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When the 8 years old DEREK was playing with the Great - GREGG ALLMAN- what we can say.The photo talks itself.
Susan Tedeschi is a Boston-born New Englander and Derek Trucks is a Southerner, born in Jacksonville, Florida. Together as a couple — as the Tedeschi Trucks Band — and apart in their solo pursuits, the blues is their muse.
His uncle Butch, a drummer, was an original member of the Allman Brothers Band. Trucks’ younger brother, Duane, recently became the drummer of Widespread Panic, and is also part of Hard Working Americans.
The Derek Trucks Band came into being in 1994 and Trucks and his bandmates released their self-titled debut album in 1997. Still in his teens, Trucks skillfully incorporated jazz into the band’s repertoire: the band's debut featured compositions by John Coltrane ("Naima," "Mr. P.C.), Miles Davis ("So What"), and Wayne Shorter ("Footprints"). Sometimes Trucks would make appearances with his uncle, accompanying the Allman Brothers Band on stage. Inner turmoil within the Allman Brothers Band led to a series of personnel moves, which included the hiring of the then 20-year-old Trucks as a full-fledged member in 1999.
While Trucks was getting himself acclimated as a newly anointed Brother, he met Tedeschi on tour. She was supporting the Allman Brothers Band as their opening act in 1999. The rest, as they say, is history.
Their partnership is a perfect match: Tedeschi's soulful, smoky voice and fiery prowess as a guitarist plus Trucks' ferocious command of his Gibson equals a kind of nirvana. Their Tedeschi Trucks Band is an ecstatic mix of Southern rock, jazz, gospel and funked-out bluesy rock.
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