Walter Trout We're All In This Together Chart History". Billboard.com . Retrieved January 23, 2020. From the grinding riff and freight-train harp that light the fuse of opener Ghosts, it’s clear Ride is like nothing else in Trout’s catalogue.

There’s an outright slice of hi-octane fun. Walter gets horny, if you will (in the Southside Johnny sense…) on the brilliant “Leave It All Behind”. “Responsibility, politely declined” he sings and does so in such a way that suggests he wouldn’t be so polite if you bothered him again. No, the document that Mascot Label Group sent to go along with “Ride” (which by the way is the 30 th solo record of Walter Trout’s career) had this as an opening line: “However fast or far a man travels, he can never truly outrun his past.” However fast or far a man travels, he can never truly outrun his past. On his new album he found himself eyeing the horizon and the green shoots of his triumphant late career. There was a new record deal with Mascot/Provogue. Local bands never got the breaks, and in 1973, Trout made the death-or-glory move to LA, where he slept on couches and scrabbled for work. “I came out here and it was a overwhelming thing,” he says, “because I didn’t know anybody. I just started going around to clubs where there were bands playing and asked if I could sit in. My first gig, I was stand-up lead singer in a country band, singing Merle Haggard tunes. And with my third paycheque, I went and bought that Strat that’s still on the cover of all my CDs.”LOOKING FOR BIGGER FISH TO FRY: The Walter Trout Band Heads for the Mainstream". Los Angeles Times. November 5, 1992 . Retrieved January 25, 2020. The ballads here are gorgeously bleak. “Waiting for The Dawn” with a very Gary Moore sounding lead is proof. I’d also contend that this doesn’t sound much like any other Walter Trout record. It sounds more raw somehow, “Better Days Ahead” seems to implore by sheer will alone, but it’s balanced out by the more Country tinged “This Fertile Soil”. Naturally, for this record, things are worse than he remembered, and you wouldn’t want it any other way. Trout will be 72 years old when he lands in Exeter on this tour and as a live powerhouse, he still retains that furiosity and fire in his belly to make every singe performance one to remember. This one-two punch of explosive guitar playing and relentless oomph is classic Trout and a reminder (if one were needed) of the brilliance when he steps his foot on the gas. However it’s not quite full steam ahead from this point as Trout (as he always does) pulls over for the occasional, soul-searching ballad.

Walter Trout (born March 6, 1951 in Ocean City, New Jersey, United States [1]) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. In 2020, as the world took solace from a tragedy that touched us all, he came armed with a boundary-exploring new studio album and eleven searingly honest songs that bring his fans even closer. “There’s a lot of extraordinary madness going on,” considers Trout, of the COVID-19 crisis. “This album started because I was dealing with the flaws and weakness inside me. But it ended up being about everyone.” And that’s not even a digression in this case, because if “Ride” is anything, it’s the product of worry, of anxiety and self-doubt. Trout joined John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers line-up in ’85, before embarking on an acclaimed solo career from ’89 onwards. Luther was one of the all-time greats,” Trout continues, “and it was just an unbelievably potent thing to watch him perform. Just the energy and commitment that guy had, he was one of a kind. We played together once, at the Jazz Fest that year, and just as we walked offstage, somebody pointed a camera and we hugged and smiled. And that photo is on the cover of the CD.”When he died [in 1997], the idea of this album was planted in my brain.In 1998, Trout released his self-titled US debut album and renamed his band 'Walter Trout and the Free Radicals' (later renamed 'Walter Trout and the Radicals' and currently simply 'Walter Trout'). Since, Trout has been recording prolifically and touring in North and Central America, Europe, Australia, and India. It begins with the crunching riff and harmonica of “Ghosts”. There’s a bit of a ZZ Top feel to it, “Ghosts appear to me” sings Trout in his inimitable, weather-worn style. He can’t get any rest, can’t get away from them, and the urgency in the music reflects it perfectly.