Hello all, been meaning to post this for probably a few years but rarely get on here to actually write something, though I read very often.
To my personal tastes this tour I'm about to mention would be just impeccable, frankly I think it'd be just about the best thing that could be happening in live music these days. Objectively I and I think most would still see it as stunning both in the matchup of musicians and the drawing from just about the deepest material there is(the latter in my opinion.)
Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes blues duo tour.
Not necessarily acoustic, I'd say about half acoustic and half electric. The best and deepest blues there is, otherwise known as the Delta blues. However not necessarily restricted to the Delta, also up to Chicago and beyond, including their own material (maybe even some new blues material written for the occasion.)
This would not be a rehashing and simple copying of original works of Muddy, Robert Johnson, Son House, Hooker etc, it should go without saying these two guys are incapable of that anyway, in terms of not being themselves. We've all witnessed the uncanny power these guys possess on stage together in the last 15 years and they are on the cutting edge in emotion, taste and originality. They'd be putting their own stamp on what is my opinion the deepest music in existence and be paying homage to the music to which they both and we all owe an enormous debt.
I believe those two would be all you would need. Maybe Jack Pearson doing a few shows with them, or Oteil on a show or two but I think the duo format would do the most justice sonically. No overkill of guitars, no bass(most of the time), no keys, no horns. Stripped down, two gibsons, or two martins with Warren's vocals. (or Jack's)
Honestly I am surprised this hasn't been proposed (as far as I know...maybe it has) by either management or fans. More cynically I think it'd also be a financial smash. I think the hunger out there for blues guitar, from the delta to chicago and beyond combined with the two younger torch bearers of the Allmans fame would be overwhelming. How many people, as content as they are and rightfully so with the fine TTB and Mule, at their shows wish both Derek and Warren would be doing more blues, frankly? As if they don't have enough fans of their own to draw to a possible tour like this, I think there are probably also hordes of others who are more strictly blues fans and admire Derek and Warren (and Jack) and would be ecstatic about this, though they may not be Allmans nuts like many of us are.
It all comes from Mississippi ladies and gentleman. Derek and Warren have always, with their class, paid tribute to their roots in a myriad of ways willingly. I think a tour like this would be right up their alley, is due, and would be just a bomb.
Maybe just a little dreaming but I reiterate I'm surprised it hasn't been proposed already, I think they're something big in it for everyone - themselves and the fans and the illuminating of the music which gave us our emotional vocabulary.
Thanks for reading if you've made it all the way to the end, haha. What do you all think?
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Great idea; but I think they both are trying to separate from their ABB past. Plus Derek wants to spend time with his family; his schedule is jammed. Sounds like a proposal for a mini crossroads.
If you get it to happen I'll by a ticket.
I've been fantasizing about a Warren-and-Derek unplugged tour for a long time. If they focused on classic blues tunes by Son House, Blind Willie Johnson and Robert Johnson it would be even cooler! But we might have a long wait for this fantasy tour to ever happen...
If they can't tour, it might make for a fun studio session and album!
Yes, indeed, thanks for replies, though only a few.
If perhaps it ever does happen I don't think it'd be in a sense a standard "side" thing for them, though, always in the hypothetical, it'd likely be only a tour or two and an album or two. Not a side thing because this should be considered the mother music of it all and what they draw their best from - and conversely what draws the best out of them. I think it'd be major heavy. And by the way I always have imagined it as mostly electric though certainly acoustic would fit much of it.
A couple other things along the lines, perhaps, of some of your replies: I understand they do of course want to focus on their own things in the coming future especially, since they just spent 15 years together. I didn't however intend to say that they should do any Allmans tunes at all (though something with "ancient" roots like Statesboro or Done Somebody Wrong could fit). That said, two guitarists working that well together, pushing each other to the heights they did, all with a firm anchor in the deepest of blues, I don't think anybody's seen at least in the last 40 years. For me it just needs to be done sooner or later, I'd be happy as hell if it happened even in 5 years. I think the older they get the more likely we are to eventually see a tour or tours of this nature and return or acknowledgement if you'd like of the roots of it all. Despite everything they give and all their wonderful own writing, it seems a shame that they don't do more deep blues given their unmistakable bond with that music and their awe-inspiring abilities. (that said I know the deep blues makes manifests itself in other ways in most of what they do)
I already elaborated on the marketplace, for example had anyone noticed the original video of Old Friend up on youtube of D&W backstage? I believe it had over a million, maybe 2 million views before it was taken down. Indeed I think a lot of people would be up to see a tour like this way more than the Allman Brothers together.
Yes, indeed..Blind Willie, Son House, Muddy, RJ, Muddy, Hooker, Patton! Kimbrough, Burnside, McDowell etc
Hope it happens sometime!
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Where does Yoko fit into all of this?
Read a book about The Beatles and get your answer.
LOL
