Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of

The Derek Trucks Band The Derek Trucks Band was an American blues rock group founded by young slide guitar prodigy Derek Trucks, who began playing guitar and touring with some of blues and rock music's elite when he was just nine years old. After experimenting as an a ...

. He became an official member of

The Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida in 1969 by brothers Duane Allman (founder, slide guitar and lead guitar) and Gregg Allman (vocals, keyboards, songwriting), as well as Dickey Betts (lead guita ...

in 1999. In 2010, he formed the

Tedeschi Trucks Band The Tedeschi Trucks Band () is an American blues and blues rock group based in Jacksonville, Florida. Formed in 2010, the band is led by married couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. Their debut album, '' Revelator'' (2011), won the 2012 Gra ...

with his wife, blues singer/guitarist

Susan Tedeschi Susan Tedeschi (; born November 9, 1970) is an American singer and guitarist. A multiple Grammy Award nominee, she is a member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, a conglomeration of her band, her husband Derek Trucks’ and other musicians. Early l ...

. His musical style encompasses several genres and he has twice appeared on ''

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''s list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He is the nephew of the late

Butch Trucks Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks (May 11, 1947 – January 24, 2017) was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Trucks was born ...

, drummer for the Allman Brothers.

Early life

Trucks was born in

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. According to Trucks, the name of Eric Clapton's band, ''

Derek and the Dominos Derek and the Dominos was an English–American blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton, keyboardist and singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. All four members had previous ...

'', had "something to do with the name

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if not the spelling". Trucks bought his first guitar at a yard sale for $5 at age nine and became a child prodigy, playing his first paid performance at age 11. Trucks began playing the guitar using a slide because it allowed him to play the guitar despite his small hands as a young guitarist. By his 13th birthday, Trucks had played alongside

Buddy Guy George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaugh ...

and toured with Thunderhawk.

Career

Trucks formed The Derek Trucks Band in 1994, and by his 20th birthday, he had played with such artists as

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan, born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture during a career sp ...

Joe Walsh Joseph Fidler Walsh (born November 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. In a career spanning over five decades, he has been a member of three successful rock bands: the James Gang, Eagles, and Ringo Starr & His All-Starr ...

, and Stephen Stills. In 1999, he toured as a member of Phil Lesh & Friends. After performing with The Allman Brothers Band for several years as a guest musician, Trucks became a formal member of the band in 1999 and appeared on the albums ''

Peakin' at the Beacon ''Peakin' at the Beacon '' is a live album by the rock group the Allman Brothers Band. It was recorded at the Beacon Theatre in New York City in March, 2000, and released later that year. ''Peakin' at the Beacon'' was the first Allman Brothers ...

'', '' Live at the Beacon Theatre'', ''

Hittin' the Note ''Hittin' the Note'' is the twelfth and final studio album by the United States, American Southern rock group the Allman Brothers Band. Released through Sanctuary Records, it is their only studio album to include both slide guitar player Derek Truc ...

'' and '' One Way Out''. In 2006 Trucks began a studio collaboration with JJ Cale and Eric Clapton called ''

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'' and performed with three bands in 17 countries that year. Trucks was invited to perform at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, and after the festival, he toured as part of Clapton's band.

Merging talents

Trucks built a studio in his home in January 2008, and his band and he recorded the album '' Already Free''. Trucks and his wife,

, combined their bands to form the Soul Stew Revival in 2007 and performed at the Bonnaroo Music Festival in June 2008. In late 2009, Trucks and his band went on hiatus, after which the band dissolved. In 2010, Trucks formed the

with his wife. On January 8, 2014, Trucks announced that he and fellow guitarist

Warren Haynes Warren Haynes (born April 6, 1960) is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as longtime guitarist with the Allman Brothers Band and as founding member of the jam band Gov't Mule. Early in his career he was ...

planned to leave the Allman Brothers Band at the end of 2014. That band announced its retirement, with Trucks playing as a member through their final show on October 28, 2014, at the Beacon Theatre in New York City.

Musical style

Trucks credits guitarist

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and bluesman

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as the two slide guitarists who influenced his early style, but he has since been inspired by John Lee Hooker,

Ali Akbar Khan Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was a Indian Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod. Trained as a classical musician and instrumentalist by his father, Allauddin Khan, he a ...

Howlin' Wolf Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910January 10, 1976), better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer and guitarist. He is regarded as one of the most influential blues musicians of all time. Over a four-decade care ...

Albert King Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American guitarist and singer who is often regarded as one of the greatest and most influential blues guitarists of all time. He is perhaps b ...

Miles Davis Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musi ...

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John Coltrane John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Born and raise ...

Charlie Parker Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form ...

Django Reinhardt Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django ( or ), was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer. He was one of the first major jazz talents to emerge in Europe and has been hailed as one of its most ...

Charlie Christian Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist. Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained nat ...

Wayne Shorter Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Dav ...

Toy Caldwell Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. (November 13, 1947 – February 25, 1993) was the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band.

Johnny Winter John Dawson Winter III (February 23, 1944 – July 16, 2014) was an American singer and guitarist. Winter was known for his high-energy blues rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s. He also produced three Grammy Award-win ...

Freddie King Freddie King (September 3, 1934December 28, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and B.B. King, none of whom were blood related). Most ...

and

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. His music is rooted in blues and rock, embracing

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, and jazz. Trucks plays an eclectic blend of blues,

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, jazz, rock,

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music (a genre of music from Pakistan and western India),

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, and other kinds of world music Trucks became a fan of

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ian

, known for his virtuosity in playing the

sarod The sarod is a stringed instrument, used in Hindustani music on the Indian subcontinent. Along with the sitar, it is among the most popular and prominent instruments. It is known for a deep, weighty, introspective sound, in contrast with the sweet ...

and popularising Indian classical music in the West, often in conjunction with

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virtuoso

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. Trucks studied at the

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in San Rafael, California. Trucks plays the guitar in an open E tuning, using a Dunlop Blues Bottle slide. In 2006, two vintage (1965 and 1968)

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amplifiers, a

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organ, two Leslie speaker cabinets, and a

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E-7 clavinet were stolen from Trucks and later recovered by the Atlanta Police Department.

Reception

Trucks has appeared twice in ''

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The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time
2003-08-27 He was listed as 81st in 2003 and 16th in 2011. A 2006 article in ''

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'' described him as "the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today". In 2007, Trucks appeared on the cover of ''Rolling Stone'' for an article called the "New Guitar Gods". Trucks is a creative guitarist according to his uncle, Allman Brothers drummer

: "He never does the same thing twice". ''

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'' in 2009 described Trucks' guitar style as "notes and chords that soar, slice, and glide, sounding like a cross between Duane Allman on a '61 Gibson Les Paul and John Coltrane on

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". The Derek Trucks Band's album '' Already Free'' debuted at number 19 on the ''Billboard ''Top 200 chart, and number one on the Internet chart, number four on the rock chart, and number one on the blues chart. In 2010, The Derek Trucks Band won the

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album was awarded from 1988 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards. Until 1992 the award was known as Best Contemporary Blues Performance and in 1989 was awarded to a song rather than to an album. The award was ...

for the album ''Already Free''. In 2012, Trucks and Tedeschi won the

Grammy Award for Best Blues Album The Grammy Award for Best Blues Album was an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for releasing albums in the blues genre. Honors in severa ...

for the Tedeschi Trucks Band's debut album '' Revelator''. On February 12, 2012, Trucks accepted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award along with 10 other members of The Allman Brothers Band. On February 21, 2012, Derek Trucks and his wife joined other blues musicians for a performance at the White House for President Obama and his guests. In September 2012, John Mayer and Derek Trucks joined

on stage at the Hollywood Bowl for an encore version of B.B.'s song "Guess Who". Concluding the performance, B.B. King made several remarks about Trucks's guitar work, ending with, "That's about as good as I've ever heard it—as good as I’ve ever heard it, and I mean it".

Personal life

Trucks' late uncle,

, was a founding member and drummer of The Allman Brothers Band. His younger brother is

Duane Trucks Duane Trucks (born December 28, 1988) is an American musician best known as the current drummer for Widespread Panic and Hard Working Americans. Life and career Duane Trucks was born on December 28, 1988, in Jacksonville, Florida. He began learn ...

, who is a member of

Widespread Panic Widespread Panic is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell, bassist Dave Schools, drummer Duane Trucks, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John "JoJo" Hermann, and g ...

and

Hard Working Americans Hard Working Americans is an American rock supergroup formed in 2013. The band consists of singer Todd Snider, bassist Dave Schools from Widespread Panic, Chad Staehly of Great American Taxi on keyboards and Duane Trucks, also from Widespread Pan ...

. His great-uncle,

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, was a major league baseball pitcher in the 1940s and 1950s, winning 177 games in his career. In 2001, Trucks married singer and musician

, and they had a son in March 2002 and a daughter in 2004. Trucks is a fan of the

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, the Florida State Seminoles, and his hometown

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Discography

With the Derek Trucks Band

* ''

'' (1997) * '' Out of the Madness'' (1998) * '' Joyful Noise'' (2002) * '' Soul Serenade'' (2003) * '' Live at Georgia Theatre'' (2004) * ''

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'' (2006) ( Legacy Recordings) * '' Songlines Live'' (DVD) (2006) (Legacy Recordings) * '' Already Free'' (2009) (Legacy Recordings) * '' Roadsongs'' (2010)

With the Allman Brothers Band

* ''

'' (2000) * ''

'' (2003) * '' One Way Out'' (2004)

With The Tedeschi Trucks Band

* '' Revelator'' (2011) * ''

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(2012) * '' Made Up Mind'' (2013) * '' Let Me Get By'' (2016) * '' Live from the Fox Oakland'' (2017) * '' Signs'' (2019) * ''High And Mighty EP'' (2019) * ''Layla Revisited (Live at Lockn')'' (2021) * ''I Am the Moon: I. Crescent'' (2022) * ''I Am the Moon: II. Ascension'' (2022) * ''I Am the Moon: III. The Fall'' (2022) * ''I Am the Moon: IV. Farewell'' (2022)

Collaborations

* 1994: ''Storm Warning'',

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* 1996: ''To Cry You a Song: A Tull Tale'', various artists/Cat's Squirrel (with

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Clive Bunker Clive William Bunker (born 30 December 1946) is a British drummer. Bunker is best known as the original drummer of the rock band Jethro Tull, playing in the band from 1967 until 1971. Never a self-professed technical drummer, Bunker engage ...

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) * 1996: ''The Circle'', Planet Earth/Carey Nall * 1996: ''Come on in This House'',

Junior Wells Junior Wells (born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., December 9, 1934January 15, 1998) was an American singer, harmonica player, and recording artist. He is best known for his signature song " Messin' with the Kid" and his 1965 album '' Hoodoo Man Blues ...

* 1997: '' Searching for Simplicity'',

Gregg Allman Gregory LeNoir Allman (December 8, 1947 – May 27, 2017) was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He was known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. Allman grew up with an interest in rhythm and blues music, and the Allman Br ...

* 1999: ''Blues Power: Songs Of Eric Clapton'', Various Artists * 1999: ''Tangled Up In Blues: Songs Of Bob Dylan'', Various Artists * 1999: ''Whole Lotta Blues: Songs Of Led Zeppelin'', Various Artists * 1999: '' Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends'',

Gov't Mule Gov't Mule (pronounced "Government Mule") is an American Southern rock jam band, formed in 1994 as a side project of the Allman Brothers Band by guitarist Warren Haynes and bassist Allen Woody. Fans often refer to Gov't Mule simply as ''Mule'' ...

* 2000: ''

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'',

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* 2001: '' Project Z'', Project Z * 2002: '' Live in the Classic City'',

* 2002: '' Wait For Me'',

* 2003: ''

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'', Béla Fleck and the Flecktones * 2005: '' The Best Kept Secret'',

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* 2005: '' Hope and Desire'', Susan Tedeschi * 2006: ''

'',

JJ Cale John Weldon "J. J." Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013) was an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and sound engineer. Though he avoided the limelight, his influence as a musical artist has been acknowledged by figures such as Mark Knop ...

, Eric Clapton

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* 2007: '' Guiding Star'',

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* 2008: '' Skin Deep'',

* 2008: '' Here and Gone'',

David Sanborn David William Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album ''Taking Off'' in 19 ...

* 2008: ''Sidewalk Caesars'',

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* 2008: ''The Blues Roll On'', Elvin Bishop * 2008: '' Back to the River'', Susan Tedeschi * 2008: ''

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'', Jimmy Herring * 2008: '' Guitars'',

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* 2010: ''

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'', Herbie Hancock * 2010: '' Clapton'', Eric Clapton * 2011: ''The Secret'', Bouriema Vieux Farka Touré * 2012: '' Great Gypsy Soul'', Tommy Bolin & Friends * 2014: '' The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale'', Eric Clapton * 2015: ''Ol' Glory'',

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* 2016: ''Blood From a Stone'', Eric Krasno

References

External links

Derek Trucks official website

Derek Trucks Band collection
at the

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's live music archive
Derek sits down with Ira Haberman of The Sound Podcast for a feature interview
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