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Walter Trout: Go the Distance

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Label: Ruf Records
Released: 2001.06.22
Time:
 63:05
Category: Blues
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: *********. (9/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.waltertrout.com
Appears with:
Purchase date: 2001.06.09
Price in €: 16,99



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[1] Love So Deep (W.Trout) - 5:09
[2] Outta Control (W.Trout) - 5:08
[3] Lookin' For The Promised Land (W.Trout) - 5:28
[4] Ride 'Till I'm Satisfied (W.Trout) - 4:36
[5] Go The Distance (W.Trout) - 6:09
[6] Message On The Doorway (W.Trout) - 5:38
[7] Faithful (W.Trout) - 4:42
[8] Down To You (W.Trout) - 4:15
[9] Bugle Billy (W.Trout) - 3:56
[10] Gotta Leave This Town (W.Trout) - 6:03
[11] I Don't Want My MTV (W.Trout) - 2:51
[12] Doin' Just Fine (W.Trout/J.Trapp/B.Pershey/B.Mason) - 5:35
[13] Always Been A Dreamer (W.Trout) - 3:23

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Walter Trout & the Radicals:
WALTER TROUT - Guitar and Vocals
JAMES TRAPP - Bass
BERNARD PERSHEY - Drums
BILL MASON - Organ B3 and keyboards

Additional musicians:
PAT REGISTER - Saxophone
SCOTT THOMPSON - Trumpet
RICK STEFF - Accordion
WILLIAM BROWN - Background singer
BERTRAM BROWN - Background singer
JAMES NELSON - Background singer
WALLY BASS - Background singer
REBA RUSSELL - Background singer
JACKIE JOHNSON - Background singer
TRISHA FREEMAN - Background singer

SKIDD MILLS - Engineer
JOHN HAMPTON - Engineer, Mixing
BILL BAILEY - Assistant Engineer
JIM GAINES - Mixing
BRAD BLACKWOOD - Mastering
MARIE TROUT - Photography, Cover Idea & Concept

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2001 CD Ruf 1067



Go The Distance - Song Summaries by Walter Trout

(short extracts from the FULL interview published in the Fan Club magazine)

Message on the Doorway
Inspired by a homeless woman who I've written about on previous albums. It fits in with a chronicle of songs I've composed about life in Huntington Beach. She had an incredible writing talent but truth be known, I wrote the lyrics on a Virgin Atlantic vomit bag during a flight from England to home.

Love So Deep
This song took us the most work in the studio. It started out super fast and we eventually slowed it down. It's got a kicking groove and is definitely reminiscent of my days playing with Canned Heat.

Ride 'Til I'm Satisfied
An analogy of a guy taking a long motor cycle trip, just out seeing where he can go with no particular destination in mind, just taking the trip for the experience of doing it and not even knowing where he is going to end up, which is what my whole career has been.

Go The Distance
Another career analogy. A boxer is just trying to make it through the fight, maybe not winning. Dare I say like the movie Rocky where his whole goal was to stay on his feet through the fight and not get knocked out.

Bugle Billie
A buddy who I played with in the drum and bugle corps that got killed in Vietnam.

Out of Control
It's just a fun balls out rock and roll song - - the exact opposite of Bugle Billie.

We're Doing Just Fine
It’s an actual slow blues with a positive message; it doesn’t say, "My baby left me, I’m bummed out." It says, "Hey babe we’re doing great, things are going good for us."

Gotta Leave This Town
My advice to a band in a certain English town who I always tell to move to London in order to launch their career.

Looking For The Promised Land
I refer to Moses and Daniel from the bible, and Martin Luther King as historical figures who tried to make a better world.

I Don't Want My MTV
Just listen to it.

Always Been A Dreamer
It’s another thing kinda looking at my life and seeing where I’ve come from and how I ended up here. It ends with a little reference to falling in love with my wife. On that note I have a ballad called Faithful.

Faithful
A declaration to my wife that in the eleven years we have been together I have been faithful to her. Another really simple tune with a message specifically for my wife.

Down To You
It’s a hard rocking tune with distorted guitars and me screaming. The lyrics are blatantly Christian.



Erdig, urtümlich und authentisch. Zugegeben, diese Beschreibungen sind im Zusammenhang mit einer Blues-Platte nicht besonders originell, im Falle von Walter Trout wohl aber nicht ganz zu umgehen. Denn der Gitarrist und Sänger aus den USA spielt nun mal einen urig rockenden Blues mit Bodenhaftung. Und auch die wirklichkeitsnahen Songtexte auf Go The Distance zeigen ihn als jemanden, der mit beiden Beinen fest im Leben steht.

Auf dieser von Jim Gaines (Blues Traveler, Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan) in Memphis produzierten CD beweist Trout einmal mehr, dass er alle Spielarten des Blues souverän beherrscht. Der Südkalifornier kann es kräftig stampfend im Boogierock-Format wie die Rauschebärte von ZZ Top ("Love So Deep"), er macht im triolisch swingenden Shuffle-Rhythmus eine gute Figur ("Ride Till I'm Satisfied"), gibt sich mit verzerrter Gitarre ziemlich rockig wie einst die europäischen Bluesmen der späten 60er-Jahre, allen voran Eric Clapton ("Down To You"), und hat etwas übrig für gefühlsintensive Balladen (im Title-Track zu beobachten). Er weiß im Boogie Woogie samt rollenden Pianofiguren Bescheid ("I Don't Want My MTV"), bringt es überzeugend im vollakustischen Unplugged-Zuschnitt ("Always Been A Dreamer") und erlaubt sich gar TexMex-Sounds wie Ry Cooder in seinen besten Zeiten.

Walter Trouts profundes Sachverständnis für die Blues-Materie kommt nicht von ungefähr, schließlich ging er bei den besten Lehrern zur Schule. John Lee Hooker hat ihn früh gefördert, John Mayall und Big Mama Thornton halfen ebenfalls bei der Vervollkommnung seiner Studien, und die Mitgliedschaft bei Canned Heat hat ihn auch stark geprägt. Dieser Vollblutmusiker -- laut Los Angeles Times übrigens "die Art von Spieler, für die die Bezeichnung 'Guitar Hero' erfunden wurde" -- hat sein Handwerk von der Pike auf gelernt und gehört inzwischen zu den führenden Blueskünstlern unserer Zeit. Aus dem Schüler ist längst ein Lehrer und Meister geworden.

Harald Kepler - Amazon.de
 

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