Walter Trout To Release Luther Allison Tribute Album 'Luther's Blues'
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
Written by Jon Stickler
'Luther’s Blues' is the brand new tribute album to the great blues artist Luther Allison, recorded by America’s veteran blues rock guitarist, Walter Trout. The album will be released in the UK on Monday 10th June on CD, Digital Download and Double Vinyl. The album dovetail’s Trout’s UK tour dates from 8th May onwards.
Walter Trout’s story is equal parts thriller, romance, suspense and horror. There are musical fireworks, critical acclaim and fists-aloft triumph, offset by wilderness years and brushes with the jaws of narcotic oblivion.
The veteran bluesman has seen and done it all, with just one omission: he’s never made a covers album, until now. “Luther Allison’s Blues is my first,” Trout notes. “I’ve thought about doing this album for years.” Of all the peaks in Trout’s trajectory, his abiding memory of the late Chicago bluesman is perhaps the most literal. It’s 1986, and high above Lake Geneva, at the palatial Alpine chalet of late Montreux Jazz Festival Svengali Claude Nobs, lunch is being served. “So we’re up at the top of the Alps,” Trout recalls, “in this big room with John Mayall, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Robert Cray, Otis Rush, and as we’re eating, Dr. John is serenading us on acoustic piano. I was sat there with Luther Allison, and we had a great talk.”
“Luther was one of the all-time greats,” Trout continues. “It was just an unbelievably potent thing to watch him perform. Just the energy and commitment that guy had, he was one of a kind. We played together once, at the Jazz Fest that year, and just as we walked offstage, somebody pointed a camera and we hugged and smiled. And that photo is on the cover of the CD. When he died in 1997, the idea of the album was planted in my brain.”
May 8th - The Globe, Cardiff May 9th - The Brook, Southampton May 10th - Boom Boom Club, Sutton May 11th - Wilbarston Hall, Leicester May 12th - The Quarterhouse, Folkestone Oct 30th - Tivoli Theatre, Wimbourne Oct 31st - The Robin 2, Wolverhampton Nov 8th - London Shepherd’s Bush Empire Nov 9th - Holmfirth Blues Spalsh, Picturedrome, Holmfirth
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Walter Trout’s story is equal parts thriller, romance, suspense and horror. There are musical fireworks, critical acclaim and fists-aloft triumph, offset by wilderness years and brushes with the jaws of narcotic oblivion. 
