Derek Trucks, Trey Anastasio and Susan Tudeschi onstage at LOCKN' (Image credit: Dave Vann)Д«oth TTB and Derek and the Dominoes are at your best when jamming it out. YouвЂ™re definitely playing with fire.вЂќДЄnd if you havenвЂ™t already, you surely will. Everyone has been in that spot once or twice, or currently or whatever. If they are not universal themes, then they are really close to universal themes. You could feel from the singers or the players people really tapping into that energy, and that place where the album came from. вЂњThere are moments when we were playing this material live and you could feel that. Or to sing about them or play them! YвЂ™know, we are a 12-piece band and everybody is of an age where everyone has been through the fire a few times in their lives! But those things hit home for a reason, and certainly, when you are tackling a piece of work like this, you go to those places when you are really digging in. вЂњThere are a lot of themes on the record where вЂ“ like you said вЂ“ at times it is difficult to think about or hear those things. I mean, for us, there are loose family connections to the record, and there is the connection with Eric, and the connection with me and Sue just being a married couple. вЂњWhen you approach a record like this you definitely have to be holistic about it. How important was getting that tone right for this performance? It's a triumph of writing, performance and production, but given the subject matter, it is also almost difficult to listen to. Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs is many things. (Image credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for EPC) As Trucks explains here, that's the job of the artist, to build on what's gone before, to borrow wisely and steal if you must, and if you do so and get it right, you extend the lifespan of these ideas and keep the sound alive.Дoyle Bramhall II, Derek Trucks and Eric Clapton perform at Madison Square Garden for Slowhand's 70th birthday, in 2015. It references the canon, the rock 'n roll songbook, and gives it its own energy. The material draws on the history of blues to fathom the depths of heartbreak and unrequited love. It feels good getting it out right now, especially as we are getting back to touring and playing again. With Clapton trading licks with Allman, it became a high-water mark for the electric guitar, and yet it seems a little reductive to look at it through the lens of the guitar. It was Eric Clapton's epic cri de cЕ“ur, inspired by the LaylaВ andВ Majnun poemВ and given its emotional trajectory from Clapton's hopeless attraction to Pattie Boyd вЂ“ his best friend George Harrison's wife. And there was plenty left for them to explore. How could it fail to be?Д«esides the cosmic significance of singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi being born on the same day as the album Layla., was released, and Trucks being named after the band, there are all kinds of connections to the material and the Tedeschi Trucks Band's lineage. It was a night Doyle Bramhall II and Trey Anastasio joined them on guitar, but maybe also the spirit of Duane Allman and others, too, because, as guitarist Derek Trucks explains, this night was special.

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