It all started at the tender age of eleven when Derek Trucks stepped on to stage with the likes of the Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, and Stephen Stills. With a guitar too big for his hands the brothers stuck a slide on his ring finger. From then on it wasn’t hard to tell that the heir of the blues was being groomed for coronation. The soft spoken Trucks started his own band at fifteen and has yet to stop shredding up his gibson; touring around relentlessly searching for the crossroads (sometimes with this guy>>>>>>>>>>>>>>).
Along the road somewhere he married Susan Tedeschi and the two have been drowning their audiences with a downpour of mournful blues. Tedeshi, who herself has been on tour with the likes of the Stones and Dylan, has a soulful blues voice and is no slouch at rocking the shit out of a guitar. Their cover of the Buddy Guy and Junior Wells song “Little by Little” shows how truly badass this couple is.
This morning their two separate npr interviews caught my eye… the first in which Trucks and his Band (along with Tedeschi) cover of Bob’s “Down in the Flood” and in the next Susan offers up two great covers of the Beatles “For No One” and Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” which can be heard here .
The scariest and most encouraging thing is that their kids are falling right in line.
Tags: Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi
January 26, 2009 at 2:49 pm |
Ian can you edit the “1″ category and put in derek trucks or something like that.. couldn’t figure it out
January 26, 2009 at 8:06 pm |
ive seen clapton with trucks!!