WALTER TROUT

Blues guitarist through and through: Walter Trout is back with a new album.After touring as sideman for musicians like Jesse Ed Davis, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Joe Tex and Canned Heat, he was approached by John Mayall to join him in playing alongside the Bluesbreakers. Walter filled this position for five years before leaving them and starting his own solo career.In 2012 he released his modern blues album 'Blues For The Modern Daze'. Meanwhile, another project was already taking shape in his head for many years: legendary bluesguitarist Luther Allison passed away in 1997, and since then, Walter had been thinking about dedicating his first coveralbum ever to Allison, the man that is one of his biggest musical influences. To honor him, Walter keeps the songs on the concerning album as original as possible, and only wants to 'add emotion and passion'.“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 toio 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.” – Walter Trout about his new album ‘Luther Allison’s Blues’, to be released in June.