Walter Trout at Melkweg, Amsterdam on 28 October 2026

Between 1981 and 1984 he was the lead guitarist in Canned Heat, and from 1984 to 1989 he held the same role in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. He left the Bluesbreakers in 1989 and formed the Walter Trout Band. In 1991 his song "The Love That We Once Knew" climbed the charts in the Netherlands. Performances at Park Pop and Pinkpop in the Netherlands followed. In 2019 his album Survivor Blues debuted with two consecutive weeks at number one on the Billboard Blues Chart.