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We're All In This Together

12.3M streams

12,331,609

Blues for the Modern Daze

11.1M streams

11,136,693

Survivor Blues

6.1M streams

6,063,943

Battle Scars (Deluxe Edition)

4.9M streams

4,882,367

Ordinary Madness

2.8M streams

2,817,854

ALIVE in Amsterdam (Live)

2.5M streams

2,521,681

The Blues Came Callin'

2.3M streams

2,274,674

Hardcore

1.6M streams

1,639,849

Ride

1.5M streams

1,460,395

Common Ground

1.3M streams

1,324,664

Biography

All of us are broken. But no-one is beyond repair. It’s a philosophy that Walter Trout has lived by during seven volatile decades at the heart of America’s society and blues-rock scene. Even now, with the world more fractured than ever, the fabled US bluesman’s latest album, Broken, chronicles the bitter schisms of modern life but refuses to succumb to them. For the last half-century, hope has always lit the way. The beats of Trout’s unbelievable story are well-known: the traumatic childhood in Ocean City, NJ the audacious move to the West Coast in ’74; the auspicious but chaotic sideman shifts with John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton; the raging addictions that somehow never stopped the boogie when he was with Canned Heat in the early-’80s. Even now, some will point to Trout’s mid-’80s guitar pyrotechnics in the lineup of John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers as his career high point. But for a far greater majority of fans, the blood, heart and soul of his solo career since 1989 is the main event, the bluesman’s songcraft always reaching for some greater truth, forever surging forward, never shrinking back. It’s a peerless creative streak underlined by the guitarist’s regular triumphs at ceremonies including the Blues Music Awards, SENA European Guitar Awards, British Blues Awards and Blues Blast Music Awards. The iconic British DJ ‘Whispering’ Bob Harris spoke for millions when he declared Trout “the world’s greatest rock guitarist” in his 2001 autobiography.