New Release Coming From Famed Guitarist Derek Trucks

st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } One of the most critically acclaimed guitarists and the youngest musician to be named in Rolling Stone's list of the Top Hundred Guitarists of All Time, Derek Trucks has completed his sixth studio album with The Derek Trucks Band, Already Free, available Jan. 13, 2009.The album's first single, a stirring cover of Bob Dylan and The Band's "Down in the Flood" from the album The Basement Tapes, is set for release Nov. 4. The album was self-produced by Trucks and recorded in his Jacksonville, Fla., home studio.Nearly a year in the making and brimming with a newfound focus on creating original material, Already Free is the band's natural evolution as they move forward integrating influences that span a variety of musical genres. On Already Free, Trucks has written original songs and reinvigorated old ones, introducing a profound new vision.  One hears blues, soul, jazz, flourishes of world music from afro-beat to qawwali."This album was completely organic. We had no expectations. We just came down and started writing. Then one thing led to the next. I had all this time off so I just started calling up friends. And once the process started rolling and once we realized that we were onto something, we were writing tunes and all the sounds we were getting were amazing and it was starting to feel great. It felt like something was happening and we wanted to keep throwing musicians on the fire," said Trucks of making the album.Raised in a home filled with music, Trucks picked up a guitar at nine and was quickly considered a guitar prodigy. He has gone on to a storybook guitar career playing with some of the greatest musicians of all time including Eric Clapton, Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, a regular stint with the Allman Brothers Band (his uncle, Butch Trucks, is a founding member), performing on Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival Emmy-winning DVD, opening a tour for Carlos Santana and appearing on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, to name a few of the highlights.