BBC Radio 2 "He's great - you always know what you are going to get with Walter Trout, he's fabulous". Alex Lester
Blues Matters "Fabulous playing, excellent sound throughout and all summed up by that word energy."
Guitar Mag. "His guitar shines through on both the studio & live recordings. The grooves are all top-notch."
Get Ready To Rock 4*** “In the rock/blues guitar idiom there can be few greater torch-bearers over the last 20 years than Walter Trout. He's unspoiled by progress, and we hope that continues for a very long time”.
Blues in Britain “Trout’s musical talent & song writing skills are evident throughout the album & he delivers the requisite killer solos with his no trademark impressive fretwork.”
Gt. Yarmouth Advertiser “If you’re looking for a solid introduction to this guitar legend then this will be right up your street”
Waveney Advertiser “Trout is like a fine wine he seems to get better & better as the years go by”.
Blues in the South “…the music is excellent with some sometimes stunning axe work & of course Walter’s powerful singing. Well worth getting hold of.”
Walter Trout has been nominated for an award in the 'Rockblues category' at the 30th Blues Music Awards in Memphis, TN on May 7th 2009. You can help by joining the Blues Foundation and voting for Walter. We are happy that the Blues Foundation have added this category (new in 2009) and we salute them for doing so! We feel that Blues Rock as a category has made a big contribution to “keeping the blues alive” and are happy to see a category for it!!
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Say Goodbye To The Blues is voted No.1 Blues Song on Arrow Classic Rock Radio
NEWS FLASH -THE OUTSIDER ENTERS BILLBOARD BLUES CHART AT NUMBER 3 FIRST WEEK OUT IN THE USA !!
The CD is produced by legendary producer, John Porter, and features 13 brand new songs. Out Now !
GUITAR MASTER WALTER TROUT UNLEASHES "THE OUTSIDER"
ON PROVOGUE RECORDS JUNE 24, 2008
"Walter Trout isn't just a great guitar player...he works from the heart with a flawless and fiery edge. When Walter Trout plays, he owns you." David Wilson/The ToneQuest Report
Provogue Records proudly announces the release of guitar master/singer/songwriter WALTER TROUT'S "THE OUTSIDER" on JUNE 24, 2008.
Produced by John Porter (B.B. King, Los Lonely Boys, Ryan Adams) and recorded at Mad Dog Studios in Burbank, CA, "The Outsider" features 13 Walter Trout originals (the title track co-written with Trout's bass player Rick Knapp). Trout's backing band on "The Outsider" includes drummer Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp), bassist Hutch Hutchinson and pianist Jon Clearly (Bonnie Raitt), as well as Skip Edwards and Samuel Avila on the Hammond B3 and a special guest appearance by harmonica wiz Jason Ricci.
Stylistically hard to pigeonhole - - Is Trout's music too blues for rock - or too rock for blues? -- to label Walter Trout’s music is to limit it. With more than 35 years of touring and recording under his belt, this New Jersey native has been "loved and hated, accused and vindicated, packaged and presented for everyone to see," as his brand new, autobiographical song ‘Welcome To The Human Race’ details.
Being in the studio with Trout approaches temporary insanity - the excitement, the unknown, the experimentation. Truly tantalizing sounds on par with those infamous Eric Clapton licks and Stevie Ray Vaughan riffs, are testament to Trout’s talent. His music speaks to your soul, warms your heart and has your foot tapping. Trout brings the blues to life and invigorates rock in a manner all too rare these days.
Whether an improvisational jam or a carefully arranged song, Walter Trout’s thirst for musical satisfaction is seemingly unquenchable. Equally capable of spontaneous serendipity as well as pre-planned perfection, this guitarist is truly in the midst of an all-encompassing love affair with the music he creates.
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 Walter’s mother orchestrated a meeting with jazz legends Ellington, Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves for Walter's tenth birthday. The seed was planted about a career playing music.
In the mid-'60s, Trout switched to electric guitar after hearing an album that changed his whole appreciation of music. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band featuring Mike Bloomfield cemented Walter’s musical ambitions towards the blues and the electric guitar. In those vinyl grooves, Walter heard the guitar speaking to his soul, expressing what words could not. In his late teens and early 20s, 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 and drove to Los Angeles.
In L.A., Trout developed into an ace sideman playing with Finis Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, and Percy Mayfield. Trout often teamed with Hammond B3 wizard Deacon Jones and his 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. 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. Trout felt that playing with Mayall was as close to his childhood dream as he could get. Just as Trout was climbing the musical mountain, he was also drowning in a bottle of Jack. An intoxicated performance in East Berlin caused guitar virtuoso Carlos Santana to gently explain to Walter that he was wasting God’s gift. Sobriety followed soon after.
Embarking upon a solo career in 1989 resulted in extensive European touring for Trout, alongside eight albums (with over 500,000 copies sold to date) and several radio hits. But the Atlantic is a great divide and while Trout’s stock was soaring in Europe, very few were taking notice in America. The self-titled WALTER TROUT, released by Ruf Records in 1998 was his first "official" domestic U.S. release. Shortly thereafter, Walter Trout began an extensive US tour and has since released six CDs, each of which was supported with relentless touring - on both sides of the ocean.
Now in 2008, Trout is ready to unleash "The Outsider".
Walter Trout will tour North America and Europe in support of "The Outsider".
For more information visit www.waltertrout.com or www.myspace.com/waltertrouttheradicals
The Provogue Records label, an independent label based in The Netherlands specializing in guitar heavy blues rock is debuting in the United States with Walter Trout's "The Outsider" (June 24, 2008) and Pat Travers "Stick With What You Know - Live In Europe" (July 22, 2008). Other artists on the Provogue label include (Europe only) Joe Bonamassa , Rick Derringer, Leslie West, Scott McKeon, Julian Sas and Eric Gales.
Provogue Records will be distributed in the U.S. by Megaforce/Sony RED Distribution.
Thanks for your support and friendship...Wish I could wing across the pond and come hear you live! Much success and happiness in your musical endeavors...
Walter, Thanks for adding us as one of your friends, look forward to catching you and the band again when you're next in London or Kent. All the best to you and the band.
Thanks so much for the add Walter! Iv seen you the last 3 times you have been to Denver and had a blast at evey show! You are THE GREATEST of all time in my mind brother! Thanks so much for autographing my Strat! Hope your comming back to the Mile high city soon!!!!!
"Inspired by the classic guitar driven blues rock of the late 60's and 70's, UK power trio Devils Creek seem intent on keeping alive the time honored tradition first forged by greats such as Rory Gallagher, Alvin Lee and Ten Years After and Status Quo years ago.
Formed in 2006, led by guitarist/vocalist Guy Rosewall, featuring a crack rhythm section in bassist Tim Chapple and drummer Alan Ibbotson, their 2008 debut album 'Bullfrog Blues' combined a classic approach with an attack favored by heavy rock, particularly evident in the ultra heavy bass sound not normally heard in the genre.
Featuring a hard driving electric version of Rory Gallagher's "Seven Days" which would surely make the late great Irish guitarist proud, the entire offering is a solid testament to the enduring power and influence of blues inflected rock - especially the variety in which a wailing Fender Strat comes front and center.
Now in the middle of sessions for their second studio album, several tracks being already available for preview on the band's MySpace page it's quite clear based on the fresh evidence on display that these three aren't likely to stray from their vision any time in the foreseeable future" - (Nightwatcher's House of Rock November 2009)
The WMHB Top 20 Blues Chart for October 2009 has hit the streets.....
Thanks for the music!
Cap'n Barney, WMHB
1 Tinsley Ellis -Speak No Evil 2 Mike Zito -Pearl River 3 Lubriphonic -Soul Solution 4 Rory Gallagher -Crest Of A Wave 5 Dani Wilde -Heal My Blues 6 Joanne Shaw Taylor -White Sugar 7 Candye Kane -Superhero 8 Walter Trout -Unspoiled By Progress 9 Homemade Jamz Blues Band -I Got Blues For You 10 Motor City Women -Ready 11 Ana Popovic -Blind For Love 12 Delta Groove All-Stars -Live From Ground Zero 13 Aynsley Lister -Equilibrium 14 Doug Swindell -Big Blue Sky 15 Rick Estrin & the Nightcats -Twisted 16 Tas Cru -Grizzle 'n' Bone 17 John Mayall -Tough 18 Jacks O' Diamonds -Here, There & Everywhere 19 Sean Costello -Sean’s Blues 20 Tommy Castro -Hard Believer
Much Love to you and your familey of freindz HAPPY HALLOWEEN,BUD...Topanga to Wisconsin,Madison,till then take care my freind.Still sober like a judge.SMILES
Thanks for the two shows Walter in Cleethorpes and London. And thanks to your audience for receiving us well. Look forward to working with you again some day. Cheers tDS
I have been meaning to get by to say How awesome your MUSIC IS LIVE as I always say :) But I have falling behind on such simple things after my Dad had a stroke & I was suddenly upside DOWN in this world! He is out of the hospital & doing better after 2 months! Thank GOD!
Hope you have an awesome show tonight! Can't wait to get you back to the states & would LOVE TO BOOK YOU INTO A SHOW AT THE "LIL OLE" CLUB Nathan P Murphys again!! Dr Bob & I have started an new BLUES SOCIETY and are just starting all it is about! BACK TO THE GOOD OLE BLUES!! I have meet you a a few times for the CD releases & You are such a sweet & humble man! Thank you for a truly amazing show!! And great conversation afterwards too!
I do really mean in all sincerity WE WANT TO GET YOU BACK TO THE CLUB! Please consider when you get back to the states! I will write back for your contact info by email! I am friends with & work with Dr Bob here in Missouri!
Take care & have a safe Halloween & enjoy your break for your time off the next few weeks. At least by your posted schedule! BTW your email link on here still is ONLY A PIC! NOT able to sign in on it! Thought you should know.
Yeah! Now that great blues pop rock or what ever they may call it. LOve all those tracks. I like Gary Moore and a bunch of other blues artists and your right up there. Great sounds and I hope you win the nomination.
Hi Walter, I wanted to let you know that the Alien Graffiti "Lyrics-to-Song" project is ending with the third song built around the lyrics by Mike "Bass" Geren. If you enjoyed the first two songs, you may also want to listen to the final project song called "If You Were A Song".
The widget on my profile includes all 3 songs of the project which initially started on August 14th as "Your Lyrics + My Music = OUR SONG!" (see blog):
- Crazy Hat (Lyrics by Tiffanie Stevenson - posted on August 15th) - The Strangers Face (Lyrics by Jamie Watson posted on September 13th) - If You Were A Song (Lyrics by Mike "Bass" Geren sent on September 14th)
It was a honor to write the songs!
I thank you for your support and interest in this project!
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