Listen To Them.” 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.” In A City Of Hicksville Hopefuls Trout’s Ferocious Talent On Lead Guitar And Gift-Of-The-Gab Soon Marked Him Out. “I Went To A Party And That’s Where I Met Jesse Ed Davis Who Was The First Really Famous Guy I Played With ” He Remembers Of The Sideman Era That Also Saw Him Work Alongside Big Mama Thornton Lowell Fulson And Joe Tex. “I Just Weasled My Way Into His Band And I Was With Jessie For Two Years. By 1981 Trout Had Switched To West Coast Boogie-Blues Titans Canned Heat For A Period He Diplomatically Recalls As “turbulent” But Even This Gig Was Topped Three Years Later By A Fantastical Phone Call From John Mayall Dangling The Revered Guitar Slot In His Iconic Bluesbreakers Outfit. “As Far As Being A Blues-Guitar Sideman That Gig Is The Pinnacle ” States Trout. “That’s Mount Everest. You Could Play With B.B. King Or Buddy Guy But You’re Just Gonna Play Chords All Night. This Guy Features You. You Get To Play Solos. He Yells Your Name After Every Song Brings You To The Front Of The Stage And Lets You Sing. He Creates A Place For You In The World. Where Do You Go From There…?” Trout Would Answer That Question In Emphatic Style On March 6 1989. As Guitarist His Tenure Had Brought Thrilling Flammability To The Breakers’ Sound And Produced Stone-Cold Classics Including One Life To Live But As The Newly Sober Guitarist Played A Lavish Show At A Gothenburg Symphony Hall On His 38th Birthday He Sensed The Hand Of Destiny. “To Walk Away From The Bluesbreakers ” He Admits “a Lot Of People Thought Was Completely Crazy Because I Could Have Stayed With John As Long As I Wanted. I Mean John To This Day Is Like A Dad To Me. He Was Behind Me When I Was All Screwed Up Kept Me In The Band Believed In Me And Gave Me The Opportunity To Progress And Grow Up In A Certain Way. So That Was A Huge Decision And It Was Scary But I Had To Do It Because I Knew I Had More Y’know?” Quarter Of A Century Later What Seemed Like Career Suicide Has Been Vindicated By A Thrilling Catalogue Of 22 Solo Albums A Still-Growing Army Of Fans And Accolades Including A Nod As “the World’s Greatest Rock Guitarist” In Legendary DJ Bob Harris’s Autobiography The Whispering Years And A #6 Placing On BBC Radio One’s Countdown Of The Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time. Meanwhile Trout’s Most Recent Original Album Blues For The Modern Daze Was Heralded By Titles Like Classic Rock Blues As Perhaps His Finest To Date. “I Feel Like With Modern Daze ” He Nods “I Found The Style I’ve Been Searching For Over 20 Albums. It’s Working It Comes Out Good And I Can Play It Well.” A Lesser Artist Might Rest On Such Laurels. As Walter Trout Powers Into His 25th Year As A Solo Star There’s No Whiff Of The Ennui Or Creative Autopilot That Hobbles The Later Output Of Most Veterans. On The Contrary There’s A Sense Of Growing Momentum Perhaps Even Of A Little Surprise. “It’s Hard To Believe I’m Still Alive To Be Honest ” He Smiles. “I Should Have Been Dead By 30 With The Life I Was Leading. But I Still Have A Career And At 62 I’m Still Climbing The Ladder Which Keeps It Exciting Instead Of Trying To Rekindle Past Glories. I Feel Like I Play With More Fire Than When I Was 25. I’m Still Reaching Y’know…?” Walter Trout Battles Liver Disease - Update
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July 19 2014 Great News Yesterday We Managed To Get The Financial Aspects Handled And Walter Was Immediately Transferred To The State-Of-The-Art Rehabilitation Center Here In Omaha NE. It Is On A Hospital Campus So In Case He Needs It The Hospital Services Are Available To Him. However Their Focus Is To Work On Strengthening And Rehabilitating Exclusively! So Walter Will Be Working With Occupational And Physical Therapists All Day And Will Be Able To Progress More Efficiently. As We Were Waiting For The Financial Aspects Of The Transfer To Come Together Walter Got Up And Took A Walk With Me. He Boogied Down The Hospital Hall Faster Than He Has Been Able To Walk Previously. He Has A New Leg Brace That Is Helping Correct Some Temporary Issues With His Right Foot. I Could Barely Keep Up As I Clung At Times Almost Horizontally To His Gate Belt While He Sprinted Past Supply Carts And Rounding Doctors! Then He Actually Ate Half Of An Ice Cream Sandwich! Both Very Encouraging Events! Other Than That He Is Continuing The Tube Feeding At The Rehabilitation Center. But The Ability And Willingness To Actually Put Food In His Mouth…. Awesome! Thank You To All Of You Who Continue To Support Us And Surround Us With Your Positive Energy And Love. We Really Feel It! And It Makes A Big Difference. I Have Skyped And Been On The Phone With Our Sons And They Are Doing Well At Home. The Neighbors Hear Them…. I Have Confirmation Of That Too As They Are In The Garage Practicing Jamming And Playing Music To Their Heart’s Content From Early To Late…. Thank You Patient Awesome Neighbors!!! If All Continues To Go Well I May Even Be Able To Get Home To Them Next Week For A Little While To Partake In The Festivities…. We’ll See. The Ebb And Flow Of Life Continues To Pulsate Through Our Lives. The Rollercoaster Ride Continues. The Intensity Of The Ups And Downs Is Mind-Altering! Literally! And I Find That As I Move Through It All Pain And Fear Are Not As Scary As My Fear Of Them. I Think Of The Emotions As Colors. Is There A Bad Color? No Just Different Ones That All Contribute To The Rainbow Of Potentiality Of Experience. The Trick For Me Is To Keep Moving Through Them And Not Get Stuck. Writing Here Helps As Do Your Comments And Love And My Morning Walks. All Of It Helps Me Gain Perspective To Keep Moving And Seeing Clearly. As I Was Contemplating This Analogy Of Emotions Being Like Colors And The Importance Of Moving Through Them And Not Get Stuck The Universe Provided Me A Beautiful Synchronistic Affirmation. On My Morning Walk I Altered My Route Slightly From My Normal One. Suddenly I Saw People In Work-Out Attire Coming Towards Me One More Colorful Than The Other. When I Got Close Enough I Saw That They Were All Going To Attend The “The Color Run”. A 5K Run Here In Omaha That Celebrates “healthiness Happiness And Individuality.” Yesterday Another Affirmation I Had Just Finished Writing About Emotional Lock-Down In My Journal And I Got Up Feeling I Had Moved Through It And I Found A Key To The Front Door That I Had Missed For A Long Time. It Was Hidden In My Glasses Case In The Cloths I Use To Clean My Lenses. Seeing Clearly And Wiping Off My Lenses Of Interpretation Unlocks Emotions To Just Be What They Are Colors Of The Emotional Rainbow. The Trek Continues. We Keep Moving. And Walter Is Exactly Where He Needs To Be Now. What Joy! Marie read less
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July 19 2014 Great News Yesterday We Managed To Get The Financial Aspects Handled And Walter Was Immediately Transferred To The State-Of-The-Art Rehabilitation Center Here In Omaha NE. It Is On A Hospital Campus So In Case He Needs It The Hospital Services Are Available To Him. However Their Focus Is To Work On Strengthening And Rehabilitating Exclusively! So Walter Will Be Working With Occupational And Physical Therapists All Day And Will Be Able To Progress More Efficiently. As We Were Waiting For The Financial Aspects Of The Transfer To Come Together Walter Got Up And Took A Walk With Me. He Boogied Down The Hospital Hall Faster Than He Has Been Able To Walk Previously. He Has A New Leg Brace That Is Helping Correct Some Temporary Issues With His Right Foot. I Could Barely Keep Up As I Clung At Times Almost Horizontally To His Gate Belt While He Sprinted Past Supply Carts And Rounding Doctors! Then He Actually Ate Half Of An Ice Cream Sandwich! Both Very Encouraging Events! Other Than That He Is Continuing The Tube Feeding At The Rehabilitation Center. But The Ability And Willingness To Actually Put Food In His Mouth…. Awesome! Thank You To All Of You Who Continue To Support Us And Surround Us With Your Positive Energy And Love. We Really Feel It! And It Makes A Big Difference. I Have Skyped And Been On The Phone With Our Sons And They Are Doing Well At Home. The Neighbors Hear Them…. I Have Confirmation Of That Too As They Are In The Garage Practicing Jamming And Playing Music To Their Heart’s Content From Early To Late…. Thank You Patient Awesome Neighbors!!! If All Continues To Go Well I May Even Be Able To Get Home To Them Next Week For A Little While To Partake In The Festivities…. We’ll See. The Ebb And Flow Of Life Continues To Pulsate Through Our Lives. The Rollercoaster Ride Continues. The Intensity Of The Ups And Downs Is Mind-Altering! Literally! And I Find That As I Move Through It All Pain And Fear Are Not As Scary As My Fear Of Them. I Think Of The Emotions As Colors. Is There A Bad Color? No Just Different Ones That All Contribute To The Rainbow Of Potentiality Of Experience. The Trick For Me Is To Keep Moving Through Them And Not Get Stuck. Writing Here Helps As Do Your Comments And Love And My Morning Walks. All Of It Helps Me Gain Perspective To Keep Moving And Seeing Clearly. As I Was Contemplating This Analogy Of Emotions Being Like Colors And The Importance Of Moving Through Them And Not Get Stuck The Universe Provided Me A Beautiful Synchronistic Affirmation. On My Morning Walk I Altered My Route Slightly From My Normal One. Suddenly I Saw People In Work-Out Attire Coming Towards Me One More Colorful Than The Other. When I Got Close Enough I Saw That They Were All Going To Attend The “The Color Run”. A 5K Run Here In Omaha That Celebrates “healthiness Happiness And Individuality.” Yesterday Another Affirmation I Had Just Finished Writing About Emotional Lock-Down In My Journal And I Got Up Feeling I Had Moved Through It And I Found A Key To The Front Door That I Had Missed For A Long Time. It Was Hidden In My Glasses Case In The Cloths I Use To Clean My Lenses. Seeing Clearly And Wiping Off My Lenses Of Interpretation Unlocks Emotions To Just Be What They Are Colors Of The Emotional Rainbow. The Trek Continues. We Keep Moving. And Walter Is Exactly Where He Needs To Be Now. What Joy! Marie read less
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Born in 1951 and raised in a music-loving home in Ocean City, New Jersey, Walter Trout felt the calling to music at a young age. His first instrument was trumpet, playing in the school band. A chance meeting with the mighty Duke Ellington catapulted Trout's pursuit of a professional music career - what Walter terms "a turning point" in his life - when the Walter's mother orchestrated a meeting with jazz legends Ellington, Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves for the youngster's tenth birthday. The seed was planted about a career playing music.
In the mid-1960's Trout's instrument of choice switched to electric guitar after hearing an album which was to change his whole appreciation of music. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band featuring Mike Bloomfield cemented Walter's musical ambitions towards the blues genre and the electric guitar. In those vinyl grooves, Walter heard the guitar speaking to his soul, expressing what words could not. Walter Trout promised himself to learn this musical language and dedicate his life to the guitar. For hours, days, weeks, months he was locked in his bedroom practicing until his fingers bled - the obsession unfortunately turning the A-student into a high school dropout. As a shy teenager growing up in a turbulent household, his singular solace became his rapidly developing ability to express his feelings playing the guitar and his vision of becoming a professional musician.
In his late teens and early twenties, Trout played in numerous New Jersey bands, competing at the time for rank with "Steel Mill" featuring a young Bruce Springsteen. In 1973, he packed up his belongings in a VW Beetle and drove cross-country to the west coast, arriving in Los Angeles with only a few changes of clothes, a trumpet, a mandolin and his guitars.
He developed into an ace sideman, befriending and backing California blues artists, often being the only "white boy" in the black neighborhood clubs. His technique accelerated rapidly as he played with Finis Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, and Percy Mayfield, among others. The extremely meager pay was compensated by the satisfaction musical expression brought the young musician. Unfortunatley he was also developing the detrimental habits of drug and alcohol abuse shared by many fellow artists. Walter often teamed with Hammond B3 wizard Deacon Jones and the apprenticeship continued in the bands of John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thorton and Joe Tex.
By 1981, Trout's reputation led to the invitation to join venerable blues rock band Canned Heat, where he remained through 1984. In Canned Heat he quickly learned the ways of a touring musician, traveling the US and abroad, further refining his already stunning abilities playing night after night, and confirming his reputation as a top flight lead guitarist. Trout's substance abuse was further enabled in a band with a history of hard-partying.
When the call came to join the legendary John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Trout jumped and found himself sharing the spotlight with fellow guitarist Coco Montoya. Trout and Montoya lifted the band to a new level, as Mayall's Bluesbreakers enjoyed unprecedented album sales and high profile tours in the US and abroad. Walter felt that playing with Mayall was as close to his childhood dream as he could get. At the same time Walter's unhealthy habits reached a fever pitch; the band's rider required a nightly bottle of Jack Daniel's for Trout's consumption. An epiphany came when the band was in East Berlin, doing shows along side of Carlos Santana. After seeing Walter playing in an intoxicated state, Carlos took him aside, and in a heartfelt conversation related that Trout was squandering the gift that God had given him. It was a turning point in Walter's life, as a master musician and idol confided an appreciation of the young man's talent and concerns of his self-destruction.... In fairly short order Walter Trout quit drugs and alcohol.
As Trout became clean, he felt he had more to give than a few blazing solos as a side man with the Bluesbreakers. A Danish record label and touring agency was already interested in his solo potential, after witnessing an inspired performance, when Walter led the Bluesbreakers band while Mayall was out with illness. Walter did much soul searching and decided it was time to go solo. He gathered musicians he knew from Los Angeles and called it The Walter Trout Band. The 1989 break with Mayall quickly segued into immediate extensive touring of Europe, playing large venues and music festivals, and his music was heard on mainstream radio. In the early 1990s Walter had several radio hits in Europe and charted with his unique style of blues rock. Throughout the decade, he continued a non-stop touring pace, releasing 8 recordings, steadily each lifting his profile higher.
His commercial and critical success in Europe kept him so busy outside of the US that his arrival back home found him only resting to go back to the frantic pace his popularity demanded overseas. Like many American blues and roots-music artists, Walter Trout had developed an incredible following in Europe, but came home to little fanfare. This was fine with Trout, as he now had started a family and his down time was a valuable escape from the world of touring and playing.
Amazingly, the self-titled WALTER TROUT, released by Ruf Records in 1998 was his first "official" domestic CD. Shortly after, the band renamed as Walter Trout and The Free Radicals and began an extensive touring pace state side, steadily building a fan base and bringing their high energy, impassioned live performances back home. It did not matter if he was on stage in front of 50,000 people, or performing in a small club for a couple hundred - what mattered to Walter was reaching people's hearts through his artistry and relaying the passion he had for all the musical styles which helped shape his sound.
Since then Ruf Records has released half a dozen CDs in the US and Walter effectively continued his frequent touring, splitting time more evenly between continents. His European fans have stuck with him as he has taken more time to build his fan base in America.
With the release of FULL CIRCLE, Walter Trout demonstrates his passion for music is just as great today as it was when he started his career as a teenager more than 35 years ago. He considers the new album a tribute to the people and the times that have helped shape his musical career, demonstrating how the many styles within the blues genre can co-exist and mutually enhance each other without fight for rank or authenticity. It's always been Trout's dream to break down the barriers between the labels which get attached to musical genres and show WHAT you call music is not important. Ultimately what the music makes one feel is the only thing that matters to Walter Trout.
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