It’s funny, sometimes life just comes down to bringing a little bit of light to somebody when you can. Derek Trucks Read Quote
We got our old Neve recording console, it was owned by The Kinks for a long time. Derek Trucks Read Quote
A lot of the gear came out of some of the old studios here in New York City. We picked up a lot of old microphones, reverb tanks, tape machines, so yeah, we try to record the old way, which takes more time and energy, but it certainly feels better when you’re getting to the end of the process of making a record. Derek Trucks Read Quote
I remember a festival we did in Denmark with the Clapton band where you suddenly realize it’s an actual band – and you’re on an equal stage playing music together. Derek Trucks Read Quote
I remember the first time hearing a recording from Minton’s Playhouse; it was Charlie Christian and a young Dizzy Gillespie, and he was just the best musician in the room. Derek Trucks Read Quote
I used a ’57 Les Paul on one track, ‘These Walls’, which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down because the sarode is naturally in C but I tuned the guitar down to D and he came up to D. It was all a pretty simple setup. Derek Trucks Read Quote
One of those Rolling Stone Greatest Guitar Player lists came out and there was no Albert King. That’s impossible! There are 10 people on there who wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Albert. Derek Trucks Read Quote
He was very sweet, but just his persona was intimidating. He was Gregg Allman. I think a lot of people had that feeling when they met him. Derek Trucks Read Quote
You can’t have the Allman Brothers without Butch Trucks and Gregg Allman. Those are just irreplaceable spirits. Derek Trucks Read Quote
When you’re improvising, you connect with people in a way you don’t in normal life, strangely. Derek Trucks Read Quote
