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“After the show, they handed me what is to this day one of my most prized possessions”: Jim Carrey remembers Chris Cornell and Soundgarden’s generous guitar gift as he inducts them into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Soundgarden played on the night with Mike McCready and Jerry Cantrell, while Olivia Rodrigo honored The White Stripes, the Tedeschi Trucks Band covered The Beatles, and Flea performed with Stevie Wonder

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Watch Eddie Vedder join Tedeschi Trucks Band for blistering cover of The Seeker by The Who

The collaboration took place at Vedder's annual Ohana Festival in California

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“One thing led to another, and a jam session turned into Warren Haynes sporting some of rock and roll’s most iconic guitars on stage”: Warren Haynes becomes the latest to wield Jeff Beck's ‘Yardburst’ on stage – following Marcus King and Craig Ross

The guitar icon is currently out on tour with Gov’t Mule, and was spotted brandishing Beck's Yardbirds Gibson Les Paul Standard while jamming with Derek Trucks at their tour stop in Chicago

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“There were some people that were broken up after the first song or two in the rehearsal. It was intense”: Derek Trucks on how Tedeschi Trucks Band got Leon Russell to reunite the original Mad Dogs to celebrate Joe Cocker with an all-star set

TTB and Leon Russell's Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited set at LOCKN' 2015 was a historic moment as the key players from the 1970 tour reunited for the first time. With the live album out now, Trucks tells us how it all went down

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“We got about an hour in, and I was like, ‘I haven’t even pulled the slide out of my pocket yet!’” Derek Trucks is one of the greatest slide guitar players of all time but sometimes forgets he even has one – here’s how he decides when to use it

Trucks says you can be just as lyrical playing fretted – just look at what Jeff Beck did with his Strat

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"You only get one shot to do this correctly and I think we nailed it": Joe Bonamassa announces all-star tribute to B.B. King

B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 features Buddy Guy, Slash, Keb' Mo', Larkin Poe, Jimmie Vaughan, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and many more

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“B.B.’s only wish was, ‘Do what you can to keep the blues alive.’ Hopefully this album gives a B12 shot to his legacy”: Joe Bonamassa announces a landmark B.B. King tribute album with a jaw-dropping roster of collaborators

B.B. King’s Blues Summit 100 features Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, George Benson, Slash, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Larkin Poe, and Warren Haynes

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"Songwriting pulls you out of whatever you're going through": Warren Haynes reveals how the blues can rescue you from misery

Gov’t Mule’s leader Warren Haynes on new album The Whisper Sessions, musical and marital partnerships, and the difference between women and men

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“There were 300,000 people there, so just the adrenaline rush alone was making for some great music”: Warren Haynes on putting his stamp on Allman Brothers' classics, Woodstock ’94, and finishing what Gregg Allman started with Derek Trucks’ help

The Whisper Sessions finds the Gov't Mule frontman paring his solo album back to its essence, and here he talks about how it all ties in with seminal experiences with David Allan Coe and the Allmans

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“They’re kind of singing along… but no one knows the words:” Derek Trucks says Tedeschi Trucks Band have completed their next studio album – and they’ve been sneaking in some of the new tracks live

Trucks says TTB has “the best collection of tunes” they have written to date, with 17 in the can, an Atmos mix – and the crowd are liking what they are hearing when they've dropped them in the set

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"One of those shows that you will be thinking about for the rest of your life": Tedeschi Trucks Band announce live album of historic Mad Dogs & Englishmen show

Tedeschi Trucks Band's Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At Lockin’) features Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Chris Robinson, Warren Haynes and more

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“From the very beginning, they never asked me to play more like Duane”: Warren Haynes on what Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts told him when he joined the Allman Brothers Band

Haynes knew the significance of stepping into the Allman Brothers Band but he had the chops, he knew the material inside and out, and he had been playing with Betts for years

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“The last time I saw one for sale on Ebay, somebody wanted $300 for it”: Session ace Justin Ostrander on the sought-after pill bottle slide used by Duane Allman and Derek Trucks – and how he got one for free

As Ostrander explains, a number of legendary slide players have turned to particular vintage Coricidin bottles – to the point they can now command crazy money on the used market

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“And so the first thing I do is put it in the middle position and play Oh Well”: Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr on that time he brought Duane Allman’s 1957 Les Paul to a Metallica show and ended up playing Kirk Hammett's Greeny

Starr's first Metallica show was in 1989. His second was in 2019, and involved two of the most iconic Les Pauls of all time, and it was the day he learned Hetfield sounds the same through a Princeton

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“Norm was like, ‘Do you want to play with Joe?’ Before I could say ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ he brings Joe over and tells him, ‘Jason wants to play a set’”: Jason Sinay on jamming with Joe Bonamassa – and why his early sessions with Mike Campbell were a struggle

The session veteran recalls jamming with Neil Young, Keith Richards and Bob Weir – and why he thought he’d initially blown the gig with the Heartbreaker’s solo band

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“I always wantedto do one more Allman Brothers studio record, but that just wasn’t meant to be”: How Warren Haynes is finishing what Gregg Allman started with Derek Trucks’ help – and why he’s fallen for J Mascis’ Squier Jazzmaster

Million Voices Whisper finds the Gov't Mule frontman leaning into his B.B. King influences and Allman Brothers history to welcome some talented friends to the party

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The Allmans' legacy continues as The Brothers announce first live shows since 2020

Jaimoe, Warren Haynes, Derek Trucks, Oteil Burbridge and Marc Quiñones have signed up to perform as The Brothers in April

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“My phone rang – Nuno told me to get to Sao Paulo right away. I arrived 30 minutes before guesting on Get the Funk Out”: Mateus Asato on landing the Bruno Mars gig, playing with his heroes and how his pink Suhr went from reject to best-selling signature

Asato leads an amazing double life as pop sideman and virtuoso shredder. He dishes on his big social media mistake, the help he got from Kiko Loureiro, and the last-minute call from Nino Bettencourt he couldn’t ignore

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Watch Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi and Dave Matthews pay musical tribute to the Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt were among the Class of 2024 at this year's Kennedy Center Honors

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“I would never have picked up a guitar had it not been for her”: Watch the Grateful Dead and Bonnie Raitt receive this year's Kennedy Center Honors – as they're covered by Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile

The musicians were honored alongside Francis Ford Coppola and Arturo Sandoval in an event that took place on December 8 and aired yesterday on CBS

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“I was lucky to play with my heroes at 9 years old. I remember doing shows with Buddy Guy and Bob Dylan”: Derek Trucks recalls playing with the greats from an early age – and the lesson he learned from Buddy Guy that influenced his entire sound

Sharing the stage with his heroes taught Trucks a wealth of valuable lessons – and also showed him the difference between mediocre players and the greats

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“It isn’t unrealistic to try with your usual setup, provided you’re not using eights with a 1mm action”: Upgrade your blues chops now with this lesson in how to play slide guitar in standard tuning

Looking for an entry into slide playing but don't want to retune your guitar and give it a setup? This tab and audio lesson in plain ol' EADGBE will help you develop your slide vocabulary

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"Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks effortlessly recreate Duane Allmanand Dickey Betts' searing guitar lines": The Allman Brothers Band's final show, officially preserved for all time

The Allmans' big finish, recorded live at the Beacon Theater, New York

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“All-stars like Phil X, Jimmy Herring, Derek Trucks and Richard Fortus have sung the Hyperdrive’s praises. Now a new IAM overdrive/boost pedal has entered Earth’s atmosphere”: Interstellar Audio Machines Supernova Zoeldrive review

Greetings, Earthlings, here comes a boost/overdrive fresh from the final frontier bearing all the tonal hallmarks of the reassuringly terrestrial Fender Tweed drive

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“When I picked up a guitar, I held it righty, but the pick never felt right in my hands, so I started to make up my own technique”: Jared James Nichols reveals how he developed his unique fingerstyle technique – and the perks of going pick-less

Nichols also demonstrates how to achieve optimum attack and dynamics with his fingerstyle technique, which was inspired by Albert King, Derek Trucks and Mark Knopfler

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