Walter Trout

Walter Trout

Details

Walter Trout is scheduled to perform on Saturday, March 14.

Rhythm Room

Related Content

• Sasquatch! Music Festival 2012: Beck Is Back, Jack White to Perform Solo
  February 3, 2012
• Sound Off: Audioconfusion's Jalipaz on Brian Chartrand, Gay Kiss, and Brown G.O.D.
  October 28, 2011
• ZZ Top @ Comerica Theatre
  September 29, 2011
• ZZ Top
  September 29, 2011
• Funkytown
  September 23, 2010

More About

• Stevie Ray Vaughan
• Rory Gallagher
• John Mayall
• John Lee Hooker
• Blues Music

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Though the term "guitar hero" means less in mainstream music than it did, say, 25 years ago, that doesn't mean the world doesn't have or need them anymore. Clapton and (Jeff) Beck are still active, but who's going to carry on when they join Stevie Ray Vaughan and Rory Gallagher in six-string heaven? Fellows like Walter Trout, that's who. The New Jersey-born guitarist isn't merely some technique-obsessed Captain Speedfingers — he knows blues, having played behind icon John Lee Hooker and as a member of Canned Heat and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. On his latest disc, The Outsider, Trout adds personalized tweaks 'n' twists to his solos — he's not living in someone else's past. Subtlety, alas, isn't his strong suit, but Trout plays and sings with been-'round-the-block passion and guts, which many performers (in assorted genres) confuse with frenzy, petulance, and "angst." See Trout (no fish jokes, please) "fiddle" his frets while Guitartown burns.