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News Archive 2007
November 19, 2007
UK blues band Doublecut have recorded
a tribute song for Jimmy Trapp. It is called
That's The Man
and is available to download from their MySpace page if any
friends, family and fans want it go to
www.myspace.com/brianfilson
You will also be able to leave your comments if you
so wish
October 16, 2007
PRESS RELEASE
18
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE: October 2007
CONTACT: Ed van Zijl, Provogue Records
mail@provoguerecords.com
GUITAR GREAT WALTER TROUT
SIGNS WITH PROVOGUE RECORDS
Guitar great Walter Trout has signed a new deal with
Provogue Records, an independent label based in The Netherlands specializing
in guitar heavy blues rock. Other artists on the Provogue label (Europe
only) include Joe Bonamassa , Rick Derringer, Leslie West, Pat Travers,
Scott McKeon, Julian Sas and Eric Gales. Walter Trout's first release for
the label (Provogue's first release for the U.S. market) is scheduled for
late spring/early summer '08. click for
more...
August 22, 2007
Joey Pafumi Podcast interview
Click
for more info and to listen
by Tony Dellaria of
www.BluesSource.com
August 18, 2007
Walter Trout gives video lesson #1 in the UK's Total Guitar
magazine issue 166 September 2007.
www.totalguitar.co.uk
While WTR were playing in
Frome-UK, October 2006, Walter did an interview and guitar
tuition workshop. Lesson #1 is now published in TOTAL
GUITAR, Europe’s best selling guitar magazine. There is a
short video, pictures and a small write up with some
examples of what Walter is playing to go along with video.
This will run over three or four issues on the cover
mounted CD ROM. The only problem recording this in the tiny
changing room was getting Walter’s Mesa Boogie quiet enough.
It was set to ZERO rather than the normal TEN!
July 29, 2007
Walter Trout and
the Radicals appearing on the
Bob and Tom Show Monday July 30th at 10 AM EST
Go to
www.bobandtom.com to
listen LIVE
New surprise self- released CD available to our "Hardcore
Fans" on
CDBaby for purchase as well as download.
"Hardcore" features 9 live tracks recorded during the Power
Trio tour when Walter, Joey, and Rick did a "one time
only" experiment through selected cities of the UK and
Europe in the early spring of 2007. (See below to read how
the idea for the Power Trio tour was born).
CDBaby will have these for sale shortly (we have
submitted them, now we are just waiting for them to get this
up on the site 5-10 days). Hardcore will also be available
for download through
iTunes . We will update you with more information as
it becomes available."
See discography for track
listing
" Hard Core Blues Rock" tour in March 2007
"One evening in London on the recent European tour Walter and the band had
to do the entire show without Sammy Avila on keys. Sammy's B3 had broken
down and did not want to cooperate in time for the show to begin. It was
an evening of tension for Walter at first: How was he going to get through
an evening without his trusted sidekick? Well, it turned out that the mix
of an enthusiastic London audience, and more ROOM FOR WALTER'S GUITAR was
a powerful propellant, and Walter and his one-night-only power trio blew
through a very inspired evening with more room for bass/guitar interplay
and spontaneous errands into the land of "Hard Core Blues Rock".
So Walter decided to give this form of the band a small tour in the
spring.
It was a liberating but also limiting experience to play as just three
spontaneous blues rockers, but have no fear, there are no -
repeat absolutely NO PLANS - to make this a permanent version of the Radicals. It
is a chance to do a spontaneous hard core guitar driven evening of head
banging balls out blues, not a permanent solution for the kind of music
that Walter wants to play.
So anybody with the desire to experience the "hard core" trio will have
a maybe once in a lifetime opportunity in the March into early April tour.
We will have only 12 shows in the UK, a few in Holland and a handful in
Germany.
June 01, 2007
Western Maryla
nd Blues Fest performer
honed his sound throughout diverse, 40-year career
Click to read more
March 26, 2007Pete Feenstra interviews Walter Trout on You
Tube. Click on image to listen to interview and live music clips
March 22, 2007
Killer has confessed murder after 20 years
in the case that inspired Walter to write the song
"Life in the Jungle"
Walter played with his band "the Walter Trout
Band" at Perq’s the night Jamie was killed. He walked through the streets
the next night and found himself standing in front of her apartment and
saw the blood and Police tape of "crime scene investigation" in front of
his Jamie’s door.
He knew Jamie as a fan, and a very artistic and sweet
friend. It shook him so much that he went home and wrote the first song,
since he got writer’s block 15 years earlier. The song was then recorded
with the band he was touring with: John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.
When Walter went solo a few years later, it became the title
of his first solo Album: "Life in the Jungle." Now it is of course also
the name of the official Walter Trout Fan Club
Magazine.
Click here to
read the full story and the lyrics Walter wrote
Click here
to read the full story and the lyrics Walter wrote
February 15, 2007
Walter Trout's Full Circle voted
BluesWax Album of the Year 2006
Blueswax writes.....
"Yes, the readers of BluesWax, the largest subscribed Blues publication
in the world, have selected their BluesWax Artist of the Year 2006 and
BluesWax Album of the Year 2006. During November and December we took your
nominations and created a final ballot of six artists and six albums and
then for the past few weeks you voted. As the largest subscribed Blues
publication in the world, these awards are open to more fans than any
other awards in the Blues. The final ballot for BluesWax BluesWax Album of
the Year 2006 was
Walter Trout's Full Circle
As with the Artist of the Year Award, the nominating process for
BluesWax Album of the Year 2006 began back in November when our readers
and contributors began making nominations. The nominating process created
the final ballot of:
Ain't Easy No More-Mark Hummel
Do I Move You-Janiva Magness
Full Circle-Walter Trout
Last Call-Lynwood Slim
The Torch-Ronnie Baker Brooks
Watermelon Slim and the Workers-Watermelon Slim and the Workers
These were all great nominations and we loved every one of them! In the
final voting, again with record returns, you selected Walter Trout's Full
Circle as BluesWax Album of the Year 2006.
BluesWax caught up with Walter Trout at home after a recent tour of
Asia. Winning the Album of the Year award for Full Circle elicited this
response from Trout, "To all the fans who voted for
me: I am very moved by this honor you have given to my album Full Circle.
This project was a labor of love for me and having you choose it as Album
of the Year makes it a very special milestone in my long career. Thanks
again and I'll see you on the road!"
The staff of BluesWax congratulates Walter Trout for winning the
BluesWax Album of the Year Awards! And we thank the thousands of you who
participated in this year's nominating and voting process. You have
spoken! "
www.blueswax.com
February 11, 2007
On February 4th, Walter joined Buddy Guy on stage for a high powered jam
before Walter jumped on the plane and flew home again. This jam was a dream
come true for Walter, as Buddy Guy is one of Walter's all time heros. More
pictures from Mumbai both from Walter's set and the jam with Buddy Guy in
the photographs section of the
website.
Photography Copyright © Jairam
February 10, 2007
Interview
with Walter Trout , including
photos, from e-magazine
eMUSICPOST.com
Interview and photographs by
Mihir
Mihir: I’ve got a
lot to talk about Fred…
Walter Trout: Eh?!
M: Oh you know, you
once said in an interview “People ask me if they should call my
music blues or rock, I tell them they can call it ‘Fred’ if they
must have a label.” So yeah, I’d like to talk to you about “Fred”.
WT: Hahaha! Ahh yes! Did you know...
continued
February 10, 2007
Reviews of the Mumbai concerts in the Bombay Times
Click images to see full size PDF
February 09, 2007
Full Circle #1 on Denver
Radio Station
The Fox 103.5 Classic Rock
Click here for info
February 03, 2007
"Walter and the Radicals returned to Mumbai, India Feb. 3rd and 4th for a
great concert. The band has developed a love affair with the Indian people
who have embraced Walter and the band’s music. Walter jammed on stage with
Buddy Guy on February 4th, and hung out with his actor friend, Sanjay Dutt.
Here is a link to the CNN/IBN video clip about Walter and his visit to
India"
Mumbai: Famous blues guitarist
Walter Trout stole hearts when he performed at a rock concert in
Mumbai. People danced to his numbers but little did they know that
Trout is in India because of ‘Munnabhai’ Sanjay Dutt.
While the guitarist said that Sanjay
is like his brother, the actor proclaimed, “no one plays guitar
better than Walter”.
The blues guitarist has come back to
India for the second time, because Dutt hoped for it. Dutt said
his love affair with Walter Trout's music goes a long way back. “I
listened to Walter in New York in my hotel room, many years ago,”
said Dutt.
“I became his biggest fan. And I must
say I have never heard anybody play guitar like this,” he added.
And for the man who was voted the 6th
best all time greatest guitarist in a BBC radio poll, there is now
more reason to keep coming back.
“We are a family. I feel like Sanjay
is my brother and I know, had he not heard me in New York, I would
have never been in India,” said Walter Trout.
The evening also saw guest artists
like Guitar Shorty and Bernard Allison who strummed up some good
old Blues music with Walter Trout.
Copyright ©
February 03, 2007
Photography by Girish Menon
Bombay, India - February 3rd
2007 Click
here for more
I
www.girishmenon.com
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January 17, 2008
2008 US and European tour dates are
being announced
November 19, 2007
UK blues band Doublecut have recorded
a tribute song for Jimmy Trapp. It is called
That's The Man
and is available to download from their MySpace page if any
friends, family and fans want it go to
www.myspace.com/doublecutonline
You will also be able to leave your comments if you
so wish
October 16, 2007
PRESS RELEASE
18
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE: October 2007
CONTACT: Ed van Zijl, Provogue Records
mail@provoguerecords.com
GUITAR GREAT WALTER TROUT
SIGNS WITH PROVOGUE RECORDS
Guitar great Walter Trout has signed a new deal with
Provogue Records, an independent label based in The Netherlands specializing
in guitar heavy blues rock. Other artists on the Provogue label (Europe
only) include Joe Bonamassa , Rick Derringer, Leslie West, Pat Travers,
Scott McKeon, Julian Sas and Eric Gales. Walter Trout's first release for
the label (Provogue's first release for the U.S. market) is scheduled for
late spring/early summer '08. click for
more...
August 22, 2007
Joey Pafumi Podcast interview
Click
for more info and to listen
by Tony Dellaria of
www.BluesSource.com
August 18, 2007
Walter Trout gives video lesson #1 in the UK's Total Guitar
magazine issue 166 September 2007.
www.totalguitar.co.uk
While WTR were playing in
Frome-UK, October 2006, Walter did an interview and guitar
tuition workshop. Lesson #1 is now published in TOTAL
GUITAR, Europe’s best selling guitar magazine. There is a
short video, pictures and a small write up with some
examples of what Walter is playing to go along with video.
This will run over three or four issues on the cover
mounted CD ROM. The only problem recording this in the tiny
changing room was getting Walter’s Mesa Boogie quiet enough.
It was set to ZERO rather than the normal TEN!
July 29, 2007
Walter Trout and
the Radicals appearing on the
Bob and Tom Show Monday July 30th at 10 AM EST
Go to
www.bobandtom.com to
listen LIVE
New surprise self- released CD available to our "Hardcore
Fans" on
CDBaby for purchase as well as download.
"Hardcore" features 9 live tracks recorded during the Power
Trio tour when Walter, Joey, and Rick did a "one time
only" experiment through selected cities of the UK and
Europe in the early spring of 2007. (See below to read how
the idea for the Power Trio tour was born).
CDBaby will have these for sale shortly (we have
submitted them, now we are just waiting for them to get this
up on the site 5-10 days). Hardcore will also be available
for download through
iTunes . We will update you with more information as
it becomes available."
See discography for track
listing
" Hard Core Blues Rock" tour in March 2007
"One evening in London on the recent European tour Walter and the band had
to do the entire show without Sammy Avila on keys. Sammy's B3 had broken
down and did not want to cooperate in time for the show to begin. It was
an evening of tension for Walter at first: How was he going to get through
an evening without his trusted sidekick? Well, it turned out that the mix
of an enthusiastic London audience, and more ROOM FOR WALTER'S GUITAR was
a powerful propellant, and Walter and his one-night-only power trio blew
through a very inspired evening with more room for bass/guitar interplay
and spontaneous errands into the land of "Hard Core Blues Rock".
So Walter decided to give this form of the band a small tour in the
spring.
It was a liberating but also limiting experience to play as just three
spontaneous blues rockers, but have no fear, there are no -
repeat absolutely NO PLANS - to make this a permanent version of the Radicals. It
is a chance to do a spontaneous hard core guitar driven evening of head
banging balls out blues, not a permanent solution for the kind of music
that Walter wants to play.
So anybody with the desire to experience the "hard core" trio will have
a maybe once in a lifetime opportunity in the March into early April tour.
We will have only 12 shows in the UK, a few in Holland and a handful in
Germany.
June 01, 2007
Western Maryla
nd Blues Fest performer
honed his sound throughout diverse, 40-year career
Click to read more
March 26, 2007Pete Feenstra interviews Walter Trout on You
Tube. Click on image to listen to interview and live music clips
March 22, 2007
Killer has confessed murder after 20 years
in the case that inspired Walter to write the song
"Life in the Jungle"
Walter played with his band "the Walter Trout
Band" at Perq’s the night Jamie was killed. He walked through the streets
the next night and found himself standing in front of her apartment and
saw the blood and Police tape of "crime scene investigation" in front of
his Jamie’s door.
He knew Jamie as a fan, and a very artistic and sweet
friend. It shook him so much that he went home and wrote the first song,
since he got writer’s block 15 years earlier. The song was then recorded
with the band he was touring with: John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.
When Walter went solo a few years later, it became the title
of his first solo Album: "Life in the Jungle." Now it is of course also
the name of the official Walter Trout Fan Club
Magazine.
Click here to
read the full story and the lyrics Walter wrote
Click here
to read the full story and the lyrics Walter wrote
February 15, 2007
Walter Trout's Full Circle voted
BluesWax Album of the Year 2006
Blueswax writes.....
"Yes, the readers of BluesWax, the largest subscribed Blues publication
in the world, have selected their BluesWax Artist of the Year 2006 and
BluesWax Album of the Year 2006. During November and December we took your
nominations and created a final ballot of six artists and six albums and
then for the past few weeks you voted. As the largest subscribed Blues
publication in the world, these awards are open to more fans than any
other awards in the Blues. The final ballot for BluesWax BluesWax Album of
the Year 2006 was
Walter Trout's Full Circle
As with the Artist of the Year Award, the nominating process for
BluesWax Album of the Year 2006 began back in November when our readers
and contributors began making nominations. The nominating process created
the final ballot of:
Ain't Easy No More-Mark Hummel
Do I Move You-Janiva Magness
Full Circle-Walter Trout
Last Call-Lynwood Slim
The Torch-Ronnie Baker Brooks
Watermelon Slim and the Workers-Watermelon Slim and the Workers
These were all great nominations and we loved every one of them! In the
final voting, again with record returns, you selected Walter Trout's Full
Circle as BluesWax Album of the Year 2006.
BluesWax caught up with Walter Trout at home after a recent tour of
Asia. Winning the Album of the Year award for Full Circle elicited this
response from Trout, "To all the fans who voted for
me: I am very moved by this honor you have given to my album Full Circle.
This project was a labor of love for me and having you choose it as Album
of the Year makes it a very special milestone in my long career. Thanks
again and I'll see you on the road!"
The staff of BluesWax congratulates Walter Trout for winning the
BluesWax Album of the Year Awards! And we thank the thousands of you who
participated in this year's nominating and voting process. You have
spoken! "
www.blueswax.com
February 11, 2007
On February 4th, Walter joined Buddy Guy on stage for a high powered jam
before Walter jumped on the plane and flew home again. This jam was a dream
come true for Walter, as Buddy Guy is one of Walter's all time heros. More
pictures from Mumbai both from Walter's set and the jam with Buddy Guy in
the photographs section of the
website.
Photography Copyright © Jairam
February 10, 2007
Interview
with Walter Trout , including
photos, from e-magazine
eMUSICPOST.com
Interview and photographs by
Mihir
Mihir: I’ve got a
lot to talk about Fred…
Walter Trout: Eh?!
M: Oh you know, you
once said in an interview “People ask me if they should call my
music blues or rock, I tell them they can call it ‘Fred’ if they
must have a label.” So yeah, I’d like to talk to you about “Fred”.
WT: Hahaha! Ahh yes! Did you know...
continued
February 10, 2007
Reviews of the Mumbai concerts in the Bombay Times
Click images to see full size PDF
February 09, 2007
Full Circle #1 on Denver
Radio Station
The Fox 103.5 Classic Rock
Click here for info
February 03, 2007
"Walter and the Radicals returned to Mumbai, India Feb. 3rd and 4th for a
great concert. The band has developed a love affair with the Indian people
who have embraced Walter and the band’s music. Walter jammed on stage with
Buddy Guy on February 4th, and hung out with his actor friend, Sanjay Dutt.
Here is a link to the CNN/IBN video clip about Walter and his visit to
India"
Mumbai: Famous blues guitarist
Walter Trout stole hearts when he performed at a rock concert in
Mumbai. People danced to his numbers but little did they know that
Trout is in India because of ‘Munnabhai’ Sanjay Dutt.
While the guitarist said that Sanjay
is like his brother, the actor proclaimed, “no one plays guitar
better than Walter”.
The blues guitarist has come back to
India for the second time, because Dutt hoped for it. Dutt said
his love affair with Walter Trout's music goes a long way back. “I
listened to Walter in New York in my hotel room, many years ago,”
said Dutt.
“I became his biggest fan. And I must
say I have never heard anybody play guitar like this,” he added.
And for the man who was voted the 6th
best all time greatest guitarist in a BBC radio poll, there is now
more reason to keep coming back.
“We are a family. I feel like Sanjay
is my brother and I know, had he not heard me in New York, I would
have never been in India,” said Walter Trout.
The evening also saw guest artists
like Guitar Shorty and Bernard Allison who strummed up some good
old Blues music with Walter Trout.
Copyright ©
February 03, 2007
Photography by Girish Menon
Bombay, India - February 3rd
2007 Click
here for more
I
www.girishmenon.com
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