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Polly Glass

"Everyone has the right to be furious right now. And if that comes out in your music, I celebrate that." Why Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi are dancing and playing through the fury

Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi pose with guitars.

When Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks started dating, one of their favourite things to do was play basketball. Among rock’n’roll’s most uplifting love stories in recent years, the pair met in 1999 on tour with the Allman Brothers. She was the opening act; he’d just become the Allmans’ new guitarist. She was 28, he was 20.

Quickly realising how much they had in common besides music, they played one-on-one together. They bonded over sports, as well as bluesy deep cuts and their similarly musical childhoods. Trucks’ father looked on in surprise.

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