I live 25 minutes from Red Rocks. I go to 15-20 red rocks shows per year and Tedeschi Trucks Band is the only band I HAVE to go see both nights. Best live band I see every year.
Totally agree they are the best live band out there, same here I’m in Northern Cali and I’ve them twice at red rocks and both times I went to both nights. I have seen this band and Derek over the years close to 100 times and like going to church every time just magic
I've been lucky to see them 7 or 8 times at Red Rocks over the last however many years and it just blows my mind how they just top themselves every time. TTB is the most powerful live band around and they just keep getting stronger.
@@vdubbub9746 Led Zepplin and George Harrison. : ) Great concerts. I live close by as well and it's an annual event. We're so blessed to have this awesome venue in our backyard.
What a incredibly wild statement...the best "blues and roots guitar player?" And I love DT..saw him 4 times when he was 14. I don't get why people want to make guitar playing a contest. But hey, you do you. 😂
This is easily the best interview of Derek Trucks I've ever seen. I'm not sure that his personality has shown through so much anywhere else. Awesome job.
He’s the most laid-back, humble guy you’d ever want to run into. He’s a Jacksonville guy and he doesn’t hide. He goes to Jags games, little festivals out by the beach, etc. You tell him how much you love the music and he says thank you and cheers. Great dude and an insanely talented guitarist.
There has never been a more humble virtuosoo in rock ‘n’ roll. I’ve had the pleasure of watching him perform since he was 14 years old. Small clubs and bars and everything. And he is always getting better. It’s quite inspiring and mind blowing.
I think it’s a tribute to Derek’s respect for how important Colonel Bruce Hampton is to him that he never brings up the fact that Bruce literally died at Derek’s feet in the middle of the Colonel’s own birthday concert, in the middle of the last song. On a less morbid note I just love how much joy Mr Truck exhibits whenever he talks about other musicians. You can genuinely see how music (not fame) is what he lives for.
Awesome interview. I got to sit about 15 rows away from Derek trucks at a Tedeschi Trucks performance. The best tone. Guitar, boost, and Super Reverb. That was all.
He says that but if u look at live pictures of his set up he does put stuff in from time to time like a klon style pedal, Dunlop echoplex, but they sit on top of the amp and he turns it on by hand for a song, seems to be dependent on what songs are on the setlist.@@RyanMcQuen
TTB, Derek especially are one of the few bands that understand live sound, how the venue can effect performance. Mostly playing only playing in theaters. This gives them the ability to really play to the room, to bring the sound down to a whisper. If you haven’t had a chance to see them live, I highly, highly encourage it. Try and sit center in the middle of the theater. There you will be blessed with some of the best live sound ever. Shout out to their FOH engineer too!
Haven't seen them, but I did see The Derek Trucks Band open up for the Allman Brosa couple times, and I believe they opened up for a Dead (not Grateful Dead) show I was at in the early 2000s.
I can learn more from these interviews about guitar playing than in instructional material. Interviews like this are filled with gems 💎 I’ve studied inversions for years but never played standard tuning lol. 😂 I played open g,d,c and never open e, or e standard ever. I played a lot of weird tuning too but there all written in a iPad that broke 😂
Derek might be my favorite player there days. He is definitely my wife's favorite. She doesn't play but when we see him live she is blown away every time. And such a humbler unassuming guy. At my age (71) you aren't a fan like you used to be but I am happy to say that I am a big fan of Derek Trucks. Thanks for this interview.
He is the best slide player I’ve ever heard and I’m an old 60’s and 70’s bar band guy who covered the Allman Brothers and many of the old blues greats.
Have you listened to Sonny Landreth? Derek's playing is evolutionary, but Sonny's is *revolutionary*. Derek added a chapter to the Book of Slide Guitar, but Sonny wrote an entire Vol. II !
Derek doesn't sing, so his guitar does ! Saw the TTB twice in a row at Paris, France. Best band ever. He litterally made me cry. His playing goes directly to the heart.
Saw him in Vancouver last summer - best electric guitarist I've even seen live, and I've seen quite a few top players. He always connected to the current of feeling and soul, channeling the blues at the root of what he's doing. He's putting out the real stuff, which is getting rare these days.
DAMN!! Nothing like starting off my day with a fresh piping hot SWS with Derek Trucks no less! Love the show! I was listening to Tedeschi Trucks band just last night. Love their Clapton covers.
Man, I really need another deluxe in my family. Those P 90's are legit too. And...man...Derek is so chill and humble. I love this when I see a great player. Just like you Shifty. Stay humble great players.
I saw the DTB on the Joyful Noise tour in Des Moines IA at a historic theatre downtown circa 2002. Changed my paradigm of music! Met Derek in the lobby after the show and shook his hand. Thank you! Derek and Chris Buck have the tightest most proficient right hand technique of any guitarists!
I used to watch Derek at a place called The Crap Pot in Jax Beach on the outside deck when he was very young in the early to mid 90s. The weathered guys he spoke of came from some of the best southern rock bands from the 70s and 80s. You never knew who you would see there on any given Sat or Sun during the daytime right next to the ocean on the boardwalk. Great times were had!
I have to say that was the best yet! D Trucks is amazing and his depth of musical insights are brilliant. He seems so genuine and real. Tedeshi Trucks Band never puts on a half ass show. That band smokes they are so hot! Thanks
20:30 I met Derek in Manchester around 1-2 years ago awesome gig. Met him after an he signed my signature DT SG. I asked him this exact same question an this is the response he told me. Absolutely the most humble person on the planet always willing to pass down the knowledge.
Just as Leo Kotke did with acoustic slide playing 50 yrs ago and Ry at the same time on electric and acoustic, this fella here has taken the slide trade to a new place.Ive loved and played slide guit for a long time and can cobble together half decent renditions of sliders from Elmore and Houndog thru to the more intricate works of Messuirs Cooder and Allman....but, Derek Trucks has THE most individual style of muting,touch,trem and sound that this old critter has EVER heard....I can't even get thru the gate let alone into the same ball park as this man. Absolute originality within a style of guitar playing that's been mined by many greats since its inception is a rare,rare thing indeed.Long may you run Derek, you're a one off mate.❤blooz4life.
Derek's slide playing is evolutionary (as Cooder and Kottke were; I've seen both of them play many times), but Sonny Landreth's playing is *revolutionary*, it's on a whole other level.
I got to meet Derek and Susan after the final show of the Deuces Wild Tour. When we shook hands, he reached in his pocket and pulled out a slide with his autograph etched on it and handed it to me. I enjoyed the podcast today, and I’ve been listening to music and going to live music for over 70 years. This band that he and Sue have put together is my all-time favorite, and I’ve seen Ellington, Basey, Buddy Rich, Mad Dogs and Englishman, Tower of Power, all the greats.
Nobody can play like Derek trucks. Nobody. Some guitarists have mastered virtuosity, some can write songs, but very few can make a guitar become another dimension like Derek can. He always makes my jaw drop. John Mayer can do a lot of derek stuff, but Derek trucks does it in a way that no one can. The best compliment I can give to musician is that they sound unique. Derek is the most unique.
Col Bruce was my mentor as well when I lived in ATL and played the ATL, Athens Austin, triple As circuits, we used to play at Smith's old bar all the time, my band serial groove killers with col Bruce, he used to love my ham sandwiches I would make in the kitchen during sound checks 😂 the 90s was great for me, even early 2000s before I left the south to go back up north because of family stuff.
You know what's crazy about Bruce? If it weren't for Duane, he wouldn't have ever had a music career. So later on, he forms Aquarium Rescue Unit and Oteil Burbridge joins the band...only to be recommended for the bass player spot in ABB, which he got and fulfilled for the next couple of decades. So when it comes down to it, Oteil may have never been in ABB if it weren't for Duane Allman. It all leads back to him. It's because of him that Oteil is a Brother. If he never got Bruce a contract at Capricorn, Bruce never becomes a professional musician, never starts Aquarium Rescue Unit, and never meets Oteil. So then Oteil would've never gotten recommended for the ABB gig and never would've been hired and accepted into the family. Small world, huh?
To this day, I still don’t think people really understand how good Derek is. I see so many incredible slide guitar players across social media, but none of them have his touch. Derek is such a humble, versatile and unique guitar player. Hope I get to meet him one day.
Derek is the greatest guitar player there is today ! His sound and licks are so identifiable u hear his influences but then you immediately hear how he has made them his own ! One of the last true guitar heroes !! See him live if u have not yet !
This was a great video! Derek seems like a great human being and of course an awesome musician. Shred with Shifty is one of my favorite channels/podcasts. I end up listening to the podcast on the road and then watching the videos!😃
Man, why does the time always fly right by with these great and fun interviews? Thanks Chris and might I say, your slide playing is pretty dang good too! Love these interviews!
The man is portal to another universe. My wife and I have seen him twice in London- the first time he blew me away with one of his lifting the lid solo climaxes, but then later in the evening he another peak, later there was another summit and it seemed he had infinite access to another level of euphoric musical genius. Just incredible.
Great interview Shifty! When I first heard "Midnight in Harlem" it stopped me in my tracks. I found it fascinating to discover that Derek is thinking about and adding bits of classical Indian music into the solo that's just awesome.
Ever since he studied with Ali Akbar Khan he has inserted sarod scales into the slide work . There are classic slides and vibratos that are hallmarks of ragas. My old boss brought Ravi Shankar to the US in 1958 for his first recording. A few years later he brought Ali Akbar. I got to know him well and his virtuoso son, who died 2 weeks ago in California. We toured and had amazing jams in horrible hotel rooms to pass the time. The Derek phrases are so familiar from the classical Indian ragas.
Gives me hope for the future of music. I’ve seen Derek live in several incarnations…..never disappointed! And his wife’s voice is a voice I can only hope will be in heavy rotation if and when I make it to heaven!
Band I was in around 1996 opened for Derek in Dallas at the Stone Pony. Hadn't heard of this 15 yr old kid in a baseball cap. Glad I got to see him play back then.
I use to see him playing in daytona when he was 11/12 years old even then it was unbelievable how good he sounded i’m not sure if i’ve anyone better still
Wow, I first saw Derek Trucks in 1993 in Asheville, NC and he was probably 12-14 years old at the oldest and just absolutely blew my guitarists mind, and this is such a great interview of the slide guitar Genius!!! GOAT 🐐
Such a fantastic player with a superb touch and tone, proof that it’s definitely in his hands. A testament to his greatness is how many of the younger slide players try to sound exactly like him, which is missing the point, but that’s how things are today I suppose. Thanks for featuring him here!
Well, Derek's very good, in an evolutionary way, but Sonny Landreth is *revolutionary*, so iconoclastic, so unique that nobody else even attempts to do what he does, because where and how would you begin? (PS, my slide-guitar tastes go all the way back to people like Tampa Red, Blind Willie Johnson and Fred McDowell, and I've seen many players who've expanded on the style, such as Ry Cooder, Leo Kottke, David Lindley, John Mooney, Johnny Winter, etc, but Sonny is in a league all his own).
I'd love to be on stage with Buddy Guy and listen to the amps hum. Lol. That's an incredible image. Derek Trucks is the man. A legend among us. Man, the people he's played and jammed with.
Got to meet Derek after a show in 2001 where he opened for Eric Johnson. Two of my favs of all time. Derek couldn’t have been nicer. He took the time to talk shop with me and I’ll never forget it.
I love Derek like a brother, there is no doubt Derek is by far the best slide guitar prayer alive and I truly believe it was a gift from above, he is such a modest guy , and one of the nicest people you could ever meet. I have an LG reissue same color like his and try to play like Derek and maybe if I practice 8 hours every day for a thousand years I might be able to tune his LG up. God bless Derek Trucks.
I love this interview. Shifty is a natural at these interviews. And, Derkk Trucks is bar nine the greatest living slide player. Tedeschi Trucks shows are amazing, I love getting lost in their shows.
I interviewed Derek back in 1996-ish when he was the Derek Trucks band for a local public TV station. I think he was around 18 or 19 years old. The whole band was super young and super good. He carried his guitar around with himself everywhere and picked at it here and there through the interview. Really nice bunch of guys. Glad to see he's lasted this long.
Name a song that Derek can't or didn't make better. From Blind Faith "can't find my way home" to "Love and Regret" by Billy Strings to "Lie in our Graves" by DMB. Derek knows exactly what a song needs and no more. Jedi level.
You two are the least “famous acting” of the famous guitarists out there, I think. Just two dudes talking guitar and learning from each other. Very cool.
I live 25 minutes from Red Rocks. I go to 15-20 red rocks shows per year and Tedeschi Trucks Band is the only band I HAVE to go see both nights. Best live band I see every year.
Lucky. I had to fly 2000 miles to see a show there, and it was worth the trip
Totally agree they are the best live band out there, same here I’m in Northern Cali and I’ve them twice at red rocks and both times I went to both nights. I have seen this band and Derek over the years close to 100 times and like going to church every time just magic
I've been lucky to see them 7 or 8 times at Red Rocks over the last however many years and it just blows my mind how they just top themselves every time. TTB is the most powerful live band around and they just keep getting stronger.
@@siscoismyhomey it's always a fun time. I loved that they opened both nights with Zeppelin material this year.
@@vdubbub9746 Led Zepplin and George Harrison. : ) Great concerts. I live close by as well and it's an annual event. We're so blessed to have this awesome venue in our backyard.
He might honestly be the best blues and roots rock guitar player ever. not just with slide. he's incredible, one of one.
What a incredibly wild statement...the best "blues and roots guitar player?" And I love DT..saw him 4 times when he was 14. I don't get why people want to make guitar playing a contest. But hey, you do you. 😂
@@HALWASRIGHTagree. And if you think it is only blues and rock rooted you have to listen again.
He's one of the best jazz players, on top of all that
Sounds horrible, like a Stuck pig!!
@HALWASRIGHT What an asshole thing to say. Oh well, you do you
This is easily the best interview of Derek Trucks I've ever seen. I'm not sure that his personality has shown through so much anywhere else. Awesome job.
His interview with Rick Beato is also great!
To be honest, Derek has a lot to say. 😀
He’s the most laid-back, humble guy you’d ever want to run into. He’s a Jacksonville guy and he doesn’t hide. He goes to Jags games, little festivals out by the beach, etc. You tell him how much you love the music and he says thank you and cheers. Great dude and an insanely talented guitarist.
Derek is fricking Yoda. And seemingly the nicest, most humble dude around.
There has never been a more humble virtuosoo in rock ‘n’ roll. I’ve had the pleasure of watching him perform since he was 14 years old. Small clubs and bars and everything. And he is always getting better. It’s quite inspiring and mind blowing.
Derek is my favorite guitar player. I admire his personality, attitude, and performance style. Supreme confidence mixed with genuine humility.
Humility backed up with incredible talent WOW!!
this interview is just so wholesome and informative. man, i just love you guys.
Loved every second of this. Would’ve happily watched Derek and Chris talk for hours.
Derek plays the mostly stunningly beautiful sounding guitar licks ever played. Absolute MASTER of his craft. Love this guy. GREAT interview Chris!
I can learn more from these interviews about guitar playing than in instructional material. Interviews like this are filled with gems 💎
I think it’s a tribute to Derek’s respect for how important Colonel Bruce Hampton is to him that he never brings up the fact that Bruce literally died at Derek’s feet in the middle of the Colonel’s own birthday concert, in the middle of the last song. On a less morbid note I just love how much joy Mr Truck exhibits whenever he talks about other musicians. You can genuinely see how music (not fame) is what he lives for.
Realizing that you're the old guy at the jam session now is a hard day for all of us 😂
Awesome interview. I got to sit about 15 rows away from Derek trucks at a Tedeschi Trucks performance. The best tone. Guitar, boost, and Super Reverb. That was all.
He had a boost? Usually he has no pedals.
He says that but if u look at live pictures of his set up he does put stuff in from time to time like a klon style pedal, Dunlop echoplex, but they sit on top of the amp and he turns it on by hand for a song, seems to be dependent on what songs are on the setlist.@@RyanMcQuen
Derek is a kind of superior human being. Humble, amazing player, quiet, smiling guy, a great artist!!!
TTB, Derek especially are one of the few bands that understand live sound, how the venue can effect performance. Mostly playing only playing in theaters. This gives them the ability to really play to the room, to bring the sound down to a whisper. If you haven’t had a chance to see them live, I highly, highly encourage it. Try and sit center in the middle of the theater. There you will be blessed with some of the best live sound ever. Shout out to their FOH engineer too!
Haven't seen them, but I did see The Derek Trucks Band open up for the Allman Brosa couple times, and I believe they opened up for a Dead (not Grateful Dead) show I was at in the early 2000s.
I've been waiting a loooooong time for an interview with Derek where he talks bolts and nuts. Thank you so much!!!
I can learn more from these interviews about guitar playing than in instructional material. Interviews like this are filled with gems 💎
I’ve studied inversions for years but never played standard tuning lol. 😂
I played open g,d,c and never open e, or e standard ever. I played a lot of weird tuning too but there all written in a iPad that broke 😂
Killer interview, wow.. Allman Brothers Fillmore East has to be one of the best live performances ever.
Thanks for the interview! They say never meet your heroes, but I think Derek and his beautiful wife Susan are the exception to the rule! 🎸 🇨🇦
Derek might be my favorite player there days. He is definitely my wife's favorite. She doesn't play but when we see him live she is blown away every time. And such a humbler unassuming guy. At my age (71) you aren't a fan like you used to be but I am happy to say that I am a big fan of Derek Trucks. Thanks for this interview.
Best interview of this legend. Love that Shifty just wants to learn from him.
Great interview! Felt like I was hanging out with you guys. I’m a huge Derek fan seen him several times, always amazing.
saw Tedeschi Trucks 3 times in the last year & EVERY TIME THEY GER BETTER&BETTER
They blow my mind every time. Goosebumps just remembering the last show I saw.
His good naturedness, honesty, and humbleness allow his notes to flow directly from his soul. It seems all the truly great players share that.
Amazing interview! Remember hearing a live recording of Derek Trucks Band around 2004. Blew my mind!
Excellent. Chris is the only guy giving me the interviews I wanna hear with todays best guitarists. Keep it up. Love Dereck.
Derek Trucks is such a nice guy for being a generational virtuoso.
He is the best slide player I’ve ever heard and I’m an old 60’s and 70’s bar band guy who covered the Allman Brothers and many of the old blues greats.
Have you listened to Sonny Landreth? Derek's playing is evolutionary, but Sonny's is *revolutionary*. Derek added a chapter to the Book of Slide Guitar, but Sonny wrote an entire Vol. II !
Derek doesn't sing, so his guitar does !
Saw the TTB twice in a row at Paris, France.
Best band ever.
He litterally made me cry. His playing goes directly to the heart.
Saw him in Vancouver last summer - best electric guitarist I've even seen live, and I've seen quite a few top players. He always connected to the current of feeling and soul, channeling the blues at the root of what he's doing. He's putting out the real stuff, which is getting rare these days.
DAMN!! Nothing like starting off my day with a fresh piping hot SWS with Derek Trucks no less! Love the show!
I was listening to Tedeschi Trucks band just last night. Love their Clapton covers.
Great interview! Thanks! I took a lot away from that! He is so humble!
Man, I really need another deluxe in my family. Those P 90's are legit too. And...man...Derek is so chill and humble. I love this when I see a great player. Just like you Shifty. Stay humble great players.
Derek is such a gem! He seems like such a kind dude too. His music changed my life at age 18. Thanks Derek, keep on being you!
Derek is such a cool guy, feels good to support an artist that’s actually nice
Dude is the best. Hope he sticks around doing his thing for a long time. 🎸🎸
I saw the DTB on the Joyful Noise tour in Des Moines IA at a historic theatre downtown circa 2002. Changed my paradigm of music! Met Derek in the lobby after the show and shook his hand. Thank you! Derek and Chris Buck have the tightest most proficient right hand technique of any guitarists!
Hoyt Sherman?
I was at that one! Great memories from that show.
Great interview... Derek comes across as a very genuine, nice guy... fantastic player with amazing tone.
Thanks!
I used to watch Derek at a place called The Crap Pot in Jax Beach on the outside deck when he was very young in the early to mid 90s. The weathered guys he spoke of came from some of the best southern rock bands from the 70s and 80s. You never knew who you would see there on any given Sat or Sun during the daytime right next to the ocean on the boardwalk. Great times were had!
I have to say that was the best yet! D Trucks is amazing and his depth of musical insights are brilliant. He seems so genuine and real. Tedeshi Trucks Band never puts on a half ass show. That band smokes they are so hot! Thanks
Shifty Might be the Best Derek Interviewer Ever! Thanks so much for this❤
20:30 I met Derek in Manchester around 1-2 years ago awesome gig. Met him after an he signed my signature DT SG. I asked him this exact same question an this is the response he told me. Absolutely the most humble person on the planet always willing to pass down the knowledge.
The first time I seen or heard Derek was in the Allman Brothers “The High Cost Of Low Living” And was blown away and realized just what this man is.
Great interview! Thank you
Derek trucks has been a hero of mine since I was a teenager. Dude is seriously the GOAT
Just as Leo Kotke did with acoustic slide playing 50 yrs ago and Ry at the same time on electric and acoustic, this fella here has taken the slide trade to a new place.Ive loved and played slide guit for a long time and can cobble together half decent renditions of sliders from Elmore and Houndog thru to the more intricate works of Messuirs Cooder and Allman....but, Derek Trucks has THE most individual style of muting,touch,trem and sound that this old critter has EVER heard....I can't even get thru the gate let alone into the same ball park as this man. Absolute originality within a style of guitar playing that's been mined by many greats since its inception is a rare,rare thing indeed.Long may you run Derek, you're a one off mate.❤blooz4life.
Derek is very good ---- but I don't think he's at the level of Sonny Landreth.
Derek's slide playing is evolutionary (as Cooder and Kottke were; I've seen both of them play many times), but Sonny Landreth's playing is *revolutionary*, it's on a whole other level.
Great interview! Thank you....and thank you Derek for ALL the music and inspiration..!
I got to meet Derek and Susan after the final show of the Deuces Wild Tour. When we shook hands, he reached in his pocket and pulled out a slide with his autograph etched on it and handed it to me. I enjoyed the podcast today, and I’ve been listening to music and going to live music for over 70 years. This band that he and Sue have put together is my all-time favorite, and I’ve seen Ellington, Basey, Buddy Rich, Mad Dogs and Englishman, Tower of Power, all the greats.
That's his Signature Dunlop Blues Bottle slide. I have one. You can buy them from Dunlop or Derek usually gives them away since he doesn't use a pick.
Excellent interview of one of my all-time favorite artists. Thanks. ❤
Nobody can play like Derek trucks. Nobody. Some guitarists have mastered virtuosity, some can write songs, but very few can make a guitar become another dimension like Derek can. He always makes my jaw drop. John Mayer can do a lot of derek stuff, but Derek trucks does it in a way that no one can. The best compliment I can give to musician is that they sound unique. Derek is the most unique.
Man, I just love Derek. Big thanks for this one.
Great interview. Two great players and really humble guys.
Col Bruce was my mentor as well when I lived in ATL and played the ATL, Athens Austin, triple As circuits, we used to play at Smith's old bar all the time, my band serial groove killers with col Bruce, he used to love my ham sandwiches I would make in the kitchen during sound checks 😂 the 90s was great for me, even early 2000s before I left the south to go back up north because of family stuff.
You know what's crazy about Bruce? If it weren't for Duane, he wouldn't have ever had a music career. So later on, he forms Aquarium Rescue Unit and Oteil Burbridge joins the band...only to be recommended for the bass player spot in ABB, which he got and fulfilled for the next couple of decades.
So when it comes down to it, Oteil may have never been in ABB if it weren't for Duane Allman. It all leads back to him. It's because of him that Oteil is a Brother.
If he never got Bruce a contract at Capricorn, Bruce never becomes a professional musician, never starts Aquarium Rescue Unit, and never meets Oteil. So then Oteil would've never gotten recommended for the ABB gig and never would've been hired and accepted into the family.
Small world, huh?
This cat is worthy of carrying the torch and taking it to the next level…
To this day, I still don’t think people really understand how good Derek is.
I see so many incredible slide guitar players across social media, but none of them have his touch.
Derek is such a humble, versatile and unique guitar player. Hope I get to meet him one day.
Thanks for asking my question. Great interview as always
Derek is the greatest guitar player there is today ! His sound and licks are so identifiable u hear his influences but then you immediately hear how he has made them his own ! One of the last true guitar heroes !! See him live if u have not yet !
I need two notes, and I KNOW it's Derek. 💯 just amazing 🔥🎸☮️🌹
Shifty's best interview yet.....needed 4 more hours of it!
I heard so so much ABB during the 80s. My dad loves them to this day and he still plays their music long and loud! ❤️🙏
I saw Derek in Dallas in 07 with Doyle in Eric’s band. They opened with Tell The Truth! I’d swear Duane was in the room! Great interview! ❤🎸🤘
This was a great video! Derek seems like a great human being and of course an awesome musician. Shred with Shifty is one of my favorite channels/podcasts. I end up listening to the podcast on the road and then watching the videos!😃
Man, why does the time always fly right by with these great and fun interviews? Thanks Chris and might I say, your slide playing is pretty dang good too! Love these interviews!
The man is portal to another universe. My wife and I have seen him twice in London- the first time he blew me away with one of his lifting the lid solo climaxes, but then later in the evening he another peak, later there was another summit and it seemed he had infinite access to another level of euphoric musical genius. Just incredible.
Derek is always a great interview!
Great interview Shifty! When I first heard "Midnight in Harlem" it stopped me in my tracks. I found it fascinating to discover that Derek is thinking about and adding bits of classical Indian music into the solo that's just awesome.
Ever since he studied with Ali Akbar Khan he has inserted sarod scales into the slide work . There are classic slides and vibratos that are hallmarks of ragas. My old boss brought Ravi Shankar to the US in 1958 for his first recording. A few years later he brought Ali Akbar. I got to know him well and his virtuoso son, who died 2 weeks ago in California. We toured and had amazing jams in horrible hotel rooms to pass the time. The Derek phrases are so familiar from the classical Indian ragas.
@davidcollin1436 Swamp Raga intro to Midnight In Harlem is an in concert live must have!!! 💯🎵🎶🔥🎸💃🕺☮️🌹
That was unique, and absolutely fantastic. Glad Col. Bruce Hampton stories were told.
Gives me hope for the future of music. I’ve seen Derek live in several incarnations…..never disappointed! And his wife’s voice is a voice I can only hope will be in heavy rotation if and when I make it to heaven!
Live TTB shows are what help keep me thriving and not just surviving! 🌹☮️💯🔥🎸💃🕺🎶🎵
Really great interview Chris, love all these
One of the greatest of all time. Derek is amazing
Derek is just gold. One of a kind human and musician.
Band I was in around 1996 opened for Derek in Dallas at the Stone Pony. Hadn't heard of this 15 yr old kid in a baseball cap. Glad I got to see him play back then.
Wild...my roommate & friend owned that club, but missed Derek. Had a lot of the big names stop by after shows, or play there.
DT is a legend. Shifty slacked on his homework for this one.
I use to see him playing in daytona when he was 11/12 years old even then it was unbelievable how good he sounded i’m not sure if i’ve anyone better still
Thank you Shifty for another awesome interview! Really enjoy these!! Derek is such an incredible player and one of my favorites!!🎸🎸🎸🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Always a great treat to hear Derek just sit and talk slide
He is everything they say!
I was on tour with him a couple years ago ,(driver) ,
Lots of fun!
great interview, he's such a cool guy. saw him on that clapton tour and he blew me away. amazing talent.
Wow, I first saw Derek Trucks in 1993 in Asheville, NC and he was probably 12-14 years old at the oldest and just absolutely blew my guitarists mind, and this is such a great interview of the slide guitar Genius!!! GOAT 🐐
What a great interview! Derek is amazing, and he's right, your slide playing was excellent!
I have never clicked on a video so fast! incredible interview.
Such a fantastic player with a superb touch and tone, proof that it’s definitely in his hands.
A testament to his greatness is how many of the younger slide players try to sound exactly like him, which is missing the point, but that’s how things are today I suppose. Thanks for featuring him here!
Well, Derek's very good, in an evolutionary way, but Sonny Landreth is *revolutionary*, so iconoclastic, so unique that nobody else even attempts to do what he does, because where and how would you begin? (PS, my slide-guitar tastes go all the way back to people like Tampa Red, Blind Willie Johnson and Fred McDowell, and I've seen many players who've expanded on the style, such as Ry Cooder, Leo Kottke, David Lindley, John Mooney, Johnny Winter, etc, but Sonny is in a league all his own).
I'd love to be on stage with Buddy Guy and listen to the amps hum. Lol. That's an incredible image. Derek Trucks is the man. A legend among us. Man, the people he's played and jammed with.
35:20 The calmest assassin.
Got to meet Derek after a show in 2001 where he opened for Eric Johnson. Two of my favs of all time. Derek couldn’t have been nicer. He took the time to talk shop with me and I’ll never forget it.
I love Derek like a brother, there is no doubt Derek is by far the best slide guitar prayer alive and I truly believe it was a gift from above, he is such a modest guy , and one of the nicest people you could ever meet. I have an LG reissue same color like his and try to play like Derek and maybe if I practice 8 hours every day for a thousand years I might be able to tune his LG up. God bless Derek Trucks.
He was the best slide player from a very young age. Thanks! 🎉❤
He is the GOAT!
I love this interview. Shifty is a natural at these interviews. And, Derkk Trucks is bar nine the greatest living slide player. Tedeschi Trucks shows are amazing, I love getting lost in their shows.
I interviewed Derek back in 1996-ish when he was the Derek Trucks band for a local public TV station. I think he was around 18 or 19 years old. The whole band was super young and super good. He carried his guitar around with himself everywhere and picked at it here and there through the interview. Really nice bunch of guys. Glad to see he's lasted this long.
Love Derek. Great guy. Met him once in DC.
This is just insane, how can someone be this AMAZING.
the master
Name a song that Derek can't or didn't make better. From Blind Faith "can't find my way home" to "Love and Regret" by Billy Strings to "Lie in our Graves" by DMB. Derek knows exactly what a song needs and no more.
Jedi level.
He’s so grounded. Obviously really good parents helped him grow up with his head in the right place. What a talent.
His mother is a kind, respectful southern lady. I didn't meet his dad.
Great interview thank you !
You two are the least “famous acting” of the famous guitarists out there, I think. Just two dudes talking guitar and learning from each other. Very cool.
Simply awesome… thanks for sharing