Blues Rock icon Walter Trout reveals new album details…
Released on 1st March via Provogue / Mascot Label Group, the new album – Broken – features guest appearances from Beth Hart, Twisted Sister’s Dee Snider, and harmonica virtuoso Will Wilde.
The album was recorded at Kingsize Soundlabs in LA with producer Eric Corne. “This is our 15th album together,” reckons the bluesman. “Eric and I just have a way of working, man. A friend who came into the studio and watched us and said, ‘Man, you guys are like a machine’. It’s unspoken.”
The idea that all of us are broken but no one is beyond repair, is a philosophy that Walter Trout has lived by during seven tempestuous decades at the heart of America’s society and blues-rock scene. Even now, with the world more fractured than ever by politics, economics, social media and culture wars, the US bluesman’s latest album, Broken, chronicles the bitter schisms of modern life but refuses to succumb to them.
A few collaborators joined Trout for the first time. “I thought my friend Beth Hart could relate to the title track, Broken,” he says of the warrior princess whose fiery vocals coil with his own. “Dee Snider from Twisted Sister put up a live cut of me on his Twitter and said: ‘Listen to this fucking guitar hero’. We started talking and became friends. He came into the studio, and I knew I had to write him a song. Bleed came about when we were pretty much done. My drummer Michael Leasure said to me, ‘Hey, Walter, you played with John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat, this is your 31st album and you’ve never played a boogie. What’s the deal?’ So I said, ‘OK, fuck it, let’s do a boogie’. I can kinda play harmonica, but I thought, ‘Let’s elevate this thing’. There’s a young harmonica player in England who’s the best I’ve ever heard, Will Wilde. He has the soul and the power of Paul Butterfield but couples that with blinding virtuoso technique.”
“I’ve always tried to write positive songs, and this album is not quite that,” adds the 72-year-old Trout of an all-original tracklisting that rages and soothes. “But I always hold on to hope. I think that’s why I wrote this album.“
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