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TIME AFTER ISLAND TIME RADIO PROUDLY PRESENTS
Music from the Far Side of the World

A One-Hour Special Presentation Featuring Derek Trucks of The Derek
Trucks Band and The Allman Brothers Band.

Since taking to the road at 12 years old with The Derek Trucks Band,
guitarist and child protege Derek Trucks has been playing and
creating guitar music with a soul, that most agree, transcend the
number of years he has spent on this earth. The planet still hasn't
caught up. Barely out of his mid-twenties, Mr. Trucks has already
accumulated 14 years of road and studio experience with The Derek
Trucks Band and The Allman Brothers Band.

On this episode of Time After Island Time we talk to Derek about his
world music, his influences and his thoughts on his work with The
Derek Trucks Band and The Allman Brothers Band. Ear Candy? We have
plenty. You will be hearing music from Derek Trucks, The Allman
Brothers, Indian classical, Latin Jazz, and some Caribbean sitar
music. We hope you tune in and enjoy this very unprecedented episode
of Time After Island Time.

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JANUARY 9 Monday - 1 PM

JANUARY 11 Wednesday - 9 AM

JANUARY 12 Thursday - 4 PM

JANUARY 14 Saturday - 8 PM



We want the airwaves, airwaves........
Paul Leslie and Jeff Pike

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http://flagpole.com/articles.php?fp=Der ... 2006-03-29

The Derek Trucks Band
New Album Songlines Traces Developments In Sound


The Derek Trucks Band

In creating the new album Songlines, the Derek Trucks Band not only came up with what many fans will probably see as the group’s best album. During the entire writing and recording of the album, the band - and guitarist Derek Trucks himself - developed a new outlook on the process.

“It’s definitely a serious growth for the band, and for me personally,” says Trucks. “It was the best I’ve felt about any studio experience, and it really changed the way I thought about making records in the future.”

In a phone interview, Trucks says making Songlines, which was released in February, taught him that the studio should be a playground for experimenting with sonics, overdubbing and recording technology, and there’s no reason a studio version of a song can’t evolve during the course of being recorded to offer something different than the way the song will be presented live.

“We play so much and we record our shows live [often enough] that that side of the band is captured and documented,” says Trucks. “When we go in the studio, we don’t really have to try to recreate what we do at a show. We try to make albums, make records. The records that I come back to and listen to after years and years of listening to them, whether it’s a great early Stevie Wonder record or some of those great Hendrix records, there’s just so much going on, just so many layers, that the more you listen to it, you find new things all the time. It’s amazing sonically. You can hide a lot of stuff on a record that you just won’t hear on the first few listens. It’s fascinating.

“[Recording Songlines] is the first time I think we’ve been comfortable as a group to do that and not worry about how are we going to play this live,” he says.

This spirit of discovery felt during the Songlines sessions by Trucks and his bandmates - singer Mike Mattison, bassist Todd Smallie, drummer Yonrico Scott and keyboardist/ flautist Kofi Burbridge - comes after the group had already built up a considerable amount of studio experience.

Trucks, who also plays guitar in the Allman Brothers Band and is the nephew of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, formed his band a decade ago when he was just 16.

By that time, Trucks had already been playing professionally for five years, proving himself to have exceptional talent as a guitarist. With Smallie, Scott and keyboardist Bill McKay rounding out the early lineup, the Derek Trucks Band began touring, and in fall 1996 recorded a self-titled debut album.

The group has been touring and recording steadily since, releasing three more studio records - Out of the Madness (1998), Joyful Noise (2002) and Soul Serenade (2003) - plus a double-CD live concert release, Live at the Georgia Theatre, recorded here in Athens and released in 2004.

Along the way, the band has had a couple of key personnel changes, with Burbridge replacing McKay in 1999, and Mattison signing on as lead vocalist in 2002 - a move that transformed the Derek Trucks band from a primarily instrumental group to one that now makes songs with vocals the backbone of its repertoire.

Mattison makes his studio debut on Songlines, and he is a major presence on the disc. His earthy vocal style is a natural fit for a band that brings plenty of soul to any musical style it touches, and his voice is especially effective on rootsy originals “I’ll Find My Way,” and “All I Do,” as well as “Crow Jane,” where Mattison showcases a surprisingly full falsetto.

The other bandmembers, though, shine quite nicely throughout Songlines as well. Trucks, in particular, shows why, at age 26, he is considered one of the finest young guitarists in any genre. He unreels several impressive solos, be it the slide work on the Eastern-tinged version of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “Sahib Teri Bandi/ Maki Madni,” the acoustic playing on the Taj Mahal song “Chevrolet” or the electric fills on the band-written “All I Do.” The rhythm section of Scott, Smallie and Burbridge, meanwhile, supplies a supple groove that gives the material on Songlines a lively yet unforced bounce.

The growth the band has experienced is also translating to the live setting, where Trucks says the band has been hitting a new peak during recent stints of touring.

“It’s the most complete it’s ever felt, for sure. The last six months have been really amazing for the group as far as just forward momentum musically and otherwise,” he says. “Everyone’s really pumped about this year. It’s exciting times. We’ve been together for 11 years, somewhere in there. There are a lot of peaks and valleys, a lot of times where, you know, we play so much, you’re bound to hit a few walls musically here and there. But I really feel this is one of those times when it’s really on the move again.”

Alan Sculley

Derek Trucks....does he have a cousin named Drive-By?

We saw Derek Trucks about a month ago. Amazingly wonderful! Glad I had the opportunity to see him and will definitely go next year.

Before the show, we ate dinner at small retaurant a block away from the venue. Who should we see eating as well? Yep, Derek & the drummer, just having a nice quiet dinner before the show. Pretty cool.