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“They’re kind of singing along… but no one knows the words:” Derek Trucks says Tedeschi Trucks Band have completed their next studio album – and they’ve been sneaking in some of the new tracks live

Trucks says TTB has “the best collection of tunes” they have written to date, with 17 in the can, an Atmos mix – and the crowd are liking what they are hearing when they've dropped them in the set

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"One of those shows that you will be thinking about for the rest of your life": Tedeschi Trucks Band announce live album of historic Mad Dogs & Englishmen show

Tedeschi Trucks Band's Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At Lockin’) features Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Chris Robinson, Warren Haynes and more

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“From the very beginning, they never asked me to play more like Duane”: Warren Haynes on what Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts told him when he joined the Allman Brothers Band

Haynes knew the significance of stepping into the Allman Brothers Band but he had the chops, he knew the material inside and out, and he had been playing with Betts for years

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“The last time I saw one for sale on Ebay, somebody wanted $300 for it”: Session ace Justin Ostrander on the sought-after pill bottle slide used by Duane Allman and Derek Trucks – and how he got one for free

As Ostrander explains, a number of legendary slide players have turned to particular vintage Coricidin bottles – to the point they can now command crazy money on the used market

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“And so the first thing I do is put it in the middle position and play Oh Well”: Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr on that time he brought Duane Allman’s 1957 Les Paul to a Metallica show and ended up playing Kirk Hammett's Greeny

Starr's first Metallica show was in 1989. His second was in 2019, and involved two of the most iconic Les Pauls of all time, and it was the day he learned Hetfield sounds the same through a Princeton

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“Norm was like, ‘Do you want to play with Joe?’ Before I could say ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ he brings Joe over and tells him, ‘Jason wants to play a set’”: Jason Sinay on jamming with Joe Bonamassa – and why his early sessions with Mike Campbell were a struggle

The session veteran recalls jamming with Neil Young, Keith Richards and Bob Weir – and why he thought he’d initially blown the gig with the Heartbreaker’s solo band

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“I always wantedto do one more Allman Brothers studio record, but that just wasn’t meant to be”: How Warren Haynes is finishing what Gregg Allman started with Derek Trucks’ help – and why he’s fallen for J Mascis’ Squier Jazzmaster

Million Voices Whisper finds the Gov't Mule frontman leaning into his B.B. King influences and Allman Brothers history to welcome some talented friends to the party

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The Allmans' legacy continues as The Brothers announce first live shows since 2020

Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge and Marc Quiñones have signed up to perform as The Brothers in April

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“My phone rang – Nuno told me to get to Sao Paulo right away. I arrived 30 minutes before guesting on Get the Funk Out”: Mateus Asato on landing the Bruno Mars gig, playing with his heroes and how his pink Suhr went from reject to best-selling signature

Asato leads an amazing double life as pop sideman and virtuoso shredder. He dishes on his big social media mistake, the help he got from Kiko Loureiro, and the last-minute call from Nino Bettencourt he couldn’t ignore

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Watch Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and Dave Matthews pay musical tribute to the Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt were among the Class of 2024 at this year's Kennedy Center Honors

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“I would never have picked up a guitar had it not been for her”: Watch the Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors – as they're covered by Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile

The musicians were honored alongside Francis Ford Coppola and Arturo Sandoval in an event that took place on December 8 and aired yesterday on CBS

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“I was lucky to play with my heroes at 9 years old. I remember doing shows with Buddy Guy and Bob Dylan”: Derek Trucks recalls playing with the greats from an early age – and the lesson he learned from Buddy Guy that influenced his entire sound

Sharing the stage with his heroes taught Trucks a wealth of valuable lessons – and also showed him the difference between mediocre players and the greats

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“It isn’t unrealistic to try with your usual setup, provided you’re not using eights with a 1mm action”: Upgrade your blues chops now with this lesson in how to play slide guitar in standard tuning

Looking for an entry into slide playing but don't want to retune your guitar and give it a setup? This tab and audio lesson in plain ol' EADGBE will help you develop your slide vocabulary

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"Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks effortlessly recreate Duane Allmanand Dickey Betts' searing guitar lines": The Allman Brothers Band's final show, officially preserved for all time

The Allmans' big finish, recorded live at the Beacon Theater, New York

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“All-stars like Phil X, Jimmy Herring, Derek Trucks and Richard Fortus have sung the Hyperdrive’s praises. Now a new IAM overdrive/boost pedal has entered Earth’s atmosphere”: Interstellar Audio Machines Supernova Zoeldrive review

Greetings, Earthlings, here comes a boost/overdrive fresh from the final frontier bearing all the tonal hallmarks of the reassuringly terrestrial Fender Tweed drive

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“When I picked up a guitar, I held it righty, but the pick never felt right in my hands, so I started to make up my own technique”: Jared James Nichols reveals how he developed his unique fingerstyle technique – and the perks of going pick-less

Nichols also demonstrates how to achieve optimum attack and dynamics with his fingerstyle technique, which was inspired by Albert King, Derek Trucks and Mark Knopfler

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“Butch Trucks said, ‘We should all go hear my nephew play. He’s amazing and he's 11.’ We're all like, ‘Yeah, okay…’” Warren Haynes recalls the first time he witnessed a young Derek Trucks play guitar

Haynes and his Allman Brothers bandmates took a night off to watch an 11-year-old Trucks play – and ended up sharing the stage for an impromptu jam

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“What a treat to get back into the studio with my brother Derek”: Warren Haynes reunites with Derek Trucks to revive a lost Allman Brothers song on his forthcoming solo album

Million Voices Whisper will include Real, Real Love – a song co-written by Gregg Allman, which was unearthed and completed in the style of the late guitar great

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Tedeschi Trucks Band poster controversy shows AI art can be toxic

The band has withdrawn the designs.

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“There was an edge-of-your-seat quality about the way my father played. If I have a little bit of that, it’s a great thing”: Duane Betts on balancing the musical legacy of his dad, Allman Brothers legend Dickey Betts

In his first interview since Dickey Betts’ passing, the guitarist and songwriter explains what he learned about melody from his dad, those live jams with Marcus King and Derek Trucks – and how he learned to shoulder the inevitable comparisons

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“If you’re new to slide playing, try a higher string action until you get used to using it”: How to set up your guitar for slide

Lights, camera... High action? We explore that and more as we walk through what you Cooder, woulda, shoulda do when getting your guitar ready for the slide

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“Derek, you could play slide with a ham sandwich and make it sound good”: Watch Derek Trucks use a drumstick as a slide and still make his guitar sing

Most players have a preference for brass, glass, or maybe something ceramic, but the Tedeschi Trucks Band slide guitar maestro proved that anything goes when you've got the chops

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"As a little girl I’d had dreams like that and there I was on stage at the Royal Albert Hall. I’ve played there many times, but not with Eric Clapton next to me!": Susan Tedeschi on honouring Jeff Beck and why the Telecaster chose her

Susan's signature Fender takes Telecaster versatility to a new level – and it mirrors her incredible career so far

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“They can be really useful when trying to tame some top-end”: How hemp cones affect guitar tone and why Derek Trucks, Carlos Santana and Steve Morse are among their fans

Over the past few years, speakers with a hemp cone have increased in popularity – and they have a distinctive sound, explains Paul Gough of Zilla Cabs

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"I think the blues can be very beneficial on a medicinal level": Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks pick the blues albums that are good for your health

Everybody’s favourite husband-and-wife team flip through their record collection and dig out the platters that truly matter

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