WALTER TROUT UNVEILS NEW TRACK ‘WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER’ FEATURING JOE BONAMASSA

Walter Trout has released the title track from his upcoming album ‘We’re All In This Together’. The legendary blues man teamed up with Joe Bonamassa for the track, who joins a long list of stellar guests on the album. John Mayall, Joe Bonamassa, Randy Bachman, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Warren Haynes, Sonny Landreth, Charlie Musselwite, Mike Zito, Robben Ford, Eric Gales, Edgar Winter, Joe Louis Walker , John Németh and his son Jon Trout also feature.

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Speaking about the track and Bonamassa’s appearance, Trout explains: “On the original Full Circle album in 2006, every cut was done live and we were in the studio together. With this list of guests, I realised that was not gonna happen. With this track with Joe, we did it live, looking at each other right in the face. What you are hearing is a first-take and the fire and the spontaneity are just raging. Joe and I were three feet away from each other in the same room as the band. Joe’s playing on here is completely stunning. I really believe we pushed each other to great heights, and when the song was done, we all just looked at each other and started laughing and I said: “wow, I think we just nailed it!” There was absolutely no need to record it again. Thank you, Joe for being so gracious and giving your very best to this project.”

Before you even hear a note, We’re All In This Together has your attention. Drafting fourteen A-list stars – including Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Mayall and Randy Bachman – and writing an original song for each, Trout has made the most tantalising album of the year, and found solace after a run of solo albums that chronicled his near-fatal liver disease of 2014. “Now was the right time for this record,” he says. “Battle Scars [2016] was such an intense piece of work, written with tears coming down my face. I needed a break from that, to do something fun and light-hearted. This album was joyous for me.”

Scan the credits of We’re All In This Together and you’ll find nods to every twist and turn of Trout’s electrifying backstory. There’s keys man and long-time friend Skip Edwards, who came up on the same early-’70s New Jersey circuit where Trout cut his teeth as the precocious lead guitarist for Wilmont Mews. There’s organ wizard Deacon Jones, the West Coast bandleader who brought a twenty-something Trout into the orbit of blues titans like John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton. “Deacon sorta discovered me when I moved to LA in the ’70s,” reflects Trout. “So I owe him.”

 Trout also welcomes a fistful of compadres from recent all-star project The Supersonic Blues Machine, in the form of Warren Haynes, Robben Ford and Eric Gales. Then there’s John Mayall: the ageless British blues-boom godfather who hired a troubled Trout for the Bluesbreakers in 1985 and now blows harp on Blues For Jimmy T. “Am I proud to call myself a former Bluesbreaker?” Trout reflects. “Yeah, of course. What a credential. That is a very exclusive club, and I know that when I’m gone, that’s gonna be one of the big things that they’ll remember me for: that I was a Bluesbreaker for five years.”

They say you can judge a man by the company he keeps. If that’s the case, then We’re All In This Together is further proof of Walter Trout’s position at the hub of the blues scene. This is the sound of an artist not just getting by with a little help from his friends, but positively thriving, on an album that is sure to light another rocket under his blooming late career. “I’m 66 years old,” considers Trout, “but I feel like I’m in the best years of my life right now. I feel better than I have in years physically. I have more energy. I have a whole different appreciation of being alive, of the world, of my family, of my career. I want life to be exciting and celebratory. I want to dig in. I want to grab life by the balls and not let go, y’know…?”
 

UK Tour 

6 Oct – Worthing Pier Southern Pavillion, WORTHING – TICKETS

7 Oct – Chinnerys, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA – TICKETS

9 Oct – The Brook, SOUTHAMPTON – TICKETS

10 Oct – Under The Bridge, LONDON – TICKETS

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13 Oct – Central Station, WREXHAM – TICKETS

14 Oct – Warehouse 23, WAKEFIELD – TICKETS

15 Oct – Preston Guild Hall, PRESTON – TICKETS

17 Oct – Robin 2, BILSTON – TICKETS

18 Oct – Public Hall, HARPENDEN – TICKETS

20 Oct – Bierkeller Theatre, BRISTOL – TICKETS

21 Oct – Sin City, SWANSEA – TICKETS

22 Oct – Muni Arts Centre, PONTYPRIDD – TICKETS