Blues-rock icon Walter Trout will also begin his UK Tour on 16 October at the Opera House, Buxton and he will then call through Edinburgh (Queens Hall), Gateshead (The Glasshouse), Holmfirth (Picturedrome), Bury St Edmunds (Apex), Frome (Cheese & Grain), Birmingham (Town Hall) and it finishes on 25 October at the Islington Assembly Hall, London. Support will come from Laura Evans. You can get tickets from HERE.
Talking about the tour Walter says, “Music is my escape from everything that’s broken in our world. Come out and rock away your blues with my band and me.”
He released his #1 Billboard Blues album, Broken, back in March via Provogue/Mascot Label Group. The album includes the song, “I’ve Had Enough” which features Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider. You can watch the video here. Talking about the song, Trout says, “Dee Snider from Twisted Sister put up a live cut of me on his Twitter and said: ‘Listen to this fucking guitar hero’. We started talking and became friends; he came into the studio, and I knew I had to write him a song. So I’m thinking, ‘Well, he did We’re Not Gonna Take It’. So I wrote I’ve Had Enough. And it’s rockin’.”
The New Jersey-born icon has previously revealed the videos for “Broken”, featuring Beth Hart, Talking to Myself and “Bleed”, which features harmonica virtuoso Will Wilde, from the album. Snider, Wilde and Hart joined Trout for the first time. “I thought my friend Beth Hart could relate to the title track, Broken,” he says of the warrior princess whose fiery vocals coil with his own. “With that song, I was looking at the world – especially what’s going on in the United States – but also thinking about my recovery from what happened to me. I had the first verse – ‘Pieces of me seem to break away/I lose a little more every day’. But it was almost too much for me to go back into that shit. So my wife, Marie, was able to help me with the lyrics – and she nailed it. The guitar solo, that’s maybe my favourite on the record. I tracked it with the band, one take. I wanted to see if I could beat it – but they wouldn’t let me!”
All of us are broken. But no one is beyond repair. It’s a philosophy that Walter Trout has lived by during seven volatile decades at the heart of America’s society and blues-rock scene. Even now, with the world more fractured than ever – by politics, economics, social media and culture wars – the fabled US bluesman’s latest album, Broken, chronicles the bitter schisms of modern life but refuses to succumb to them.
Tour Dates
16 Oct – Opera House – Buxton, UK
17 Oct – Queens hall – Edinburgh, UK
18 Oct – The Glasshouse – Gateshead, UK
19 Oct – Picturedrome – Holmfirth, UK
22 Oct – Apex – Bury St Edmunds, UK
23 Oct – Cheese & Grain – Frome, UK
24 Oct – Town Hall – Birmingham, UK
25 Oct – Islington Assembly Hall – London, UK
