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Walter Trout picks 10 essential blues albums We mapped it out, let’s give it a shot and at the end I yelled to Eric ‘Did you record that?’ and he said, ‘Yeah!’ and we all laughed and said, ‘No need to do that over again’.” I sat down and kinda goofed around with both, I came up with the title track and I thought, ‘This is right up his alley, he’s gonna blaze on this thing and I can blaze on this thing, too.’ He got off, man what you hear on the record is the first take - you hear the rehearsal! No overdubs, no fixes, spontaneous. I had two ideas: we do a slow, minor blues or a heavy blues rockin’ tune. Joe’s done a lot of albums of blues, but I think of him as a blues-rocker he kinda starts with the blues and he takes it somewhere else. You wrote each track specifically with the guest artist in mind - how did that work out? I got it to the label two months late because of the problems of scheduling.” Me, it was just write a song, record the track and there we go. She had to let the producer know that he had to send a track to this guy at this studio… that was the hard part. She had to get in touch with all these guys, find out where they were going to be on what day and when they would have time to do it, then she’d have to find them a studio, an engineer and set the whole thing up.
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That was a logistical nightmare, because all these guys are touring, so I left that up to my wife.
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“There are 14 guests: four of them were in the studio with us, the other 10 we had to send them the track and they sent it back. So many of the featured musicians recorded their parts remotely? So I couldn’t approach it the same way, this had to be done with modern technology.” Kenny Wayne said he’d love to do it but he was in Louisiana, the same with Sonny Landreth. John Mayall came in the studio and we wrote two songs and recorded them in three hours, y’know? This one, I couldn’t do that. So I said, ‘No, this is a certain concept I’m trying’, I don’t think it had ever been done before. “I had some guys who wanted to be on Full Circle but they told me they couldn’t get to LA. This one, it wasn’t going to happen like that. Full Circle had a certain concept behind it and it was this: ‘Hey, man - you come in the studio, we set up, you and I sit down, we write a song together and we record it with the band’. You’ve collaborated with other musicians before, on your album Full Circle. (Image credit: Marie Trout) Circling back “Then I was in LA and I did a video for The Supersonic Blues Machine and we went out and had dinner and I was sitting there with Warren Haynes and Robben Ford and I happened to mention to those guys, ‘Whaddya think?’ and they said, ‘Yeah… Let’s do it!’ Now all of a sudden I’m like, ‘Wow, this is shaping up’. We shared a dressing room and I just happened to talk to those guys. Then I played in Toronto at the Jeff Healy memorial show and Sonny Landreth and Randy Bachman were there. I did a gig at Carnegie Hall with Edger Winter and Kenny Wayne Shepherd and we were sitting around in the dressing room and I just happened to say, ‘Hey, it would be great to record something together,’ and they went, ‘Yeah, yeah, it would be great…’ I thought that was two great guys to have on a record. “They’re all friends of mine, but I didn’t start off with the idea of doing a whole album of duets. Where exactly do you start with an undertaking like this one?