Product Description

People ask me if they should call my music blues or rock, I tell them they can call it Fred if they must have a label. That remark, along with the exclamation that the blues shouldnt be a museum... the music ought to constantly expand and be alive, have been expressed again and again by Walter Trout during his 35+ year career. 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 Trouts pursuit of a music career what Walter terms a turning point in his life when the Walters mother orchestrated a meeting with jazz legends Ellington, Cat Anderson, Johnny Hodges and Paul Gonsalves for the youngsters tenth birthday. The seed was planted. In the mid-1960s Trouts 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 Walters 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. 1 Gotta Leave This Town 2 Tellin Stories 3 Finally Gotten Over You 4 Give Me Back My Wig 5 The Reason I'm Gone 6 Not Fade Away 7 Channeling Neil Young 8 Sittin On Top Of The World 9 Tribute To Muddy Waters

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85938 in Music
• Published on: 2007
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Like being at the concert
I purchased the CD had Walter autograph it at Artpark, NY where Walter performed along with Coco Montoya. One of the best concerts I had seen in a long, long time. And it was free! This is an excellent 'live' capture of Walter as a three piece after the organ broke down. It's killer guitar blues at it's best.