Blues Rock’s Resilient Icon Walter Trout Releases His New Album Sign Of The Times

Great artists such as Walter Trout take the pulse of their times. In his half-century as a street-level social observer and scoldingly 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.

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," Walter 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.

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.

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