Five Minutes Alone - Derek Trucks

The Tedeschi Trucks Band’s slide maestro on the blues, great birthday presents, and a bandmate’s legacy

- Jonathan Horsley

I Got My First Real Six-String…

“… In a garage sale. It was a Kay knock-off; it was called a Jay, a J-A-Y. It was some department store guitar, it was about five dollars and I still have it. A few years ago for my birthday, Susan [Tedeschi] sent my first guitars to Paul Reed Smith to get them fixed up and playable again. I think probably means that my guitar has the honor of being the worst guitar Paul Reed Smith has ever worked on! [Laughs] But it still sounds good, and he made it playable.”

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