Unspoiled by progress and unfettered by labels, Walter Trout looks back on a 20-year solo career with a keen sense of what makes a road band great. His group has been playing its heart out every night, pouring every ounce of energy into the music, electrifying audiences all over the world all the while maintaining integrity, musical kinship and, perhaps most importantly, good humor. Prior to taking his own band on the road, Walter Trout spent a few years with Canned Heat in the early '80s. He was asked to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers in 1984 and stayed until 1989. Since then, his quartet has been filling the blues bastions of Europe to the rafters, and Trout's name and music have been spreading across all 50 states for the last two decades. This is due largely to the majestic playing and profound passion experienced in the mostly live and live-in-the-studio recordings found on Unspoiled By Progress. The performances are previously unreleased, including three new songs - one of which, "They Call Us the Working Class," opens the album and promptly throws down the gauntlet. With its terse riff and Trout's most impassioned vocals to date, the song's ire is directed at the economic state of the world, and the populist rampage explodes from chorus to chorus. It is perhaps his finest writing, thoroughly validating the album's title. The Bluesbreakers' classic "Somebody's Acting Like a Child" is the oldest recording, and it features Little Feat's Richie Hayward sitting in on dr