Derek Trucks: “I wanted my guitar to sound like the room was going to blow up”

Derek Trucks: “I wanted my guitar to sound like the room was going to blow up”

(Tedeschi Trucks Band)Derek Trucks has spent most of his life making the guitar behave like a sentient thing with excellent taste, but on Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Future Soul, even he sounds slightly surprised by what came out of the speakers. That’s usually a good sign. The band, now 12 pieces strong and still not collapsing under its own elegant traffic pattern, followed up its pandemic-era four-part concept record by not making another four-par…