“..anytime you are playing with musicians that you have never played a note with before, the first 20 to 30 percent is just the feeling-out process, learning how people phrase things. And that’s often the beauty of it. Sometimes you get the most inspired moments when you first make those connections, because you get thrown into the deep end and you either sink or swim.” – Derek Trucks
“You can shift a tune like “Impressions”, from a straight minor to all these Indian-inflected scales. You can go anywhere you want to go if the bass player and the keyboard player are listening carefully enough to follow you.” – Derek Trucks on Coltrane and modal blues
(Derek Trucks getting thrown into the deep end with McCoy Tyner on Greensleeves and swims like the creature from the black lagoon. - Ed)
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