Trout Hits The Road On February 25 In Regina, SK
The Mascot Label Group has announced an
April 24 release date for Walter Trout's 21st album Blues For The
Modern Daze. The offering displays the contemporary guitar
legend returning to his hard-core blues roots, with songwriting
at a creative and personal zenith. Blues For The Modern Daze is Trout’s
sixth recording for Provogue Records, a division of the Mascot Label Group, and his
first pure blues album in 23 years as a bandleader.
Trout’s practical schooling in blues started when he arrived
in Los Angeles in 1973 and got gigs behind Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Finis
Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, Percy Mayfield and Joe Tex. In 1981 he
joined the remaining original members of Canned Heat. But the real turning point
was his tenure with British blues giant John Mayall. Trout became part of the
Bluesbreakers’ lineage of great guitarists along with Eric Clapton, Peter Green
and Mick Taylor. Beginning in 1984 he shared six-string duties with Coco
Montoya in Mayall’s 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. Trout began leading his own
group in 1989 and cut his debut album Life In the Jungle, rapidly becoming a
star in Europe. His first Stateside release, 1998's critically heralded Walter
Trout, made him start down the road towards becoming the fixture of the
American blues-rock scene that he is today.
Trout's travels over the past 39 years, and his
wide appreciation of his predecessors, yield a significant influence to Blues
For The Modern Daze. Trout shares, "My main inspiration for
this album was 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’s Fault But Mine.' His music is so beautiful,
primal, direct and deeply spiritual that I wanted to feel it at my back when we
were cutting these songs.” He continues, "This album captures my
interest in exploring a side of my music that’s 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 a little like he’s a part of another era, with different values and a
different perspective on life than often seem to be prevalent today. And I
stand behind those values, like compassion, authenticity and honesty, as
strongly as I stand behind my music.”
Blues for the Modern Daze was recorded at
Entourage Studios in North Hollywood, California, with Trout and engineer Eric
Corne producing. It’s 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. The
EPK for Blues for the Modern Daze can be streamed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaFtrJBknmM&feature=youtu.be
Trout returns to the road in the U.S. on April 25th in
Solana Beach, CA. Confirmed appearances include:
2/25 Regina, SK
(Canada) Mid-Winter
Blues Festival @ Casino Regina
4/25 Solana Beach,
CA Belly
Up Tavern
4/26 Las Vegas,
NV Boulder
Station Casino
4/27 Santa Ana,
CA The
Observatory
4/28 Simi Valley,
CA Simi
Valley Blues Festival
5/09 Collinsville,
CT Bridge
Street Live
5/10 Bethlehem,
PA River
Jazz Festival @ Musikfest Café
5/11 Shirley, MA
Bull Run
5/12 Stanhope,
NJ Stanhope
House
5/14 Buffalo, NY The
Tralf
5/16 Fall River,
MA Narrows
Center for the Arts
5/18 New York,
NY Iridium
Jazz Club
5/19 New York,
NY Iridium
Jazz Club
5/20 New York,
NY Iridium
Jazz Club
5/21 New York,
NY Iridium
Jazz Club
5/23 Charlotte,
NC Double
Door Inn
5/24 Asheville,
NC Orange
Peel
5/25 Atlanta,
GA Smith’s
Olde Bar
5/26 Biloxi,
MS MS
Gulf Coast Music, Art, Craft & Seafood Festival
5/27 Biloxi,
MS MS
Gulf Coast Music, Art, Craft & Seafood Festival
6/02 Hagerstown,
MD Western
Maryland Blues Festival
6/06 Davenport, IA Redstone
Room
6/07 Milwaukee,
WI Shank
Hall
6/08 Canton,
OH Canton
Blues Festival
6/09 Minneapolis,
MN Famous
Dave’s Blues Festival
6/10 Des Moines,
IA House
of Bricks
6/12 Lincoln,
NE Zoo
Bar
6/13 Kansas City,
MO Knucklehead’s
Saloon
6/14 St. Louis,
MO Old
Rock House
6/15 Chicago,
IL House
of Blues
6/16 Henderson,
KY WC
Handy Blues Festival
6/30 Silverado, CA Irvine
Lake Blues Festival
8/12 Duluth,
MN Bayfront
Blues Festival
8/26 Marshfield, MA
North River Blues Festival
9/01 Laramie,
WY Snowy
Range Music Festival
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