Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter and founder of the Grammy Award-winningThe Derek Trucks Band. He played with The Allman Brothers Band, and became an official member in 1999. In 2010 he and his wife Susan Tedeschi formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band. His musical style encompasses several genres and he has twice appeared on Rolling Stone's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.
Early life
Trucks was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States. According to Trucks, the name of Eric Clapton's band, Derek and the Dominos, had "something to do with the name [Derek] if not the spelling".
Trucks bought his first guitar at a yard sale for $5 at age nine and became a child prodigy who played 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, young hands. By his thirteenth birthday Trucks had played alongside Buddy Guy and gone on tour with Thunderhawk.
The Derek Trucks Band
The Derek Trucks Band is an American jam band 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 adolescent with musicians he met between tours and recording sessions, Trucks founded The Derek Trucks Band in 1994. With family ties to The Allman Brothers Band, Trucks continued to experiment and play with others, carefully assembling his own band over a period of several years. Loosely based in his family home in Jacksonville, Florida, with Trucks as unquestionable bandleader, the band is made up of six individuals.
The band has drawn upon the wide variety of the influences and musical preferences of its band members. Together, they have gained increasing public notice and critical acclaim for developing a unique sound of their own. Melding together blues, southern rock, jazz, rhythm and blues, gospel, soul, funk with Hindustani classical music, afro-beat and world fusion, the band has released nine albums as of 2009. Increasingly, the bandmates have combined their talents to perform pieces from some of the most highly regarded musicians before them, while at the same time collaborating on writing the songs they have recorded.
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ALBUMS
- The Breeze: An Appreciation of JJ Cale released: 2014
- True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story released: 2014
- Crossroads Guitar Festival released: 2014
- Bring 'Em In / Skin Deep released: 2013
- Live at the Royal Albert Hall released: 2012
- All Blues'd Up: Songs of Eric Clapton released: 2011
- Roots released: 2011
- The Secret released: 2011
- The Imagine Project released: 2010
- Skin Deep released: 2008
- Guitars released: 2008
- Here and Gone released: 2008
- The Best Kept Secret released: 2005
- Maximum Grooves: Coast to Coast released: 2004
- Highway 60's 70's released: 2003
- High Way 60's-70's Blues Revisited - Collection of Blues released: 2003
- All Blues'd Up: This Ain't No Tribute to Rock & Roll's Finest released: 2002
- Hellhound on My Trail: Songs of Robert Johnson released: 2001
- Blues Power: Songs of Eric Clapton released: 1999
- Ten From Little Worlds released:
- Whole Lotta Blues: Songs of Led Zeppelin released:
True to the Blues: The Johnny Winter Story
Released 2014- One Step at a Time
- Honest I Do
- Nickel Blues
- Talk Is Cheap
- Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
- Bon Ton Roulet
- Don't Take Advantage of Me
- Master Mechanic
- Mojo Boogie
- Stranger Blues (Live)
- Illustrated Man
- Hard Way
- Highway 61 Revisited (Live at the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration)
- Maybellene
- Dust My Broom
Hellhound on My Trail: Songs of Robert Johnson
Released 2001- Crossroads (The Crossroad Blues)
- Traveling Riverside Blues
- If I Had Possession Over Judgment Day
- I'm a Steady Rollin' Man
- Me and the Devil Blues
- Walkin' Blues
- When You Got a Good Friend
- Kindhearted Woman Blues
- Dust My Broom
- Come On in My Kitchen
- Stones in My Passway
- Walking Blues
- Hellhound on My Trail
- Stop Breakin' Down Blues
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Milkcow's Calf Blues
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I Wish I Knew
by: Derek Trucks BandI wish I knew how, it would feel to be free
I wish I could break, all the chains holding me
I wish I could see, everything I had to see
Sing it loud, sing it clear, for the whole round world to
hear
I wish I could share, all the love that's in my heart
Remove all the bars, that keep us apart
I wish you knew, how it would feel to be me
Then you'd see, and agree, everyone should be free
I wish I could give, all I'm longing to give
I wish I could live, like I'm longing to live
I wish I could do everything that I could do
Though I'm way overdue, I'd be starting anew
I wish I could be like a bird in the sky
How sweet it would be if I found I could fly
I'd soar to the sun and look down at the sea
And I'd sing, cause I know (echo and repeated)
I sing because I know, I sing because I know, I sing
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