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 Just 27 years old, Derek Trucks has forged a name for himself over the years as an innovative guitar virtuoso, recently featured on the cover of Rolling Stone for their "New Guitar Gods" issue. In 2006 Trucks was asked to join guitar legend Eric Clapton's world tour as a featured soloist in his band, a tour extending into the Spring of 2007 and supported by rave critical reviews. On the road over 300 days per year, Trucks currently divides his time between The Derek Trucks Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and his new gig sharing the stage with Clapton.
In the years since Susan Tedeschi captured the public's musical imagination with her 1998 breakthrough album Just Won't Burn, the multi-talented musician has established a formidable reputation as a deeply expressive singer, a prodigiously talented guitarist and distinctive songwriter. A four-time Grammy Nominee, Tedeschi won a large and loyal audience for her ability to craft elements of classic blues, rock, R&B, folk and gospel into a distinctly individual style that honors rootsy musical traditions without being subservient to them. ========================================================= “They communicate volumes of warmth, proficiency, risk-taking, poise and sauciness. Their blues sounded new and spontaneous, something exceedingly rare these days. For their efforts, the packed house – balding seniors in faded Allman Brothers T-shirts, 30-ish guitar fanatics, dread-locked jam band fans and garden variety college students who admire Tedeschi as their parents had admired Bonnie Raitt leaped to their feet in a thunderous ovation. It was neo-blues as a unifier.” -DownBeat cover story “Susan Tedeschi & Derek Trucks Hop Aboard the Family Blues Caravan”, February 2007 |
