| Walter Trout holds onto the feeling of wonder on his new single, I Remember, which is taken from his new studio album, ‘Sign Of The Times,‘ which is out today via Provogue. Watch the lyric video HERE. Great artists such as Walter Trout take the pulse of their times. In his half-century as a street-level social observer and scaldingly honest songwriter, blues-rock’s resilient icon, Walter Trout, has never told his fans what to think, how to feel, where to stand politically, or what to write on their protest placards. But on the iconic US bluesman’s hard-rocking new album, Sign Of The Times, it is becoming the primal scream and pressure valve we all desperately need. For all the album’s dissonance and peeling away of layers of social issues, Walter has always been an incredibly vivid storyteller, and with that, the honesty that seeps into it. With its dancing guitar lick and undeniable chorus, his latest single I Remember is also a moment of respite from the album’s stormier subject matter. “That song is a longing for when life was simpler,” he explains. “Like, when I was 20 and starting out. Or when Marie and I had just got together, and we had no money and were pawning guitars, but we were madly in love, and the future was ahead of us. We didn’t have anything, but we felt like we had much more, because the world was alive with the promise of what would be revealed.” The lyric video that accompanies the song follows our storyteller’s journey throughout life. Watch it until the end for a heartwarming tale of enduring and lasting love. Talking further about the song, he adds. “I see so many people of my generation who seem to lose their passion and their joy of life. I wanted to write a song without nostalgia about holding on to the feelings of wonder you had when you were young. So the song is about holding on to the excitement of each day, even as an older person. If you can remember that feeling, do everything you can to hang on to it. Don’t let it go. Live it – don’t let age stop you.” I Remember is the latest single from the new album, following the title track, Sign of the Times, which is one of the most experimental cuts in Trout’s half-century studio output. It finds a monstrous guitar tone paired with massed chants and an out-there solo that few blues gods would dare put down on tape. “I’ve played it for blues fans who were outraged,” he admits. “But I wanted to outrage people. I wanted it to be dissonant. Dissonance is a sign of the times. This followed the first single, Artificial, which dropped on the day he announced the new album and is a scornful, satirical, harmonica-spiced rebuke of the fake world we risk creating. Even by Trout’s standards, Sign Of The Times is a record that puts you through the emotional wringer. But as long as there’s poignant and relevant music, we have a fighting chance. As a lifelong road warrior, Trout will be taking the Sign Of The Times material to global audiences throughout 2025. And for those glorious two hours of playing to audiences, political divides and culture wars will crumble as a crowd with little else common melts into a communion of souls. |
| Tour Dates Tickets are available HERE Fri, September 5, Big Blues Bender, Las Vegas, NV, United States Sat, September 6, The State Room, Salt Lake City, United States Sun, September 7, 2025 – Treefort Music Hall, Boise, Idaho, United States Tue, September 9, 2025 – Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington, United States Wed, September 10, 2025 – Jazz Alley, Seattle, Washington, United States Thu, September 11, 2025 – Aladdin Theater, Portland, Oregon, United States Fri, September 12, 2025 – Wicket Hall, Victoria, Canada, Thu, September 18, 2025 – SPACE, Evanston, Chicago, United States Sat, September 20, 2025 – Beachland Ballroom & Tavern, Cleveland, Ohio, United States Sun, September 21, 2025 – The Ludlow Garage, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Wed, September 24, 2025 – The Jazz Market, New Orleans, United States Thu, September 25, 2025 – The Jazz Market, New Orleans, United States Sat, October 25, 2025 – Dark Season Blues Festival, Svalbard, Norway Tue, October 28, 2025 – Musikhuset, Posten, Odense, Denmark Wed, October 29, 2025 – Train, Aarhus, Denmark Thu, October 30, 2025 – Eksercerhuset, Fredericia, Denmark Fri, October 31, 2025 – Vesterbrogade 10, Viborg, Denmark Sat, November 1, 2025 – Amager Bio, Copenhagen, Denmark Tue, November 4, 2025 – Pustervik, Gothenburg, Sweden Thu, November 6, 2025 – Katalin And All That Jazz, Uppsala, Sweden Sun, November 9, 2025 – House of Culture, Helsinki, Finland Wed, November 12, 2025 – Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany Thu, November 13, 2025 – Tante Ju, Dresden, Germany Fri, November 14, 2025 – Kesselhaus, Berlin, Germany Sat, November 15, 2025 – Bluesonalia Festival, Konin, Poland Tue, November 18, 2025 – Kaufleuten, Zurich, Switzerland Wed, November 19, 2025 – Im Wizemann (Halle), Stuttgart, Germany Thu, November 20, 2025 – Halle02 – Heidelberg, Germany Sat, November 22, 2025 – Lux, Herenthout, Belgium Tue, November 25, 2025 – TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands Wed, November 26, 2025 – Die Kantine, Köln, Germany Thu, November 27, 2025 – Podium Victorie, Alkmaar, Netherlands Fri, November 28, 2025 – Poppodium De Boerderij, Zoetermeer, Netherlands Sat, November 29, 2025 – Metropool, Hengelo, Netherlands Sun, November 30, 2025 – Zeche Bochum, Bochum, Germany Mon, December 1, 2025 – Anker, Leipzig, Germany |
