The Pond At The 4th (Again!)

Blipped this tree several times before, I know, but couldn't resist the still reflections today. Took the warmth down a bit.

Walter Trout was really impressive last night, both musically and when talking about the liver disease that brought him within two hours of dying before he received the transplant that saved his life.

His appreciation of how lucky he was, in his words, to have another chance to be a musician, a father (his eldest son was playing with him on stage and they were having a ball) and a husband came across really genuinely and he made an impassioned plea for people to become donors before his final number.

He explained how he was originally being treated in LA, where only 18 out of 100 people on the liver transplant waiting list survive; his wife discovered that in Omaha, Nebraska, the statistics were 82 out of 100 and physically moved him there herself. A staggering difference

An uplifting evening, in more ways than one