Throwback Thursday | Eric Clapton Rocks MSG With Derek Trucks

In the year 2006 Derek Trucks challenged his Allman Brothers band mate Warren Haynes for the title of “hardest working man in the jam scene,” when he appeared with three bands in 17 countries. Much of Derek’s 2006 was spent touring as a side man in Eric Clapton’s band. Trucks was a perfect fit for Slowhand’s touring band and handled many of the slide parts that Duane Allman made famous on the 1970 album Layla and other Assorted Love Songs put out by the group that Derek was named after – Derek And The Dominos.

Derek wasn’t even 30 by the time he started touring with Clapton, but Trucks has always performed with the assurance, professionalism and skills of a guitarist twice his age. For today’s Throwback Thursday let’s take a look at a full Clapton show featuring Derek Trucks that was recorded during Eric’s second of three September 2006 performances at Madison Square Garden in New York City. An audience member pointed his camera at the screens on the side of stage, which gives us just about as good of footage from the tour as is available since EC has yet to officially release a performance from DT’s time in his band:

Setlist:
01: Pretending
02: I Shot The Sheriff
03: Got To Get Better In A Little While
04: Old Love (w/ Robert Cray)
05: Everybody Oughta Make A Change
06: Motherless Children
07: Back Home
08: I Am Yours
09: Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out
10: Running On Faith
11: After Midnight
12: Little Queen Of Spades
13: Further On Up The Road
14: Wonderful Tonight
15: Layla
16: Cocaine
17: Crossroads (w/ Robert Cray)
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Band Lineup:
Eric Clapton: Guitar, Vocals
Doyle Bramhall II: Guitar
Derek Trucks: Guitar
Chris Stainton: Keyboards
Tim Carmon: Keyboards
Willie Weeks: Bass
Steve Jordan: Drums
Michelle John: Backing Vocals
Sharon White: Backing Vocals