Classic Rock

Walter Trout

We’re All In This Together

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Trout’s albums either side of a life-saving, gruelling liver operation in 2014 dug deep into his personal blues. We’re All In This Together now looks determined­ly outward, bringing in friends such as Joe Bonamassa and John Mayall to address what Trout calls “this time of madness”.

On the Kenny Wayne Shepherd-assisted opener Gonna Hurt Like Hell, Trout warns his fellow Americans of the brand of political snake oil currently on offer: ‘Don’t you go buying/What they’re trying to sell.’ An hour later, the man who could barely lift a guitar three years ago is bringing the album to a storming close with Bonamassa on the healing title track.

Elsewhere, the Trout band’s straight-up blues boogie backs Charlie Musselwhit­e’s swampy harmonica wail and Mayall’s country blues harp-blowing. Amid an understand­able overdose of twin-guitar action, Joe Louis Walker’s bright tone and liquid, skipping flow help Trout prove that the blues can still be powerfully individual.

nick Hasted

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All-star all-clear for blues king.

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