Fifteen or sixteen years is a long time to have been listening to a guitarist who’s just hit thirty-three, but I have clear recollections of people on the old Allman mailing list raving about this teenage wunderkind and I picked up Derek Trucks Band live shows through the old Mushroom Express tape tree and various personal trades as well.

With mentions in successive versions of Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time (though I’d be ranking him considerably higher than the #16 ranking he got last time) Derek Trucks is among the best guitarists going around at the moment, and while the Derek Trucks Band might be in limbo at the moment, between his gigs with The Allman Brothers Band and the Tedeschi Trucks Band (with his missus, Susan Tedeschi) he’s got plenty to keep him occupied.

He’s been playing paid gigs since age eleven, delivering a blend of blues, soul, jazz and rock, with significant Latin and qawwali influences and was described in The Washington Post as "sounding like a cross between Duane Allman on a '61 Gibson Les Paul and John Coltrane on tenor sax"...

Discography:

Tedeschi Trucks Band:
Revelator (2011)
Everybody's Talkin' (2012)

Derek Trucks Band:
The Derek Trucks Band (1997)
Out of the Madness (1998)
Joyful Noise (2002)
Soul Serenade (2003)
Live at Georgia Theatre (2004)
Songlines (2006)
Songlines Live (DVD) (2006)
Already Free (2009)
Roadsongs (2010)

Allman Brothers Band:
Peakin' at the Beacon (2000)
Hittin' the Note (2003)
Live at the Beacon Theatre (DVD) (2003)
One Way Out (2004)

Collaborations:
1994: Storm Warning Tinsley Ellis
1996: To Cry You A Song: A Tull Tale Various Artists (Cat's Squirrel with Charlie Musselwhite, Clive Bunker, Mick Abrahams)
1996: Come on in This House Junior Wells
1997: Searching for Simplicity Gregg Allman
1999: Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends Gov't Mule
2000: Croakin' at Toad's Frogwings
2001: Project Z Project Z
2002: Live in the Classic City Widespread Panic
2002: Wait For Me Susan Tedeschi
2003: Little Worlds Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
2005: The Best Kept Secret Jerry Douglas
2005: Hope and Desire Susan Tedeschi
2006: The Road to Escondido JJ Cale, Eric Clapton
2008: Skin Deep Buddy Guy
2008: Here and Gone David Sanborn
2008: Sidewalk Caesars Scrapomatic
2008: The Blues Roll On Elvin Bishop
2008: Back to the River Susan Tedeschi
2008: Lifeboat Jimmy Herring
2008: Guitars McCoy Tyner
2010: The Imagine Project Herbie Hancock
2010: Clapton Eric Clapton