Trucks has appeared twice in
Rolling Stones list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". He was listed as 81st in 2003 and 16th in 2011. A 2006 article in
The Wall Street Journal described him as "the most awe-inspiring electric slide guitar player performing today". In 2007, Trucks appeared on the cover of
Rolling Stone for an article called the "New Guitar Gods". In 2009, Ernest Suarez of
The Washington Post described Trucks' guitar style as "notes and chords that soar, slice, and glide, sounding like a cross between Duane Allman on a '61
Gibson Les Paul and John Coltrane on
tenor sax". The Derek Trucks Band's album
Already Free debuted at number 19 on the
Billboard Top 200 chart, and number one on the Internet chart, number four on the rock chart, and number one on the blues chart. On February 12, 2012, Trucks accepted a
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award along with 10 other members of The Allman Brothers Band. On February 21, 2012, Derek Trucks and his wife joined other blues musicians for a performance at the White House for President Obama and his guests. In September 2012,
John Mayer and Derek Trucks joined
B.B. King on stage at the
Hollywood Bowl for an encore version of B.B.'s song "Guess Who". Concluding the performance, B.B. King made several remarks about Trucks's guitar work, ending with, "That's about as good as I've ever heard it—as good as I've ever heard it, and I mean it". ==Personal life==