On October 29, 1971, Duane Allman – lead guitarist and spiritual ... I spoke to guitarist Derek Trucks – nephew of Allmans drummer Butch Trucks and a member of the band since 1999 – about ...

Duane Allman died in a 1971 motorcycle accident ... were more keen to shut it down than others,” Derek Trucks said, speaking from New York Saturday. “But the beauty of the music and all ...

‘My dad goes everywhere with me,” guitarist Derek Trucks said, “and sometimes the family comes.” Most guitarists good enough to be compared to Duane Allman don’t have to take a parent or ...

“The way you could tell it was different,” Allmans guitarist Derek Trucks says of the 2009 ... Many guests had personal histories with the Allman Brothers. Duane played on Clapton’s 1970 ...

Derek Trucks has named his favorite Allman Brothers Band songs in loving memory of lead guitarist Duane Allman, who died at age 24 in a motorcycle accident 40 years ago last month. In an interview ...

In an interview Tuesday, guitarist Derek Trucks said the Allman Brothers ... greatest guitarist of all time, not far behind Duane Allman. Trucks got the call to join the Allman Brothers Band ...

Derek Trucks has been a rock legend since he was a teenager in an Atlanta Braves cap slaying “Layla” and nodding to Duane Allman, the late co-lead guitarist for the Allman Brothers ...

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Guitarists Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks are saying “so long ... the riffs first laid down by the late Duane Allman and then Dickey Betts, who was booted from ...

(Nate Payne Photography) When Derek Trucks was a fourth-grader in Jacksonville, Fla., he kept begging his guitar teacher for a glass slide so he could try to sound like Duane Allman on the Allman ...

The Allman Brothers Band may be calling it quits next week, but Derek Trucks has taken one more step ... members received from Lyle Tuttle at Duane’s insistence in January of 1971.

"I think, until that day, that was how I felt about it all along," Trucks told Rolling Stone in a new interview. "I was like, 'Oh, yeah, I know he's going through some stuff, but s---, he'll be fine.

Family and friends, including band mates Jaimoe and Derek Trucks, former President Jimmy ... Layla and Delilah Island, his niece and Duane's daughter Galadrielle, his lifelong friend Chank ...