Y’know, you can sit in a room, practise all day, learn your scales and blaze blues riffs: it’s easy to hide behind that. But I think with the slide, it’s a little bit tougher. Derek Trucks Read Quote
You hope to catch the band on a good night and you hope that it sounds good when you hear the tapes back, and you hope that when you mix it you still have the feeling that you had when you were onstage, but it seems like it never quite works out that way! Derek Trucks Read Quote
George Alessandro in New Jersey builds these great amplifiers. He was working on my Super Reverbs for years and he’s kind of a vintage Marshall specialist. He built this amp and it’s kind of a cross between a Dumble and a Super Reverb but a little juiced up with a little more power. Derek Trucks Read Quote
It was pretty surreal because The Allman Brothers’ ‘Eat A Peach’ and ‘Live At The Fillmore East’, and the Eric Clapton ‘Layla’ record was the music I grew up hearing all the time. Derek Trucks Read Quote
When you think about your heroes, it absolutely shapes how you play and who you are. Derek Trucks Read Quote
You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing’s wasted. Nothing’s throwaway. Derek Trucks Read Quote
I got a picture of me taken next to George Jones. I rarely ask for that, but he’s someone I couldn’t pass up. Derek Trucks Read Quote
The one thing the Allman Brothers Band does not do is phone it in. They bring it every night and that’s something I draw from. Derek Trucks Read Quote
