The Derek Trucks Band Returns to UB Jan. 25

By David Wedekindt

Release Date: November 17, 2005 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present The Derek Trucks Band at 8 p.m. on Jan. 25 in the Mainstage theater in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus.

The Derek Trucks Band (DTB), long lauded for astonishing and inventive live performances, will preview songs from its ambitious forthcoming album on tour this January. 'Songlines,' the band's first studio album in four years, will be released Feb. 7 on Columbia Records.

The Washington Post has called Trucks "an artist who is truly exploring. [The DTB] traversed a wide musical territory from blues and southern rock to soul, Eastern-flavored experimental jazz and more... To watch them play was to observe a musical conversation."

The DTB synthesizes genres, melding them together into a freewheeling, yet cohesive whole. Trucks' brilliant slide guitar snakes through the band's tight rhythms, and the DTB's newest member, singer Mike Mattison, delivers earthy, gospel-fueled vocals.

At 26, Trucks is one of the busiest guitarists on the planet. Between the DTB and the Allman Brothers Band, he's on the road over 300 days per year. His unmistakable guitar sound and attack has been described alternately as "incendiary" by The Wall Street Journal and "melodic and erudite" by Entertainment Weekly, but it is always deeply, unmistakably his own. It's that unique musical stamp that helped make Trucks the youngest guitarist to land on Rolling Stone's recent "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list.

Tickets for The Derek Trucks Band are $27, students $23. 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 Box Office to receive discount.