Blues Breaking: John Mayall, Walter Trout to reunite at Tahoe

John Mayall shares the bill at Tahoe on Dec. 17 with Walter Trout.

John Mayall and Walter Trout will share a stage at Lake Tahoe with their respective bands.

The Blues Survivors Tour stops at the MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa on Friday, Dec. 17, according to Brent Harding of Devildog Productions. Tickets will be $30 and $40.

Other venues are Livermore’s Bankhead Theater on Dec. 16 and The Canyon in Montclair on Dec. 12 and The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano on Dec. 10.

Trout, 70, was the lead guitarist in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers from 1984-89. After going solo, Trout has released 29 albums. He is the 2021 Blues Music Awards recipient of Song of the Year for “All Out of Tears.”

A Blues Hall of Fame member, Mayall, 87, was the first blues player to gain international acclaim as a rock star.

He has a long history of playing alongside talented guitarists. Eric Clapton was the original lead guitarist with the Bluesbreakers. Clapton left to start Cream and was replaced by Peter Green, who later started Fleetwood Mac. Then Mick Taylor joined the group before joining the Rolling Stones.

Mayall’s new guitarist in 2021 is 62-year-old Chicagoan Melvin Taylor, who has replaced Carolyn Wonderland.

Walter Trout played at Lake Tahoe in 2018. Tahoe Onstage photo by Larry Sabo

ABOUT Tim Parsons

Tim Parsons
Tim Parsons is the editor of Tahoe Onstage who first moved to Lake Tahoe in 1992. Before starting Tahoe Onstage in 2013, he worked for 29 years at newspapers, including the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Eureka Times-Standard and Contra Costa Times. He was the recipient of the 2011 Keeping the Blues Alive award for Journalism.

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