Walter Trout
The bluesman on downtime, retirement, and playing like Yngwie.
For the low-immunity Trout, touring is “a calculated risk”.
Following a liver transplant in 2014, Walter Trout had to relearn how to speak, walk and play guitar, and thought he might never perform again. Thankfully, since 2015 he’s been back on the road. In January this year the guitarist brings his blistering blues to the UK.
Your first post-lockdown gig was a socially distanced show in Amsterdam?
We played two nights at my favourite venue in the world, The Paradiso. Instead of sixteen hundred people they admitted two hundred and fifty. After twenty months of not playing, I had worried that I might forget how, but my brain worked just fine and it was a great experience.