NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Sony
Music Entertainment) - One of the most critically acclaimed guitarists and the youngest musician to be named in Rolling Stone's list of the Top Hundred Guitarists of All Time, Derek
Trucks releases his much anticipated sixth studio album with The Derek
Trucks Band, Already Free. The album, in stores and online now, has been met with tremendous excitement from the media and DTB's fan base alike.
The Derek Trucks Band gave a riveting performance of the album's first single, "Down in the Flood" last week on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
"Down in the Flood," a stirring Bob Dylan cover from the album The Basement Tapes, has had early success at radio with very strong out-of-the-box support at AAA and Mainstream Rock Radio formats. "Down in The Flood" is the second most added song at AAA radio for the second week in a row and continues to grow at Mainstream Rock Radio.
The Derek Trucks Band kicks off the "Already Free" 16 city tour on February 6 in Portland, Maine.
The album was self-produced by Trucks and recorded in his Jacksonville, Florida home studio. Nearly a year in the making and brimming with a newfound focus on creating original material, Already Free is the band's natural evolution as they move forward integrating influences that span a variety of musical genres. Known for their blues roots, the group takes this album well beyond blues to incorporate the larger sounds of rock & soul.
The band, which consists of Derek Trucks on guitar, bassist Todd Smallie, percussionist Count M'Butu, drummer Yonrico Scott, keyboardist Kofi Burbridge and singer Mike Mattison, was joined by their famous friends - pals like Doyle Bramhall II, Oteil Burbridge and Trucks' wife Susan Tedeschi can all be heard on the album.
Bramhall takes over the vocal duties on the two songs, "Maybe This Time" which mixes languid guitars and Eastern flavor and "Our Love," a companion piece with the piercing guitar riffs signature of Bramhall/Trucks collaborations.
The album's first single, "Down in the Flood" from Bob Dylan and The Band's album The Basement Tapes, has almost more relevance now, post Hurricane Katrina, than when Dylan wrote it in 1967. "I think it really turned out to be one of the most powerful tracks on the record. I think lyrically it's pretty timely. Crash on the levee, down in the flood, are so significant post-Katrina. There are some good metaphors, as there are in most Dylan tunes," says Trucks.
Raised in a home filled with music, Trucks picked up a guitar at nine and was quickly considered a guitar prodigy. He has gone on to a storybook guitar career playing with some of the greatest musicians of all time including Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, a regular stint with the Allman Brothers Band (his uncle, Butch Trucks is a founding member), performing on Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival Emmy-winning DVD, opening a tour for Carlos Santana, and appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, to name a few of the highlights. Already Free reflects all of Trucks' many influences and experiences, and highlights the quintessential Derek Trucks Band sound of mixing soulful vocals and expert guitar playing on what is poised to be the band's definitive album.
FULL TRACK LISTING:
1. Down In The Flood
2. Something To Make You Happy
3. Maybe This Time
4. Sweet Inspiration
5. Don't Miss Me
6. Get What You Deserve
7. Our Love
8. Down Don't Bother Me
9. Days Is Almost Gone
10. Back Where I Started
11. I Know
12. Already Free
For more information on the CD and tour visit www.derektrucksband.com.
