Songlines Live!

Fabulous professionally shot dvd of the Derek Trucks Band live in concert. Tremendous musicianship throughout and great filming and sound quality. If you're a fan of Derek Trucks i would think this would be a must own.

Great dvd concert

These guys are all extremely talented and impressive. That is the first thing that stands out. The second thing is their ability to combine very diverse styles. Third is their unique way of combining multiple styles. Also in there is the surprise at Mike Mattison's ability to sing with completely different voices and styles and have complete conviction on each. I'm primarily a guitar fan and Derek Trucks is one of the few newer guitarists who can really deliver and connect with music in a passionate way. This is a good DVD and definitely a great price, but even with all of that, I just expected a little more from it. It could be me, but I just didn't connect with the music as much as I thought I would and I found myself skipping ahead 4 or 5 times. I love long instrumental jams and this has plenty of that and as I said earlier, when Mike steps up to sing, he really delivers, but I enjoyed their stuff on Crossroads 2007 far more. They just seemed to have a higher energy and dynamic there. I like hard rock, blues, some jazz, 70's era fusion (Jeff Beck, Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin etc), older Funk and R & B grooves and I like things mixed up in extended jams, so I did find this DVD to be enjoyable because these guys mix some of those and other styles in their own way, but some of the other influences seemed to lower the pulse of some of the jams. Jam bands put certain genres as the jam's musical core and bring the other stuff into it and I think that the core style is key to how well I connect with it. I'd give this 4 out of 5 stars at best .... Worth the money if you just love honest, live music and watching excellent musicians show what they're capable of.

My approach to buying this DVD is simple. This is the one and only DVD that is a full-length showcase of Derek Trucks in his own, original band – The Derek Trucks Band. Although I enjoy all his work with Allman Brothers Band and, more recently, Tedeschi Trucks Band, his work in DTB is stylistically unique, boldly adventurous and dazzlingly technical without losing any of the rhythm and blues soul that he draws from.Although DTB won a Grammy for its album Already Free, my personal favourite album of theirs is Songlines, so I am a bit biased with the choice material here. The DVD is beautifully shot with a generous amount of close-ups of Derek’s slide work (for you slide guitar nuts out there). The sound quality is as good as you can expect from DVD. All is well and good visually and aurally.As a bonus, there are interviews with the band members, but these are just novelties. The meat and potatoes is the music that the band create and how the band traverse through the musical passages, melding blues, jazz, rock and Indian classical in one fell sweep. Over all that joyful noise is Derek Trucks with his vocal-style slide guitar licks that tug at your heart strings. This is music played at a high level. Highly recommended.

There is something about slide guitar... By choosing to play that way the guitarist accepts self-imposed limitations while opening up possibilities not accessible through standard pick and fingers techniques. I've listend to a lot of slide guitar music by greats such as Duane Allman, Ry Cooder, Lowell George, George Harrison, Sonny Landreth, and Australian wizard Kirk Lorange, but Derek has taken the style and approach to places I've never heard before. This is a wonderful DVD. Derek has surrounded himself with a band of seasoned and instrumentally formidable side-men and they play tight and soulful, creating a great selection of grooves and cooking hard when the soloing takes off. Don't make the mistake of thinking this is just a concert of blues music. There are modern jazz sounds, funky soul, African tunes and a slinky, lyrical extemporization on the folk standard, "Greensleeves." That said, the highlight for me, is Derek's 5 chorus solo on "Key To The Highway." This is a widely travelled, much covered blues, but following Kofi Burbridge's rollicking piano solo, Derek starts low and slow, taking his time and building his statement to a blueswailing crescendo as high as can be reached on the fretboard. The DVD is worth the price for this alone, but there's not a dud tune to be found and really, there are musical riches here that will make you want to watch this again and again.

I first got blown away by the talent of Derek Trucks when he appeared with Eric Clapton when he was on tour. That wasn't that long ago. Derek trucks has been on the scene a long time, even though he is only in his twenties. So I guess that makes me a bit of a late comer in some ways. I have seen The Derek Trucks band since then, and they are brilliant. I really like the style of music they play. They infuse a new energy in the blues and mix in other influences, like jazz and african among others. The musicians are all beyond excellent. Even the keyboard player who also plays flute. I don't usually notice the keyboard player much in general, that may be because many keyboard players aren't that interesting. But because he is so interesting and good you can't help but notice. And you notice all the musicians the Bassist, the drums, vocalist and of course Derek Trucks. There is no deadweight in the band and that is why they can fly so high. I won't hesitate to see this band again. This DVD captures their great music, positive energy and band chemistry.

derek trucks is a fantastic guitarist and has brought together a very talented bunch of musicians, trucks is the nephew of the original allman brothers drummer,this vid is 2 hours of nonstop playing,this music is not his stuff from claptons crossroads concerts but has a great rythmic beat throughout,this video is before he married susan tedeshi but is nontheless a great watch.

Right from the start I was impressed by the production of this DVD. The video and audio quality are outstanding. Although I've only seen and heard Derek Trucks play on the Crossroads (Eric ClaptonGuitar Festival) DVDs, his music was a pleasant surprise. There is no doubt that he is a great guitarist. His slide guitar is stupendous! The whole band is very talented. He showcases many different styles of music on this DVD. The band is versatile to say the least. From jazz, to rock, world music, and blues, this band can lay it down without breaking a sweat! If you are expecting strait ahead southern rock, blues, slide guitar stuff, then this might not be for you as the band takes you on journey to lands both familiar and exotic! If you like going to places new and exiting then you will really appreciate the variety and musicianship on this DVD performance.This band looks and sounds like they have played together from childhood. The fun. enthusiasm, and free-flowing playing of the band members displays the connectedness of everyone. Communication between the musicians seems to happen intuitively. It is like all the band members know exactly what and when to do at all times without the need ques.Really great DVD!!!

the DVD is what it is. It didn't work on my new BluRay player (Region code wasn't compatible with the player). The vendor was very understanding and did everything they could to satisfy my needs. I would highly recommend this vendor!

If you like Derek Trucks you will want this video of the DT band featuring Mike Mattison on lead vocals. A nice mix of blues and jazz with great playing from everyone - and lots of DT solos.

Nice musical set from an emerging artist, soul passion chops and style.Well worth the time reminds me very much of the musical style of Sea level !