Dean Budnick Here we look back a quarter century to one of our earliest interviews with Derek Trucks. Here he talks about the ...
Ask Derek Trucks if he'll ever stop playing Gibson SGs and he'll tell you he's tried substituting other electric guitars without success. "Anytime I would move to another guitar, I would just be ...
The logistics of busy careers are about the only thing that keep Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks apart — and, even then, never for long. The two have been friends since even before they became the ...
A child prodigy, by 13, Trucks had played with legendary blues guitarist Buddy Guy. At 20, he formed the Derek Trucks Band, then, at 25 became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band, joining ...
Derek Trucks has played Connecticut around 50 times in the past 25 years and is back again on Aug. 23 and 24 for back-to-back shows at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater in Bridgeport as part of the ...
When Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi found themselves paying tribute to Joe Cocker and Leon Russell's legendary Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour, it was fitting. The concert film commemorating the 1970 ...
Many nine-year-old guitarists dream of shredding on stage with their electric guitar heroes, but very few get to live that reality – let alone at that age. As part of the second generation of talents ...
The Tedeschi Trucks Band is releasing a live album, "Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited," documenting their 2015 Lockn' Festival performance. The concert was a tribute to Joe Cocker and featured ...
On Friday evening at the Highland Festival Grounds in Louisville, Ky., the 2024 edition of Bourbon & Beyond was underway. After commencing on Thursday, Sept. 19, with separate sets from festival ...
Maybe it was in his DNA. Or his upbringing. Or maybe it was inevitable that Derek Trucks would become a guitar hero. He is the nephew of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks. He’s named after Derek & ...
You could be forgiven for forgetting sometimes that Derek Trucks is a smoking-hot guitar player even when he isn’t wearing that trademark glass slide on his ring finger. All of the highlights reels – ...
It's been 10 years since the Tedeschi Trucks Band revisited Joe Cocker's "Mad Dogs & Englishmen" in a live performance at the 2015 Lockn' Festival in Virginia. Derek Trucks still talks about that ...