Walter Trout is back, healthy, and playing the blues

By MIKE CHAIKEN EDITIONS EDITOR Walter Trout is honest. “I thought I was done,” said the blues guitarist in a phone interview earlier this year. He recalled how he was in a hospital in Nebraska. His liver had failed. He had just had a transplant. He had lost more than 120 pounds, half of his body weight. Walter said his son came to visit him in the hospital and brought along the bluesman’s trusty Fender Strat. His son wanted Walter to play again. But, said Walter, “I was too weak to hold the guitar or lift it.” So the nurses handed the Strat to him. “I couldn’t press down on the strings,” said Walter. “I lost all my muscle.” That’s when he thought his days as a bluesman were over. But when he went home at last after the transplant, he said, “I played and played.” “Now I think I’m playing better than ever,” said Walter. “I feel great,” said Walter, who is back up to a healthy weight. Fans will get a chance to see for themselves how great Walter is playing when the fully recovered guitarist steps up on the stage at the Infinity Music Hall in Norfolk […]