THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''ALREADY FREE''
JANUARY 13 2009
54:59
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01 - Down In The Flood 05:02 (Bob Dylan)
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass - Derek Trucks
Clavinet, Electric Piano (Wurlitzer), Piano, Organ (Hammond B-3) - Kofi Burbridge
Drums, Percussion - Yonrico Scott
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion - Count M'Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
02 - Something To Make You Happy 05:01 (Paul Pena)
Bass - Todd Smallie
Co-producer - Doyle Bramhall II
Drums, Percussion - Yonrico Scott
Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals - Doyle Bramhall II
Guitar-Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3), Clavinet - Kofi Burbridge
Percussion - Count M’Butu
03 - Maybe This Time (Featuring Doyle Bramhall II) 05:04 (Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II)
Bass - Ted Pecchio
Drums - Tyler Greenwell
Guitar - Derek Trucks, Eric Krasno
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Doyle Bramhall II
Organ (Hammond B-3), Clavinet - Kofi Burbridge
04 - Sweet Inspiration 04:37 (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn)
Backing Vocals - Susan Tedeschi
Bass, Vocals - Todd Smallie
Guitar, Drums - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3), Vocals - Kofi Burbridge
Percussion, Vocals - Yonrico Scott
05 - Don't Miss Me 04:16 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Bass - Ted Pecchio
Drums - Tyler Greenwell
Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3) - Kofi Burbridge
06 - Get What You Deserve 03:33 (Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Mike Mattison)
Drums - Yonrico Scott
Guitar, Vocals - Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion, Vocals - Count M’Butu
Vocals - Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie
07 - Our Love 05:18 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar - Derek Trucks
Bass - Oteil Burbridge
Bass (Moog), Piano, Organ (Hammond B-3) - Kofi Burbridge
Co-producer - Doyle Bramhall II
Drums, Percussion - Tyler Greenwell, Yonrico Scott
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar - Doyle Bramhall II
Percussion - Count M’Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
08 - Down Don't Bother Me 05:06 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Bass, Vocals - Todd Smallie
Drums, Vocals - Yonrico Scott
Electric Piano (Wurlitzer), Organ (Hammond B-3), Vocals - Kofi Burbridge
Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion - Count M’Butu
Vocals - Susan Tedeschi
09 - Days Is Almost Gone 05:12 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison)
Bass, Vocals - Todd Smallie
Drums, Vocals - Yonrico Scott
Electric Piano (Wurlitzer), Organ (Hammond B-3), Vocals - Kofi Burbridge
Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion, Vocals - Count M’Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
10 - Back Where I Started 04:20 (Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes)
Acoustic Guitar, Sarod - Derek Trucks
Bass - Ted Pecchio
Lead Vocals - Susan Tedeschi
Percussion - Tyler Greenwell
11 - I Know 04:39 (M. Smith, James Taylor)
Bass - Todd Smallie
Drums - Yonrico Scott
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3), Electric Piano (Wurlitzer) - Kofi Burbridge
Percussion - Count M’Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
12 - Already Free 02:46 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion - Bobby Tis, Duane Trucks
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
For 12 years, the Derek Trucks Band have been issuing records (live and studio) that are long on fire, improvisation, and inspiration. Trucks' own skillful leadership has seamlessly melded rock, blues, jazz, and Eastern Indian modal music in a brew that is uniquely his own. Perhaps this is what makes Already Free both an anomaly and a natural extension of the DTB; if anything, it resembles Delaney & Bonnie's records of the late '60s and early '70s -- Home, To Bonnie from Delaney -- or the self-titled debuts of Bobby Whitlock and Eric Clapton. There is a homegrown organic looseness to these proceedings that sets the album apart from all of Trucks' previous offerings. Perhaps that's because it was recorded at home -- literally in a home studio with the DTB and/or their guests playing live from the floor much of the time. Trucks is still accompanied by his longtime mates: Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott, Count Mbutu, and vocalist Mike Mattison. But there are some close friends and family as guests, including -- but not limited to -- Trucks' wife Susan Tedeschi, Doyle Bramhall II, and a horn section and various rhythm players.
The material is stellar. The covers include an opening reading of Bob Dylan's "Down in the Flood," with the horn section getting down deep into the grittier and bluesier aspects of the tune. It features some brilliant work by Burbridge on the clavinet, Wurlitzer piano, and B-3; Trucks handles monster acoustic and electric slide work and Mattison's vocal is stellar. It all comes off soulfully, authentically, and utterly real. Next is a deeply funky cover of the late Paul Pena's "Something to Make You Happy." Another standout is a gospel-blues reading of the Spooner Oldham-Dan Penn classic "Sweet Inspiration," with an intro that sounds like it came straight from Memphis. Mattison and Tedeschi's vocals don't sound like Delaney & Bonnie's, but they feel like them. The hand percussion laid on top of the rhythm section with Trucks' melodic slide break becomes a third voice as it digs directly into the B-3.
That all said, the originals are solid to boot. Check out the funky Allen Toussaint-esque rhythm backdrop on "Maybe This Time," with a brilliant vocal performance by Bramhall; the savage, gritty, and greasy slide blues of "Don't Miss Me," with its twin guitar interplay; and the raucous house-rocking groove of "Get What You Deserve." Tedeschi takes a lead vocal turn on the deeply moving ballad "Back Where I Started," near the album's end. It was co-written by Trucks with Warren Haynes; only her husband backs her on acoustic guitar and dobro, with a rhythm section. The droning Indian instrument ushers in "I Know," an old R&B shouter associated with Big Maybelle. But Trucks' electric slide, the B-3, the horns, and Mattison's gravelly soul vocal add to its dimension quickly and convincingly. In sum, this is another side of the DTB, but one that feels like a natural extension of the group's live persona. Its careful attention to feel creates a vibe that is altogether missing from the vast majority of recordings made in the last 30 years, yet it sounds timeless -- not retro -- because of the expert, tasteful nature of the playing and recording. Already Free is not only an excellent entry in the Trucks catalog; it's a stone killer that should be filed with the aforementioned titles, the first two Black Crowes records, the Faces' A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse, and Rod Stewart's Mercury material.
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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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''ALREADY FREE''
JANUARY 13 2009
54:59
**********
01 - Down In The Flood 05:02 (Bob Dylan)
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass - Derek Trucks
Clavinet, Electric Piano (Wurlitzer), Piano, Organ (Hammond B-3) - Kofi Burbridge
Drums, Percussion - Yonrico Scott
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion - Count M'Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
02 - Something To Make You Happy 05:01 (Paul Pena)
Bass - Todd Smallie
Co-producer - Doyle Bramhall II
Drums, Percussion - Yonrico Scott
Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals - Doyle Bramhall II
Guitar-Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3), Clavinet - Kofi Burbridge
Percussion - Count M’Butu
03 - Maybe This Time (Featuring Doyle Bramhall II) 05:04 (Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II)
Bass - Ted Pecchio
Drums - Tyler Greenwell
Guitar - Derek Trucks, Eric Krasno
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Doyle Bramhall II
Organ (Hammond B-3), Clavinet - Kofi Burbridge
04 - Sweet Inspiration 04:37 (Spooner Oldham, Dan Penn)
Backing Vocals - Susan Tedeschi
Bass, Vocals - Todd Smallie
Guitar, Drums - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3), Vocals - Kofi Burbridge
Percussion, Vocals - Yonrico Scott
05 - Don't Miss Me 04:16 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Bass - Ted Pecchio
Drums - Tyler Greenwell
Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3) - Kofi Burbridge
06 - Get What You Deserve 03:33 (Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Mike Mattison)
Drums - Yonrico Scott
Guitar, Vocals - Derek Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion, Vocals - Count M’Butu
Vocals - Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie
07 - Our Love 05:18 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar - Derek Trucks
Bass - Oteil Burbridge
Bass (Moog), Piano, Organ (Hammond B-3) - Kofi Burbridge
Co-producer - Doyle Bramhall II
Drums, Percussion - Tyler Greenwell, Yonrico Scott
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals, Acoustic Guitar - Doyle Bramhall II
Percussion - Count M’Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
08 - Down Don't Bother Me 05:06 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Bass, Vocals - Todd Smallie
Drums, Vocals - Yonrico Scott
Electric Piano (Wurlitzer), Organ (Hammond B-3), Vocals - Kofi Burbridge
Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion - Count M’Butu
Vocals - Susan Tedeschi
09 - Days Is Almost Gone 05:12 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison)
Bass, Vocals - Todd Smallie
Drums, Vocals - Yonrico Scott
Electric Piano (Wurlitzer), Organ (Hammond B-3), Vocals - Kofi Burbridge
Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion, Vocals - Count M’Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
10 - Back Where I Started 04:20 (Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes)
Acoustic Guitar, Sarod - Derek Trucks
Bass - Ted Pecchio
Lead Vocals - Susan Tedeschi
Percussion - Tyler Greenwell
11 - I Know 04:39 (M. Smith, James Taylor)
Bass - Todd Smallie
Drums - Yonrico Scott
Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Organ (Hammond B-3), Electric Piano (Wurlitzer) - Kofi Burbridge
Percussion - Count M’Butu
Saxophone (Tenor) - Mace Hibbard
Trombone - Kevin Hyde
Trumpet - Paul Garrett
12 - Already Free 02:46 (Derek Trucks, Mike Mattison)
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar - Derek Trucks
Lead Vocals, Backing Vocals - Mike Mattison
Percussion - Bobby Tis, Duane Trucks
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
For 12 years, the Derek Trucks Band have been issuing records (live and studio) that are long on fire, improvisation, and inspiration. Trucks' own skillful leadership has seamlessly melded rock, blues, jazz, and Eastern Indian modal music in a brew that is uniquely his own. Perhaps this is what makes Already Free both an anomaly and a natural extension of the DTB; if anything, it resembles Delaney & Bonnie's records of the late '60s and early '70s -- Home, To Bonnie from Delaney -- or the self-titled debuts of Bobby Whitlock and Eric Clapton. There is a homegrown organic looseness to these proceedings that sets the album apart from all of Trucks' previous offerings. Perhaps that's because it was recorded at home -- literally in a home studio with the DTB and/or their guests playing live from the floor much of the time. Trucks is still accompanied by his longtime mates: Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott, Count Mbutu, and vocalist Mike Mattison. But there are some close friends and family as guests, including -- but not limited to -- Trucks' wife Susan Tedeschi, Doyle Bramhall II, and a horn section and various rhythm players.
The material is stellar. The covers include an opening reading of Bob Dylan's "Down in the Flood," with the horn section getting down deep into the grittier and bluesier aspects of the tune. It features some brilliant work by Burbridge on the clavinet, Wurlitzer piano, and B-3; Trucks handles monster acoustic and electric slide work and Mattison's vocal is stellar. It all comes off soulfully, authentically, and utterly real. Next is a deeply funky cover of the late Paul Pena's "Something to Make You Happy." Another standout is a gospel-blues reading of the Spooner Oldham-Dan Penn classic "Sweet Inspiration," with an intro that sounds like it came straight from Memphis. Mattison and Tedeschi's vocals don't sound like Delaney & Bonnie's, but they feel like them. The hand percussion laid on top of the rhythm section with Trucks' melodic slide break becomes a third voice as it digs directly into the B-3.
That all said, the originals are solid to boot. Check out the funky Allen Toussaint-esque rhythm backdrop on "Maybe This Time," with a brilliant vocal performance by Bramhall; the savage, gritty, and greasy slide blues of "Don't Miss Me," with its twin guitar interplay; and the raucous house-rocking groove of "Get What You Deserve." Tedeschi takes a lead vocal turn on the deeply moving ballad "Back Where I Started," near the album's end. It was co-written by Trucks with Warren Haynes; only her husband backs her on acoustic guitar and dobro, with a rhythm section. The droning Indian instrument ushers in "I Know," an old R&B shouter associated with Big Maybelle. But Trucks' electric slide, the B-3, the horns, and Mattison's gravelly soul vocal add to its dimension quickly and convincingly. In sum, this is another side of the DTB, but one that feels like a natural extension of the group's live persona. Its careful attention to feel creates a vibe that is altogether missing from the vast majority of recordings made in the last 30 years, yet it sounds timeless -- not retro -- because of the expert, tasteful nature of the playing and recording. Already Free is not only an excellent entry in the Trucks catalog; it's a stone killer that should be filed with the aforementioned titles, the first two Black Crowes records, the Faces' A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse, and Rod Stewart's Mercury material.
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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
**********
WEBSITE
**********
TO THE TOP
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