Walter Trout
About the event
Great artists have an uncanny ability to sense the zeitgeist. In his half-century as an observer of street life and an honest songwriter, blues rocker Walter Trout has never told his fans what to think or feel. But in a period when his homeland and the world are divided, his new album 'Sign Of The Times' sounds like a necessary primal scream. The American blues guitarist demonstrates this at Melkweg. Sign Of The Times
'I wanted to capture the anger and fear of these times,' says 74-year-old Trout. 'Writing is therapy. The songs are not just about what is happening, but also about what it does to your mind. The title was self-evident.' With ten finished songs, Trout headed into the studio with his band. That resulted in one of the hardest albums of his career. 'We had heavy subjects, so we went all in musically as well.'
Broken
Although it seems as if his previous album Broken was only just released and immediately reached number 1 on the Billboard Blues Chart, the new songs couldn't wait. The riffs emerged quickly, thanks in part to the contribution of his wife and manager Dr. Marie Trout, whose lyrics hit the themes hard. "We had so many ideas that we could have made a triple album," says Trout.
