Harmonie German Club, Canberra, 30 January 2024
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I’ve been posting every week but I’ve been consumed with processing the 5,300 images I took at the Thredbo Blues Festival from 19 to 21 January. It’s been two weeks so far and I told some people there I would have a summary post about now but it will probably take another two weeks. I can’t sneak another Tasmania post in in the meanwhile because the next one will be infrared and is likely to be time consuming to produce. So here is a post on Walter Trout’s recent performance in Canberra. I don’t usually post here on local gigs but this is a rare one by an international artist with a significant reputation.

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Walter Trout.

I previously saw Walter Trout in the late 1980s in Canberra when he was playing lead guitar for John Mayall along with Coco Montoya.  As a consequence of encounters with alcohol and heroin common amongst elite musicians, he survived a near-death experience in 2014 which required a liver transplant.  Recovery was a long process involving relearning to talk, walk and play guitar.  He can certainly play guitar again now though.

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Michael Leasure.

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Richard T Bear.

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John Avila.

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Walter and his son Jon Trout.

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Walter Trout Band.

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