Live blues music can often be a hit-or-miss affair, especially
\nwhen the performer is affected by circumstances out of their
\ncontrol. Take Walter Trout, vocalist and guitarist for his band,
\nthe Free Radicals. In the liner notes of his latest CD
\nLive Trout<\/i>, the story of how Trout almost didn’t make it to
\nthis show (recorded in Tampa Bay this past March) is detailed.<\/p>\n
That he could muster up the energy to put on a nearly 90-minute
\nset is amazing enough. But to put on a set like he does over these
\ntwo discs is more than amazing, it’s a testament to the kind of
\nmusician that Trout is. And while there are moments where the
\nenergy lags in the show, overall this is the kind of disc that
\ncould turn Trout into a household name.<\/p>\n
Trout often seems like a rock guitarist more than a blues
\nmusician. He whips off lead lines as if he were emulating Jimmy
\nPage, sounding like he’s blistering his fretboard. He lets loose
\nwith wild whoops of joy often throughout the course of this
\nshow.<\/p>\n
Yet beneath the surface lies the soul of a bluesman, and he
\nproves it throughout
\nLive Trout<\/i>. With tracks like “I Can Tell,” “Gotta Broken
\nHeart,” “Finally Gotten Over You” and “Serves Me Right To Suffer,”
\nTrout and his band put on a show that goes right for the jugular.
\nOften, he hits it dead on, while he occasionally hurts his cause
\nwith incessant guitar noodling, such as what he does at the close
\nof “Walkin’ In The Rain”.<\/p>\n
Trout even makes a strong case for declaring Bob Dylan a blues
\nmusician, as evidenced by his cover of “I Shall Be Released,” which
\nis performed lovingly. Even the closer, “Good Enough To Eat,” in
\nall its irreverent style, comes across as being loads of fun.<\/p>\n
On one glance, it may seem funny that this was turned into a
\ntwo-disc set, when neither disc clocks in at over 50 minutes. But
\nthis is supposedly the whole set that Trout performed (I’m not
\ncalling them liars; I just can’t prove that it is, since I wasn’t
\nthere), and no one has figured out a way to cram 90 minutes’ worth
\nof music onto one disc. So, to preserve the show’s continuity, the
\nsplit is made – and, in retrospect, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n
\nLive Trout<\/i> will have you fishing for the right compliments
\nto use when describing this disc, and even with a few minor
\nstumbles, it will reel you in hook, line and sinker. Who knows? You
\nmay not even resort to weak, fish-related humor like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6408],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-36751","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-walter-trout-and-the-free-radicals","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36751"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36751"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}