Walter Trout
Broken
Provogue/Mascot Label Group (release date: 1 March)
9/10
With health problems now firmly behind him, the unbreakable blues master returns
If anyone deserves the epithet ‘veteran bluesman’ here in the 21st century, it’s Walter Trout. He’s been an essential part of the blues-rock scene for more than five decades since serving his apprenticeship by accompanying John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton and Joe Tex, among others, way back in the 1970s. Stints with Canned Heat and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers rounded off Walter’s blues education and since then he has been one of the most prolific – his 31st album – sees Walter joined on a couple of tracks by Beth Hart and Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, the latter seeming a strange choice, but trust us, it works! “Dee […] put up a live cut of me on his Twitter [page] and said: ‘Listen to this fucking guitar hero.’ We started talking and became friends,” Walter tells us.
