Resilient blues rock icon Walter Trout, having only just completed a UK tour, has announced he’ll be back in May 2025, for what’s being referred to as the second part of his Broken UK Tour, where he will be playing songs from his latest album along with classic’s from across his career.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of his recent October tour and when he returns he will begin on 6th Mayat the Arts Centre in Warwick and will call through, Cardiff (Tramshed), Southampton (The1865), Exeter (Phoenix), Cambridge (Junction)and will finish at the Concorde 2in Brightonon 11th May.
Talking about the tour Trout said, “We just returned to California from our UK tour in October and we kept getting messages from people saying that we had not appeared in the South of the UK for a long time so I’m excited to announce that in May 2025 we’ll be coming back to the UK to play shows to those fans. I wanna see you there.”
Released in March 2024 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group, Broken is his 31st album and was a #1 Billboard Blues Album Charthit proving that the fire still burns formidably in the mind and fingers of one of blues rock’s true modern heroes.
Trout’s unbelievable story is well-known: the traumatic childhood in Ocean City, New Jersey; the audacious move to the West Coast in ’74; the auspicious but chaotic sideman shifts with John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton; the raging addictions that somehow never stopped the boogie when he was with Canned Heat in the early ’80s.
Even now, some will point to Trout’s mid ’80s guitar pyrotechnics in the lineup of John Mayall’s legendary Bluesbreakers as his career high point. But for a far greater majority of fans, the blood, heart and soul of his solo career since 1989 is the main event, the blues man’s songcraft always reaching for some greater truth, forever surging forward, never shrinking back.
It’s a peerless creative streak underlined by the guitarist’s regular triumphs at ceremonies including the Blues Music Awards, SENA European Guitar Awards, British Blues Awards and Blues Blast Music Awards. The iconic British DJ Whispering’ Bob Harris spoke for millions when he declared Trout “the world’s greatest rock guitarist” in his 2001 autobiography, The Whispering Years.
UK Tour Date tickets are available here.
