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.