Walter Trout | Broken

All of us are broken. But no-one is beyond repair. It's a philosophy that Walter Trout has lived by during seven volatile decades at the heart of America's society and blues-rock scene. Even now, with the world more fractured than ever - by politics, economics, social media and culture wars - the fabled US bluesman's latest album, Broken, chronicles the bitter schisms of modern life but refuses to succumb to them.

With gallows humour, Trout notes that his new album opens with a track called 'Broken' and ends with one called 'Falls Apart'. He can't deny the socio-political mood in the air, and as such, between those two bookends lie some of the most personal, bruised songs of his career (albeit twinned to some of his most rocking and defiant guitar work). Features guest appearances by Will Wilde, Dee Snider (Twisted Sister) and Beth Hart (on the title track).