Walter Trout Band
Legendary 4x-Blues Music Award-Winning & 14x-Blues Music Legendary 4x-Blues Music Award-Winning & 14x-Blues Music Award Nominated Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter WALTER TROUT and his Acclaimed Band perform at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Thursday and Friday March 19 & 20 at 7:30 P.M. Walter’s last 5 albums ALL hit #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart: ‘We’re All In This Together’ (2017); ‘Survivor Blues’ (2019); ‘Ordinary Madness’ (2020); ‘Ride’ (2022); and ‘Broken’ (2024)! His live performances are incredible!!
“One of the most talented rock and blues players on the world’s stage.”
— JOHN MAYALL
“If it wasn’t for Walter Trout and Gary Moore, you never would have heard of Joe Bonamassa…”
— JOE BONAMASSA
“His playing style is hypnotic and keeps you hanging on, eager to hear what comes next.”
— ROCK & BLUES MUSE
“Walter’s guitar continues to be just as powerful as ever as are his vocals, whether it is with solo work, in a duet, or backed by others.”
— BLUES BLAST MAGAZINE (2024 Album Review of ‘Broken’)
“’Ordinary Madness’ is a career-defining, 11-song tour-de-force…”
— AMERICAN SONGWRITER (2020 Album Review of ‘Ordinary Madness’)
“Absolutely a must-have album to start 2019. It would be hard to believe the year can bring better than this exquisite album.”
— BLUES IN BRITAIN (2019 Album Review of ‘Survivor Blues’)
Tickets for the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Shows can be found at: https://jazzandbluesmarket.com/music-schedule/
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For the last half-century, however rocky Legendary 4x-Blues Music Award-Winning & 14x-Blues Music Award Nominated Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter Walter Trout’s path, hope has always lit the way. The beats of Walter 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 legendary Bluesbreakers as his career high point. But for a far greater majority of fans, the blood, heart & 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!
Walter has been Nominated 12 times for “Blues Rock Album of the Year” at the Blues Music Awards – winning in 2016 (‘Battle Scars’) & 2018 (‘We’re All In This Together’). Trout also won “Song of the Year” in 2016 & 2021. Walter’s last 5 albums ALL hit #1 on the Billboard Blues Chart: ‘We’re All In This Together’ (2017); ‘Survivor Blues’ (2019); ‘Ordinary Madness’ (2020); ‘Ride’ (2022); and ‘Broken’ (2024)!
From 1973, when he left his New Jersey home headed to Los Angeles, he has followed a road that afforded him an opportunity to just play, sharing the stage as a sideman with Jesse Ed Davis, Big Mama Thornton, John Lee Hooker, Lowell Fulson, Joe Tex, and of course the great John Mayall. Trout’s formative blues influences are well-documented, spanning from Paul Butterfield’s 1965 self-titled debut alongside Mike Bloomfield to John Mayall’s seminal 1966 ‘Beano’ LP with Eric Clapton. But as he cut his teeth in New Jersey, the young guitarist was also drawn to the maverick songwriters, taking in The Beatles, Bob Dylan and Neil Young’s Crazy Horse. At every step of his career – moving to California in ’74 to back up giants like John Lee Hooker, joining Canned Heat and Mayall’s Bluesbreakers in the ’80s, then flying solo in 1989 – the stockpile of songs kept growing.
When Trout walked away from the Bluesbreakers, he embarked on a solo career that has yielded a catalogue that has established a deep legacy in the world of Blues, Americana, and the realm of revered singer-songwriters. While many would slow down in their 70’s, Trout continues to deliver inspired recordings, performances, and a voice that articulates relevant ideology and insights into The World that inspires his deep perspective. There’s no autopilot emanating from Walter Trout, but a true sense of growing momentum, elements of surprise, and repertoire that continues to be more compelling with each new creation!
It feels like the amps have barely cooled from Trout’s ‘Broken’ (2024), which debuted on Billboard at #1, but the era-chronicling songs from his September 2025 release ‘Sign of the Times’, wouldn’t wait. These urgent riffs flying off the guitarist’s fingers, assisted once again by Marie, Walter’s wife, manager and co-writer, who penned the lyrics for some of the tracks. “This album flowed pretty easily,” he reflects of the writing process. “I had so many song ideas and pages of lyrics from Marie. We could have kept going and made a triple album.”
Tickets for Legendary 4x-Blues Music Award-Winning & 14x-Blues Music Award Nominated Guitarist, Singer & Songwriter WALTER TROUT at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market on Thursday and Friday March 19 & 20 at 7:30 P.M. are NOW On-Sale on Ticketmaster, Facebook Events at: https://www.facebook.com/share/14w1ekxY8J/ (Mar 19) and https://www.facebook.com/events/1038915331689710 (Mar 20) and the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market Website at: https://jazzandbluesmarket.com/music-schedule/list/?tribe-bar-search=walter+trout – Doors Open 2 Hours before the Show!!
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