University at Buffalo (UB)
Release Date: October 12, 2006 This content is archived.
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Derek Trucks Band at 8 p.m. on May 15 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.
The Derek Trucks Band (DTB) has been a work in progress for more than 10 years, blending jazz, rock, blues, Latin, Eastern Indian and other world music into the sound that now defines them. The focus of the band is on the art form itself, despite the current trend of image-driven music on the scene today. The DTB aims to create progressive roots music in an effort to move the art form forward and re-establish substance over hype.
Derek Trucks, already a veteran at age 27, is having his busiest year yet. In February, Sony Legacy released "Songlines," The Derek Trucks Band's best-selling album to date. "Songlines" prompted USA Today to hail Trucks as "possibly this generation's greatest rock guitarist," while The Wall Street Journal concurred that "he is the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today." The album also spawned "Songlines Live," the group's first-ever DVD, released in July (also on Sony Legacy). Earlier this summer Trucks toured Europe in Eric Clapton's band; in August The Derek Trucks Band opened for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Trucks toured extensively with his other group, The Allman Brothers Band. In September and October he rejoins Clapton for his U.S. tour, before hitting the road with his wife, three-time Grammy nominee Susan Tedeschi.
Tickets for The Derek Trucks Band are $30, students $25. Tickets are available from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Center for the Arts Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations, including Kaufmann's. To charge tickets, call 852-5000; in Canada, call 1-416-870-8000. For group sales, call 645-6771. For more information, call 645-ARTS. The Center for the Arts is a Ticketfast location. Students (of any school) must present valid student ID at the Center Box Office to receive discount.