Photo courtesy of Alessandro Solca
Photo courtesy of Alessandro Solca

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 Photo courtesy of Alessandro Solca

Everyone's has got a mission to accomplish, in life. Such mission may often be something that we don't choose willingly, but it is something that can be dictated, from time to time, by circumstances that make a decisive impact in our adult life.
 
There is no doubts at all that somebody who knows, sadly, very well how much some traumas and abuses may leave an indelible token on personal lives is the talented American Blues-Rock Guitar Maestro and singer-songwriter Walter Trout, one of the most loved and respected torchbearers of the genre worldwide.
 

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One of the most interesting and encouraging growth in the history and tradition of Italian music of the last four decades comes, year after year, from an increasing amount of artists expressing their love for their own local roots, not only through lyrics narrating ordinary tales of daily lives of the past and present but also by singing in the dialect of their own regions, as a way to preserve their multi-centenary heritage from a modern society that, too often, has got the tendency to nullify and erase everything that doesn't fit the suffocating rhythms that life imposes on all of us every day.

To be perfectly honest, it doesn't take that much to fall in love at first glance to a record like La Grande Corsa Verso Lupionòpolis (The Great Run Towards Lupionòpolis) from Peppe Voltarelli, one of the most exciting Italian singer/songwriters even if you may not understand a word neither of Italian language nor of Calabria's (Italian Southern Region) local dialect.

Read more: Peppe Voltarelli - La Grande Corsa Verso Lupionòpolis

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It gets rather difficult, in the contemporary music scene, to find an artist with a career span of 50-plus years and 30 albums recorded as a solo artist, still willing to work as hard as the legendary Blues/Rock guitarist and singer/songwriter Walter Trout does on each and every record.

Unanimously considered by the music press and Trout's fellow colleague artists as one of the most gifted and talented torchbearers of Blues/Rock of this generation, there is quite nobody like the American artist, in this genre, able to deliver bodies of work of such imperious emotional intensity and enormous creative form, just as Trout has done again on his brand new album, called Broken.

Read more: Walter Trout - Broken