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Exystence Review ---------------
Walter Trout – Sign of the Times (2025)
Filed Under: blues-rock by exy — 1 Comment September 4, 2025

If we have learned anything about blues/rock guitar icon Walter Trout from his extensive near 50-year stint in the genre’s trenches, it’s that he never does anything halfway.
From early supporting work with Big Mama Thornton, Joe Tex and John Lee Hooker, to extended stints in Canned Heat and as a longtime Bluesbreaker under John Mayall’s tutelage, 
he has learned from some of the field’s best and most resilient veterans.
Trout’s solo career which started in 1989, has yielded over 20 live and studio releases, all fueled by his burly, muscular playing, tough songwriting and gritty vocals.
He has never sold out by going commercial or hooking up with a “name” producer, but has been through the rock star mill of drug abuse, alcoholism and the kind of life that has doomed plenty of others.
Additionally, a 2014 liver transplant saved his life.

Clearly Trout, now in his mid-70s and clean, sober and healthy, has been there and back; a survivor and rightfully proud of it.
Like many bluesmen, he’s committed to the music for life and isn’t wasting whatever time left.
In the past five years, he has delivered four terrific offerings, each filled with rugged, often slashing guitar and earthy songs forged from a hardscrabble life.
It’s all in the stark lines on his face, as pictured on the cover of 2024s outstanding ‘Broken.’

The title of ‘Sign of the Times,’ which streets Sept.5, indicates its lyrical element.
Trout writes about being a low-tech guy in a high-tech world (so he needs his “High-Tech Woman” to help him) and, on “Artificial,” how everything seems synthetic.
“I can’t tell what’s real anymore” he shouts on the roaring, thumping rocker after blowing furious harmonica leading into one a scorching guitar solo.
He unleashes some howling, soulful, Hendrix-influenced intensity on “No Strings Attached.” It references a person who lives in a place where “your heart turns black and shrivels” 
and there is “no love inside your heart” on one of the set’s most frightening selections.
The title track shifts to almost metal-ish hard rock, thrashing through lyrics of “My phone is buzzin’ but I still feel alone” as chanting, near demonic male backing vocals create further tension.
His playing takes on a frightening edge as the band cooks like a bubbling cauldron.
“I’ve played it for blues fans who were outraged. But I wanted to outrage people,” he says in the promotional notes.

Thankfully, Trout also provides sonic respites from the aural storms.
He unplugs for the lovely “Mona Lisa Smile” a love song as tender as any he has written.
It’s a superb, melodic ballad that feels as genuine and heartfelt as the disc’s more frantic moments and even includes a sweet acoustic solo.
He heads down to the delta for the slow burn of “Too Bad,” a tribute to Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
It’s stripped back to just harmonica and acoustic guitar, an indication of how capable Trout also is in a softer format.

But he returns to the heat on the searing closing “Struggle to Believe,” taking his longest and arguably hottest solo as organ, bass and drums from his longtime band propel the jam.
“The values I once thought to be essential, we now watch them disappear” he howls in disappointment, matching that with roaring vocals and stinging playing.

It slams the door on ‘Sign of the Times,” another powerful notch in Walter Trout’s expansive catalog belt.
It’s a soaring example of the blues/rocker/journeyman’s talents and hard-won persistence.
— rockandbluesmuse.com

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