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MUSIC Rollin’ And Tumblin’ And Truckin’ Along BY JENNIFER FAUCI Williams, saxophone; Elizabeth Lea, trombone; [email protected] and , trumpet. Their debut album, Revelator (2011) won the 2012 Grammy award edeschi Trucks Band has got some serious for Best Album, featuring songs like “Come soul. The blues rock group is fresh out of See About Me,” “Don’t Let Me Slide,” “Midnight in the studio, having just finished their latest Harlem,” “Bound for Glory” and “Simple Things.” record. TTB is also touring through the end They have since released three studio and two Tof the year and although it never stops, live albums. guitarist likes it that way. Trucks met his wife Susan in New “When you’re on the road and the Orleans when she was touring wind’s at your back, everything with . feels inspired. It’s constantly Derek Trucks Rumor has it they fell in love trying to keep the inspiration shares TTB’s new over Chicago blues. there and make everything album, his time “We had a musical connec- fresh and new,” he said of tion right out of the gates,” being a musician. “Our band with The Allman he said of their first meeting, makes music in a really honest Brothers and why which eventually grew into way.” a marriage with two children Formed in 2010, the band is the Beacon Theatre and a successful professional led by Trucks on guitar and his is home collaboration. “In a lot of ways wife, on guitar when you’re in a band, it feels a and vocals as well as , bit like a marriage anyway, so it’s a keyboards and flute; Tyler Greenwell, natural extension to me to work with drums and percussion; J.J. Johnson, drums my wife. It’s pretty amazing getting to do bought his first guitar at a yard sale for $5. He took and percussion; , bass guitar; Mike what we do together.” to playing right away and recalls a time when his Mattison, harmony vocals; Mark Rivers, harmony Having grown up around music, it must have parents took him and his brother to an annual Jazz vocals; Alecia Chakour, harmony vocals; Kebbi been his destiny when at 9 years old, Trucks Fest in Jacksonville, FL, where he saw

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LongIslandWeekly.com • October 3 - 9, 2018 • Published By Anton Media Group • To Advertise Call: 516-747-8282 15 Rollin’ And Tumblin’ And Truckin’ Along parents introduced him to great music early on, came after that. They were good building blocks.” Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi including the likes of Ray Charles and BB King. “I Gearing up for TTB’s eighth annual residency at (Photo by Derek McCabe) feel fortunate to have witnessed some of that. Just the Beacon Theatre, Trucks said it is like going back hearing my dad tell stories about the power of that to home turf for the band. March of 2000 was the first music and the look in his eyes when he spoke about year that Trucks did a run with the Allman Brothers at it, I knew it was important. That’s the first music the Beacon. It was also the same time he and Tedeschi that really hit me as a child.” had their first child. Trucks’ musical lineage runs deep. In 1999, he “He was up in the dressing room during the became an official member of the Allman Brothers performance, just a few weeks old. Everyone who is a band, an opportunity he never thought would come. part of the Beacon is home to us,” he said. “We really Fifteen years since joining the legendary group, he know the place and when we get there, it’s kind of like was still playing right alongside the greats, something checking in.” he never envisioned would last for so long. Trucks shared that a lot of the music on the band’s “I learned a lot right out of the gate, even to new record, as well as previous ones, were directly the very last day. I had to think about music and inspired by their children, which he believes is the keeping the integrity at all times,” he said. “It was an same for every parent. amazing way for the group to go out. Our last show “People write songs out of things they’re going was in 2014 and it was pretty powerful.” through. My dad always emphasized that it’s not how Of the three most influential records he listened much you play, but how you play a single note and to growing up, Trucks cites Derek and the Dominos’ the space in between. Listen as much as you can and Live at The Fillmore and Layla album, and Elmore find what inspires you. That’s what’s always driven the James’ The Best of Elmore James. Those artists, he great musicians,” he advised. “Hearing how they talk says were there from the beginning, as he cut his about the music that inspires them; they light up and and Miles Davis. teeth to emulate Eric Clapton. that’s what’s going to carry you.” “That was one of my first musical memories, but “There’s some beautiful material on there and the will perform at the Beacon the first show I ever went to was when I was 6 years Allmans’ record also shaped a lot of how I thought Theatre in Manhattan on Oct. 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 13. For old. I wanted to see Michael Jackson’s Thriller tour about music,” said Trucks. “Elmore James’ Electric tickets to the show, visit www.tedeschitrucks and I fell asleep for some of it,” said Trucks, whose Slide songbook was the catalyst for everything that band.com.

Tedeschi Trucks Band (Photo by Stuart Levine Photography)

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