susan wrote:Ken and I are going to see Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi New Year's Eve in Jacksonville and I was thinking about the first time we saw Derek Trucks and how blown away we were by this 12 year old kid. He was playing with this blues band at a club called the Junkyard in Casselberry, Florida. Anyway, I found this video. He's 13 or 14 here. Take a listen. This is so cool.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLQTbmUYI4A
I should get you guys together with my brother and his wife - he is a HUGE Derek Trucks/Allmans/Warren fan. They used to live in Florida when Derek was this age, and they too used to go see him when he was quite a youngster - he said half the time he would only look at the back of the stage! They were with me at HAB last year (my brother actually flew in from Maine for this) and his wife was with me at Crossroads. If I didn't already have something unchangeable for New Year's weekend I think I would have been on a plane to see the show you are going to. First time I saw him was back in the early 2000's. Miss his old band, but love what he is doing with Susan.
Thanks for sharing this. I'm actually going to see the Allmans tonite - make up class for Crossroads.
Sandy
"There's a lot of people that are in so much of a hurry to be, I guess, to be famous or that they don't want to take the time to learn to play and do all that.They'd rather just knock it down off a computer and maybe get on a game show and get famous..That's fine if that's what you want to do.
"We're more old school than that. We like creating the sounds." - Tom Petty