Derek Trucks

From the opening moments here it's plain that Trucks not only is descended from the Allman Brothers Band (his uncle is Allman's drummer Butch Trucks), but that he paid attention to what the brothers were up to, even getting Duane's guitar sound right. From this starting point, Trucks, his band and his prodigious guitar talent peel off in a dizzying variety of directions, consistently touching on jazz and funk, but always with exploratory elements of Indian and Middle Eastern music muddying the water. This is true jam rock.

Blond, waifish and just twenty-three, Derek Trucks looks more like the oldest Hanson
brother than he does his uncle Butch, the longtime Allman Brothers Band drummer. But on
his band's major-label debut, his skills as a guitarist and commitment to elastic grooves belie
his age and paleness, as Trucks splashes his slide guitar over styles that range from
straight-up blues to percussion-laden Latin frenzy. Trucks' wife, Susan Tedeschi,... More >