Walter Trout

He just recorded with Matt Sorum from Guns N' Roses.

He's been playing with Walter Trout.

He's been doing really good.

Yeah, Matt Sorum is still around.

Well, the father figures on this recording were Muddy Waters on vocals and guitar, Otis Spann on piano, and Sam Lay, who was younger than Muddy.

He was Muddy's regular drummer, and he was one of the best drummers in the business, according to Walter Trout, by the way.

He was no slouch.

Mm-hmm.

So I also wanted to talk about Little Walter, calling you the best harmonica player on the planet.

You mean Walter Trout?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm okay here.

Name's floating around in my head.

But yes, Walter Trout.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I think Walter Trout, the great blues artist, I interviewed him a few years ago and I said, "How, how do you do a soundcheck?" He goes, "I don't." I go, "What do you mean don't?" "I walk out, I start playing, the guy in the booth is going doing his thing, then he finally goes like that, and I know everything's good." I said, "You trust him?" He go, "Yeah, he's been with me for like 25 years," or whatever.

It was a long time.

And I went, "Oh, I gotcha."

We still needed to do some stuff, but it was, it was always something in the way.

You know, I, I, I was on tour with, uh, with Walter Trout as a tour manager.

That took up a lot of time, and I s- I stopped doing that a couple of years ago.

But, and, you know, and the other guys were doing stuff, and it just kinda just dragged, and we, we were a- actually really this time looking for a label to, to release it.

Yes

... before we, we jump into the Sleasbees things.

Walter Trout.

Now, you as the tour manager, I seem to recall seeing a tour schedule where you guys came to Toronto.

Over in Frome at the Merlin Theater, it's comedy with Kane Brown, Crowd Work King.

And at the Cheese and Grain, you can see Walter Trout performing.

Head to the Lighthouse in Poole for cinema with Labyrinth, the fortieth anniversary screening at seven.

And at the Playhouse in Salisbury, it's Tenors Unlimited.

So stay tuned for that.

We've also got Walter Trout and Robbie Krieger together.

There's more Greg Orman and a whole lot more.

And, Fruggers, a whole lot more starts now with an instrumental titled Marie for you here on your Bullfrogs Roadhouse.

Froggers, sure that's another Bullfrog's Roadhouse playlist done and dusted, isn't it now? And we all know full well what comes after Bullfrog finishes his back announcing of the tunes you've just been listening to.

Froggers, this week, and to see if you are still awake and paying attention, for our last set of tunes, we are going to go from three to one.

Our last tune was Walter Trout going down to the river.

from Survivor Blues, which came out in 2019, and our tune featured the Dawes guitar player Robbie Krieger helping out on that tune.

He's the best

... we have to talk about your work with the man Walter Trout refers to as the Godfather of the Blues, the late legend John Mayall.

Yeah, Godfather of the Blues.

How did you come to know him? How did you come to know him and get a chance to work with him?

That is incredible.

Yeah.

You know, look, looking back at the history of John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, I mean, Clapton and Walter Trout and this one and that one and the other one, I mean, you really fell into something cool there, didn't you?

It was crazy.