11930 - THE RIDES - PIERCED ARROW (DELUXE EDITION) (2016)

THE RIDES
''PIERCED ARROW (DELUXE EDITION)''
MAY 06 2016
61:54
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01 - Kick Out Of It 04:06 (Barry Goldberg, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stephen Stills)
02 - Riva Diva 03:21 (Barry Goldberg, Kevin McCormick, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stephen Stills)
03 - Virtual World 04:04 (Barry Goldberg, Kevin McCormick, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stephen Stills)
04 - By My Side 05:14 (Barry Goldberg, Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
05 - Mr. Policeman 04:04 (Barry Goldberg, Kevin McCormick, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stephen Stills)
06 - (I've Got To) Use My Imagination 06:15 (Gerald Goffin, Barry Goldberg)
07 - Game On 04:04 (Barry Goldberg, Kevin McCormick, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stephen Stills)
08 - I Need Your Lovin' 04:56 (Barry Goldberg, Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
09 - There Was A Place 04:40 (Barry Goldberg, Kevin McCormick, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Stephen Stills)
10 - My Babe 04:02 (Willie Dixon)
11 - Same Old Dog (Bonus Track) 05:03
12 - Born In Chicago (Bonus Track) 05:48
13 - Take Out Some Insurance (Bonus Track) 06:09
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Stephen Stills/Vocals, Guitar
Kenny Wayne Shepherd/Vocals, Guitar
Barry Goldberg/Keyboards
Chris Layton/Drums
Kevin McCormick/Bass Guitar
Stephanie Spruill/Backing Vocals
Raven Johnson/Backing Vocals
Kim Wilson/Harmonica
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REVIEW/AMG
Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Stephen Stills, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Barry Goldberg had enough fun with Can't Get Enough, their first album as the Rides, that they decided to knock out another one three years later. Called Pierced Arrow, the album is pretty similar to the 2013 debut. The two singer/guitarists duel with their six strings and trade off songs, allowing covers like Willie Dixon's classic "My Babe" into the mix. Stills still favors elastic structures graced by folky harmonies, a technique that doesn't feel strictly blues, but provides a nice counterpart to the straight-ahead Shepherd, who continues to favor 12-bar blues. This split echoes in the leads the two trade off: Stills winds his way around the fretboard while Shepherd spits out leads. Ultimately, it's this guitar interplay that's the attribute of Pierced Arrow. Some of the songs stick out – particularly, Stills' two attempts at social commentary, "Virtual World" and "Mr. Policeman," both of which would've fit on a CSN LP – but this is a record about instrumental interplay, not about songs.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Steve Leggett
A supergroup of sorts, the Rides are a blues-rock group consisting of Stephen Stills, formerly of Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young), and Manassas; Barry Goldberg, formerly a member of Electric Flag, and guitar wiz Kenny Wayne Shepherd. The trio's first album, Can't Get Enough, was released in the summer of 2013 and was modeled on the 1968 album Super Session, which both Stills and Goldberg played on along with the late guitarist Mike Bloomfield. Buoyed by the success of their debut album, Stills, Goldberg, and Shepherd returned to the studios to record their follow-up, Pierced Arrow. The album appeared in May 2016.
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11929 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - ROADSONGS, DISC TWO (2010)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''ROADSONGS, DISC TWO''
JUNE 22 2010
RECORDED APRIL 8 & 9 2009 AT CHICAGO'S WEST PARK
106:24
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DISC ONE
01 - I'll Find My Way 06:21 (Jay Joyce, Derek Trucks)
02 - Down In The Flood 06:31 (Bob Dylan)
03 - Sailing On 05:33 (Frederick Hibbert)
04 - Get What You Deserve 04:03 (Doyle Bramhall II, Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
05 - Days Is Almost Gone 05:34 (Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
06 - Already Free 05:49 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
07 - Afro Blue 14:30 (Mongo Santamaria)
*****
DISC TWO
01 - I Know 06:58 (M. Smith, James Taylor)
02 - Down Don't Bother Me 05:24 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
03 - Don't Miss Me 05:29 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
04 - Rastaman Chant 11:14 (Traditional)
05 - Key To The Highway 06:29 (Big Bill Broozy, Charlie Segar)
06 - Get Out My Life Woman; Who Knows 12:56 (Allen Toussaint); (Jimi Hendrix)
07 - Anyday 09:27 (Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock)
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Bass, Vocals – Todd Smallie
Drums, Vocals – Yonrico Scott
Guitar – Derek Trucks
Keyboards, Flute, Vocals – Kofi Burbridge
Percussion, Vocals – Count Mbutu
Tenor Saxophone – Mace Hibbard
Trombone – Kevin Hyde
Trumpet – Paul Garrett
Vocals – Mike Mattison
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
This double-live album by the Derek Trucks Band may end up being the last for this version of the group -- at least for a while. Trucks and wife Susan Tedeschi joined forces in 2010 as the Derek Trucks-Susan Tedeschi Band. Some of the players come from Trucks' organization: Kofi Burbridge and singer Mike Mattison with bassist Oteil Burbridge, and drummer J.J. Johnson, among others. Which brings us to Roadsongs. Recorded in support of 2009's Grammy-winning Already Free, this set contains over 100 minutes of music from across his recording career. For starters, this is the most sonically satisfying live record Trucks has released to date. It's full of dynamics, beautiful separation, and warm, present sound while capturing the raw, spontaneous energy the band plays with live. The material ranges from five tracks from Already Free (four of which appear on disc one), including a burning "Down in the Flood," a swinging "Get What You Deserve," a sparse "Days Is Almost Gone," and an open country lope in "Already Free." Disc one is bookended by the woolly opener "I'll Find My Way," and a 14-plus-minute "Afro Blue" to close (the latter with gorgeous flute work by Burbridge). Disc two opens with "I Know" from the previous album and then takes off into originals and covers that include live standards such as reworked versions of Bob Marley's "Rastaman Chant," and "Key to the Highway" (both have incredible drum and percussion work by Yonrico Scott and Count Mbutu, respectively). The blazing horn section on "Down Don't Bother Me" makes it (arguably) the greatest existing recorded version (it's easy to hear in Mattison's deeply moving vocal how empathically Trucks responds). The medley of "Get Out of My Life Woman/Who Knows" begins as a shimmering, big-band Chicago blues that gives way to a slippery, in-the-pocket James Brown-style funk jam. The set closes with a transcendent nine-and-half minute "Anyday." If this is the last record we get from the DTB band for now, it's a fine -- if temporary -- send-off, full of fire, grit, and jaw-dropping musical performances.
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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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11928 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - ROADSONGS, DISC ONE (2010)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''ROADSONGS, DISC ONE''
JUNE 22 2010
RECORDED APRIL 8 & 9 2009 AT CHICAGO'S WEST PARK
106:24
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DISC ONE
01 - I'll Find My Way 06:21 (Jay Joyce, Derek Trucks)
02 - Down In The Flood 06:31 (Bob Dylan)
03 - Sailing On 05:33 (Frederick Hibbert)
04 - Get What You Deserve 04:03 (Doyle Bramhall II, Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
05 - Days Is Almost Gone 05:34 (Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
06 - Already Free 05:49 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
07 - Afro Blue 14:30 (Mongo Santamaria)
*****
DISC TWO
01 - I Know 06:58 (M. Smith, James Taylor)
02 - Down Don't Bother Me 05:24 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
03 - Don't Miss Me 05:29 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
04 - Rastaman Chant 11:14 (Traditional)
05 - Key To The Highway 06:29 (Big Bill Broozy, Charlie Segar)
06 - Get Out My Life Woman; Who Knows 12:56 (Allen Toussaint); (Jimi Hendrix)
07 - Anyday 09:27 (Eric Clapton, Bobby Whitlock)
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Bass, Vocals – Todd Smallie
Drums, Vocals – Yonrico Scott
Guitar – Derek Trucks
Keyboards, Flute, Vocals – Kofi Burbridge
Percussion, Vocals – Count Mbutu
Tenor Saxophone – Mace Hibbard
Trombone – Kevin Hyde
Trumpet – Paul Garrett
Vocals – Mike Mattison
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
This double-live album by the Derek Trucks Band may end up being the last for this version of the group -- at least for a while. Trucks and wife Susan Tedeschi joined forces in 2010 as the Derek Trucks-Susan Tedeschi Band. Some of the players come from Trucks' organization: Kofi Burbridge and singer Mike Mattison with bassist Oteil Burbridge, and drummer J.J. Johnson, among others. Which brings us to Roadsongs. Recorded in support of 2009's Grammy-winning Already Free, this set contains over 100 minutes of music from across his recording career. For starters, this is the most sonically satisfying live record Trucks has released to date. It's full of dynamics, beautiful separation, and warm, present sound while capturing the raw, spontaneous energy the band plays with live. The material ranges from five tracks from Already Free (four of which appear on disc one), including a burning "Down in the Flood," a swinging "Get What You Deserve," a sparse "Days Is Almost Gone," and an open country lope in "Already Free." Disc one is bookended by the woolly opener "I'll Find My Way," and a 14-plus-minute "Afro Blue" to close (the latter with gorgeous flute work by Burbridge). Disc two opens with "I Know" from the previous album and then takes off into originals and covers that include live standards such as reworked versions of Bob Marley's "Rastaman Chant," and "Key to the Highway" (both have incredible drum and percussion work by Yonrico Scott and Count Mbutu, respectively). The blazing horn section on "Down Don't Bother Me" makes it (arguably) the greatest existing recorded version (it's easy to hear in Mattison's deeply moving vocal how empathically Trucks responds). The medley of "Get Out of My Life Woman/Who Knows" begins as a shimmering, big-band Chicago blues that gives way to a slippery, in-the-pocket James Brown-style funk jam. The set closes with a transcendent nine-and-half minute "Anyday." If this is the last record we get from the DTB band for now, it's a fine -- if temporary -- send-off, full of fire, grit, and jaw-dropping musical performances.
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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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11927 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - ALREADY FREE (2009)

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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11926 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - SONGLINES LIVE, DISC TWO (2006)

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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11925 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - SONGLINES LIVE, DISC ONE (2006)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''SONGLINES LIVE, DISC ONE''
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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11924 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - SONGLINES (2006)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''SONGLINES''
FEBRUARY 21 2006
53:51
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01 - Volunteered Slavery 02:05 (Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
02 - I'll Find My Way 04:24 (Derek Trucks, Jay Joyce)
03 - Crow Jane 03:53 (Skip James)
04 - Sahib Teri Bandi; Maki Madni 09:54 (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
05 - Chevrolet 02:24 (Ed Young, Lonnie Young)
06 - Sailing On 03:47 (Frederick Hibbert)
07 - Revolution 03:08 (Jay Joyce)
08 - I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled And Crazy 04:34 (Charles Hodges, Darryl Carter, Don Robey)
09 - All I Do 06:31 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Mike Mattison, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
10 - Mahjoun 02:27 (Derek Trucks)
11 - I Wish I Knew (How It Would Feel To Be Free) 04:07 (Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas)
12 - This Sky 06:32 (Derek Trucks, Jay Joyce, Mike Mattison)
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Derek Trucks: guitars, dobro
Yonrico Scott: drums, percussion, backing vocals
Todd Smallie: bass, vocal
Kofi Burbridge: Organ, piano, clavinet, flute, backing vocals
Mike Mattison: lead vocals
Count M'Butu: percussion, vocals
Jay Joyce: additional keyboards
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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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11923 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND LIVE AT GEORGIA THEATRE, DISC TWO (2004)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''LIVE AT GEORGIA THEATRE, DISC TWO''
2004
RECORDED OCTOBER 23 2003 AT GEORGIA THEATRE IN ATHENS, GA
120:19
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DISC ONE
01 - Kam-Ma-Lay 08:53 (Derek Trucks)
02 - Gonna Move 06:29 (Paul Pena)
03 - Volunteered Slavery 04:36 (Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
04 - Sahib Teri Bandi; Maki Madni 15:03 (Nusrah Fateh Ali Khan)
05 - Leaving Trunk 04:58 (Sleepy John Estes)
06 - I Wish I Knew 05:29 (Bill Taylor, Dick Dallas)
07 - Angola 10:12 (Wayne Shorter)
08 - Feel So Bad 07:41 (Lightnin' Hopkins)
*****
DISC TWO
01 - For My Brother 13:28 (Derek Trucks)
02 - Sonido Alegre 15:15 (Victoriano Ramirez)
03 - Joyful Noise 11:58 (Derek Trucks)
04 - So Close, So Far Away 05:52 (Kofi Burbridge)
05 - Freddie's Dead 10:20 (Curtis Mayfield)
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Derek Trucks/Guitar
Todd Smallie/Bass Guitar, Vocals
Yonrico Scott/Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Kofi Burbridge/Keyboards, Flute, Vocals
Mike Mattison/Lead Vocals
Count M'Butu/Percussion
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
Derek Trucks is a world-class slide guitarist, still only 24 at the time of this recording. Most know him as a guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band. But here, with a smoking group of collaborators, he plays an incendiary, soulful, and wildly adventurous set that challenges all the accepted rock paradigms. This is the record to turn the heads of those who haven't gotten hip to Trucks' bottleneck magic. This performance is so inspired, so utterly spellbinding, it transcends the genre classifications it employs to get the music across. This is a musical first to boot: this show marks the first time the quintet recorded together. Kofi Burbridge (B-3, keys, and flute) and vocalist Mike Mattison join Trucks, drummer Yonrico Scott, and bassist Todd Smallie. Master percussionist Count M'Butu from Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit is also on board for the gig. The band showcases only four tunes from its catalog and all of these come from Joyful Noise, its last album. The rest is a rolling plethora of jazz, funk, soul, Eastern Sufi jams, and blues tunes by Rahsaan Roland Kirk ("Volunteered Slavery"), Wayne Shorter ("Angola"), Lightnin' Hopkins ("Feel So Bad"), Paul Pena ("Gonna Move"), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ("Sahib Teri Bandi"), and Curtis Mayfield ("Freddie's Dead"), among others.

The jamming is tight and full of surprises, and there is no aimless guitar wankery. This is a band that plays like a single, flowing unit, where nuance, dynamic, and intuition are the order of the evening and the modus operandi for encountering and relaying this information to an audience. Trucks is its centerpiece, of course, but he understands the value and necessity of ensemble play. While there are no dogs on this two-hour smorgasbord, the standouts are the soulful rendition of "Gonna Move," the awesome medley of Khan's tunes "Sahib Teri Bandi" and "Maki Madni," the guttersnipe funk of "For My Brother," and "So Close, So Far Away." Unfortunately, Live at Georgia Theatre seems to be one of those albums created for fans only. It has nothing to do with the music or musicians, and everything to do with marketing by the conglomerates. You can download it digitally, and you can order it in its physical form from the band's website, but you can't buy it in stores. What nonsense. The labels still don't understand how to use the Internet's potential. After all, wasn't it At Fillmore East, the Allman Brothers' third album, that put them into the mass consciousness and took them over the top? This is the right time for the Derek Trucks Band to issue a concert recording. The truth remains, however, that any way you cut it, this is a live album for the ages -- it's too bad only people with credit cards get to hear it.
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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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11922 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND LIVE AT GEORGIA THEATRE, DISC ONE (2004)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''LIVE AT GEORGIA THEATRE, DISC ONE''
2004
RECORDED OCTOBER 23 2003 AT GEORGIA THEATRE IN ATHENS, GA
120:19
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DISC ONE
01 - Kam-Ma-Lay 08:53 (Derek Trucks)
02 - Gonna Move 06:29 (Paul Pena)
03 - Volunteered Slavery 04:36 (Rahsaan Roland Kirk)
04 - Sahib Teri Bandi; Maki Madni 15:03 (Nusrah Fateh Ali Khan)
05 - Leaving Trunk 04:58 (Sleepy John Estes)
06 - I Wish I Knew 05:29 (Bill Taylor, Dick Dallas)
07 - Angola 10:12 (Wayne Shorter)
08 - Feel So Bad 07:41 (Lightnin' Hopkins)
*****
DISC TWO
01 - For My Brother 13:28 (Derek Trucks)
02 - Sonido Alegre 15:15 (Victoriano Ramirez)
03 - Joyful Noise 11:58 (Derek Trucks)
04 - So Close, So Far Away 05:52 (Kofi Burbridge)
05 - Freddie's Dead 10:20 (Curtis Mayfield)
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Derek Trucks/Guitar
Todd Smallie/Bass Guitar, Vocals
Yonrico Scott/Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Kofi Burbridge/Keyboards, Flute, Vocals
Mike Mattison/Lead Vocals
Count M'Butu/Percussion
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
Derek Trucks is a world-class slide guitarist, still only 24 at the time of this recording. Most know him as a guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band. But here, with a smoking group of collaborators, he plays an incendiary, soulful, and wildly adventurous set that challenges all the accepted rock paradigms. This is the record to turn the heads of those who haven't gotten hip to Trucks' bottleneck magic. This performance is so inspired, so utterly spellbinding, it transcends the genre classifications it employs to get the music across. This is a musical first to boot: this show marks the first time the quintet recorded together. Kofi Burbridge (B-3, keys, and flute) and vocalist Mike Mattison join Trucks, drummer Yonrico Scott, and bassist Todd Smallie. Master percussionist Count M'Butu from Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit is also on board for the gig. The band showcases only four tunes from its catalog and all of these come from Joyful Noise, its last album. The rest is a rolling plethora of jazz, funk, soul, Eastern Sufi jams, and blues tunes by Rahsaan Roland Kirk ("Volunteered Slavery"), Wayne Shorter ("Angola"), Lightnin' Hopkins ("Feel So Bad"), Paul Pena ("Gonna Move"), Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan ("Sahib Teri Bandi"), and Curtis Mayfield ("Freddie's Dead"), among others.

The jamming is tight and full of surprises, and there is no aimless guitar wankery. This is a band that plays like a single, flowing unit, where nuance, dynamic, and intuition are the order of the evening and the modus operandi for encountering and relaying this information to an audience. Trucks is its centerpiece, of course, but he understands the value and necessity of ensemble play. While there are no dogs on this two-hour smorgasbord, the standouts are the soulful rendition of "Gonna Move," the awesome medley of Khan's tunes "Sahib Teri Bandi" and "Maki Madni," the guttersnipe funk of "For My Brother," and "So Close, So Far Away." Unfortunately, Live at Georgia Theatre seems to be one of those albums created for fans only. It has nothing to do with the music or musicians, and everything to do with marketing by the conglomerates. You can download it digitally, and you can order it in its physical form from the band's website, but you can't buy it in stores. What nonsense. The labels still don't understand how to use the Internet's potential. After all, wasn't it At Fillmore East, the Allman Brothers' third album, that put them into the mass consciousness and took them over the top? This is the right time for the Derek Trucks Band to issue a concert recording. The truth remains, however, that any way you cut it, this is a live album for the ages -- it's too bad only people with credit cards get to hear it.
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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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11921 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - SOUL SERENADE (2003)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''SOUL SERENADE''
AUGUST 5 2003
42:32
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01 - Soul Serenade; Rasta Man Chant 10:35 (Bob Marley, Curtis Ousley, Luther Dixon)
02 - Bock To Bock 05:59 (Buddy Montgomery)
03 - Drown In My Own Tears (Featuring Gregg Allman) 05:08 (Henry Glover)
04 - Afro Blue 05:41 (Mongo Santamaria)
05 - Elvin 06:09 (Bill McKay, Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
06 - Oriental Folk Song 06:42 (Traditional)
07 - Sierra Leone 02:15 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Yonrico Scott)
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Derek Trucks/Guitar, Sarod
Todd Smallie/Bass Guitar
Yonrico Scott/Drums, Percussion
Bill McKay/Hammond B3 Organ, Wurlitzer Piano, Keyboards
Kofi Burbridge/Flute-Clavinet, Rhodes Piano, Acoustic Piano, Keyboards
Gregg Allman/Vocal On 03
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REVIEW/AMG
Robert L. Doerschuk
Though recorded nearly two years before the release of the Derek Trucks Band's previous album, Soul Serenade feels like a step forward from Joyful Noise in its maturity and focus. By almost any measure, this is a jazz album; the only references to rock can be heard in the overdriven tone and bluesy slide phrasing that Trucks consistently employs. The prominence of the Hammond organ, and in particular its registration and abundant Leslie tremolo, also nods transparently toward the leader's apprenticeship in the Allman Brothers Band. The rhythm feel is subtle, though, with an understated swing that borrows from this or that corner of world music but unmistakably centers itself on jazz practice. In particular, Kofi Burbridge's aromatic flute solos, and the drumming of Yonrico Scott, with its freedom, timbral nuance, and well-placed transitional rolls, pull the sound far away from rock or even from the jazz-flavored but backbeat-driven Allman Brothers groove. One track, the Gregg Allman vocal cameo, a full-blooded rendition of "Drown in My Own Tears" that features brisk back-and-forth between the singer and Trucks, sinks from the jazz embrace and into the bosom of the blues; another, "Sierra Leone," builds a musical bridge from the Missisippi Delta back to Africa, in resonant acoustic timbres. In this context, these two moments only enrich the spectrum of Soul Serenade without at all detracting from the integrity and maturity of Trucks's vision.
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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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11920 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - JOYFUL NOISE (2002)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''JOYFUL NOISE''
SEPTEMBER 2 2002
56:04
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01 - Joyful Noise 05:45 (Derek Trucks, Javier Colon, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
02 - So Close So Far Away 04:38 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
03 - Home In Your Heart (Featuring Solomon Burke) 03:59 (Otis Blackwell, Winfield Scott)
04 - Maki Madni (Featuring Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 08:11 (Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
05 - Kam-ma-lay (Featuring Rubén Blades) 07:08 (Rubén Blades, Derek Trucks, Javier Colon, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
06 - Like Anyone Else (Featuring Solomon Burke) 06:31 (Kofi Burbridge)
07 - Every Good Boy 04:22 (Kofi Burbridge)
08 - Baby Youre Right (Feat Susan Tedeschi) 04:14 (James Brown, Joe Tex)
09 - Lookout 31 04:19 (Kofi Burbridge)
10 - Frisell 06:52 (Derek Trucks, Javier Colon, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
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Derek Trucks - guitar
Yonrico Scott - drums, vocals, percussion
Kofi Burbridge - flute, vocals, keyboards
Todd Smallie - bass, vocals
Additional personnel:
Susan Tedeschi - vocals on 8
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan - vocals on 4
Rubén Blades - percussion (handclaps) & vocals on 5
Solomon Burke - vocals on 3
Javier Colon - vocals, percussion on 1, 2, 5, 10
Count M'Butu - congas, percussion
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REVIEW/AMG
Hal Horowitz
For his first solo project after replacing Dickie Betts in the Allman Brothers Band, 23-year-old Derek Trucks pushes the stylistic envelope even further than on his last diverse release. Prodding into Latin, Indian, and fusion jazz, this stylistically varied effort exudes enough blues and funky R&B to keep the Allman Brothers Band fan's attention while expanding their boundaries -- sometimes radically -- beyond what the typical Southern rock fan might expect or even tolerate. It's a brave and largely successful experiment, due in part to the vocals of his guest stars, since Trucks himself does not sing. Opening with the title track, a funky Meters-style bubbler that employs a gospel chorus to frame Trucks' searing slide work, it sounds like the guitarist is working within borders he established on his two previous albums. The laconic instrumental "So Close, So Far Away" sounds like a mid-"Whipping Post" jam, but the disc shifts into high gear with Otis Blackwell's "Home in Your Heart," one of two contributions from the amazing soulman Solomon Burke. He kicks up a Wilson Pickett-style storm on this funky rocker, which both he and Otis Redding recorded 30 years earlier. But gears then switch drastically as Rahat Fateh Ali Khan guests on a traditional Indian tune that gives Trucks' slide a chance to snake through the song, adding a slight blues edge to the tabla and eerie moaning vocals. Rubén Blades guests on a Santana-ish workout on "Kam-ma-Lay," but after a scorching Susan Tedeschi appearance on a down-and-dirty version of James Brown's "Baby, You're Right," Trucks veers way off course into the John McLaughlin territory of "Lookout 31," one of the few tracks where Trucks doesn't play slide. It's an intense Mahavishnu Orchestra fusion piece that even swerves into dissonant, avant-garde waters. The instrumental ballad "Frisell" ends this wildly, sometimes disconcertingly eclectic album on a rueful, jazzy note. Trucks' playing is edgy, electric, and distinctive throughout, with his slide work not surprisingly reminiscent of Duane Allman at times. Joyful Noise is a powerful, uncompromising statement, if you can stay with it. Derek Trucks shows he is a remarkably talented young guitarist who refuses to be stylistically pigeonholed by the history of the legendary band he joined.
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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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11919 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - OUT OF THE MADNESS (1998)

THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''OUT OF THE MADNESS''
OCTOBER 20 1998
63:18
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01 - Preachin' Blues 04:58 (Eddie ''Son'' House Jr.)
02 - Younk Funk 04:48 (Derek Trucks, Jimmy Herring)
03 - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl 05:40 (Sonny Boy Williamson)
04 - Forty-Four 05:38 (Charles Burnett)
05 - Kickin' Back 08:50 (Jimmy Herring, Jona Herbert, Oteil Burbridge)
06 - Look-Ka Py Py 04:09 (Art Neville, George Porter Jr., Joseph Modeliste, Leo Nocentelli)
07 - Alright 02:48 (Ron Roper)
08 - Death Letter 05:25 (Eddie ''Son'' House Jr.)
09 - Pleasant Gardens 06:33 (Derek Trucks, Todd Smallie)
10 - Spillway 04:55 (Jimmy Herring)
11 - Ain't That Lovin' You 06:36 (Deadric Malone)
12 - Deltaraga 02:52 (Derek Trucks)
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Derek Trucks - guitar
Todd Smallie - bass
Bill McKay - organ, keyboards
Yonrico Scott - drums, percussion
Additional personnel:
Warren Haynes - vocals on 03, 04, 08, guitar
Larry McCray - vocals on 11, guitar
Jimmy Herring - guitar
Matt Tutor - vocals
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REVIEW/AMG
Cub Koda
Whereas guitar phenom Trucks' first album was of the improvisational sort to the highest degree, fusing Coltrane and Sun Ra to Hendrix, this second effort (his first for the House of Blues imprint) puts his playing and music more firmly in Southern American roots music territory. With guest shots from Warren Haynes ("Good Morning Little Schoolgirl," "Fourty-Four" and "Death Letter"), Larry McCray ("Ain't That Lovin' You"), Matt Tutor (vocals on "Preachin' Blues" and "Alright") and Jimmy Herring, there's more of a jam session feeling to this disc than that of a cohesive album. But Trucks also continues to blaze out with hot solos on the more rocking efforts aboard, like "Young Funk," "Kickin' Back," "Spillway" and the closing "Deltaraga." Even New Orleans funk beats come in for a look-see on "Look-ka Py-Py," a curious addition. All in all, a young artist still showing promise.
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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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