Derek Trucks on Derek Trucks Band's album Songlines, which celebrates its 20th anniversary today: released 2/21/06.⁠

⁠"I wanted to make a record that I would also enjoy listening to. There are not many ‘guitar’ records with guitar all over the place that I really want to listen to that much. ⁠Even when you think back to those great Hendrix records, and obviously he was a guitar player first, as well as a songwriter which probably ties for first, and a singer a close second, but none of those records are too guitar heavy. He’s serving the tunes. Obviously it helps to have written some of the classics that he wrote, but everything is in its place. If there is a crazy guitar solo needed, it’s there. If it’s not necessary, it’s very understated. ⁠

⁠With this record, we were kind of taking that route, thinking about the records that we’ve listened to hundreds and hundreds of times as opposed to the ones that you check out two or three times and say, ‘Wow, that’s great, but I don’t really need to hear it over and over.’ ⁠

⁠We wanted to make a record that you want to listen to more than just a few times because it has layers, and it gets better on each listen. It’s something to shoot for. I think the next few records that we do, we want to try and stay in that mindset. And then, when the time seems right, you might branch off and do some other things. That is the mindset of the group at the moment.⁠“