81} Derek Trucks

 

Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter and founder of the Grammy Award winning The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999 and formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010 with his wife Susan Tedeschi. His musical style encompasses several genres and he has twice appeared on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

Early life

A young Trucks (right) with musician Livingston Taylor
Photo by Carl Lender

Trucks was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. According to Trucks, the name of Eric Clapton's band, Derek and the Dominos, had "something to do with the name [Derek] if not the spelling”. The name is also disputed to be a simple mispronunciation of Clapton's first name.
Trucks bought his first guitar at a yard sale for $5 at age nine and became a child prodigy who played his first paid performance at age 11. Trucks began playing the guitar using a "slide" bar because it allowed him to play the guitar despite his small, young hands. By his 13th birthday Trucks had played alongside Buddy Guy and gone on tour with Thunderhawk.

Career  

Trucks formed The Derek Trucks Band in 1996, and by his twentieth birthday he had played with such artists as Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh and Stephen Stills. After performing with The Allman Brothers Band for several years as a guest musician, Trucks became a formal member in 1999 and appeared on the albums Live at the Beacon Theatre, Hittin' the Note and One Way Out (album). In 2006 Trucks began a studio collaboration with Eric Clapton called The Road to Escondido and performed with three bands in 17 different countries that year. Trucks was invited to perform at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival and after the festival he toured as part of Clapton's band.

Trucks built a studio in his home in January 2008, and he and his band recorded the album Already Free. Trucks and his wife, Susan Tedeschi, combined their bands to form the Soul Stew Revival in 2007 and performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June 2008. In late 2009, Trucks and his band went on hiatus and then dissolved. In 2010, Trucks formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife. On January 8, 2014, Trucks announced that he and fellow guitarist Warren Haynes planned to leave the Allman Brothers Band at the end of 2014.  The band subsequently announced their retirement, with Trucks playing as a member up through their final show on October 28, 2014 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

Musical style

Trucks credits guitarist Duane Allman and blues man Elmore James as the two slide guitarists that influenced his early style but has since been inspired by John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf and Albert King, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Wayne Shorter, Toy Caldwell, Freddie King and B.B. King.

His music is reported to encompass categories such as jam band, Southern rock and jazz  while simultaneously being rooted in the blues and rock genres. Trucks plays an eclectic blend of blues, soul, jazz, rock, qawwali music (a genre of music from Pakistan and Eastern India), Latin music, and other kinds of world music Trucks became a fan of Ali Akbar Khan and studied at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael.


Trucks playing a resonator guitar
Photo by Xophersmith

Trucks often plays the guitar in an open E tuning using the Dunlop Blues Bottle slide. In 2006, two vintage (1965 and 1968) Fender Super Reverb amplifiers, a Hammond B-3 organ, two Leslie speaker cabinets and a Hohner E-7 Clavinet were stolen from Trucks and later recovered by the Atlanta police department.

Reception

Trucks has appeared twice in Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He was listed as 81st in 2003 and 16th in 2011. An article in the Wall Street Journal described him as "the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today". In 2007, Trucks appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone for an article called the "New Guitar Gods". Trucks is reported to be a creative guitarist and according to his uncle, Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, "He never does the same thing twice". An article in The Washington Post described Trucks' guitar style as "notes and chords that soar, slice and glide, sounding like a cross between Duane Allman on a '61 Gibson Les Paul and John Coltrane on tenor sax". The Derek Trucks Band's album Already Free debuted at No. 19 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart, and No. 1 on the Internet chart, No. 4 on the Rock chart and No. 1 on the Blues chart.

In 2010, The Derek Trucks Band won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for the album Already Free. In 2012, Trucks and Tedeschi as the Tedeschi Trucks Band won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album for the band's debut album Revelator. On February 12, 2012, Trucks accepted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award along with ten other members of The Allman Brothers Band. On February 21, Derek Trucks and his wife joined other blues musicians for a performance at the White House for President Obama and his guests.

Private life

Trucks' uncle, Butch, is a founding member and drummer of The Allman Brothers Band. His great-uncle, Virgil Trucks, was a professional baseball player. In 2001, Trucks married singer and musician, Susan Tedeschi, and they had a son in March 2002 and a daughter in 2004.
Trucks is an avid fan of the Atlanta Braves and his hometown Jacksonville Jaguars.

Discography

With the Derek Trucks Band

    The Derek Trucks Band (1997)
    Out of the Madness (1998)
    Joyful Noise (2002)
    Soul Serenade (2003)
    Live at Georgia Theatre (2004)
    Songlines (2006) (Legacy Recordings)
    Songlines Live (DVD) (2006) (Legacy Recordings)
    Live at Sioux Falls Jazz and Blues Festival (2007)
    Already Free (2009) (Legacy Recordings)
    Roadsongs (2010)

With the Allman Brothers Band

    Peakin' at the Beacon (2000)
    Hittin' the Note (2003)
    One Way Out (2004)

With The Tedeschi Trucks Band

    Revelator (2011)
    Everybody's Talkin' (2012)
    Made Up Mind (2013)

Collaborations

    1994: Storm Warning, Tinsley Ellis
    1996: To Cry You A Song: A Tull Tale, various artists/Cat's Squirrel (with Charlie Musselwhite, Clive Bunker, Mick Abrahams)
    1996: The Circle, Planet Earth/Carey Nall
    1996: Come on in This House, Junior Wells
    1997: Searching for Simplicity, Gregg Allman
    1999: Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends, Gov't Mule
    2000: Croakin' at Toad's, Frogwings
    2001: Project Z, Project Z
    2002: Live in the Classic City, Widespread Panic
    2002: Wait For Me, Susan Tedeschi
    2003: Little Worlds, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
    2005: The Best Kept Secret, Jerry Douglas
    2005: Hope and Desire, Susan Tedeschi
    2006: The Road to Escondido, JJ Cale, Eric Clapton Reprise
    2008: Skin Deep, Buddy Guy
    2008: Here and Gone, David Sanborn
    2008: Sidewalk Caesars, Scrapomatic
    2008: The Blues Roll On, Elvin Bishop
    2008: Back to the River, Susan Tedeschi
    2008: Lifeboat, Jimmy Herring
    2008: Guitars (McCoy Tyner album), McCoy Tyner
    2010: The Imagine Project, Herbie Hancock
    2010: Clapton (Eric Clapton album), Eric Clapton


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