13 Year Old Derek Opening for the Allman Brothers Band

Derek Trucks Performs Eric Clapton’s, Derek and the Domino’s, “Layla/Jam” with a Duane “SkyDog” Allman T-Shirt on.

A 13 Year Old Derek Trucks Opening for the Allman Brothers Band Walnut Creek Amphitheater July 4, 1993 – Raleigh, NC.

Derek started playing at 9 years old and 4 years later he’s doing this. Yep, that’s the true definition of a prodigy. Every time I watch this I’m completely floored. How can you even play with that much soul and depth at 13? He was something else and still is…

What is most amazing is that he has so much feeling. There are many examples of kids playing well with a good technique at that age. But no one can get on Trucks level, because he has his very own way of expressing his feelings from his guitar, yes even as a 13-year-old.

Derek Trucks is an American guitarist, lyricist, and author of the Grammy Award-winning Derek Trucks Band. Derek join as a full member of the Allman Brothers Band in June of 1999. He turned into an authorized individual from The Allman Brothers Band in 1999. In 2010 he shaped the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his significant other, blues artist Susan Tedeschi. His melodic style incorporates a few classifications and he has two times shown up on Rolling Stone’s rundown of 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. He is the nephew of Butch Trucks, drummer for the Allman Brothers.

Trucks framed The Derek Trucks Band in 1994, and by his twentieth birthday celebration, he had played with so many specialists as Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, and Stephen Stills. Subsequent to performing with The Allman Brothers Band for a very long time as a visiting artist, Trucks turned into a proper individual from the band in 1999 and showed up on the collections Peakin’ at the Beacon, Live at the Beacon Theater, Hittin’ the Note, and One Way Out. In 2006 Trucks started a studio coordinated effort with Eric Clapton called The Road to Escondido and performed with three groups in 17 unique nations that year. Trucks were welcome to perform at the 2007 Crossroads Guitar Festival, and after the celebration, he visited as a feature of Clapton’s band.

Trucks credits guitarist Duane Allman and bluesman Elmore James as the two slide guitarists who impacted his initial style, however, has since been motivated by John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Albert King, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Charlie Christian, Wayne Shorter, Toy Caldwell, Freddie King, and B.B. Lord.

Lyrics:
What will you do when you get lonely
And nobody’s waiting by your side?
You’ve been running and hiding much too long
You know, it’s just your foolish pride

Layla, you got me on my knees
Layla, I’m begging darling, please
Layla, darling, won’t you ease my worried mind?

I tried to give you consolation
When your old man had let you down
Like a fool, I fell in love with you
You turned my whole world upside down

Layla, you got me on my knees
Layla, I’m begging darling, please
Layla, darling, won’t you ease my worried mind?

Let’s make the best of the situation
Before I finally go insane
Please don’t say “We’ll never find a way”
And tell me all my love’s in vain

Layla, you got me on my knees
Layla, I’m begging darling, please
Layla, darling, won’t you ease my worried mind?