CD 1:

01. Marie's Introduction 01:19
02. Play The Guitar 00:28
03. Help Me 07:19
04. I'm Back 06:38
05. Say Goodbye To The Blues 10:39
06. Almost Gone 05:50
07. Omaha 06:06
08. Tomorrow Seems So Far Away 05:46
09. Playin' Hideaway 06:37
10. Haunted By The Night 07:15

CD 2:

01. Fly Away 05:43
02. Please Take Me Home 06:34
03. Rock Me Baby 09:35
04. Marie's Mood 06:03
05. Serve Me Right To Suffer 10:07
06. The Love That We Once Knew 08:24

Walter Trout has never sounded so alive. The date is November 28th, 2015. The location is Amsterdam’s opulent Royal Theatre Carré. And the occasion is a live performance of the blues-rock legend at full-throttle. “We were rocking,” remembers Trout of the comeback concert captured on ‘ALIVE in Amsterdam.’ “If people are expecting a laid-back show, that’s not what they’ll get. This is potent stuff…”

Yet for this lifelong road-warrior, a return to the stage was always the ultimate goal. And last summer, as Trout headed out on a comeback tour that blew the roof off venues from the Royal Albert Hall to Buddy Guy’s Legends club in Chicago, every fan in the house saw that the man wasn’t just back, he was better than ever. “That whole tour was kinda triumphant for me,” Trout reflects. “Just to be back, after what I went through. But also to be playing with a renewed energy and commitment.

“I’d gone through a few years of symptoms,” he continues, “where I’d get hand-cramps, dizzy spells and chronic fatigue onstage. It was a struggle. On this last tour, I wasn’t struggling. We were having a great time. We couldn’t stop. ‘‘ALIVE in Amsterdam’ ’ captures the atmosphere.”

It’s true: listen to ‘ALIVE in Amsterdam’ and you’ll experience the same white-knuckle ride as the fans who filled the Royal Theatre Carré. It’s fitting that the Amsterdam show starts with an introduction by Trout’s wife and manager, Marie, who gave the bluesman the courage to fight on during his lowest points. “Having Marie on the album is very meaningful for me,” he says, “because she’s the one who kept me alive. She kept me fighting and wouldn’t let me give up.”

Trout himself hits the stage like a wrecking-ball, opening with an scorching burst of solo guitar (“Sometimes, when I get up there, I have so much energy that I’m bursting out of my skin”). When he launches into the set, meanwhile, all bets are off. “We never have a setlist,” explains the frontman of his seat-of-the-pants interplay with drummer Michael Leasure, keyboards ace Sammy Avila and bassist Johnny Griparic. “We play very spontaneously, and I gauge it by the crowd and how the show is going.”

With songs pulled from every era of his five-decade career, the ‘ALIVE in Amsterdam’ set is potent stuff indeed, from the stinging Luther Allison cover “I’m Back,” to the plaintive B.B. King tribute “Say Goodbye To The Blues,” which builds from neck-tingling guitar swells to a stunning virtuoso climax. ‘Battle Scars’ is well-represented by the harmony-bolstered rocker “Almost Gone” and the raucous “Tomorrow Seems So Far Away,” while Trout is joined by his son Jon for “Rock Me Baby,” and even finds time for a fistful of fan favorites, including “The Love That We Once Knew” and “Marie’s Mood.” “You can hear that a guy yells out for ‘Marie’s Mood,’” he laughs. “I actually hadn’t planned on doing that one…”

But Trout has made a career-long habit of throwing us curveballs. A native of New Jersey, his practical schooling began in earnest when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1974, and promptly earned his reputation as an A-list sideman, backing John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Finis Tasby, Pee Wee Crayton, Lowell Fulsom, Percy Mayfield and Joe Tex. In 1981, he joined the remaining original members of the legendary Canned Heat, but the real turning-point was his five-year tenure with British blues giant John Mayall, who invited Trout to become the latest in the Bluesbreakers’ lineage of guitar greats (including Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor). Trout founded his own solo band in 1989 and cut his debut album ‘Life In The Jungle’ that same year, rapidly becoming a chart-topping star in Europe. His first stateside release, 1998’s critically heralded ‘Walter Trout,’ made him a fixture of the US blues-rock scene. Released in 2015, ‘Battle Scars’ is his 18th album on the Netherlands-based Provogue label, and his 42nd overall, including pre-solo recordings with Canned Heat and the Bluesbreakers.

Over the decades, Trout has accumulated numerous honors. He is a three-time winner of the Overseas Artist Of The Year title at the British Blues Awards, and a three-time Blues Music Awards nominee. In 2015, he won the Sena European Guitar Award, an honor he shares with acclaimed past winners like Brian May, Steve Lukather and Slash. Trout’s six-string prowess also earned him the #6 slot in BBC Radio 1’s Top 20 Guitarist listeners’ poll.

Now, in 2016, ‘ALIVE in Amsterdam’ marks the latest twist in this fascinating bluesman’s tale, and the chapter that we all prayed would come to pass. Urgent, impassioned and electrifying, it’s a live album to treasure, and the perfect appetite-whetter as Trout heads out on tour this year, stopping off at some of the most prestigious venues and festivals in the US and Europe.

Walter shows you magic in the studio, of course. But it’s on the stage where he truly comes alive. “I get into the energy and the moment and the excitement of it all,” he says. “I think I’m a very different guitarist live…” --- bluesmagazine.nl

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01. I'm Back 
02. Cherry Red Wine 
03. Move from the Hood 
04. Bad Love 
05. Big City 
06. Chicago 
07. Just as I Am 
08. Low Down and Dirty 
09. Pain in the Streets 
10. All the King's Horses 
11. Freedom 
12. Luther Speaks 
13. When Luther Played the Blues

Musicians:
Walter Trout – guitar, vocals
Bernard Allison – slide guitar, vocals
Luther Allison – tribute, vocals
Sam Avila - Hammond B3
Deacon Jones - Hammond B3
Skip Edwards - keyboards, piano, Wurlitzer piano
Rick Knapp – bass
Michael Leasure – drums

Walter Trout pays tribute to blues icon Luther Allison on his 23rd solo release Luther's Blues. 12 of the 13 tracks on the CD are associated with Allison except for the Trout original, "When Luther Played the Blues." Trout first met Luther in Switzerland at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1986, which provided the location shot for the CD cover. Trout maintains he had the idea for this album since that first meeting. The songs Trout chose to cover are taken from Allison's albums Songs from the Road, Bad Love, Blue Streak, Reckless, and Soul Fixin' Man. As usual, Trout's guitar dexterity is undisputed, but his top-notch vocal work deserves equal attention, especially on the heart-wrenching tracks "Freedom," and "Pain in the Streets." In an era where blues tribute albums are abundant, and in some cases the tribute is anything but, Luther's Blues rises to the top with the best of them. ---Al Campbell, Rovi

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01 – Saw my mama cryin?
02 – Lonely
03 – The sky is fallin? down
04 – Blues for my baby
05 – You can?t go home again
06 – Recovery
07 – Turn off your tv
08 – Lifestyle of the rich and famous
09 – Never knew you well
10 – Puppet master
11 – Money rules the world
12 – All I want is you
13 – Brother?s keeper
14 – Blues for the modern daze
15 – Pray for rain

Personnel:
Walter Trout -Composer, Harmonica, Producer, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Rob Rio – piano
Sam Avila, Deacon Jones  – Hammond B3
Rick Knapp – bass
Michael Leasure - Drums
Wally Bass, Eric Corne - Vocals (Background)

This, his 21st album, may just be Walter Trout’s best. Living proof that age doesn’t matter when you’re talking about real music, Trout, now 61 years old, is laying it all on the line every time he picks up his guitar.

The album jumps back and forth between heartfelt, emotional and personal songs and Walter’s view of the world around him. A life on the road will give you a clarity and perspective few people with day jobs will ever see. Trout calls out Facebook, our obsession with wealth and our tendency to bury our heads in the sand.

Oh, this one doesn’t just succeed lyrically, musically it is a dynamo. Trout is playing with a cutting conviction as he blasts out solo after solo after solo. This one takes the listener on an emotional rollercoaster. Like a ride on a great coaster, when this one is done you want to jump off and get back in line for another go.

Walter Trout has written a masterpiece that needs to be checked out by all fans of hard rockin’ blues. I am playing this one loud and often. --- Jeb Wright, classicrockrevisited.com

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1 They Call Us the Working Class 4:34
2 Goin' Down (Nix) 6:16
3 Life in the Jungle 6:39
4 Long Tall Sally (Blackwell, Johnson, Penniman) 5:40
5 Jimmy as Yoko (Trapp) 0:19
6 Somebody's Acting Like a Child (Mayall) 7:50
7 Hey Barney 0:11
8 Sweet as a Flower (Trapp, Trout) 8:15
9 Two Sides to Every Story 4:36
10 Finally Gotten Over You 11:38
11 Goin' Back Home (Tasby) 3:35
12 Marie's Mood 6:03
13 She's out There Somewhere (Guy) 5:18
14 So Afraid of the Darkness 6:55

Tracks by Trout except as indicated

Eric Corne / Producer
Frank Cotinola / Drums
Richard Hayward / Drums
Rick Knapp / Bass
Michael Leasure / Drums
Marie Trout / Executive Producer
Walter Trout / Guitar, Vocals, Producer

Walter Trout has always been a blues man with rock & roll on his mind first and foremost. Though showy and loud, Trout keeps on the path of least resistance for an audience that wonders what Stevie Ray Vaughan, Luther Allison, Albert Collins, or Jimi Hendrix would sound like were they still alive. Still, Trout has carved out a career and a living playing music that definitely gets people out of their seats and raving for more. This collection -- correctly subtitled "Twenty Years of Hardcore Blues" -- has Trout picking favorites from various live performances recorded over the years by the BBC and, as he puts it, were selected favoring performance over recording quality. It should be pointed out that there's absolutely nothing wrong with the sound quality of these select dates and songs, and there are a couple of studio tracks thrown in, adding to the special nature of this disc, for both fans and novices. Notable for being the last recording done with bassist Jimmy Trapp (2005 in Las Vegas,) "Sweet as a Flower" is especially poignant, a rattlesnake shaker that recalls Peter Green when he was with Fleetwood Mac, while "Two Sides to Every Story" adopts an acoustic-style slide guitar-centered slow stomp that stands apart from the other tracks. Tougher than tough is a version of the Don Nix evergreen popularized by Freddie King "Goin' Down"; there's Buddy Guy's juke joint-rockin' shuffle "She's Out There Somewhere," and the classic old-school rocker "Long Tall Sally" -- all played with great energy and good spirit. The band also covers John Mayall's "Somebody's Acting Like a Child" with stinging guitar as good as anyone's, and the Finis Tasby tune "Goin' Back Home," fairly typical, from Bonn, Germany in 1991. Trout's originals include a new studio recording of the two-chord, organ-fed rocker "They Call Us the Working Class," and live performances of the hard rock blues "Life in the Jungle" (Amsterdam, 1991) which was the title track of his first album, and the instrumental "Marie's Mood" showing a jazzier side. Sammy Avila on the Hammond B-3 organ, bassist Rick Knapp, and drummer Michael Leasure join Trout for the majority of these concert shows. While there's nothing groundbreaking here, or out of character with Trout's reputation and estimable talent, it's a solid collection of songs featuring the worked-up guitar of the leader that should appeal to the guitar hero nation without reservation. ---Michael G. Nastos

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1. Got a Broken Heart	 6:10
2. Obstacles in My Way	3:53
3. One Way Street	4:15
4. Tender Heart	3:58
5. Come Home	6:30
6. Marie's Mood	5:43
7. Hardtime Blues	4:08
8. In Love With You Again	4:07
9. Don't Worry About It	3:10
10. Song For a Wanderer	4:42
11. Temptation	4:42
12. Walkin' in the Rain	4:45
13. If You Ever Change Your Mind	3:36
14. Jules Well	5:37
15. Let Me Be the One	2:39
16. Boo	5:47

Musicians:
Walter Trout - guitar, vocals, harmonica, mandolin
Martin Gerschwitz - keyboards
Jimmy Trapp - bass
Charles 'Rick' Elliot - drums

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1. To Begin Again
2. How Much Do You Want
3. Under My Skin
4. Like a Stranger
5. Surrounded by Eden
6. Breaking the Rules
7. Reason I'm Gone
8. I Don't Wanna Be Lonely
9. Put It Right Back
10. Lady Luck
11. Watch Her Dance

New Jersey-born blues-rocker Walter Trout spent decades as an ace sideman, playing guitar behind the likes of John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, and Joe Tex. In 1981, he was also tapped to replace the late Bob Hite in Canned Heat, remaining with the venerable group through the middle of the decade. While filling in one night for an ailing John Mayall, Trout (also a Bluesbreaker for some five years) was spotted by a Danish concert promoter who agreed to finance a solo tour. Assembling his own backing band, in 1990 he released his debut LP, Life in the Jungle, trailed a year later by Prisoner of a Dream. Albums including 1992's Live (No More Fish Jokes), 1994's Tellin' Stories, and 1997's Positively Beale Street followed. Trout continued a steady release schedule, issuing Livin' Every Day in 1999, a live album the following year (recorded at the Tampa Bay Blues Fest), the 2001 studio album Go the Distance, 2003's Relentless -- which Trout and his band, the Radicals, recorded in front of a live audience -- and 2005's Deep Trout, a compilation of early and unreleased recordings. On the 2006 release Full Circle, Trout realized his dream of creating an album with some of his most admired musicians, including John Mayall, Coco Montoya, and Joe Bonamassa, among others. The 2009 compilation Unspoiled by Progress found Trout handpicking live tracks recorded on the road throughout his career. The following year he was back in the studio and released Common Ground. On 2012's Blues for the Modern Daze, Trout wrote 15 tracks based on his country blues roots. His 23rd album, Luther's Blues, was issued in 2013 which was a tribute to one of his main influences, the late Luther Allison. ---Jason Alkeny, Rovi

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1. Dust My Broom
2. If You Just Try
3. False Alarm
4. Life in the Jungle
5. Girl from the North Country
6. Victor the Cajun
7. Earrings on the Table
8. Motivation of Love
9. Playing With Gloves on
10. Love That We Once Knew
11. Prisoner of a Dream
12. Going Down

1992 album by the blues guitarist from Orange County, California. 12 live tracks, nine recorded at the Skanderborg Festival in Denmark on August 10th, 1991 & three at De Hanehof in Holland on December 17th, 1992. ---Editorial Review

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