11920 - THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND - JOYFUL NOISE (2002)
THE DEREK TRUCKS BAND
''JOYFUL NOISE''
SEPTEMBER 2 2002
56:04
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01 - Joyful Noise 05:45 (Derek Trucks, Javier Colon, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
02 - So Close So Far Away 04:38 (Derek Trucks, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
03 - Home In Your Heart (Featuring Solomon Burke) 03:59 (Otis Blackwell, Winfield Scott)
04 - Maki Madni (Featuring Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) 08:11 (Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan)
05 - Kam-ma-lay (Featuring Rubén Blades) 07:08 (Rubén Blades, Derek Trucks, Javier Colon, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
06 - Like Anyone Else (Featuring Solomon Burke) 06:31 (Kofi Burbridge)
07 - Every Good Boy 04:22 (Kofi Burbridge)
08 - Baby Youre Right (Feat Susan Tedeschi) 04:14 (James Brown, Joe Tex)
09 - Lookout 31 04:19 (Kofi Burbridge)
10 - Frisell 06:52 (Derek Trucks, Javier Colon, Kofi Burbridge, Todd Smallie, Yonrico Scott)
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Derek Trucks - guitar
Yonrico Scott - drums, vocals, percussion
Kofi Burbridge - flute, vocals, keyboards
Todd Smallie - bass, vocals
Additional personnel:
Susan Tedeschi - vocals on 8
Rahat Fateh Ali Khan - vocals on 4
Rubén Blades - percussion (handclaps) & vocals on 5
Solomon Burke - vocals on 3
Javier Colon - vocals, percussion on 1, 2, 5, 10
Count M'Butu - congas, percussion
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REVIEW/AMG
Hal Horowitz
For his first solo project after replacing Dickie Betts in the Allman Brothers Band, 23-year-old Derek Trucks pushes the stylistic envelope even further than on his last diverse release. Prodding into Latin, Indian, and fusion jazz, this stylistically varied effort exudes enough blues and funky R&B to keep the Allman Brothers Band fan's attention while expanding their boundaries -- sometimes radically -- beyond what the typical Southern rock fan might expect or even tolerate. It's a brave and largely successful experiment, due in part to the vocals of his guest stars, since Trucks himself does not sing. Opening with the title track, a funky Meters-style bubbler that employs a gospel chorus to frame Trucks' searing slide work, it sounds like the guitarist is working within borders he established on his two previous albums. The laconic instrumental "So Close, So Far Away" sounds like a mid-"Whipping Post" jam, but the disc shifts into high gear with Otis Blackwell's "Home in Your Heart," one of two contributions from the amazing soulman Solomon Burke. He kicks up a Wilson Pickett-style storm on this funky rocker, which both he and Otis Redding recorded 30 years earlier. But gears then switch drastically as Rahat Fateh Ali Khan guests on a traditional Indian tune that gives Trucks' slide a chance to snake through the song, adding a slight blues edge to the tabla and eerie moaning vocals. Rubén Blades guests on a Santana-ish workout on "Kam-ma-Lay," but after a scorching Susan Tedeschi appearance on a down-and-dirty version of James Brown's "Baby, You're Right," Trucks veers way off course into the John McLaughlin territory of "Lookout 31," one of the few tracks where Trucks doesn't play slide. It's an intense Mahavishnu Orchestra fusion piece that even swerves into dissonant, avant-garde waters. The instrumental ballad "Frisell" ends this wildly, sometimes disconcertingly eclectic album on a rueful, jazzy note. Trucks' playing is edgy, electric, and distinctive throughout, with his slide work not surprisingly reminiscent of Duane Allman at times. Joyful Noise is a powerful, uncompromising statement, if you can stay with it. Derek Trucks shows he is a remarkably talented young guitarist who refuses to be stylistically pigeonholed by the history of the legendary band he joined.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Richard Skelly
Blues/blues-rock guitarist Derek Trucks is the nephew of longtime Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks. He displays a command of slide guitar styles running the gamut from blues to classic R&B and early rock & roll to classic jazz. Although blues players like Buddy Guy, Elmore James, and Duane Allman have been a strong influence on Trucks' slide guitar playing, so have pre-'70s jazz players like John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, and Sun Ra. Trucks began playing guitar when he was nine, and shared stages and sat in with the likes of Buddy Guy and the Allman Brothers Band by the time he was 12. Trucks began his professional career playing with blues bands around his native Jacksonville, Florida, and formed his own group in high school. Before the age of 20, Trucks had shared stages and jammed with Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, and Stephen Stills. The Derek Trucks Band, with members ranging in age from their twenties to their forties, released their self-titled debut album in 1997 on Landslide Records. Out of the Madness followed in late 1998. After the turn of the millennium, they released Joyful Noise (2002), Soul Serenade (2003), Live at Georgia Theatre (2004), and Songlines (2006). Already Free appeared from RCA in 2009. On June 22, 2010, the Derek Trucks Band released Roadsongs, which was recorded live in Chicago during the 2009 Already Free world tour. In addition to the album, Trucks and wife and guitar-slinging partner Susan Tedeschi formed a touring band, and appeared together on Herbie Hancock's The Imagine Project album, singing the Matthew Moore classic "Space Captain." The Hancock recording was issued on the same day as Roadsongs. The pair's group, the Tedeschi-Trucks Band, was an 11-piece soul-blues ensemble also included Oteil and Kofi Burbridge, on bass and keyboards, respectively, and drummers J.J. Johnson and Tyler Greenwell. The unit signed to Sony and released their debut album Revelator on its Masterworks imprint in June of 2011.
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