It’s not very often one gets Derek Trucks to talk for over an hour, but we’re lucky that Marc Maron did on the latest edition of his WTF Podcast. For 37 years, Trucks has been surrounded and influenced by real music, real people, and real life. While perhaps one of the best, if not “the best”, guitarists of our time, his entire life has been spent with the soul-drenching inspirations of the best: his uncle Butch Trucks and The Allman Brothers Band, his mentor Col. Bruce Hampton, onto performing with greats like Eric Clapton and B.B. King and recording with the best of the best, from Junior Wells, Levoln Helm, Rick Danko, and so many more.
Derek Trucks has more than just stories, he has a lifetime of experiences that are built in to his very own DNA. But it wasn’t the success that surrounded him that got Derek where he is today, it is the sheer talent and driven mindset that has led him to be the bandleader of perhaps one of the greatest blues-rock band of all time.
Trucks discusses all things past, present, and future in his newest interview with Maron, which you can listen to below: