| Songlines | ||||
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| Released | February 21, 2006 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
| Genre | Blues rock, Southern rock, world fusion, jam rock | |||
| Length | 53:52 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Producer | Jay Joyce | |||
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Songlines is the fifth studio album by American slide guitarist Derek Trucks and his group the Derek Trucks Band. This is the group's first studio album to feature an expanded sextet.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| All About Jazz | [2] |
| One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band |  [3] |
| Rolling Stone | [4] |
In a review for AllMusic, Thom Jurek wrote: "Songlines is the finest moment in the Derek Trucks Band's recording career. It's a fully mature, deeply reckoned studio album that bears repeated listening to reveal all its subtlety and the beauty of its creation." [1]
Ben Ratliff of The New York Times called Trucks' guitar work "a delicious pleasure," and stated that the album "improves on the five that preceded it," noting that "There's more texture, more layers of sound, and the producer, Jay Joyce, has artfully dirtied it up with reverb and mixing techniques." [5]
The Washington Post's Geoffrey Himes described the album as "the best jam-band album of the new decade," and noted that it "has set up the baby-faced kid in the blond ponytail as the movement's most likely leader into the next decade." [6]
Writing for All About Jazz , Doug Collette commented: "This album completely captures the diverse strengths of the group and its leader... Trucks' deceptively unassuming presence becomes the focal point that inspires his band, elevating Songlines to an absolutely stellar level." [2]
In an article for JazzTimes , Bill Milkowski wrote: "A remarkably expressive player, Trucks continues to explore on his instrument outside the confines of his regular touring gig with the Allman Brothers. This adventurous CD is the next step in his ongoing journey." [7]
Reviewer George Graham remarked: "Some jam bands can go on for hours without much interesting music happening. Derek Trucks... has never been one to fall victim to jam-band noodling. His palette is wide, his playing is imaginative and his band still rocks." [8]
Additional keyboards performed by Jay Joyce.
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Oteil Burbridge is an American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar during the resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band from 1997 through 2014, and as a founding member of the band Dead & Company. Burbridge was also a founding member of The Aquarium Rescue Unit and Tedeschi Trucks Band, with whom his brother Kofi Burbridge was the keyboardist and flautist. He has worked with other musicians including Bruce Hampton, Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Bill Kreutzmann and Derek Trucks.
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