We are thrilled to welcome one of blues rock’s biggest stars to the Dark Season Blues festival. With his health problems, caused by years of substance abuse, no one would have thought eleven years ago that in 2025 Walter Trout (74) would be at the height of his career. He was close to death and underwent a complicated liver transplant. A couple of years later he was at it again, and he hasn’t looked back since. Last year’s album \u201cBroken\u201d received rave reviews and earned him two new nominations for this year\u2019s Blues Music Awards in the categories \u201cBlues Rock Artist of the Year\u201d and \u201cBlues Rock Album of the Year\u201d. He already has a \u201cpile\u201d of awards. In September he released the album “Sign of the Times”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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 Vorup\u00f8r 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
– 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 head, I’m still 25, hungry to get better and do things I haven’t done before,” says Trout. This bodes well for the American’s first appearance in Svalbard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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