Derek Trucks Band maps 'Free' shows

The Derek Trucks Band has lined up an early 2009 outing to support the group's forthcoming new studio release, "Already Free."

Bandleader Derek Trucks and company--bassist Todd Smaille, percussionist Yonrico Scott, keyboardist Kofi Burbridge, vocalist Mike Mattison and percussionist Count M'butu--kick off the run with a weeklong stint on a Florida Blues Cruise later this month before launching the run back on dry land Feb. 6 in Portland, ME. The band has shows scheduled through mid-April; dates are below.

Trucks' upcoming album, "Already Free," which hits stores Jan. 13, is his band's seventh studio release. It features guest appearances by Doyle Bramhall II, Oteil Burbridge and Trucks' wife, Susan Tedeschi, and follows 2006's "Songlines."

On Election Day, Trucks and his band released a fresh re-recording of Bob Dylan and The Band's "Down in the Flood." In a press release, Trucks said the song, the first single from the upcoming album, has almost more relevance following Hurricane Katrina than when Dylan wrote it in 1967.

"I think it really turned out to be one of the most powerful tracks on the record," Trucks said in a statement. "I think lyrically it's pretty timely. 'Crash on the levee, down in the flood,' are so significant post-Katrina."

TOUR DATES
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January 2009
24-31 - Ft, Lauderdale, FL - Blues Cruise

February 2009
6 - Portland, ME - Port City Music Hall
7 - Carrabassett Valley, ME - King Pine Room
8 - Waterbury, CT - Palace Theater
11 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
12 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
13 - Rochester, NY - Water Street Music Hall
14 - Lewisburg, PA - Weis Center for the Performing Arts
15 - Charleston, WV - Mountain Stage @ Cultural Center Theater
21 - Memphis, TN - New Daisy Theater
22 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
24 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
25 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note

March 2009
4 - Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
5 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
6 - Dallas, TX - Granada Theater

April 2009
2 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
4 - Reading, PA - Berks Jazz Fest
8, 9 - Chicago, IL - Park West
10 - N. Kansas City, MO - Harrah's Casino
11 - Englewood, CO - Gothic Theater
15 - San Francisco, CA - The Wiltern
17 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues

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