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Biscuits & Jam

Derek Trucks's Epic Journey

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Music

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, talks to guitar legend Derek Trucks about his experience touring with The Allman Brothers Band at a young age, forming the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife, Susan Tedeschi, and the lessons from his parents that helped him survive the music industry. Plus, Derek shares details on the Tedeschi Trucks Band latest audio/visual project, I Am the Moon.  For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Biscuits & Jam is produced by: Sid Evans - Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Jenny Snyder - Audio Engineer/Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.3

Welcome to the summer tour edition of Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

0:38.3

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine.

0:41.3

My guest today has been called one of the greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone magazine.

0:47.3

And anyone who's heard what he can do on a slide guitar would have to agree.

0:51.3

Derek Trucks was a child prodigy who began playing in front of large crowds

0:56.5

when he was still in grade school. And by the time he was 19, he was touring with the Almond

1:01.1

brothers. But for the last dozen years, he's been producing some of the best music of his career

1:06.1

as a member of the Tedesky Trucks Band, which he formed with his wife, Susan Tedesky, in 2010.

1:13.0

Today on the show, we talk about his childhood in Jacksonville, Florida, his close relationship

1:18.7

with Greg Allman, and the lessons he learned from his parents that helped him survive the music

1:24.3

industry. He also talks about the Tedeski Trucks band's epic new project,

1:29.6

I Am the Moon, and why it means so much to his band and his family. All that and more on a very

1:35.8

special Biscuits and Jam. Derek Trucks, welcome to Biscuits and Jam. Yeah, man, good to be here.

1:43.0

Good to be here. Where am I reaching you right now? I'm actually in our studio in Jacksonville, Florida, behind our house. So we're in the swamp, right on the edge of alligators and manatees and whatever else is Roman out there. Well, it must be nice to be home in Jacksonville. It is. Once the world started opening up, we've been running hard.

2:03.5

We were a good 20 months without a gig.

2:05.2

So when they crack the window, we hopped in the bus and we've been plowing.

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