Walter Trout’s 21st album Blues for the Modern Daze will be released in the UK on Monday 23rd April (24th April in the US). The new album showcases the contemporary guitar legend\u2019s return to his hardcore blues roots, with songwriting at a creative and personal zenith. Blues For The Modern Daze is Trout\u2019s sixth recording for Provogue Records, a division of the Mascot Label Group, and his first full-fledged blues album in 23 years as a bandleader.<\/p>\n
Trout\u2019s practical schooling in blues started when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1973 and secured gigs behind Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Finis Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, Percy Mayfield and Joe Tex. By 1981 he joined the remaining original members of Canned Heat.<\/p>\n
The real turning point for Trout was his tenure with British blues giant John Mayall. Trout became part of the Bluesbreakers\u2019 lineage of great guitarists along with Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor.<\/p>\n
Beginning in 1984 he shared six-string duties with Coco Montoya in Mayall\u2019s band, creating a flexible guitar dynamic that helped provide the Bluesbreakers a renaissance that returned the group to the apex of the international blues touring circuit.<\/p>\n
Trout began leading his own group in 1989 and cut his debut album Life In the Jungle, and rapidly became a star in Europe. His first US release, 1998’s critically heralded Walter Trout, made him a permanent fixture of the American blues-rock scene that he is today.<\/p>\n
Trout’s travels over the past 39 years, and his wide appreciation of his predecessors, yield a significant influence on his new album Blues For The Modern Daze. <\/p>\n
”My main inspiration for this album,\u201d says Trout, \u201cwas the country bluesman Blind Willie Johnson, an early blues innovator who recorded such timeless gospel informed blues numbers as Soul of a Man and Nobody\u2019s Fault But Mine. His music is beautiful, primal, direct and deeply spiritual. I wanted to feel it at my back when we were cutting these songs.\u201d <\/p>\n
Continues Trout, \u201cThe new album explores a side of my music that\u2019s rooted in my first musical love, and it reveals something about me, too. It sums up the thoughts and attitudes of somebody who is getting a little older and is feeling like he\u2019s a part of another era, with different values and a different perspective on life that\u2019s prevalent today. I stand behind compassion, authenticity and honesty, as strongly as I stand behind my music.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blues for the Modern Daze was recorded at Entourage Studios in North Hollywood, California, with Trout and engineer Eric Corne producing. It\u2019s the fifth time Trout has collaborated with Corne, who contributed to the arrangements and sonic palette of the songs that Trout wrote and demoed on acoustic guitar during the year before the sessions.<\/p>\n
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Southampton, The Brook
\nTuesday 6th March
\nTickets: \u00a315.00 (advance), \u00a317.00 (door)
\nBox Office 023 8055 5366
\n466 Portswood Road, Portswood, Southampton SO17 3SD
\nwww.the-brook.com<\/p>\n
Newcastle, O2 Academy
\nWednesday 7th March
\nTickets: \u00a317.50 \/ Box Office: 0844 477 2000
\n O2 Academy Newcastle, Westgate Road, Newcastle, NE1 1SW
\nwww.o2academynewcastle.co.uk<\/p>\n
Leeds, City Varities
\nThursday 8th March
\nTickets: \u00a322.00 \/ Box Office: 0113 243 0808
\nCity Varieties Music Hall, Swan Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 6LW
\n www.cityvarieties.co.uk<\/p>\n
Sheffield, O2 Academy
\nFriday 9th March
\nTickets: \u00a320.00 \/ Box Office: 0844 477 2000
\nO2 Academy Sheffield, 37-43 Arundel Gate, Sheffield, S1 2PN
\nwww.o2academysheffield.co.uk<\/p>\n
Clitheroe, The Grand
\nSaturday 10th March
\nTickets: \u00a320.00 \/ Venue Box Office: 01200 421599
\nThe Grand At Clitheroe, York Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire, BB7 2DL
\nwww.thegrandvenue.co.uk<\/p>\n
Salford, The Lowry
\nSunday 11th March
\nTickets: \u00a320.00 \/ Box Office: 0843 208 6000
\nThe Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, Salford, Lancashire, M50 3AZ
\nwww.thelowry.com<\/p>\n
Pontardawe, Arts Centre
\nMonday 12th March
\nTickets: \u00a317.00 \/ Box Office: 01792 863722
\nPontardawe Arts Centre, Herbert Street, Pontardawe, SA8 4ED
\nwww.npt.gov.uk<\/p>\n
Cardiff, The Glee Club
\nTuesday 13th March
\nTickets: \u00a317.00 \/ Box Office 0871 472 0400
\nThe Glee Club, Mermaid Quay , Cardiff Bay, Cardiff, CF10 5BZ
\nwww.glee.co.uk<\/p>\n
Wolverhampton, Robin 2
\nWednesday 14th March
\nTickets: \u00a315.00 (advance), \u00a317.00 (door)
\nBox Office: 01902 401211
\nThe Robin 2, 20-28 Mount Pleasant Bilston Wolverhampton, WV14 7LJ TE
\nwww.therobin.co.uk<\/p>\n
Bristol, The Tunnels
\nWednesday 15th March
\nTickets: \u00a317.50 \/ Box Office: 0845 6050255
\nThe Tunnels, Arches 31 & 32, Lower Station Approach Road, Bristol, BS1 6QF
\nwww.thetunnelsbristol.co.uk<\/p>\n
Tavistock, The Wharf
\nFriday 16th March
\nTickets: \u00a318.00 \/ Box Office: 01822 611166
\nWharf Community Art Centre, The Wharf, Tavistock, Devon, PL19 8AT
\nwww.tavistockwharf.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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