Cheap Relentless (Music) (Walter Trout) Price

New Jersey native and California resident Trout is an established guitar star in Europe and he capitalizes on that fact on "Relentless," ripping through a live session of original material in front of an enthusiastic Amsterdam audience. Trout, as the title states, is a relentless guitarist with an aggressive and energetic style. On his seventh album he and his backing trio the Radicals deliver another solid, if admittedly sometimes less than sensational, exercise in well-played rocking blues, with the emphasis on rocking. Trout paid his blues dues working with John Lee Hooker, Canned Heat, and John Mayall but his hard and heavy sound is rooted in rock guitar showmanship. Fortunately he has the licks to keep it interesting, although when things get too frantic, such as on the overkill album closer "Mercy," it's difficult to discern the blues base of the music. Trout does slow down briefly, turning in the short acoustic tune "Lonely Tonight," but for the vast majority of the time the music is loud, lively, and barely blue. --Michael Point

ARTIST:	Walter Trout
CATEGORY:	Music
MANUFACTURER:	Ruf (Idn)
TYPE:	Blues, Pop
MEDIA:	Audio CD
TRACKS:	I'm Tired, Life I Chose, Jericho Road, Work No More, Talk to Ya, Cry if You Want To, Chatroom Girl, My Heart Is True, Lonely Tonight, Helpin' Hand, Collingswood, Empty Eyes, Best You Got, Mercy
UPC:	710347108320