Walter Trout - Hardcore (with the Power Trio)

'People ask me if they should call my music blues or rock, I tell them they can call it 'Fred' if they must have a label.' That remark, along with the exclamation that 'the blues shouldn’t be a museum ... the music ought to constantly expand and be alive,' have been expressed again and again by Walter Trout during his 35+ year career.

One evening in London Walter and his band had to do the entire show without Sammy Avila on keys. Sammy's B3 had broken down and did not want to cooperate in time for the show to begin. It was an evening of tension for Walter at first: How was he going to get through an evening without his trusted sidekick?

Well, it turned out that the mix of an enthusiastic London audience, and more room for Walter's guitar was a powerful propellant, and Walter and his one-night-only power trio blew through a very inspired evening with more room for bass/guitar interplay and spontaneous errands into the land of Hard Core Blues Rock.

Hardcore features 9 live tracks recorded during the Power Trio tour when Walter, Joey, and Rick did a 'one time only' experiment through selected cities of the UK and Europe in the early spring of 2007.

• Gotta Leave This Town
• Tellin Stories
• Finally Gotten Over You
• Give Me Back My Wig
• The Reason I'm Gone
• Not Fade Away
• Channeling Neil Young
• Sittin On Top Of The World
• Tribute To Muddy Waters