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PEACH BUZZ: Singing couple all set to seal '06 with a kiss By BO EMERSON The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Musicians, like waiters, work when the rest of us are having a good time. That goes double on New Year's Eve, the calendar's biggest date night, and prime time for the working minstrel. That means few musicians will be kissing their significant others at the stroke of midnight Dec. 31 --- unless they happen to be married to another musician. Derek Trucks, scion of jam band royalty, and blues belter Susan Tedeschi have got it all worked out. The two, married since 2001, will headline together at the fabulous Fox Theatre on New Year's Eve, and Trucks expects an onstage kiss when the hour arrives. "I have a feeling either my wife will be onstage playing with us or she'll run out at the last minute," said Trucks, whose band shares the bill with Tedeschi's band. Nephew of founding Allman Brothers drummer Butch Trucks, Derek Trucks fronts his own band and plays slide guitar with the Allmans, who he joined in 1999. Tedeschi is a Berklee College of Music graduate with a degree in composition and considerable chops on electric guitar. The two have been skillful at scheduling New Year's Eve gigs together, and in 1999-2000 ushered in the new millennium while sharing a stage with the late John Lee Hooker. "I'm sure that's something I'll be telling my grandchildren about," Trucks said. They have two children, Charles and Sophia, who will be on hand at the Fox show, along with Derek's parents, grandparents and siblings. The group tours in two buses, the kids' bus and the party bus. "There's Cinderella and crayons on one bus and stuff we can't speak of on the other one."