Derek Trucks - Songlines
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Free Music Review: Trucks has found a soulfully delightful groove!
Hit: 5 Stars
Trucks has really found his groove in this very enjoyable blues set with his new lead singer Mike Mattison. A very talented singer who can belt out some great soulful blues. Mattison has a voice with a wide range, and can kick it up an octave or two when he wants to, as in the wonderful "Crow Jane".
I don't want you to think this is just some kind of soul album. It is far from it. Songlines contains many different styles of music. It starts out with the catchy "Volunteeer Slavery", with nothing but Trucks slide guitar, drums and African chanting and beat that sets the mood for the rest of the album. And in between all of these wondefrul rhythms Trucks also adds some nice and playful blues standards here like the slide-crazy "Chevrolet" and "I'd Rather Be Blind, Crippled, and Crazy".
He even throws in a little jazz with the song "Majoun". But the big guitar workout jam goes to "Maki Madni". A 10 minute tour de force that takes you all the way from the delta to the middle east in it's influences. One of the best blues workouts that I've heard this year. Derek Trucks and slide guitars are a deadly combination that few if any can top.
He's only 25, but Trucks is at the top of his game. A must-have for serious blues fans and one of the best blues albums of the year.
Free Music Review: A World At His Fingers
Hit: 5 Stars
This is one of the best recordings I've heard in many years. It is most definitely NOT a blues album. I am a blues lover, first and foremost, and although there are blues-oriented tunes on the record--Crow Jane and Chevrolet being phenomenally innovative examples--the music here moves way, way beyond the blues framework and into the great beyond. Trucks is a truly great and gifted musician and his inventiveness and restless creative spirit are evident throughout. Mike Mattison is a singing superstar, or at least he should be; guys with his prodigious talent and voice do not come around too often.
You will hear African, Caribbean, reggae, roots blues and R&B influences thoughout this incredible recording, all tied together with some of the most lyrical and soulful slide playing you will ever hear. Duane Allman is proudly smiling down on us from heaven. Derek might be only about 25 or 30, but he plays way beyond his years.
The Trucks band will help you reach nirvana yourself. If this was on vinyl, I'd be on my second or third copy, I've played it so much. Just amazing.
Free Music Review: This is it...
Hit: 5 Stars
Nine years ago, the teenaged Derek Trucks and his Derek Trucks Band released their debut on Landslide, a potent mixture of jazz and blues centered around his formidable guitar. A year later, they released their follow-up "Out of the Madness" on the now-defunct House of Blues label, more of the same brilliance. Four years ago, the fourth album, "Joyful Noise", appeared on Columbia, adding heavy-handed brushes with world music comparable to the techno experiments Jeff Beck perpetrated around the turn of the millennium. A year after that, the jazz-dominated "Soul Serenade" (their delayed third album) surfaced. 2004 saw the live offering "Live at Georgia Theatre", introducing soul singer extraordinaire Mike Mattison to the line-up.
2006's "Songlines" ties it all together, everything the group's been doing since its inception. If this album doesn't make Derek Trucks a household name and The Derek Trucks Band recognized as one of the greatest groups around, something is truly wrong with the world. Buy the album.
Free Music Review: Absolute must have!
Hit: 5 Stars
I can't imagine anyone disliking this album, it's solid from beginning to end. Even the jam-noodle-shy who normally get turned off from alot of instrumental interplay (like the stellar "Live At Georgia Theatre") will love this album simply for the great songs and amazing voice of newest member, singer Mike Mattison. From beginning to end this album is Mattison's long overdue spotlight.
Definitely catchier then the Allman Bros (or underrated Frogwings) material, this is a must have. Trucks signature pyrotechnics and genre-bending style are all over live staples like Mahjoun and STB->Maki Mahdni, but Mattison steals the show by adding a new soulful facet above prior DTB albums. Oddly, Mike's deep voice also shows a feminine side on "I Wish I Knew", made famous by Nina Simone, which gets transported to a gospel revival, and with his pseudo-falsetto on "Crow Jane".
Oh, and the rest of the band is one of the most solid rhythm sections touring the earth, just buy the darn cd already!
Free Music Review: A guitar messiah has arrived.
Hit: 5 Stars
True fans of Derek Trucks have been aware of his talents throughout the entire duration of his solo project's existance. What makes this album special is that I believe it will increase the DTB following. This record is produced wonderfully! The band has added more than just a soulful lead vocalist in Mike Mattison and a flavorful percussionist in Count M Butu but they have added another instrument to the list of many that they already had mastered...The Studio! Derek's playing sounds better everytime I hear it but in true Trucks fashion this record serves one purpose, to document an extaordinary band and where they are musically at this point in time. The DTB is absolutely one of if not the tightest bands to have ever played and this record displays that in overwhelming fashion. If that is not enough to make you buy this record then just consider the obvious. Derek Trucks is perhaps the greatest slide guitarist in the history of modern music. If you buy one CD this year, buy this one!