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The Derek Trucks Band Is A Band Started By Slide Guitarist Prodigy Derek Trucks Who Began Playing Guitar And Touring With The Allman Brothers Band As Early As Eleven Years Old. Raised Partly On Tour With Them Throughout His Youth Meeting And Playing With Famous Musicians Trucks Was Still Unsure About His Own Future. He Resolved To Start His Own Band While Still An Adolescent. What First Began As A Side Project And A Way For Trucks To Explore His Own Creativity Has Evolved Into An Eclectic Band With Some Of The Most Talented Musicians From The Southeastern United States. Loosely Based In His Home Town Of Jacksonville Florida Since 1994-1995 Since His Mid-Teens The Band Has Drawn Upon The Wide Variety Of The Influences And Tastes Of Its Current Band Members And Has Gained Fame For Playing Blues Southern Rock Jazz Indian Classical And A Fusion Of World Music. Born In Jacksonville Florida Derek Trucks Took Up The Guitar At Age 9 And It Was Quickly Apparent That He Was A Child Prodigy. He Was Playing With A Band And Touring Within Two Years. His Early Repertoire Was Heavily Blues-Based Obviously Inspired By The Allman Brothers Band Of Which His Uncle Drummer Butch Trucks Is A Founding Member. Older Bluesmen Like Howlin' Wolf Jazz Musicians Miles Davis Sun Ra John Coltrane Charlie Christian And Later Wayne Shorter And Many Others Became An Influence For Trucks A Few Years Later. Eastern Music Mainly Indian Classical Also Affected Trucks's Musical Development Primarily His Slide Guitar Playing Which Is Often Compared To That Of Duane Allman But Is Also Heavily Influenced By Sarod Players Like Ali Akbar Khan. In 2003 He Was The Youngest Guitarist On Rolling Stone Magazine's List Of 100 Greatest Guitarists Of All-Time And Has Been Hailed As One Of The Greatest Slide Guitarists Since Duane Allman. Trucks Formed His First Band At Age 12 And Played His First Gigs With Them As "Derek And The Dominators". Later Atlanta's Jazz And Blues Bassist Todd Smallie Joined Trucks In 1994 And Became The First Member Of What Is Now The Current Version Of The Derek Trucks Band. When Trucks Really Set About Assembling A Lasting Band He Was By His Reckoning About 14 Years Old. Smallie On Bass Was The First To Join Him. As A Result Trucks Feels That He's "kind Of Grown Up With Him." A Year Later In 1995 Drummer Yonrico Scott Completed The Band's Early Rhythm Section. The Band Released Its Self-Titled Debut Album The Derek Trucks Band In 1997 And Followed With Out Of The Madness In 1999. Scott Has Been Playing With Trucks For Over 16 Years As Of 2008. According To Derek Trucks "We've Developed A Kind Of 'musical ESP'.. It's Nice To Have Somebody That You Don't Have To Look At...He's Just Right There With You." Kofi Burbridge Joined The Band Shortly Thereafter Contributing To The Band's Sound As A Multi-Instrumentalist With His Versatility On Keyboards Flute And Vocals. Like His Brother Whom Trucks Plays With In The Allman Brothers Band Bassist Oteil Burbridge Kofi Burbridge's Education Was Primarily Rooted In Classical And Jazz Music. In An Interview Upon The Release Of Their 2002 Album Joyful Noise Trucks Laughingly Commented "Kofi Burbridge Has Been With Us Maybe 2-3 Years And He's One Of The Few Musical Geniuses That I've Had The Chance To Work With He's Totally Insane"... Continuing "I'm Really Anxious To See In The Next Few Years To See Where He Takes This Because He's Definitely A Huge Part Of What's Going On Right Now." In 2002 The Band's Producers Craig Street And John Snyder Recommended Singer Mike Mattison To The Band. Mattison Performed Several Shows With The Band And Trucks Decided Mattison's Soulful Voice And Calm Stage Presence Completed The Band's Identity. Trucks Said Of Mattison "He's Got A Huge Range So That Helps Us Out A Lot When We Stretch Into Some Of The Different Material We Cover. It's Like Having Three Different Vocalists Onstage At Times. It's A Tough Piece Of The Puzzle To Find You Know -- A Good Singer Who Fits With What You're Doing -- So We Were Very Fortunate To Hook Up With Mike." Mattison Had A Previous Band As Well-- A Vocal Duo Called Scrapomatic With Paul Olsen A Guitarist And Vocalist Whom He Still Performs With At Occasional Gigs Including Some Opening Sets For The Derek Trucks Band. The Band's Final Member Count M'Butu Is The Only Band Member That Does Not Appear On Every Tour. M'Butu The Group's Eldest Member Plays A Variety Of African Drums. Trucks Mentions Casually That He Had Known M'Butu For Many Years Before He Joined The Derek Trucks Band As M'Butu Was A Regular Musical Fixture In Atlanta One Of The Bastions Of The Allman Brothers Fan Bases. Trucks' Guitar Playing Is Unusual In A Number Of Respects. He Steadfastly Avoids Processing And Effects Preferring To Get The Purest Tone Possible By Connecting His Guitar Directly To His Amplifier A 1964 Fender Super Reverb. He Modifies His Tone With The Controls On The Guitar. He Plays Without The Use Of A Plectrum Pick Using His Fingers Instead Plucking Primarily With The Thumb Index And Middle Fingers But Also Using The Ring Finger On Occasion. He Developed His Technique Himself. His Guitar Is Always Tuned To 'Open E'. From The Low To High String I.E. EBEG#Be He Slightly Detunes His Low E String A Technique He And Jimmy Herring Developed While Playing Together . Open E Is A Normal Tuning For Slide Players As It Allows Them To Form Chords More Easily But Over The Years He Has Become A Highly Acclaimed Straight Lead Player Without Switching To Standard Tuning EADGBe . In 2001 Trucks Married Singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi. The Couple Have Two Children Charles Kahlil Trucks Born March 8 2002 And Sophia Naima Trucks Born August 9 2004 . Charles Is Named For Saxophonist Charlie Parker And Guitarist Charlie Christian His Middle Name Is Taken From Author Khalil Gibran. The Name Sophia Has Mystic Overtones Meaning "Wisdom" In Greek And The Unusual Middle Name Comes From The John Coltrane Ballad Which Coltrane Named After His First Wife Naima. In 1999 Derek Trucks Joined His Uncle Drummer Butch Trucks As A Member Of The Allman Brothers Band While Continuing To Lead His Own Band. With The Allman Brothers Band He Has Performed On 2000's Peakin' At The Beacon 2003's Hittin' The Note 2003's Live DVD At The Beacon Theatre And 2004's One Way Out. As Of Early 2006 Trucks Is An Accompanying Guitarist In Eric Clapton's 2006-2007 Touring Band. In Early 2006 Trucks Lost Equipment As An Equipment Trailer Was Stolen. Some Of The Gear Was Recovered On May 18 2006 As Reported In The Columbia Records Derek Trucks Forum. Gear That Was Reported As Recovered From A Field Outside Atlanta GA Includes Derek's "1965 BFSR The Amp He's Been Playing Since He Was A Young Boy Derek's 1968 SFSR One Of The Backup Amps The DTB's Hammond B-3 Two Leslies A Hohner E-7 Clavinet And A Few Other Minor Items."

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