A biography for Derek Truckshasn’t been written yet.
“To be part of the Allmans for 15 years was a huge honor. I mean, it's a legendary band. I got to be around a lot of people and make a lot of great music.”
“And you can't have an Allman Brothers gig without an Allman brother. I've heard people try to argue that you can, but I'm not buying it.”
“I have only a couple of Super 6s now, but I do have quite a few black-face Fenders around the studio. They all have slightly different character and tone, so I keep collecting them.”
“I live in Jacksonville, Florida, but Atlanta always feels like the hometown gig.”
“It was pretty surreal because The Allman Brothers' 'Eat A Peach' and 'Live At The Fillmore East', and the Eric Clapton 'Layla' record was the music I grew up hearing all the time.”
“The one thing the Allman Brothers Band does not do is phone it in. They bring it every night and that's something I draw from.”
“He was very sweet, but just his persona was intimidating. He was Gregg Allman. I think a lot of people had that feeling when they met him.”
“When you're co-leading a band with someone whose career is bigger than your own, like with my wife Susan, it's different. You have to agree on things musically. It took months for it to come together.”
“We all notice that the nights that are the most magical are the ones where everybody is taking a deep breath and kind of relaxing into it and relying on the people around you.”
“I think we appreciate the musicianship we're surrounded with. Too many bands - it's an ego trip for the leader.”
“It's a funny thing... I started touring at nine or ten years old, and for the first ten, fifteen, almost twenty years of your career, you're the youngest guy on stage and the youngest guy in the room.”
“You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing's wasted. Nothing's throwaway.”
“You hope to catch the band on a good night and you hope that it sounds good when you hear the tapes back, and you hope that when you mix it you still have the feeling that you had when you were onstage, but it seems like it never quite works out that way!”
“There's some songs you write like you would write for a four- or five-piece band. But there are times when you start writing and you can immediately hear the full band.”
“It's always nice with two guitarists in one band to have some contrast.”
“The tune 'All My Friends,' we recorded because our friend who wrote the song, Scott Boyer, passed way, and Gregg Allman had passed and he had recorded the song on his first solo record.”
“B.B. King wanted people to carry the torch. He wanted people to keep that music alive, and he would talk about it.”
“My dad was a roofer; my mom worked in elementary school.”
“When you're producing your own record, you do your best to be objective and take a step back from it from time to time.”
“When you're dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.”