Walter Trout was a jobbing lead guitarist for the likes of John Lee Hooker and Big Mama Thornton before joining Canned Heat in the early 1980s and John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers in 1985. In 1989 he embarked on a solo career. He's released eight albums with the Walter Trout Band, five albums with Walter Trout and the Radicals, and 12 under the name Walter Trout.