Wheels Of Soul Tour Daily’s Place I’d love to call up Willie Nelson or Herbie Hancock and do some kind of duo record. We spoke to the bottleneck virtuoso about the Tedeschi Trucks Band’s fourth studio album, his pursuit of pure tone, his blend of rootsy blues with all manner of different music … St. Paul and The Broken Bones It’s amazing when you have a band this big that’s listening hard. It’s usually Fender amps, but we have a few weird things floating around, too; there’s an Oahu that I love and an Ampeg B-15 that also sounds amazing. CMAC (Constellation Brands – Marvin Sands Performing Arts Center) And it’s always a really eclectic mix of Cuban music and African music mixed with music from Pakistan and India. I always imagine in my head how something is coming across and it’s not necessarily doing that when I listen back. We have some ballads, some really beautiful ballads and some kind of sad, and some upbeat, funky kind of soulful tunes with the whole group going for it and the great horns. Right now, you can feel the whole world’s head is spinning. They’ve all got knobs and buttons which I have no idea how to work!”“I still listen to that as much as anything else. I’d love to do a gospel or a country record, and I have so many old tunes that I’ve never recorded — it’d be fun to publish some of the stuff that no one’s ever heard. I really don’t know a lot about the Drive-By Truckers and I’m excited to learn about them, so that’ll be really fun. That’s the beauty of the studio, you can throw so many sounds against the wall until you find one that sits in a track.
I sang backup a little bit when he sat-in with When we do write songs, we stay open-minded and open to interpretation. It’s important not to preach at people, but when you’re writing records, you want them to last.”“Without a doubt. But The Stones of course, and everyone from the Dead to Black Sabbath to Peter Wolf. A lot of bands will be on the road together and may not even see each other except on stage. I do know We just saw Eric, actually — I got to play with his band for the first time. Those ways of approaching the instrument are still a part of it, but I try to incorporate it in ways that are less obvious. If I need to get back to ground zero, I’ll go back to him or Elmore James.”“Anything that hits you between the chest. People want to live in a world where people get along, and there are laws to protect them and keep them safe, and they have clean air and water, and access to healthcare.
And some of the songs maybe just started as a jam with Tim and Kofi and Derek playing something silly that gets turned into a song at soundcheck. You can feel it hanging over the record, but at the same time, you don’t want it to drag the whole thing down.”“Since we built our studio, Doyle comes down for every album cycle.
This infectious attitude is due in part to forthcoming studio album Alongside the aforementioned touring stints, Trucks has also played with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan and the late, great BB King. (For more, check out a full archive of more than 60 The Art Of The Sit-In interviews here). He happened to be in Nashville and came by the studio, we played him “It’s different. That’s one of my favorites. St. Paul and The Broken Bones So I think we all know how special it is and have a mutual respect for each other.A lot of us have written for the record, actually. I think as a guitar player and singer he’s now fully formed, so those albums are definitely worth listening to.”“The first few years I was playing was like hearing your voice on a recording, I found that listening back helped in a lot of ways. We’ve just finished rehearsing with Brandon Boone from Atlanta, who’s just 24. My son keeps putting me on to Doyle Bramhall’s last album. So we’re at the end, and he says, “I’m going to invite one of my favorite guitar players in the world to come join me.” And I know that’s not me, so I turn around and there’s I’m up there standing between George and B.B., and my amp is almost off the stage. We have a hint of politics, a hint of environmental topics, but I think you hear the humanity in the songs — what brings us all together. A lot of great music was written and played with him, but it was good timing, I think everyone is now better off. We also did a few shows with Willie Nelson and seeing him play Django Reinhardt was so refreshing, I was knocked over when he played “I can’t say there’s a bunch, but that’s because my head has been down making this record. We do that about every year and a half to keep the wheels turning. Derek Trucks has developed from child prodigy into the world’s finest slide guitarist. J.J. is another one.
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks juggle the chaotic life of raising a family while also fronting the Grammy Award-winning Tedeschi Trucks Band.The band's … We eat together, we work out together, we listen to music together, we do laundry together. We knew from the beginning that Tim always had his hands in a thousand projects.
There’s a lot of pent-up energy to play stuff that we’ve been holding back.”“I think you’re always trying to tap into what you’re feeling as an individual.