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Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks (May 11, 1947 – January 24, 2017) was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band, for which he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Trucks was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida.
The Allman Brothers Band was an American rock band from Macon, Georgia.Formed in March 1969 by brothers Duane (guitar) and Gregg Allman (organ, vocals), the group originally also included guitarist and vocalist Dickey Betts, bassist Berry Oakley, and drummers Butch Trucks and Jai Johanny "Jaimoe" Johanson.
Derek Trucks (born 1979), guitarist and member of the Allman Brothers Band and Tedeschi Trucks Band, nephew of Butch Trucks and brother of Duane Trucks [2] Duane Trucks (born 1988), drummer and member of Widespread Panic and Hard Working Americans , nephew of Butch Trucks and brother of Derek Trucks [ 1 ]
(Reuters) - Drummer Butch Trucks, a founding member of American southern rock band the Allman Brothers, has died at the age of 69, his agent said on Wednesday.
Trucks joined the Allman Brothers Band in 1999. His uncle Butch Trucks was one of the band’s two founding drummers. ... Betts said Gregg Allman and the other members delivered the news in a fax ...
Butch Trucks phoned his nephew, Derek Trucks, to join the band for their thirtieth anniversary tour. [124] Anger boiled over within the group towards Betts, which led to all original members sending him a letter, informing him of their intentions to tour without him. [ 125 ]
Frogwings was an American jam band supergroup founded by Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks. Despite the fact that they were popular on the jam band circuit and at festivals, the group released only one album. [1]
The 31st of February was an American rock band formed by Jacksonville, Florida natives Scott Boyer, David Brown, and Butch Trucks.. All three were alumni of Englewood High School in Jacksonville, though they did not come together musically until Brown and Trucks found themselves living on the same floor of a dormitory at Florida State University in the fall of 1965. [1]