Walter Trout

electric blues · blues · rock

Walter Trout is an American blues rock guitarist and singer born in Ocean City, New Jersey in 1951. He played lead guitar in Canned Heat from 1981 to 1984 and in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers from 1984 to 1989 before forming his own band in 1989. His later albums include Battle Scars (2015), written around his 2014 liver transplant, and Survivor Blues (2019).