Walter Trout

August 6, 2008

Described by the The Los Angeles Times as "a torrential, gladiator guitar player - the kind the term ‘guitar hero' was coined to describe," Trout has been a sought after sideman, playing along some of the greatest blues players of all time including legends like John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton. But, it was Trout's stints with Canned Heat and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, each lasting five years, that gave him a decade to hone his impeccable fretwork into an immediately recognizable style. In 1989, Trout launched a solo career which spawned a Top 10 hit in Europe, and has led to performances with Elton John, Black Crowes, Lenny Kravitz, Led Zeppelin kingpins Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.

Fanfare overseas set the trend for audiences here at home which have applauded his releases, several of which have become top-selling blues albums in the States. Born and raised in New Jersey and now living in Southern California, Walter Trout, for 30 of his 50 years, has been rocking the strings on his trademark '73 Fender Strat, faithful to a promise he made to himself as a teenager to always play guitar for those will listen. 

Visit Walter Trout online at http://www.waltertrout.com/