Walter Trout
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Walter Trout is healthier and playing better than ever, but he’s still being dragged down by the world around him
By Mark McStea published
On Broken, Trout – with some help from Dee Snider and a ’60s Coral electric sitar – tries to bring hope in a divided world through some of the most fiery licks of his career
Walter Trout comes to the defense of CBS Strats
By Phil Weller published
The blues great has championed his “off the shelf” 1973 Strat, which inspired the development of his Delaney Guitars signature model
"He brought the elements of expression that a voice has: sliding, bending and the best vibrato anyone had heard in 1966. Guitar was NOT built to do that!" What Jimi Hendrix means to me – by some of the world's greatest guitar players
By Jason Sidwell last updated
Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942. Here, Eric Gales, Paul Gilbert, Jennifer Batten, Joe Bonamassa, Kirk Fletcher, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani and more talk about his enduring legacy
“In the Canon of the Blues, His Songs Are Really Top of the Heap”: Walter Trout Explains Why Robert Johnson Is Considered in a League of His Own
By Guitar Player Staff published
Covered by the likes of Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson’s originals are the ground zero of recorded Delta blues
"I Just Don't See Any Need for Pedals”: Walter Trout Shows Us How He Gets All the Tones He Needs From His Vintage Mesa/Boogie Mark IV Amp
By Scott Rowley published
VIDEO “My pedalboard right now is this carpet and my shoes,” says the bluesman in the final episode of 'Pedalpocalypse'
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