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Walter Trout: Livin' Every Day

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Label: Ruf Records
Released: 1999
Time:
 69:02
Category: Blues
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.waltertrout.com
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Purchase date: 2000.06.02
Price in €: 14,99



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[1] Livin' Every Day (Walter Trout) - 4:40
[2] Let Me Know (Walter Trout) - 4:54
[3] Playin' with a Losin' Hand (Walter Trout) - 4:11
[4] Sweet Butterfly [Sophies song] (Walter Trout) - 4:51
[5] Thought I Heard the Devil (Walter Trout) - 4:32
[6] Through the Eyes of Love (Walter Trout) - 4:59
[7] Nothin' But the Blues (Walter Trout) - 5:12
[8] City Man (Walter Trout) - 2:29
[9] Fool for Love (Walter Trout) - 5:02
[10] Say What You Mean (Walter Trout) - 5:10
[11] Apparitions (Walter Trout) - 6:52
[12] Junkyards in Your Eyes (Walter Trout) - 4:26
[13] Love That We Once Knew (Walter Trout) - 4:53
[14] Prisoner of a Dream (Walter Trout) - 5:15

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Walter Trout - Guitars, Vocals, Harmonica

"#" (former known as James Trapp) - Bass
Paul Kallestad - B3 Organ
Bernard Preshey - DRums, Percussion

Additional Musicians:
Ernest Williamson - PIano
Jim Spake - Saxophone
Scott Thompson - Trumpet
Jackie Johnson - Background Vocals
William Brown - Background Vocals
Bertram Brown - Background Vocals
Wally Bass - Background Vocals

Skidd Mills - Engineer, Mixing
Pete Matthews - Engineer
Jason Latshaw - Engineer
Jim Gaines - Mixing
Mike Iacopelli - Mastering
Marie Trout - Photography

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Livin' Every Day Is my attempt to say that you need to make the most out of every moment of your life even when everything around you seems to be adversity. You knever know what might be your last day. So make the best of the days you have. Musically I tried to start with country blues and then turn into rockin' blues.

Sweet Butterfly (Sofie's Song) A married couple who are friends of mine had a little girl, who they lost in a tragic accident. They asked me to write a song for her and I was finding it vary hard to do. One night I had a dream, where they were holding hands watching a butterfly. In the dream they realized the butterfly was their daughter's soul and that she was with God and free. So the dream gave me the approach to write this song for them. And it is in loving memory of their little beautiful daughter.

Say What You Mean This song is dedicated to our illustrious leaders. With all that has happened in the United Sates I need say no more.

Apparitions An apparition is a ghost or spirit that takes human visual form. This song came to me while riding in the van on tour with my band. It came as one large burst of lyrics and the music came later.

Thought I Heard The Devil I wrote for a friend and excellent guitar player, who cannot seem to get away from his addiction to heroin.

Let Me Know As I wrote this, I could hear Luther Allison singing it. And I really wrote it with him performing it in my mind. I'm only sorry I'll never hear him sing it.

The Love That We Once Knew Is a love song I wrote in 1971 to my first love, Delphine after we broke up. It is about me trying to move on and still appreciate what we had together.

Through The Eyes Of Love is a love song to my family. I tried to let my guitar express my love for them.

Fool For Love Inspired by a conversation my wife, Marie had with a friend or ours. I wrote the first verse based on what she told me, she had said to him, then I left the rest of the lyrics up to her.

Walter Trout personal quotes about the songs on the new album, Livin' Every Day



Blues-rocker Walter Trout struts his stuff on Livin' Every Day, the follow-up to his self-titled 1998 major-label debut. Overall, it's another fine outing for rabid blues guitar fans, full of gritty, gutsy playing and well-executed band support. Although songwriting isn't the album's primary focus, there are a number of tough survivor's tales here that resonate pretty well. On the other side of the coin, his balladry tries to be sincere yet leans toward sentimentality, which can dissipate the fire of the harder-rocking tracks. Still, Livin' Every Day is an entirely worthy effort by one of contemporary blues-rock's most underrated instrumentalists.

Steve Huey - All Music Guide



If you've never heard of Walter Trout, you're in the majority. More popular in Europe than the United States, Trout is a U.S.-bred blues guitarist whose resume includes work with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Canned Heat. In a 1993 BBC poll ranking guitar greats, he was right behind the legendary Jimmy Page, but of his eight albums to date, only three have been released stateside. Livin' Every Day should change this situation. The album is a well-balanced mix of blues rockers with some beautiful ballads ("Sweet Butterfly") plus a country blues track ("Apparitions") thrown in for good measure. Also check out the instrumental "Through the Eyes of Love," with Trout's soulful guitar backed with a B-3 organ, or the upbeat swinger "City Man." Produced by veteran Jim Gaines (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Steve Miller), Livin' Every Day is a solid effort by a pro you don't know.

Linda Dailey Paulson, Copyright © 1994-1999 CDNow, Inc. All rights reserved.



Make no mistake. That unassuming gentleman on the front cover carrying that blonde Strat? He’s anything but mild-mannered. He’s really a blues-rock guitar hero with an impassioned style.

Walter Trout honed his chops with Canned Heat and John Mayall before striking out on his own. Now those chops are precision tooled to bring you a fiery blend of modern blues laced with soul and rock spices.

What’s unusual about Livin’ Every Day is that the singing is as accomplished as the ax work. He demonstrates a nice variety of vocal approaches, from sweet falsetto (“Sweet Butterfly”) to sassy rocker (“City Man”) to impassioned desperation (“Livin’ Every Day”). He even pulls off a Dylanesque lyrical approach on “Apparitions,” to great effect.

The guitar work is equally adept, screaming and swooping through 14 originals. Trout favors a rich, sweetly over-driven tone, nasty, sustained bends and flurries of blinding speed. The instrumental “Through the Eyes of Love,” a lyrical dedication to his family, is a highlight, and you’ll find lots more gripping lead work throughout.

Livin’ Every Day is for aficionados of straight-ahead, no-nonsense blues-rock. Bravo.

Jon Martinez, Blues Access
 

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