Story by Art Howard
Photos by Bryan Gay


Derek Trucks

  
   
  "Can you call back in like five minutes?" Derek Trucks asks. The Derek Trucks Band is playing in Bloomington, Indiana tonight. Right now, however, Trucks and band are re-organizing after being locked out of their hotel room.

VOYAGER: What happened? You got locked out of your room?

DEREK TRUCKS: Yeah, there's two of us rooming together and there was a miscommunication. Too many hours on the road!		  
     
  VOYAGER: I love anecdotes like this. I think it brings the "rock star" closer to the people.

DT: Oh, yeah, that and missing our flight! Yesterday the driver was a little late, he got lost on the way so everyone had to sit around the Denver airport for four or five lovely hours. Its good when you need sleep to sit around an airport (laughs).

 
     
 

VOYAGER: Tell me about your musical background? Is your dad also musical, and what kind of music was played in the Trucks household?

DT: My father played a little bit of guitar, never professionally. A lot of Elmore James, B.B. King was always playing. My mom was more into Joanie Mitchell and Carol King, that kind of thing.

VOYAGER: So when you heard it you went right for it, instead of Blink 182?

DT: I was lucky to just be naturally repulsed by radio music. That was the first blessing. I actually remember riding in the back of my father's car when the radio was on and I would sometimes feel naseaus from some of the music. And that was the classic rock station! If it was anything more modern than that it got even worse. I used to disagree with all my peers about music.

  
 

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