Derek Trucks

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Derek Trucks

Trucks playing slide on his Gibson SG in 2009
Background information
Born (1979-06-08) June 8, 1979 (age 32)
Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Genres Blues rock, world music, Southern rock
Occupations Musician, songwriter
Instruments Guitar, sarod
Years active 1990–present
Labels Columbia, Legacy Recordings
Associated acts The Allman Brothers Band
The Derek Trucks Band
Soul Stew Revival
Tedeschi Trucks Band
Website www.derektrucks.com
Notable instruments
Gibson SG '61 Reissue

Derek Trucks is an American guitarist, songwriter and founder of the Grammy Award winning[1] 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 Stones' list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.

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[edit] Early life

Trucks at early age, sitting with Livingston Taylor
Trucks on stage at early age

Trucks was born June 8, 1979, in Jacksonville, Florida. His uncle, Butch, is a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band[2] and 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”.[3] His younger brother, Duane, is a drummer[citation needed] and his great-uncle, Virgil Trucks, was a professional baseball player.[4]

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.[5][6] After taking lessons from his father and from Jim Graves, a well known local musician,[citation needed] Trucks began playing the guitar using a "slide" because it allowed him to play the guitar despite his small, young hands.[7]

Before his 13th birthday Trucks had "jammed" with Buddy Guy[8] and gone on tour with The Allman Brothers Band.[2][6]

[edit] Career
"Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad" (2007)
Sample of "Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad", performed by Eric Clapton's band featuring Derek Trucks, live at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival.
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Trucks formed The Derek Trucks Band in 1997 and[5][9] by his twentieth birthday, he had played with artists including Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh and Stephen Stills.[10] After performing with The Allman Brothers Band for several years as a guest musician, Trucks became a formal member in 1999 [5] and appeared on the albums Live at the Beacon Theatre and Hittin' the Note. In 2006 Trucks began a studio collaboration with Eric Clapton called The Road to Escondido and Trucks found himself performing with three bands in 17 different countries that year.[5] Trucks was invited to perform at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival and after the festival he toured as part of Clapton's band.[5][11]

Trucks built a studio in his home in January 2008 and he and his band recorded the album Already Free.[12] Truck's 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.[13][12][14][15][15] In late 2009, Trucks and his band went on hiatus and then dissolved. In 2010, Trucks formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife. [16][17][18]

[edit] Musical style

Trucks playing a resonator guitar
Trucks on stage in 2009

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,[19] Howlin' Wolf and Albert King, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Wayne Shorter, Freddy King and B.B. King. [19][20][citation needed]

His music is reported to encompass categories such as jam band, Southern rock and jazz [21] while simultaneously being rooted in the blues and rock genres.[22] 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[23] Trucks became a fan of Ali Akbar and studied at the Ali Akbar College of Music in San Rafael.[24][25]

[edit] Equipment

Trucks prefers a pure sounding guitar tone and uses a modified Gibson USA SG 1961 reissue with a modified tailpiece and an additional 'stopbar' tailpiece connected to his 1965 Fender Super Reverb amplifier with four Pyle Driver MH1020 speakers[citation needed] but uses Paul Reed Smith amplifiers when performing with The Allman Brothers Band.[26]

Trucks usually plays the slide guitar in an open E tuning[27] and uses special glass bottlenecks cut from antique bottles, or the Dunlop replica of the bottleneck style used by Duanne Allman. [11] Trucks is a fingerstyle guitarist, never using a plectrum ("pick"). his guitar strings with bare fingers and uses custom gauge DR nickel-wound strings on his Gibson SG and resonator guitars.[citation needed]

In 2006, some of Trucks equipment including two vintage (1965 and 1968) Fender Super Reverbs amplifiers, a Hammond B-3 organ, two Leslie speaker cabinets and a Höhner E-7 Clavinet) were stolen and later recovered by the Atlanta police department.[9]

[edit] Reception

Trucks performing with his wife

Trucks has appeared twice in Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". [28][23][29] 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".[25] In 2007, Trucks appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone for an article called the "New Guitar Gods".[20][dead link]Trucks is reported to be a creative guitarist and according to Allman Brothers drummer, Butch Trucks "He never does the same thing twice".[30][dead link]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".[31]

Truck's album Already Free debuted at #19 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart,[32] and #1 on the Internet chart, #4 on the Rock chart and #1 on the Blues chart.[32][12]

[edit] Personal life

In 2001, Trucks married his girlfriend, singer Susan Tedeschi, and they had their first child, Charles Khalil Trucks, in December 2001 and a daughter, Sophia Naima Trucks, in 2004.[33][34] [33][35]

[edit] Discography

[edit] With The Tedeschi Trucks Band

[edit] With the Derek Trucks Band

[edit] With the Allman Brothers Band

[edit] Collaborations

[edit] References

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  2. ^ a b "The Derek Trucks Band Artist Bio". Promotional talent biography. Entourage Talent Associates. http://www.entouragetalent.com/artists/thederektrucksband/. Retrieved 10 March 2010. 
  3. ^ Clash, Jim (2007). "Rocker Derek Trucks". Forbes Magazine's Adventurer Column. Forbes.com. pp. Video version. http://video.forbes.com/fvn/adventurer/jc_adv042407. Retrieved 2009-05-16. 
  4. ^ Gammons, Peter (2010-02-27). "Gammons: Music connects Trucks family Former Tigers great, kin share love of the game". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media,. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100227&content_id=8338702&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb. Retrieved 10 March 2010. 
  5. ^ a b c d e Tatangelo, Wade (4 January 2007). "Derek Trucks on playing with Allman, Clapton, Dylan". McClatchy Newspapers. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/news/article/9522/derek-trucks-on-playing-with-allman-clapton-dylan/. Retrieved 2008-06-04. 
  6. ^ a b Jambase (2009). "The Derek Trucks Band Biography". JamBase Inc.. http://www.jambase.com/Artists/369/The-Derek-Trucks-Band/Bio. Retrieved 2009-01-04. 
  7. ^ "Derek Trucks: At Guitar Center - Influences and Slide". Guitar Center TV. June 1, 2010. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqgJyjYPpVA. Retrieved 18 September 2010. 
  8. ^ Braiker, Brian (January 20, 2009). "Derek Trucks Q&A: Guitar Hero on Jamming With Legends and Covering Dylan". Rolling Stone Magazine. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/derek-trucks-q-a-guitar-hero-on-jamming-with-legends-and-covering-dylan-20090120. Retrieved 2009-05-21. 
  9. ^ a b Tennille, Andy (February 5, 2006). "Finding His Path". San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/05/PKGUJGTJCV1.DTL&hw=Derek+Trucks&sn=001&sc=1000. Retrieved 2008-10-26. 
  10. ^ Skelly, Richard (2006). "Derek Trucks: Biography". MSN Music. http://music.msn.com/music/artist-biography/derek-trucks/. Retrieved 2009-01-03. 
  11. ^ a b Leslie,, Jimmy (June 2009). "Derek Trucks (FEATURES: Blues) Interview". Guitar Player Magazine (New Bay Media). 
  12. ^ a b c Soul Stew Update Derek Trucks/Soul Stew Update
  13. ^ "Derek Trucks Band Live at That Tent, Bonnaroo on 2008-06-16". Soul Stew Revival. Internet Archive. June 16, 2008. http://www.archive.org/details/DTB2008-06-15.flac16. Retrieved 2008-08-12. 
  14. ^ Tennille, Andy, Jam Base Derek and Susan, It's a Family Thing Accessed 28 September 2008
  15. ^ a b Bryson, Alan (June 7, 2010). "Susan Tedeschi: Dreams and Legends". Interview with Susan Tedeschi in. All About Jazz. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36591&pg=3#4. Retrieved 30 March 2011. 
  16. ^ Bryson, Alan. "Susan Tedeschi: Dreams and Legends". All About Jazz. http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=36591&pg=3#4. Retrieved June 7, 2010. 
  17. ^ "Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Reveal Band Lineup". Jam Base.com. March 29, 2010. http://www.jambase.com/Articles/22088/Derek-Trucks-and-Susan-Tedeschi-Reveal-Band-Lineup. Retrieved 6 October 2010. 
  18. ^ "The Derek Trucks Band Come To The End Of The Road..... For Now". Nightwatcher's House of Rock. Sunday, July 4, 2010. http://nightwatchershouseofrock.blogspot.com/2010/07/derek-trucks-band-come-to-end-of-road.html. Retrieved 24 April 2011. 
  19. ^ a b Fricke, David (February 12, 2007). "The New Guitar Gods Mayer, Frusciante, Trucks on their Inspirations". Video and front page interview as one of the new "Guitar Gods" naming Trucks as the "Jam King". Rolling Stone magazine issue #1020. http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/rs-cover-shoots/exclusive-video-the-guitar-gods-speak-20070212. Retrieved 3 March 2012. 
  20. ^ a b Fricke, David (February 22, 2007). "The New Guitar Gods: John Mayer, John Frusciante and Derek Trucks". Rolling Stone Magazine. pp. Issue #1020. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/the_new_guitar_gods_john_mayer_john_frusciante_derek_trucks. Retrieved 2008-08-09. 
  21. ^ "Derek Trucks Band On Mountain Stage". Interview and Band Performance on National Public Radio. 2009 NPR. May 11, 2009. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103981893. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
  22. ^ Machosky, Michael (August 19, 2009). "Derek Trucks backs luck with hard work". Pittsburgh Tribune Review. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/ae/music/s_639078.html. Retrieved 2009-09-04. 
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  24. ^ Bhattacharya, Sumit (13 February 2006). "New rock guitar god is Indian shishya". http://www.rediff.com/movies/2007/feb/13derek.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-01. 
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  26. ^ [1][dead link]
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  28. ^ Rolling Stone Magazine The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time 2003-08-27
  29. ^ last.fm The Derek Trucks Band On Tour
  30. ^ Wright, Jeb (2009). "The Moogis Industry: An Exclusive Interview with Butch Trucks". Classicrockrevisited.com. http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/interviewbutchtrucks09.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  31. ^ Suarez, Ernest (May 29, 2009). "'Already Free,' Trucks Rolls On The Guitar Hero Pays Homage to the Past". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/28/AR2009052801213.html. Retrieved 2009-10-03. 
  32. ^ a b WNEW; CBS Radio, Inc. (2008). "Where Rock Lives; Derek Trucks Band". Derek, Conan and Cash. CBS Broadcasting. http://www.wnew.com/derek_trucks_band/. Retrieved 2009-11-17. 
  33. ^ a b Mayshark, Jesse Fox Mayshark (March 5, 2006). "MUSIC; Ramblin' Man and Woman, Married With Kids". Arts. The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C07EED71631F936A35750C0A9609C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2. Retrieved 2009-10-13. 
  34. ^ "Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Soul Stew Revival". JamBase.com. 2007. http://www.jambase.com/Artists/51672/Derek-Trucks-and-Susan-Tedeschi-Soul-Stew-Revival/Bio. Retrieved 2009-05-16. 
  35. ^ Spies, Jessica (July 16, 2010). "An Allman Brother does his own thing". The Patriot Ledger. http://www.patriotledger.com/entertainment/music/x1005404236/An-Allman-Brother-does-his-own-thing. Retrieved 29 August 2010. 

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