The Derek Trucks Band: Songlines
CML call number: CD/ROCK/Trucks
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "It is a delicious pleasure to hear Derek Trucks play the guitar on 'Songlines.' You can just sit agog at his natural abilities. It's even sweeter to hear a 26-year-old guitar hero who isn't cold and mechanical. Somehow his nervous system has absorbed older, earthier models of jazz swing and the blues cry. Influenced principally by John Coltrane, Ali Akbar Khan and Duane Allman -- whose songs he performs during his duties as a member of the Allman Brothers Band -- Mr. Trucks uses a slide on his fretting hand and picks the strings with his fingers. Like most slide guitarists, he's aiming for a voicelike expression. … [I]n 'Sahib Teri Bandi,' a nearly 10-minute qawwali piece from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's repertory, … Mr. Trucks's improvisation is beguiling: somehow he has reached a natural balance between Southern gospel expression and the emotionally piercing vocabulary of qawwali music. … 'Songlines,' Mr. Trucks's first new studio album with his band in nearly four years, improves on the five that preceded it. There's more texture, more layers of sound …" ("Critics' Choice: New CD's," 2/20/06).
Ben Ratliff wrote in the New York Times: "It is a delicious pleasure to hear Derek Trucks play the guitar on 'Songlines.' You can just sit agog at his natural abilities. It's even sweeter to hear a 26-year-old guitar hero who isn't cold and mechanical. Somehow his nervous system has absorbed older, earthier models of jazz swing and the blues cry. Influenced principally by John Coltrane, Ali Akbar Khan and Duane Allman -- whose songs he performs during his duties as a member of the Allman Brothers Band -- Mr. Trucks uses a slide on his fretting hand and picks the strings with his fingers. Like most slide guitarists, he's aiming for a voicelike expression. … [I]n 'Sahib Teri Bandi,' a nearly 10-minute qawwali piece from Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's repertory, … Mr. Trucks's improvisation is beguiling: somehow he has reached a natural balance between Southern gospel expression and the emotionally piercing vocabulary of qawwali music. … 'Songlines,' Mr. Trucks's first new studio album with his band in nearly four years, improves on the five that preceded it. There's more texture, more layers of sound …" ("Critics' Choice: New CD's," 2/20/06).
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