Last Saturday night I had a chance to see blues guitarist Walter Trout at Famous Dave's BBQ & Blues Club in uptown Minneapolis. Good show. Two bands played, including Trout. The first was a blues cover band which did pretty well. Both bands had phenomenal Hammond B3 organ players as I guess the venue must have a B3 and Leslie speaker onsite for gigs. The keyboardists were VERY talented. Trout's singing was good as he could surely put the feeling into a blues tune whether it was one of his own, or a cover song. Unfortunately, as a player, he left something more to be desired, repeating similar blues bending phrases and trying to sound like Buddy Guy (playing a Stratocaster through a cranked amp).
But, in the end, he just seemed to repeat something that has already been done before in the realm of Chicago blues. Trying to sound like Guy, Hendrix or Clapton, but, not really picking up with a keen listener's ear stylistically. Despite that, it was a good show, although a late one as I did not stay for the ending songs due to time constraints. The opening act (not sure of their name), played for way too long and that kind of botched things. A good gig, yes. But, there could have been more musically to satisfy me.
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