The Derek Trucks Band - Soul Serenade
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Free Music Review: koolest blues playing
Hit: 5 Stars
Derek Trucks has proven that there is still room for improvement on the creative platform. He and is super talented band are the best I've heard in a long time. These boys use the full musical palette of colour...it aint just BLUE!!Free Music Review: My Favorite
Hit: 5 Stars
This is my favorite Derek Trucks Band CD so far. Recorded before Joyful Noise this release is all instrumental except for 1 song (sung by guest Gregg Allman). I can play this CD over and over. This band is terrific!Free Music Review: Soul Serenade review
Hit: 5 Stars
A rock album that swings more on the Jazz side. A blended groove that makes you wanting more. Highly recommended.Free Music Review: New Roads for the Slide Guitar
Hit: 4 Stars
Derek Trucks is clearing a new path for the slide guitar. Throughout most of this excellent album, Trucks plays melodic lines with his slide that show an amazing technical deftness. But his playing is so much more than just techincally profiient-- his solos are thoughtful, restrained, and straight from the soul. And just like human souls, his playing is sometimes achingly beautiful, sometimes playful, sometimes chaotic and angst-filled. Most of the album consists of jazz instrumentals, including a restrained, grooving "Soul Serenade/Rastaman Chant" and a multi-layered Afro Blue that positively screams at one point. He's going for mood and melody over hot licks, although hot licks abound. In every song, you get the full range of the power and dynamic of Trucks's playing without it ever becoming calisthenics. The band is mighty indeed, especially Kofi Burbridge's shimmering flute and Bill McKay's classic B-3 organ. In middle of all this is a down-home, snarly, "Drown In My Own Tears", featuring a vocal from Gregg Allman. Trucks's slide on this tune is raunchy and bluesy, and it is an outstanding cut (although divorced a little from what's going on in the rest of the album). I don't really listen to a lot of jazz, but I found myself absolutely mesmerized by this fine album.Free Music Review: You have to like slide guitar
Hit: 4 Stars
This is another very good album from Butch Trucks. This is his third or fourth album, depending on how you are counting. It is short by CD standards, at only 42 minutes. But, then it doesn't have any bad tracks or filler. Sound quality is great.
This CD is a mixture of jazz, blues and rock. Each track is a mixture of the 3, with a different amount of emphasis on one of the styles. However, this CD does not have as much variation as the previous CD, Joyful Noise. Only one track is an original composition. The rest are covers are some classic jazz and blues numbers (with a little Marley thrown in).
The music has a wonderful, rich sound to it, dominated by Trucks' slide guitar. Kofi Burbridge's flute is also featured a lot more on this CD.
Derek Trucks also plays for the Allman Brothers. I hated to see them kick out Dickey Betts. But with Trucks, the band has a new, envigorated sound. Betts and Warren Haynes were beginning to get stale after playing together for over 10 years. Check out some of the new Allman Brothers live albums, where the Trucks/Haynes combination has given new life to old songs.