Derek Trucks is on Marc Maron’s WTF Podcast this Thursday. Seeing as Marc’s a bit of a guitar geek it should be good. I get his newsletter email each week where he posts selfies with his latest guests. Derek’s beard is getting rather wizardish these days.
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Harold Holt says
I look forward to it. Marc seemed excited about what he got out of it when he plugged it on the Anette Bening episode.
Johnny Concheroo says
Looking forward to that. I just hope Marc doesn’t pitch his questions too low.
Since he was named after Eric Clapton’s Layla band, I look forward to a lot of Allman Bros, Blues Boom and, who knows, maybe even some Beano Album, talk.
aging hippy says
Just about all you hoped for and a whole lot more. DT turns out to be a bubbly personality with tales to tell. It’s not until it’s over that Marc reveals that they are actually pals so worries that he wouldn’t pitch it right don’t happen. Seems there’s a new TTB live album in the offing. One of the best WTF’s ever.
Johnny Concheroo says
Sounds great, I’m in!
Johnny Concheroo says
Really enjoyed this.
Along with Joe Bonamassa and a few others, Derek Trucks was one of a bunch of American guitar whiz kid child prodigies to come up in the last 20 years. Trucks seems the most well balanced of them all. On the Podcast he relates a story about how he and Bonamassa were appearing on the same show as 12 year-olds and backstage the precocious Joe was barking at his dad to “Go get me a Coke”. Derek’s dad turned to him (Derek) and said, “If you ever talk to me like that, I’ll kick your ass!”.
It was full of stuff like that and far from the stony-faced Easter Island statue (™@Junior-Wells) persona he projects onstage Trucks comes across as smart, funny and totally focussed.
Lots of good Allmans and Clapton stories and Peter Green talk. The only disappointing moment was when Marc appeared totally unaware that Trucks and Doyle Bramall III had toured as part of Clapton’s band in 2006, enabling Eric to perform the Layla material exactly as it was recorded for the first time in 30 years.
Here’s Derek Trucks as a 13 year-old in 1993. It’s easy to see how he got where he is today.
Oh, and JW, Trucks guested on the 1996 Junior Wells album Come on in This House
Junior Wells says
nice Skydog shirt
Here is Junior of that album with assorted slide guitarists. This one features Derek Trucks and Sonny Landreth
Johnny Concheroo says
That’s nice. I’m assuming Trucks was only 16 at the time. It sounds like Landreth takes the main solo, his style is much more aggressive than Trucks.
Junior Wells says
I’d say the one that sounds like the Allmans is Derek – the first one.
Johnny Concheroo says
And here’s Derek onstage with BB.King. Watch how BB joshes with Derek “That’s about as good as I’ve ever heard it” he says.
Junior Wells says
Nice stuff – will have to listen to this. Wish you hadn’t brought up that “Layla” tour. For some unfathomable reason, I missed it then shelled out $300 for nary a hello or goodbye on a subsequent tour.
I imagine Bonamassa will wince at that anecdote.
Johnny Concheroo says
Unforgivably I missed the Clapton tour as well. If you remember, they were sharing the PA system with Roger Waters and playing consecutive nights in each city. So to keep the peace at home we went to the Waters’ concert at the same venue the day before Clapton. The only consolation was he had the great Snowy White playing all the Gilmour guitar parts, plus Andy Fairweather Low and PP Arnold in the band.
Back to the Trucks podcast, there’s some stuff about the rivalry between Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allmans I wasn’t aware of. Both were from Jacksonville Florida and it seems Skynyrd were viewed as much more redneck than the Brothers, even locally.
Junior Wells says
I didn’t know they shared the PA – why ?