The Derek Trucks Band - Joyful Noise
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Free Music Review: Killer Album
Hit: 4 Stars
I don't have any of Derek Trucks other albums, but this one is nice. He combines all kinds of musical elements into one record. I got to see him in concert on April 12, 2003 and it was quite a show. This youngster can really play, in the studio and live.Free Music Review: Get This!!
Hit: 4 Stars
... I couldn't wait to get one of his CD's......the kid is GOOD---DARNED GOOD!!! The mix of music is interesting and there isn't a track that I want to skip......get it, you won't reget it!!Free Music Review: `Joyful Noise' pushes beyond the restrictive boundaries of t
Hit: 3 Stars
September 25, 2002
Artist: Derek Trucks
Title: Joyful Noise
On his sophomoric release, Derek Trucks (nephew of Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks)has released an artistic mosaic that defies categorization and is certain to confound listeners. In the richest Fillmore-esque tradition, Trucks and band have amalgamated a fine tuned cornucopia of rootsy sounds into a sonic masterpiece. "Oh sure, but what's that mean?" Today's market practically requires artists to dumb down their sound into a well defined niche so that any dope with fifteen bucks can figure it out. In the short term this means quick sales but tends to cost the artist long term career development. Not so with `Joyful Noise.' Trucks and band lay out an album consisting of instrumentals, an Indian raga, a couple of soul ballads, a "Jazz" track, and a powerful blues song featuring Susan Tedeschi. The result is an eclectic, wonderful, challenging collection of songs that defy `niche' but nonetheless fit together.
Relying on guest vocalists, Joyful Noise employs some of the day's most underappreciated singers including; Solomon Burke, Ruben Blades, Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Mrs. Trucks othewise known as Susan Tedeschi. And just to put a point on it, Tedeschi's track, `Baby, You're Right' may be her finest recorded vocal delivery yet. Guitarist Trucks steals from the best including; Carlos Santana,Duane Allman, and John McLaughlin. Guitarists tend to be classified on a spectrum ranging from emotive (Mato Naiji) on one end to technical (Robert Fripp) on the other end. When a player is both expressive and technically adept, well, you have something special (Adrian Belew). Seeped in the `60's tradition of art before economics, Trucks' newest is a excellent example of a special player, who clearly understands the legacy of what that is "good music." `Joyful Noise' pushes beyond the restrictive boundaries of today's music industry and somehow produces art in the art-starved genre that is rock music. `Joyful Noise' is a rare gem that will over-time unfold to listeners and hold up to repeated listenings over the years to come. Psst - next time draft Chris Robinson or that kid from the Screaming Cheetah Wheelies for some vocal tracks)
Free Music Review: What was Derek on.
Hit: 3 Stars
Don't get me wrong,Derek Trucks can slide likes nobodys business but he drifted off on some strange trips about middleways through. Think twice before you buy it.Free Music Review: Not quite
Hit: 2 Stars
Trucks is an amazing guitarist, that's a given. One only need listen to his work in the Frogwings era or his jam sessions with the Allmans to understand.As of late, however, his music has declined. The band he's playing with on this album are beneath him and it shows. I had a chance to see Derek live in Boston and most of the music he played at the show was from this album. The only decent member of the band is the drummer. The horn player/keyboardist and bassist are terrible...they simply meander through the songs with uninspired laziness. In fact if it were simply laziness than I would understand...these guys plain stink.
Anyway, Derek needs to get back to his blues roots and stop pandering to the jam-band crowd. That's where he truly shined. But if he needs to sell albums and make money by simply tossing out a few "jazz" tunes to the jam-band crowd (who, to begin with, wouldn't know jazz if it landed on their noses and farted) than more power to him...I'll continue to listen to him play the blues from years back and long for his return.