Derek Trucks

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Derek Trucks
Trucks performing live
Trucks performing live
Background information
Born June 8, 1979 (1979-06-08) (age 28)
Flag of the United States Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.
Genre(s) Rock, Southern rock, Blues-rock, Free funk, Jazz fusion, World music
Occupation(s) Musician, Songwriter
Instrument(s) Slide Guitar, Sarod
Years active 1990 - Present
Label(s) Columbia Records
Associated
acts		 The Derek Trucks Band
The Allman Brothers Band
Eric Clapton
Website www.derektrucksband.com
www.allmanbrothers.com
Notable instrument(s)
Gibson SG 2000 '61 Reissue

Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, bandleader (The Derek Trucks Band), and member of The Allman Brothers Band.

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Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Trucks took up the guitar at age 9, and soon many came to see him as a child prodigy.[citation needed] He was playing with a band and touring within two years. [1] Trucks and poet G. M. Palmer grew up in the same Jacksonville neighborhood and often played pick-up games of football.

The Derek Trucks Band was formed in 1994, and has been one of Trucks' primary musical outlets ever since.[2]

The current members of the band are:

In 1999, Trucks joined his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks, as a member of The Allman Brothers Band, after years of performing as a guest of the band at live performances (he has continued his own band as well). With the Allmans, Trucks has performed on three live releases, which include the platinum-certified Live at the Beacon Theatre DVD, as well as the studio album Hittin' The Note (2003). He has also performed with the band during eight summer tours and the band's annual multiple night stand at New York City's Beacon Theatre.

In 2003, he was ranked 81st on Rolling Stone's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time",[3] and has been hailed as one of the greatest slide guitarists since Duane Allman. Fellow Allman Brothers Band guitarists Duane Allman, Warren Haynes and Dickey Betts were also on the list.

Trucks was an accompanying guitarist in Eric Clapton's 2006/2007 touring band. In early 2006, an equipment trailer with Trucks' gear was stolen. Some of the gear was recovered from a field outside Atlanta, including his 1965 Fender Super Reverb (the amp he's been playing since he was a young boy), a 1968 Super Reverb (one of the backup amps), a Hammond B-3, two Leslie rotating speaker cabinets, a Hohner E-7 Clavinet, and a few other minor items.

Trucks (left), with Mayer (center) and Frusciante (right), on the cover of Rolling Stone 1020.
Trucks (left), with Mayer (center) and Frusciante (right), on the cover of Rolling Stone 1020.

Trucks was pictured on the cover of Rolling Stone (#1020) in February 2007, along with John Frusciante and John Mayer. He was named as one of the "New Guitar Gods" and the cover nicknamed him "The Jam King."[4] Trucks also received the honor of performing at Eric Clapton's 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival with his own band as well as in Clapton's band.

Trucks' early repertoire was heavily blues-based, inspired by The Allman Brothers Band slide guitarist, Duane Allman. Derek's uncle, drummer Butch Trucks, was a founding member of the band so Derek was exposed to their style of music from a young age. Older bluesmen like Howlin' Wolf and Albert King, jazz musicians Miles Davis, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Charlie Christian and later Wayne Shorter and many others, became an influence for Trucks a few years later. In recent years, the influence of traditional Southern Sacred Steel can be heard in Derek's slide work.

Trucks avoids processing and effects, preferring to get the purest tone possible by connecting his guitar (2000 '61 reissue Gibson SG) directly to his amplifier, a 1965 Fender Super Reverb loaded with four Pyle Driver MH1020 speakers. He modifies his tone with the controls on the guitar. He plays without the use of a plectrum (pick), using his fingers instead, plucking primarily with the thumb, index and middle finger and occasionally the ring finger. His guitar is usually tuned to Open E, the notes from the low to high string being EBEG#Be. Open tunings are popular with slide players as they allow them to use chord tones more easily.

In 2001, Trucks married singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, and the couple have two children. Charles Khalil Trucks, born in 2002, is named for saxophonist Charlie Parker, guitarist Charlie Christian, and author Khalil Gibran. Sophia Naima Trucks, born in 2004, takes her unusual middle name comes from the Coltrane ballad, which was also the jazz legend's first wife's name.

  1. ^ Anonymous. (2006). "Derek Trucks Band" DerekTrucks.com (accessed March 23, 2007)
  2. ^ Tennille, Andy. "Finding His Path" San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2006
  3. ^ "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", Rolling Stone, 2003-08-27. 
  4. ^ Fricke, David (2007). "The New Guitar Gods" RollingStone.com (accessed February 13, 2007)

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