The Modern Modelling Magazine no 15

Walter Trout : 'Blues For The Modern Daze' represents the guitar legend returning to his core blues roots; creating his first blues album in 23 years as a bandleader. Trout shares that his inspiration for the album: 'was the country bluesman Blind Willie Johnson'. His music is so beautiful, primal, direct and deeply spiritual that I wanted to feel it at my back when we were cutting these songs'. These songs represent his songwriting and music at at the zenith of his creative and personal growth.

Myths are usually seen as stories from the depths of time—fun and fantastical, but no longer believed by anyone. Yet, as Philip Ball shows, we are still writing them—and still living them—today. From Robinson Crusoe and Frankenstein to Batman, many stories written in the past few centuries are commonly, perhaps glibly, called "modern myths." But Ball argues that we should take that idea seriously.