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The campaign ended in frustration, when Covid rendered live work too dangerous, both for this liver-transplant survivor and his fans, condemning Trout to an enforced downtime in Denmark that he hadn't known in a half-century. \"I've been at this since '69, when I started out in the New Jersey bars,\" he reflects. \"Suddenly, I'm sat on my ass for sixteen months, although I did still practice guitar every day. My wife and manager Marie knew I needed to make music. So her present to me for my 70th birthday was a brand-new record deal she had negotiated. My producer, Eric Corne, scoped out a new studio in LA, and my plan was to fly home to make a new album.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe result is \u003ci\u003eRide\u003c\/i\u003e, providing an emotional release-valve – both for its creator and his loyal listeners – perhaps this veteran artist can reconcile with his past, accept his future and live in the present as it unfolds. \"I think you can interpret this album title a few different ways,\" he concludes. \"I mean, this album is definitely a musical ride and I certainly tried to cover a lot of ground. But, really, life is kind of a ride too, isn't it? 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Even now, with the world more fractured than ever - by politics, economics, social media and culture wars - the fabled US bluesman's latest album, \u003ci\u003eBroken\u003c\/i\u003e, chronicles the bitter schisms of modern life but refuses to succumb to them. \"I've always tried to write positive songs, and this album is not quite that,\" considers the 72-year-old of an all-original tracklisting that rages and soothes. \"But I always hold on to hope. I think that's why I wrote this album.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith gallows humour, Trout notes that his new album opens with a track called \u003ci\u003eBroken\u003c\/i\u003e and ends with one called Falls Apart. He can't deny the socio-political mood in the air, and as such, between those two bookends lie some of the most personal, bruised songs of his career (albeit twinned to some of his most rocking and defiant guitar work).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Provogue","offers":[{"title":"Clear LPx2.","offer_id":50405101666635,"sku":"2178566","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50405099995467,"sku":"2178565","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4276644-3081042_6f2b7762_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726573714"},{"product_id":"survivor-blues","title":"Survivor Blues","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo ordinary artist. No ordinary covers album. From the day he conceived the project to the moment he counted off the first song in the studio, Walter Trout had a bolder plan for Survivor Blues.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I'm riding in my car sometimes,\" says the US blues titan. \"I've got a blues station on – and here's another band doing Got My Mojo Workin'. And there's a little voice in me that says, 'Does the world need another version of that song?' So I came up with an idea. I didn't want to do Stormy Monday or Messin' With The Kid. I didn't want to do the blues greatest hits. I wanted to do old, obscure songs that have hardly been covered. And that's how Survivor Blues started...\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReturning with a covers album represents an eye-opening curveball from a bluesman whose original songcraft has never been more acclaimed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Provogue","offers":[{"title":"Blue | LP | x2","offer_id":50476537938251,"sku":"1156287","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bfde04ce-315f-4031-9f0c-13a43a94cd70_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727460763"},{"product_id":"battle-scars","title":"Battle Scars","description":"\u003cp\u003en conjunction with the mighty Provogue label, Music On Vinyl re-issue 3 classic Walter Trout albums on vinyl! 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