Walter Trout Announced Return To The Stage Following Recovery From Successful Liver Transplant

WALTER TROUT ANNOUNCES RETURN TO STAGE

FOLLOWING RECOVERY FROM SUCCESSFUL LIVER TRANSPLANT

Bluesman's First Appearance At Royal Albert Hall in London, U.K. On June 15

Trout Shares Heartfelt Appreciation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBZDTr_kbSA

Los Angeles, CA --- The day hundreds of thousands have waited for has arrived.  Walter Trout has announced his plans to return to stages across the globe in 2015. Following a liver transplant, and extensive rehabilitation, the esteemed Bluesman feels strong enough to resume his career of fifty plus years.  Trout shares, "The last year has been one where the blues truly came calling, and I came face to face with death more than once. My wife moved me to Nebraska to improve my chances of getting a life-saving liver transplant, and after a long wait, I got my new liver on May 26^th, 2014. Since then I have been filled with immense gratitude. Gratitude for the fans who supported me via fundraisers, cards, messages, thoughts and prayers, for the donor and his or her family, for medical science, for my family, and for life itself. Everything matters more to me now.  Now, 8 months after my transplant I feel like a new man. I have strength and energy. In some ways I feel like I am in my 20’s again! The past couple of years of playing I was getting dizzy spells, severe cramps in my hand and forearm and played many shows in severe pain. It turns out that was a result of my deteriorating liver. That is gone now! I am able to play better than I have in years. I feel reborn. I cannot wait to get back out on the road again and do what I love to do for my fans. The future looks great!”

Walter Trout will make appearances across Europe and North America in the coming months.  His first public appearance will take place on June 15 in London at the Royal Albert Hall.  The appearance is part of Lead Belly Fest (http://www.leadbellyfest.com/).  Additionally, Trout will take the stage for the first in North America at a venue where he has long history - The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, CA on July 10.  His itinerary is a work in progress with dozens of additional dates planed for 2015.  Confirmed appearances include:

6/15     London, UK                                                   Royal Albert Hall

7/10     San Juan Capistrano, CA                                The Coach House

7/21     Davenport, IA                                                 Redstone Room

7/23     Sioux City, IA                                                Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

7/25     St. Paul, MN                                                   Lowertown Blues Festival

7/31     Norfolk, CT                                                    Infinity Music Hall

8/01     Wilmington, DE                                              Riverfront Blues Festival

8/02     Annapolis, MD                                               Ram's Head

8/04     New York, NY                                               B.B. King's

8/07     Niagara Falls, NY                                           Bear's Den @ Seneca Casino

8/08     Wheeling, WV                                                Heritage Blues Festival

8/14     Chicago, IL                                                     Buddy Guy's Legends

8/15     Wausau, WI                                                    Big Bull Falls Blues Festival

9/10     Las Vegas, NV                                               Big Blues Bender

9/11     Las Vegas, NV                                               Big Blues Bender

11/17   Stockton, UK                                                  Arc

11/18   Glasgow, UK                                                  ABC

11/20   Holmfirth, UK                                                Picturedrome

11/21   London, UK                                                   Forum

11/24   Leamington Spa, UK                                      Assembly

11/25   Frome, UK                                                      Cheese & Grain

11/28   Amsterdam, Netherlands                                Carre

12/01   Hamburg, Germany                                        Fabrik

12/02   Berlin, Germany                                              Kesselhaus

12/03   Bochum, Germany                                          RuhrCongress

12/06   Munich, Germany                                           Feriheiz

Walter Trout's 2014 release THE BLUES CAME CALLIN' captured Trout reflecting on his omnipresent thoughts about mortality and his renewed appreciation for being alive.  Amongst the twelve new songs, ten are originals.  One is written by John Mayall for the occasion, and the other is a J.B. Lenoir cover. Trout searches his soul on this album and lays it bare allowing the celebration of his career to be infused with new appreciation for life.  THE BLUES CAME CALLIN'  was produced by Walter Trout and Eric Corne.  An EPK can be screened here: http://youtu.be/btiS6ijncMk.

In 2014, Mascot Label Group's Provogue Records reissued multiple titles from Trout's career, presented a career spanning documentary, and released an official biography Rescued From Reality - The Life and Times of Walter Trout.  Co-written with British music journalist Henry Yates, the manuscript features previously untold stories, and is packed with rare photographs from the Trout's personal archive. It documents an initially blissful childhood, shattered by divorce, abuse, and violence.  As the story unfolds, it leads us through Walter’s life of heartache, poverty, living on the street and being “the only white guy” struggling in famous blues bands in LA in the late 1970’s.  Walter reflects on his time in the 1980’s when nobody cared to hear the blues, to being “discovered” and having long-time gigs as a hard-playing and hard-drinking and drugging globetrotting sideman with Canned Heat and John Mayall.  The book chronicles how Walter eventually became drug-free, broke out on his own and embarked on a solo career in 1989.

In 2014 Walter Trout shared, "To play my music for people has become even more important to me.  When I think about looking out into the crowds of people and connecting with everyone on a soul level, and sharing the experience of music with them, this is what keeps me fighting to get back: My family and my music is my lifeline.  These days, it means more to me than ever before."

HAMILTON LOOMIS -- December 2014 Schedule

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving! This December Hamilton and the Band make a quick run through TOPEKA, KANSAS CITY, MINNEAPOLIS, DES MOINES, and OMAHA...see below for details! 11/28/14 Port Arthur TX Dylan's 9:30pm 409-722-1600 11/29/14 Austin TX One 2 One 11:30pm 512-473-0121 TICKETS 12/3/14 Topeka, KS Uncle Bo's 6:30pm - 9:30pm 785-234-4317 12/4/14 Kansas City, MO Knuckleheads 6:30pm - 8:30pm TICKETS 12/5/14 Minneapolis, MN Famous Dave's Calhoun Square 9pm 12/6/14 Des Moines, IA Gas Lamp (formerly Blues on Grand) 6pm - 8pm 12/7/14 Omaha, NE 21st Saloon (formerly Murphy's) 6pm - 9pm TICKETS 12/12/14 Tomball, TX Main Street Crossing 8pm TICKETS 12/13/14 Brenham, TX Private Event 12/19/14 Mandeville, LA Ruby's Roadhouse 9pm 985-626-9748 12/20/14 to be announced on www.hamiltonloomis.com

Johnny Winter's passing has been confirmed - Our prayers are with his friends and family

GENEVA (AP) — Texas blues icon Johnny Winter, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and '70s for his energetic performances and musical collaborations including with childhood hero Muddy Waters, has died. He was 70.
His representative, Carla Parisi, confirmed Thursday that Winter died in a hotel room in Zurich a day earlier. The statement said his wife, family and bandmates were all saddened by the loss of one of the world's finest guitarists.
He had been on an extensive tour this year that brought him to Europe. His last performance came Saturday at the Lovely Days Festival in Wiesen, Austria.


 Winter, along with his younger brother Edgar, rose to prominence in their early 20s and turned heads both for their musicianship and stark-white hair, a result of the musicians' albinism.


 The guitarist was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1944 and rose to prominence in his early 20s after a Rolling Stone cover story on Texas music in December 1968. "If you can imagine a 130-pound, cross-eyed albino with long fleecy hair playing some of the gutsiest, fluid blues guitar you ever heard, then enter Johnny Winter," wrote Larry Sepulvado and John Burks in the issue. "At 16, [Mike] Bloomfield called him the best white blues guitarist he ever heard.... No doubt about it, the first name that comes to mind when you ask emigrant Texans about the good musicians that stayed back home is Winter's." The guitarist, who had previously played in a band with his younger brother Edgar (who scored a Seventies hit with "Frankenstein"), was playing in a trio at the time. After the article came out, Winter was offered several deals and eventually signed a reported $600,000 contract with Columbia.

Winter was found dead overnight in a hotel room outside Zurich, according to a police spokeswoman. A prosecutor has ordered an autopsy because the cause of death is unclear.

There was no indication of third-party involvement, and early indications pointed to a medically related incident.

   

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