Artist: WALTER TROUT
Album: ORDINAY MADNESS RED VINYL (2LP)

Release date: 28.08.2020
EAN/UPS: 810020502008
Media type: LP

    Walter is touring the world non-stop, doing over 150 shows a year. 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.
    In 2018 he won the Blues Music Award for Best Blues Rock Album with We’re All In This Together (2017).

For Walter Trout, there is no ‘us’ and ‘them’. Across his five-decade career, the great US bluesman’s music has always been a lifeline and call-to-arms, reminding listeners they are not alone. Now, as the world seeks solace from a tragedy that has touched us all, he comes armed with a boundary-exploring new studio album and eleven searingly honest songs that bring his fans even closer. “There’s a lot of extraordinary madness going on right now,” considers Trout, of the COVID-19 crisis. “This album started because I was dealing with the flaws and weakness inside me. But it ended up being about everyone.”

Ordinary Madness was completed mere days before the US shutdown, its cathartic songcraft and themes of shared troubles couldn’t chime better with a period in which our souls and spirits are under fire from tumultuous global events.

Admirably open about his troubled youth, and his own ongoing struggles with mental health, the bluesman had spent recent tours soothing himself by scribbling down his thoughts and feelings. It was only later he realised he’d just written the most honest lyric-sheet of his career – and felt he had an opportunity to let fans share and identify with him. “Everybody is dealing with something,” he says. “And I’m no different from anybody else. Ordinary Madness doesn’t mean you’re gonna end up in a mental institution. It’s just being human. It’s common humanity.”

A1    Ordinary Madness
A2    Wanna Dance

B1    My Foolish Pride
B2    Heartland
B3    All Out Of Tears

C1    Final Curtain Call
C2    Heaven In Your Eyes
C3    The Sun Is Going Down

D1    Make It Right
D2    Up Above My Sky
D3    OK Boomer