American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter Walter Trout comes to Liverpool’s Stanley Theatre this June.
Touring his 20th album, named Common Ground, and for the visionary roots singer, songwriter and guitarist that’s more than a title. It’s where Trout’s compelling music resides — in a territory that unites the worlds of blues, rock and pure sonic adventurism, where inspiration and technique meet to create a unique, soulful language.
Trout enjoyed a more earthy kind of inspiration while making Common Ground, thanks to his supporting cast of drum great Kenny Aronoff (John Mellencamp, John Fogerty, Elton John, etc.), bassist Hutch Hutchinson and pianist Jon Cleary (both of Bonnie Raitt’s band), and famed producer John Porter, whose credits span from Brit-pop legends the Smiths to John Lee Hooker and B.B. King to Santana.
Trout said: “I always feel like my latest album is my best.
“But that’s because I feel like I’m always improving.
"The more you learn about playing music, the more you understand that you have so much more to learn.
"With music, the journey is the joy.
"The destination, I think, can never be reached.”
For Trout the journey began in 1965 when his brother brought the first album by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band into his family’s New Jersey home. “On the back cover it said, ‘Play this album loud,’ so we cranked it up and we literally had to sit down and stay there with our jaws on the floor.”
Trout played in local bands after getting his first guitar, but truly became steeped in blues after moving to Los Angeles in 1973. There he supported legends like John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Finis Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, Percy Mayfield and Joe Tex, assimilating a wide variety of blues.
In 1981 Trout joined the remaining members of the formative ’60s blues-rock group Canned Heat. But the real turning point in his career was his five-year tenure with British blues giant John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers.
And the rest is, quite literally, blues and rock history still in the making.
Event details:
Tuesday 28th June 2011 – Walter Trout plus special guests
Stanley Theatre, Liverpool Guild of Students,
160 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5TR
Tel. 0151 794 6868 / www.lgos.org
£18.50 advance - Doors 7pm
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