Already Free

Studio album by The Derek Trucks Band

Released

January 13, 2009

Recorded

2008

Genre

Southern rock, blues rock, soul rock, jam rock

Length

55:13

Label

Legacy Recordings, Columbia Records

Producer

Derek Trucks
Doyle Bramhall II

The Derek Trucks Band chronology

Songlines
(2006)

Already Free
(2009)

Already Live
(2009)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
PopMatters
Entertainment Weekly	B+
Rolling Stone
StereoSubversion	C-

Already Free is the ninth studio album by The Derek Trucks Band. It was released in the US on January 13, 2009 by Legacy Recordings. A European release followed on February 20, 2009. The album has received very positive reviews, and debuted at #19 on the Billboard Top 200 reached #1 on the blues chart, #1 on the Internet chart, and #4 on the Rock chart. This marks the band's highest debut on the Billboard Top 200 chart to date. The album won the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album, marking the band's first Grammy award.

The first single, "Down in the Flood", was released on November 4, 2008. Guest musicians include Doyle Bramhall II, Oteil Burbridge, Susan Tedeschi, and Eric Krasno (of Soulive). The song "Back Where I Started" was co-written by Trucks with fellow Allman Brothers Band guitarist Warren Haynes.

Derek Trucks was interviewed by the Washington Post upon the release of Already Free. The interviewer commented that in comparison to past albums by The Derek Trucks Band, this record reflects a more mature sound. Trucks himself responded by commenting that the album has a different feeling because in the past he always felt pressure to make a "guitar album". The difference, he maintains, is that the band has had more time to mature, and the album's sound is more balanced between the different contributions of its members, who developed its overall effect as they arranged the songs that were recorded for this album.

Best Buy has an exclusive edition with three bonus tracks:

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