THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''SONGLINES LIVE, DISC TWO''
JULY 11 2006
135:00
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DISC ONE
01 - Joyful Noise 08:43 (Kofi Burbridge, Derek Trucks, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott, Javier Colon)
02 - Crow Jane 05:51 (Public Domain)
03 - Sahib Teri Bandi; Maki Madni 10:40 (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
04 - Volunteered Slavery 02:17 (Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
05 - I'll Find My Way 04:43 (Derek Trucks, Jay Joyce)
06 - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) 06:17 (Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas)
07 - Key To The Highway 06:43 (Big Bill Broonzy, Charles Segar)
08 - I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy 06:29 (Charles Hodges, Darryl Carter, Don Robey)
09 - All I Do 05:49 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
10 - Mahjoun; Greensleeves 09:57 (Derek Trucks);(Traditional)
*****
DISC TWO
01 - Sailing On 05:10 (Frederick Hibbert)
02 - Chevrolet 03:32 (Ed Young, Lonnie Young)
03 - Soul Serenade 05:21 (King Curtis, Luther Dixon)
04 - For My Brother 09:08 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
05 - Feel So Bad 07:38 (Lightnin' Hopkins)
06 - Let's Go Get Stoned 04:39 (Joseph Armstead, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
07 - Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything); Fat Mama 11:03 (Phil Upchurch, Ric Powell, Richard Evans); (Herbie Hancock)
08 - Anyday 07:52 (Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton)
09 - Maybe Your Baby 07:08 (Stevie Wonder)
10 - Up Above My Head 05:50 (Rosetta Tharpe)
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Kofi Burbridge - keyboards, flute, vocals
Count M'Butu - congas, percussion
Mike Mattison - lead vocals
Yonrico Scott - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Todd Smallie - bass, backing vocals
Derek Trucks - guitar
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
This is, perhaps, the one. Derek Trucks has been on an aesthetic quest for something since he began his own recording career in 1997 -- apart from his membership in the Allman Brothers Band. Each record has gone further into establishing Trucks not only as a slide guitar wizard (that happened when he was still in his teens), but also as a serious songwriter, fine arranger, and bandleader. The Derek Trucks Band, as evidenced by the release of 2003's Soul Serenade, is a unit -- a band -- whose core has been together for eight years. They create an atmosphere, a sound, a musical sense of place and community. On Live at the Georgia Theater (available only on the Internet), the DTB performed with new vocalist Mike Mattison, who gave them something they needed: a strong, utilitarian presence that could be as diverse and adventurous as the band was musically. This album's title, Songlines, was inspired by the late author Bruce Chatwin's description of aboriginal creation myths. According to these myths, the world was sung into existence by totemic elder beings who wandered the Australian continent along invisible pathways. These were later known as "songlines" because by singing out the names of everything -- trees, flowers, streams, animals, clouds, earth -- they breathed form, order, and beauty into a world that was being born. The DTB try to express something similar on their first real studio recording with assistance by producer Jay Joyce. This album was not recorded trying to capture a live performance in the confines of a studio. There are no tracks here that give way to loose jamming; these are songs. In fact, it was carefully crafted and executed. But the rawness, the energy, and the unpredictable musicality are everywhere present.
They are there in the brief read of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Volunteered Slavery" and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Sahib Teri Bandi/Maki Madni," both of which are live staples, and the slippery read of Toots Hibbert's "Sailing On" -- but also in the raw, rangy American street blues of "Chevrolet," by Lonnie and Ed Young, and the low-down seductive vintage funky R&B in "All I Do." Kofi Burbridge's Hammond B-3 and keyboard work create a center for Trucks and the formidable rhythm section of drummer Yonrico Scott, percussionist Count Mbutu, and Todd Smallie on in-the-pocket bass. The originals on the set are leaner, meaner, and more down in the groove -- check out the group vocal chants on the refrain of "Revolution," as Trucks slips and slides over them. The skittering funky organ lines and Trucks' twinned slide riff and edgy fills give "All I Do" its slippery backbone-dropping groove. "Majoun" (a Moroccan word for pot) is the kind of drifting, Eastern-tinged jazz that the band is known for playing live. And the fascination with the East doesn't end there. In the soul and gospel-drenched declamatory prayer "I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)," there is some fine Dobro work by Trucks and Burbridge's upright piano strides it out, before Trucks brings out the electric again and lets it slowly tear through the verse and chorus accompanied by handclaps. It's deeply moving. The set closes with "This Sky," a gently evolving open modal tune. Trucks' guitar is tuned to whole tones and he explores the mode thoroughly yet softly, mannered until he finds its bottom where bass, drums, the B-3, and percussion slip in to carry the tune. And as Mattison enters with the lyric (some of it by the Sufi poet Hafiz), the listener is already hooked in the image of the story, of suffering lovers who should be dancing in the ecstasy and beauty of the sky where they live. Songlines is the finest moment in the Derek Trucks Band's recording career. It's a fully mature, deeply reckoned studio album that bears repeated listening to reveal all its subtlety and the beauty of its creation.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Richard Skelly
Blues/blues-rock guitarist Derek Trucks is the nephew of longtime Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks. He displays a command of slide guitar styles running the gamut from blues to classic R&B and early rock & roll to classic jazz. Although blues players like Buddy Guy, Elmore James, and Duane Allman have been a strong influence on Trucks' slide guitar playing, so have pre-'70s jazz players like John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Sun Ra. Trucks began playing guitar when he was nine, and shared stages and sat in with the likes of Buddy Guy and the Allman Brothers Band by the time he was 12. Trucks began his professional career playing with blues bands around his native Jacksonville, Florida, and formed his own group in high school. Before the age of 20, Trucks had shared stages and jammed with Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, and Stephen Stills. The Derek Trucks Band, with members ranging in age from their twenties to their forties, released their self-titled debut album in 1997 on Landslide Records. Out of the Madness followed in late 1998. After the turn of the millennium, they released Joyful Noise (2002), Soul Serenade (2003), Live at Georgia Theatre (2004), and Songlines (2006). Already Free appeared from RCA in 2009. On June 22, 2010, the Derek Trucks Band released Roadsongs, which was recorded live in Chicago during the 2009 Already Free world tour. In addition to the album, Trucks and wife and guitar-slinging partner Susan Tedeschi formed a touring band, and appeared together on Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project album, singing the Matthew Moore classic "Space Captain." The Hancock recording was issued on the same day as Roadsongs. The pair's group, the Tedeschi-Trucks Band, was an 11-piece soul-blues ensemble also included Oteil and Kofi Burbridge, on bass and keyboards, respectively, and drummers J.J. Johnson and Tyler Greenwell. The unit signed to Sony and released their debut album Revelator on its Masterworks imprint in June of 2011.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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''SONGLINES LIVE, DISC TWO''
JULY 11 2006
135:00
**********
DISC ONE
01 - Joyful Noise 08:43 (Kofi Burbridge, Derek Trucks, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott, Javier Colon)
02 - Crow Jane 05:51 (Public Domain)
03 - Sahib Teri Bandi; Maki Madni 10:40 (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
04 - Volunteered Slavery 02:17 (Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
05 - I'll Find My Way 04:43 (Derek Trucks, Jay Joyce)
06 - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) 06:17 (Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas)
07 - Key To The Highway 06:43 (Big Bill Broonzy, Charles Segar)
08 - I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy 06:29 (Charles Hodges, Darryl Carter, Don Robey)
09 - All I Do 05:49 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
10 - Mahjoun; Greensleeves 09:57 (Derek Trucks);(Traditional)
*****
DISC TWO
01 - Sailing On 05:10 (Frederick Hibbert)
02 - Chevrolet 03:32 (Ed Young, Lonnie Young)
03 - Soul Serenade 05:21 (King Curtis, Luther Dixon)
04 - For My Brother 09:08 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
05 - Feel So Bad 07:38 (Lightnin' Hopkins)
06 - Let's Go Get Stoned 04:39 (Joseph Armstead, Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson)
07 - Voices Inside (Everything Is Everything); Fat Mama 11:03 (Phil Upchurch, Ric Powell, Richard Evans); (Herbie Hancock)
08 - Anyday 07:52 (Bobby Whitlock, Eric Clapton)
09 - Maybe Your Baby 07:08 (Stevie Wonder)
10 - Up Above My Head 05:50 (Rosetta Tharpe)
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Kofi Burbridge - keyboards, flute, vocals
Count M'Butu - congas, percussion
Mike Mattison - lead vocals
Yonrico Scott - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Todd Smallie - bass, backing vocals
Derek Trucks - guitar
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
This is, perhaps, the one. Derek Trucks has been on an aesthetic quest for something since he began his own recording career in 1997 -- apart from his membership in the Allman Brothers Band. Each record has gone further into establishing Trucks not only as a slide guitar wizard (that happened when he was still in his teens), but also as a serious songwriter, fine arranger, and bandleader. The Derek Trucks Band, as evidenced by the release of 2003's Soul Serenade, is a unit -- a band -- whose core has been together for eight years. They create an atmosphere, a sound, a musical sense of place and community. On Live at the Georgia Theater (available only on the Internet), the DTB performed with new vocalist Mike Mattison, who gave them something they needed: a strong, utilitarian presence that could be as diverse and adventurous as the band was musically. This album's title, Songlines, was inspired by the late author Bruce Chatwin's description of aboriginal creation myths. According to these myths, the world was sung into existence by totemic elder beings who wandered the Australian continent along invisible pathways. These were later known as "songlines" because by singing out the names of everything -- trees, flowers, streams, animals, clouds, earth -- they breathed form, order, and beauty into a world that was being born. The DTB try to express something similar on their first real studio recording with assistance by producer Jay Joyce. This album was not recorded trying to capture a live performance in the confines of a studio. There are no tracks here that give way to loose jamming; these are songs. In fact, it was carefully crafted and executed. But the rawness, the energy, and the unpredictable musicality are everywhere present.
They are there in the brief read of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's "Volunteered Slavery" and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's "Sahib Teri Bandi/Maki Madni," both of which are live staples, and the slippery read of Toots Hibbert's "Sailing On" -- but also in the raw, rangy American street blues of "Chevrolet," by Lonnie and Ed Young, and the low-down seductive vintage funky R&B in "All I Do." Kofi Burbridge's Hammond B-3 and keyboard work create a center for Trucks and the formidable rhythm section of drummer Yonrico Scott, percussionist Count Mbutu, and Todd Smallie on in-the-pocket bass. The originals on the set are leaner, meaner, and more down in the groove -- check out the group vocal chants on the refrain of "Revolution," as Trucks slips and slides over them. The skittering funky organ lines and Trucks' twinned slide riff and edgy fills give "All I Do" its slippery backbone-dropping groove. "Majoun" (a Moroccan word for pot) is the kind of drifting, Eastern-tinged jazz that the band is known for playing live. And the fascination with the East doesn't end there. In the soul and gospel-drenched declamatory prayer "I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel to Be Free)," there is some fine Dobro work by Trucks and Burbridge's upright piano strides it out, before Trucks brings out the electric again and lets it slowly tear through the verse and chorus accompanied by handclaps. It's deeply moving. The set closes with "This Sky," a gently evolving open modal tune. Trucks' guitar is tuned to whole tones and he explores the mode thoroughly yet softly, mannered until he finds its bottom where bass, drums, the B-3, and percussion slip in to carry the tune. And as Mattison enters with the lyric (some of it by the Sufi poet Hafiz), the listener is already hooked in the image of the story, of suffering lovers who should be dancing in the ecstasy and beauty of the sky where they live. Songlines is the finest moment in the Derek Trucks Band's recording career. It's a fully mature, deeply reckoned studio album that bears repeated listening to reveal all its subtlety and the beauty of its creation.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Richard Skelly
Blues/blues-rock guitarist Derek Trucks is the nephew of longtime Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks. He displays a command of slide guitar styles running the gamut from blues to classic R&B and early rock & roll to classic jazz. Although blues players like Buddy Guy, Elmore James, and Duane Allman have been a strong influence on Trucks' slide guitar playing, so have pre-'70s jazz players like John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Sun Ra. Trucks began playing guitar when he was nine, and shared stages and sat in with the likes of Buddy Guy and the Allman Brothers Band by the time he was 12. Trucks began his professional career playing with blues bands around his native Jacksonville, Florida, and formed his own group in high school. Before the age of 20, Trucks had shared stages and jammed with Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, and Stephen Stills. The Derek Trucks Band, with members ranging in age from their twenties to their forties, released their self-titled debut album in 1997 on Landslide Records. Out of the Madness followed in late 1998. After the turn of the millennium, they released Joyful Noise (2002), Soul Serenade (2003), Live at Georgia Theatre (2004), and Songlines (2006). Already Free appeared from RCA in 2009. On June 22, 2010, the Derek Trucks Band released Roadsongs, which was recorded live in Chicago during the 2009 Already Free world tour. In addition to the album, Trucks and wife and guitar-slinging partner Susan Tedeschi formed a touring band, and appeared together on Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project album, singing the Matthew Moore classic "Space Captain." The Hancock recording was issued on the same day as Roadsongs. The pair's group, the Tedeschi-Trucks Band, was an 11-piece soul-blues ensemble also included Oteil and Kofi Burbridge, on bass and keyboards, respectively, and drummers J.J. Johnson and Tyler Greenwell. The unit signed to Sony and released their debut album Revelator on its Masterworks imprint in June of 2011.
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BIOGRAPHY/WIKIPEDIA
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WEBSITE
**********
TO THE TOP
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