Artist: WALTER TROUT
Album: ALIVE IN AMSTERDAM (2CD)

Release date: 2016
EAN/UPS: 819873013532
Media type: CD

·        ALIVE in Amsterdam contains songs pulled from every era of Walter’s five-decade career, but his latest album ‘Battle Scars’ has been the centre of the set
·        Walter has mesmerized guitar fans around the globe with his masterful phrases and unique style
·        Walter Trout 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 and also earned him the #6 slot in BBC Radio 1’s Top 20 Guitarist listeners’ poll.


To be released June 17th on Mascot/Provogue, ‘ALIVE in Amsterdam’ is the sound of a man announcing his resurrection after a period on the ropes. As Trout’s army of international fans are painfully aware, recent times have taken the bandleader to the brink, following a bleak diagnosis of life-threatening liver failure and hepatitis C in 2013. Trout’s rebirth began with a successful transplant in May 2014, and gathered pace with 2015’s ‘Battle Scars’: the acclaimed studio album that channeled his near-death experience into raw autobiographical songs.

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…”         

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…”

CD1:

01    Marie's Introduction
02    Play the Guitar
03    Help Me
04    I'm Back
05    Say Goodbye to the Blues
06    Almost Gone
07    Omaha
08    Tomorrow Seems so Far Away
09    Playin' Hideaway
10    Haunted By the Night


CD2:

01    Fly Away
02    Please Take Me Home
03    Rock Me Baby
04    Marie's Mood
05    Serve me Right to Suffer
06    The Love that We Once Knew