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In the News (Tue 15 Dec 09)

  
  Drummerworld: Butch Miles
Butch Miles was born in Ironton, Ohio on July 4, 1944 and raised in West Virginia.
Butch's first drum hero was Gene Krupa, but he listened to every drummer he possibly could.
In 1976, Butch played a royal Command Performance for Her Majesty the Queen of England which was televised throughout all of Europe.
www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Butch_Miles.html   (545 words)

  
 CMT.com : Derek Trucks Band : Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Blues/blues-rock guitarist Derek Trucks is the nephew of long-time Allman Brothers' drummer
Trucks began playing guitar when he was nine, and shared stages and sat in with the likes of Buddy Guy and the Allman Brothers Band by the time he was 12.
Trucks began his professional career playing with blues bands around his native Jacksonville, Fla., and formed his own group in high school.
www.cmt.com /artists/az/trucks_derek/bio.jhtml   (251 words)

  
 George Graham Reviews "The Derek Trucks Band"
Trucks and his band take the tune in a slightly latin direction á la Santana, but the tempo and rhythmic feel are leaden.
Trucks, who has already appeared on several albums as a sideman, embodies an interesting juxtaposition of musical taste and maturity, with teenage hubris in tackling jazz standards that an older musician might treat with a kind of reverence.
Trucks and his excellent band plunge in, engaging in such heresy as giving Coltrane a Southern rock boogie treatment on slide guitar, and for the most part, the results are interesting and satisfying.
georgegraham.com /trucks.html   (1364 words)

  
 Derek Trucks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Add to that one more fact: Trucks is a new father, with two children now of his own with wife and fellow blues guitarist extraordinaire Susan Tedeschi.
Trucks has a distinctive slide guitar style that is a melding of his varied influences.
Trucks said that working with Joyce was a great experience that allowed the band to get just the sound they wanted.
www.marqueemag.com /08_05/trucks.html   (578 words)

  
 The Mountain Times Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trucks has been a guitar slinger and band leader for over a decade…and he is still only 25 years old.
When Trucks got his professional start in music—playing as a precocious eleven-year-old guitarist in the early 90s—his forte was blazing slide guitar riffs with more than a passing tip of the hat to the work of the Allman Brothers Band.
Trucks’ family music connection came in handy as he had plenty of family and friends eager to pick up the little guitar and show Derek how to play a chord progression here and lead guitar riff there.
www.mountaintimes.com /mtweekly/2004/1028/trucks.php3   (610 words)

  
 Born to slide / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
Trucks sees a tendency in modern music, particularly for his generation, "to move away from nature and the here-and-now." He views most pop music – the genre his age group most listens to – as a reflection of the chaotic way most people live their lives.
Trucks says the idea of his playing music for a living was scary for his father, who'd seen his brother Butch through the Allman Brothers' rough, wild, early years.
Trucks claims commercial success is not a big priority for him right now, but he realizes that his youth gives him the advantage of not having to worry about making the big bucks.
www.mountainx.com /ae/1998/1118trucks.php   (832 words)

  
 Creating new riffs on the 2-career family - Arts & Leisure - International Herald Tribune
Trucks, who first attracted attention a decade ago as a teenage guitar prodigy, leads the groove-heavy Derek Trucks Band and is also a member of the current lineup of the Allman Brothers Band.
Trucks said he draws inspiration from his wife's work, and maybe a little competitive spirit - "You don't want to be completely outgunned in your own home," he said, with one of his frequent laughs.
Trucks played on a few songs on Tedeschi's last two albums, she sang on one of his, and they recorded a track together for a Robert Johnson tribute compilation.
www.iht.com /articles/2006/03/06/news/rambling.php   (1097 words)

  
 Music Preview: Derek Trucks Band
Trucks, nephew of drummer Butch Trucks, says, "I wasn't really around the band at all." He grew up in the Jacksonville area, a normal, if exceptionally bright, kid who played Little League and collected baseball cards almost fanatically.
Chris Trucks was a roofer, not a musician, but he showed his son a few things and then just sat back and watched in amazement as the sound of Duane seemed to flow out of him.
Trucks says the Allmans gig and tangents like the one with Lesh, while cutting into his solo work, make the Derek Trucks Band stronger.
www.post-gazette.com /magazine/20000128trucks6.asp   (1000 words)

  
 Guitarist Derek Trucks
Blues/blues-rock guitarist Derek Trucks is the nephew of long-time Allman Brothers' drummer Butch Trucks.
Trucks says that the stresses with Betts were felt mostly by the other original members, Gregg Allman, Butch Trucks, and Jaimoe.
Trucks, who is married to musician Susan Tedeschi, says his band's tours are a little different now that he's a father.
www.guitarz-for-ever.com /guitarist-derek-trucks.html   (3166 words)

  
 Butch Trucks - AOL Music
"Wanee and Warcraft: A Conversation with Butch Trucks".
In 1999, Derek Trucks joined his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks, as a member of The Allman Brothers Band, while continuing to lead his own band.
Warren Haynes - Butch Trucks - Marc Quiñones - Jaimoe - Oteil Burbridge -...
music.aol.com /artist/butch-trucks/132924/main   (131 words)

  
 George Graham Reviews Butch Trucks' "Joyful Noise"
Trucks soon began attracting attention for his impressive musicianship, along with his eclecticism, borrowing from jazz and blues, as well as jam-band rock in his approach.
Trucks' new CD is also marked by the eclecticism that was characteristic of his debut release, but this time that wide musical range extends to some interesting guests, including RandB pioneer Solomon Burke, Latin music luminary Rubén Blades, and Pakistani singer Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, the nephew of the famous late Qawwali-style vocalist.
Trucks has evolved a interesting and fairly distinctive guitar sound, resembling a mix of the Allman Brothers Band and Santana, and that is reflected in the styles he undertakes, from bluesy jams to vaguely Latin-influenced, with a Latin undercurrent present on several of the tracks.
georgegraham.com /reviews/trucksjn.html   (1124 words)

  
 HYBRIDMAGAZINE.COM | REVIEWS | The Derek Trucks Band - Songlines album review
Yes, it is true that Trucks is the nephew of the Allman Brothers' Butch Trucks.
Certainly, Trucks' guitar work is that of a blues afficionado, but with the exception of a few songs, Songlines has the feel and musical breadth of a pop album.
Trucks' blues riffs are central to the album, tying together musically an album that is heterogeneous in its musicality.
www.hybridmagazine.com /reviews/0406/derektrucks.shtml   (416 words)

  
 Pollstar -- HotStar The Derek Trucks Band
So while Trucks isn't necessarily a household name in the commercial world of six-string blues prodigies, his achievements are in a world all their own.
Trucks, the nephew of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, speaks like a seasoned musician more than twice his age someone who's been around the block a few times, musically speaking.
Trucks is in a unique and enviable situation: supporting a solo career that allows complete musical freedom, while being a seasonal member of the legendary Allman Brothers Band, providing an outlet to hone his chops on a host of classic tunes.
www.pollstar.com /news/viewhotstar.pl?Artist=DERTRU   (858 words)

  
 NPR : Six-String Creation: The Derek Trucks Band
Trucks, who began playing guitar as a boy, was tapped at age 20 to take the place of late guitarist Duane Allman in the Allman Brothers Band.
His five-man band, which Trucks has called "a fascinating mix of humanity," incorporates flute, congas and a penchant for expansive live performances.
Trucks joins Linda Wertheimer to talk and play songs from the album, the band's first studio recording in four years.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5300263   (298 words)

  
 Flying Frog Records
For the founding members Jaimoe Johanny Johanson (or just plain Jaimoe) and Butch Trucks, along with their percussive partner of 12 years, Marc Quiñones, being in the Allman Brothers is about being three parts of one very distinctive whole of a drumming personality.
Trucks came backstage, sauntered up to Quiñones, declared that he was about to become his new employer, and left.
Butch Trucks also uses Zildjian Butch Trucks model sticks, Remo heads, Tama Rhythm Watch, DW 9000 Series hardware, and an Axis bass drum pedal.
www.flyingfrogrecords.com /print.php?sid=49   (3141 words)

  
 Classic Rock Revisited
Trucks talks openly about the current line up of the band and how they had to lose Dickey Betts to gain the mastery they have now.
Butch: We will do "Mountain Jam" and it will last for an hour but there are different movements and time changes throughout the song.
Butch: We happened to be living in an apartment that we called The Hippie Crash Pad that was just up the road from the Rose Hill Cemetery.
www.classicrockrevisited.com /Interviews06/butchtrucks.htm   (5769 words)

  
 Derek Trucks Band - Out of the Madness (Album Review)
For 19-year-old Derek Trucks, the blues is his religious mantra, albeit with a few twists and turns reminiscent of his heritage.
Derek is the nephew of Butch Trucks, long-time drummer for the Allman Brothers Band, with whom he performs in the side-project Frogwings.
Trucks completes Out of the Madness with a series of mind-blowing instrumental selections, and these are where the sparks really begin to fly.
www.musicbox-online.com /dt-mad.html   (537 words)

  
 Derek Trucks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, Trucks took up the guitar at age 9, and it was quickly apparent that he was a child prodigy.
His early repertoire was heavily blues-based, obviously inspired by The Allman Brothers Band, of which his uncle, drummer Butch Trucks, is a founding member.
As of early 2006, Trucks is an accompanying guitarist in Eric Clapton's 2006-2007 touring band.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Derek_Trucks   (643 words)

  
 Independent Weekly: Music: Features: Roots unbound
Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks is his uncle, and Derek is now an official member of the band, playing alongside guitarist Warren Haynes on stage and in the studio.
Trucks believes that some people got scared off when the band first started expanding their sound and not doing the standard 12-bar blues.
Trucks believes that this record showcases his band rather than having him as the centerpiece.
www.indyweek.com /gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:20463   (811 words)

  
 Allman Brothers Band enjoying resurgence - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks is reached in New York City's Central Park, where he's watching bandmate Marc Quinones play a softball game.
By the 1980s, Trucks says, there weren't a whole lot of people who wanted to listen to a band that was steeped in "blues and rock 'n' roll and country and a little classical.
That album might be the first of many vintage shows released, as Trucks notes the band is trying to reacquire a cache of tapes in a warehouse owned by BMG.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_86207.html   (781 words)

  
 NASCAR Trucks: Butch Miller/DANA Racing Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Butch Miller and the DANA Racing team have the opportunity to collect over $130,000 dollars for winning the NAPACARD 200 at Evergreen Speedway.
Miller, one of five drivers that is eligible to win the Craftsman $100,000 bonus for having competed in every truck series race in history has only one win in the series.
This is the first weekend that the NASCAR Winston Cup series is not competing since the truck season began.
www.theautochannel.com /news/date/19990331/news021219.html   (525 words)

  
 Jambands.com | Features | Wanee and Warcraft: A Conversation with Butch Trucks | 2006-04-11
Wanee and Warcraft: A Conversation with Butch Trucks
In the days just prior to Wannee, drumming legend Butch Trucks, took some time to speak with jambands.com from his South Florida office about the state of the band today, guest possibilities for the upcoming Wanee Festival, how to take over an apartment building, and why he’s not teaching high school math.
A lot has happened, obviously, since Duane moved in with him in March of 1969, and Trucks seemed to touch on all of it, the good and the bad, with grace, candor, and the ability to laugh at it all this far down the road.
www.jambands.com /Features/content_2006_04_11.00.phtml   (2619 words)

  
 Derek Trucks: A Guitarist Beyond His Years
Trucks, the nephew of drummer Butch Trucks, joined the Allman Brothers Band in June 1999, but he actually began sitting in with the group when he was only 12 years old.
When he's not touring with the Allmans, the acclaimed slide guitarist performs with his own blues rock group, the Derek Trucks Band, and the jam band Frogwings, which also features Butch Trucks, Allman Brothers bassist Oteil Burbridge, and guitarist Jimmy Herring, who toured with the Allmans last year after the band ousted Dickey Betts.
Trucks also picked up plenty from Betts while the two performed together in the Allmans for about a year.
onstagemag.com /ar/performance_derek_trucks_guitarist   (645 words)

  
 allman062499
He is the nephew of drummer Butch Trucks, one of the original members of the band that founded the Southern rock sound.
Trucks played in Cincinnati earlier this spring with his own group (the Derek Trucks Band) at a gig at Ripley's Alive.
Derek Trucks, the newest Allman Brother, says when he joined the band this spring he spent a lot of time listening to the Allman Brothers ''Live at the Ludlow,'' a session from the band's vaults released four years ago.
www.cincypost.com /living/1999/allman062499.html   (686 words)

  
 Independent Weekly: Ye Olde Archives: MUSIC: Soundbite: Derek Trucks Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Trucks, nephew of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, has long expressed an interest in and a fascination for Eastern music.
Trucks said in a recent interview that he and his band "want people that are coming out to actually listen.
It takes intelligent ears for there to be intelligent music and for music to move forward." With Trucks' no effects approach to guitar and ability to play effortlessly in a variety of genres, it's a safe bet that a lot of folks will be listening to what the guitarist has to say.
www.indyweek.com /gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:18441   (273 words)

  
 ROCHESTER GOES OUT | Nightlife
Trucks had a pretty good reason for playing slide guitar like the late Duane Allman early on: His uncle is Butch Trucks, the longtime drummer for the Allman Brothers Band.
If you saw Trucks playing this summer at the Rochester MusicFest, you saw a band that was more about world-music grooves than Allmans-style gospel-blues.
Tedeschi opened for the Allmans throughout the summer of 2000, and Trucks apparently was an apt student of not only guitar but chemistry: He and Tedeschi are engaged, with a baby due in March.
www.rochestergoesout.com /night/1101derektrucks.html   (702 words)

  
 Derek Trucks Band set to release ‘Songlines’
Besides Mattison and Trucks, the band is composed of Todd Smallie on bass and vocals; Yonrico Scott on drums, percussion and vocals; Kofi Burbridge on keyboards, flute and vocals; and Count M’Butu on congas and percussion.
Music runs in the family for Trucks, whose uncle, Butch Trucks, was a founding member of the Allman Brothers Band.
Trucks got his first paying gig at age 11 and formed his first band at age 12.
www.gotorenotahoe.com /news/stories/html/2006/02/01/2241.php   (548 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Allman Beacon Opener a Bust
Trucks, who is the nephew of drummer Butch Trucks, has all the makings to be a guitar hero.
Trucks' troubles also stem from the interaction that Betts had with every other guitar player he played with.
The ABB closed their second set with the anthemic roar of one of the band's earliest gems, "Whipping Post." Trucks' and Haynes' picking finally meshed and had the whole crowd wound up and dancing in the isles, as they perfectly played off of each other's cues.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5931593/allman_beacon_opener_a_bust   (575 words)

  
 BluesTraveler.net - Info - Projects - Frogwings
Founding members Butch Trucks [drums] and Jimmy Herring [guitar] were joined by the Burbridge brothers, Kofi [flute] and Oteil [bass], as well as Butch's nephew Derek [guitar/, and band and percussion-mate Marc Quinones.
Butch Trucks recalls the initial meeting between Popper and the rest of the band in a 1999 interview with JamBands.com:
Jambands.com, in which the younger Trucks reflected on the band's genesis, tour and future.
www.bluestraveler.net /info/projects/frogwings   (482 words)

  
 The Road Goes On Forever
The rest of the lineup on Peakin' at the Beacon consists of bassist Oteil Burbridge, Trucks's nephew Derek Trucks on guitar, and percussionist Marc Quinones, all of whom are still with the band.
Trucks: I'll tell you right now that Duane probably had more impact and more effect on my musical life — which has led to the rest of my life — than anybody else.
Trucks: I was sitting in my office last night looking at the wall — at the number of people in those pictures who aren't here anymore.
onstagemag.com /ar/performance_road_goes_forever/index.htm   (3721 words)

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