Search - Walter Trout :: Live Trout: At Tampa Bay Blues Fest March 2000

In Your Face Blues Guitar!

06/25/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"If you like blistering, jaw dropping, legendary blues Guitar, then you will LOVE this guy! I first heard Walter Trout as a single cut on a blues radio show while driving my car. I went to the music store and bought my first Trout CD - Walter Trout. I have not been able to get enough since. Having eagerly awaited the release of Live Trout, I was not disappointed. How I envy the crowd at the Tampa Bay Blues Fest in March 2000! Next time, they will envy me because I will NOT miss any performance Walter Trout plays within 500 miles. If you like Stevie Ray Vaughn, Jimi Hendrix, or Kenny Wayne Sheppard, then CHECK THIS GUY OUT! I can guarantee you will be a "Trout Head" too!"

Biblical Porportions!

2ncre8r | Santa Clara, California United States | 08/29/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I ditto all the other five star review writers for Walter Trout's "Live Trout". Not as technical as other godz, but I'd say he does the best job of letting the sound toys work for him since Hendrix himself. This was my first Trout, played outdoors on a 200W stereo at full blast! - unforgettable. These reviews are written largely to help people decide wether or not they'd like a particular cd, hence the "Was This Review Helpful" button right over there. What you want to know now is "what compares to this" i.e. where can I get some mo'outrageous blues guitar jams from folks I've never heard of? Try Roy Buchanan (Guitar On Fire or Greatest Unknown Guitarist), Jay Gordon (Rings Around The Sun Vol.I), Luther Allison (Live In Chicago), Greg Koch (Double The Gristle), Blues Fuze (Self Titled), James Solberg (L.A. Blues), Todd Wolfe (Live At Manny's Car Wash),Jack Falk Project(Blues Evolution),Joe Kubek (Cryin For The Moon)AND....the one person I'd want openning the show for Walter is a total unknown, but has four discs distributed thru Amazon. From Phoenix, Arizona....Carvin Jones (!)(Live At Joe's Grotto). Carvin is unbelievable too, I have all four of his releases - not the greatest vocals, but MAYBE the greatest guitar.
AFTER hearing this double live Trout, I immediately proceeded to very painfully get all the rest of his releases, twelve I believe and all are excellent - the latest release being the weakest. Trout's "Telling Stories" is in my opinion, the best studio blues cd possibly ever. No B.S., just pure power blues!!!"

Live with Walter Trout

Garry D Platel | El Cajon, CA United States | 09/09/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"After witnessing a Walter Trout performance at the Street-Scene festival in San Diego, I was in total shock at the way his axe talks and screams blues, either dirty or clean. I could hear the Hendrix influence after about 25 seconds, and he sure loved the man. I never heard of him before the festival and was also shocked he was from S. Jersey, as I am a native philadelphian living in San Diego, and could never dream some one from the area could play and sing the blues with the best of them, that's right. He played a lot of songs from his live cd from the Tampa blues festival and he was the best group of the whole festival, and thats no crap either. If you love Blues guitar, Walter Trout is your man for sure."