Duane Trucks was born on December 28, 1988, in Jacksonville, Florida. He began learning to play drums at the age of two and was given his first drum kit on his third birthday.[3]
His first foray into being a professional musician was with bands led by Col. Bruce Hampton. He performed with Hampton in the Pharaoh Gummit beginning in the mid-2000s and became a founding member of one of Hampton's backup bands, The Quark Alliance, in 2007. He became a founding member of Flannel Church, a band that includes fellow Hampton collaborator A. J. Ghent, in 2010.[4] They played a number of festivals including the 2013 Wanee Music Festival.[5]
In 2013 Duane Trucks became a founding member of the supergroupHard Working Americans which also features Dave Schools, Todd Snider and Neal Casal.[6] He began filling in for founding Widespread Panic drummer Todd Nance in late 2014 when Nance stepped away from the band to deal with personal matters. He continued performing with the band as a fill-in musician until February 2016 when it was announced that he would be replacing Nance as the band's official drummer.[7] Despite not having been an official member of the band at the time, Trucks recorded all of the drum parts on Widespread Panic's 2015 album Street Dogs.[8]
