Browsing: Walter Trout

Album release on Provogue/Mascot as artist fights for his life, awaiting liver transplant at UCLA.

News came out on March 19th that Walter Trout’s condition had rapidly deteriorated with doctors saying without a liver transplant in the next 90 days he’ll surely die.

The top ten blues albums of 2013!! American Blues Scene’s twelve regular contributors were asked to anonymously turn in their top ten blues albums of the year. The scores were tallied to

The oldest blues club in Los Angeles, dating back to 1931, is now going to be what is likely the first blues club in the world to become a 501(c)(3) non-for-profit.

Walter Trout presents John Mayall with Classic Album Award for Beano

Not a lot happens in Bogalusa, Louisiana, but on Friday, that all changed with a hit festival featuring some of the best performers in the world!

“I went in there and just sang those songs. I tried to get as involved in it as I could and I also tried to picture Luther and think of him as I sang and played and I was very conscious of trying to do justice to his music…”

On Luther’s Blues, Walter Trout & His Band pay homage to another fantastic musician that we have enjoyed for years, Mr. Luther Allison. The album starts out fast and furious with the throttle mashed all the way to the floor with “I’m Back”, just the way Allison would have wanted it but they also mix in some great slow stuff.

Once again, the Big Muddy Blues Festival main stage at 700 N. First Street will host a talented and diverse collection of local acts, national headliners and a Grammy winner from the world of Blues, Rock, Soul, Rockabilly and Country.

“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.