It is a great pleasure for us to welcome one of blues rock’s all-time greatest stars to Dark Season Blues. Given his health problems, caused by years of substance abuse, no one would have believed eleven years ago that Walter Trout (74) would be at the peak of his career in 2025. He was near death and underwent a complicated liver transplant. A couple of years later, he was back in action, and he hasn’t looked back since. The album *Broken* (2024) received rave reviews and earned him two new nominations for this year’s Blues Music Awards in the categories “Blues Rock Artist of the Year” and “Blues Rock Album of the Year.” He already has a “stack” of awards to his name. In September, the album “Sign of the Times” was released.
Trout was born in New Jersey, but moved to California in 1974. He now divides his time between Huntington Beach and his home in the small fishing village of Vorupør on the Danish west coast. His “apprenticeship” as a musician was as a guitarist in the bands of John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton, in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and in Canned Heat before he went solo in 1989. And Trout refuses to freeze as an artist.
– I don’t want to go out on stage every night and play my first hit, “Life In The Jungle.” I feel young. In my mind, I’m still 25, eager to get better and do things I haven’t done before, says Trout. That bodes well ahead of the American’s first performance on Svalbard.
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