Album Review - Derek Trucks Band - Songlines
Best-known for his blues-oriented work with the Allman Brothers Band,
Derek Trucks quietly has been working from a more eclectic palette with
his own eponymous outfit. Since launching his solo career more than a
decade ago, he has been offering the jam band crowd an ecstatically
sophisticated fusion of jazz, blues, and world music grooves. With the
release of Joyful Noise, his major label debut, however, Trucks began
taking a more polished approach to recording, and in making vocalist
Mike Mattison a mainstay of his ensemble, he gave his latest endeavor
Songlines a decidedly soul-pop flavor. Without a doubt, the effort is
his most compositionally structured outing to date, though his more
streamlined methodology also has the unfortunate side effect of
tempering the organic nature of his experimental tendencies.
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