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Tedeschi Trucks Band / Grace Potter and the Nocturnals / JJ Grey and Mofro: Denver, June 15, 2013
by Geoff Anderson
Tedeschi Trucks Band / Grace Potter and the Nocturnals / JJ Grey and MofroRed Rocks AmphitheaterDenver, COJune 15, 2013When you walk into the venue and the stage is set up with three Hammond B-3 organs, each with its own Leslie speaker, you know you're in for something earthy and gritty. And what better place for earthiness and grittiness than Red Rocks Amphitheater, carved out of rock formations that are between 300 million and 1.7 billion ...
Continue ReadingTedeschi Trucks Band: Little Rock, AR, July 15, 2012
by C. Michael Bailey
Tedeschi Trucks BandRobinson AuditoriumLittle Rock, ArkansasJuly 15, 2012The post-millennial Allman Brothers Band has given rise to a number of notable side projects. Among these offshoots are guitarist Warren Haynes' projects Gov't Mule and The Warren Haynes Band, bassist Oteil Burbridge's Oteil and the Pacemakers, drummer Jai Johanny Johanson's Jaimoe's Jasssz Band, and guitarist Derek Trucks' Derek Trucks Band. Trucks, nephew of ABB drummer Butch Trucks has successfully led his own band since the release of ...
Continue ReadingTedeschi Trucks Band: Live - Everybody's Talkin'
by Doug Collette
Tedeschi Trucks Band Live: Everybody's Talkin' Sony Masterworks 2012 Back in 2009, vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks formed a band they dubbed Soul Stew Revival, devoted almost exclusively to vintage r&b material. The presence of cover material on Live Everybody's Talkin' hearkens to that side project which, in the interim, has become a full-time endeavor for its principals and an even greater labor of love. The title track, in fact, suggests ...
Continue ReadingTedeschi Trucks Band: Denver, CO, November 18, 2011
by Geoff Anderson
Tedeschi Trucks BandFillmore AuditoriumDenver, CONovember 18, 2011 Fate demanded the Tedeschi Trucks Band. It's been an inexorable march over the last decade and now it's paid off. Susan Tedeschi released her first album, Just Won't Burn (Tone Cool, 1998) 13 years ago. She sported girl-next-door good looks and a contrasting take-no-prisoners voice. Over the years she released four more albums under her name. Derek Trucks, meanwhile, became co-lead guitarist in the Allman ...
Continue ReadingThe Tedeschi Trucks Band: Burlington, Vermont, October 18, 2011
by Doug Collette
The Tedeschi Trucks BandThe Flynn Center for the Performing ArtsBurlington, VTOctober 18, 2011 The Tedeschi Trucks Band offered an expertly-executed show to a near sold-out house at the Flynn Center on October 18, 2011. It was little wonder the audience trekked out satiated at the end of the muted gospel encore, especially because the final thirty minutes was conceived (contrived?) to enhance the cumulative effect of the previous two hours of mature and largely ...
Continue ReadingTedeschi Trucks Band: Revelator
by C. Michael Bailey
The Derek Trucks Band has grown into a finely-tuned big band, adding the guitarist's wife, singer Susan Tedeschi, to the masthead and front lineup, resulting in a fresh sound that eschews every blues and soul cliché that could be feared from such an ambitious project. All of the principles bring with them a loam of experience that informs every molecule of this music. Guitarist/vocalist (and fellow Allman Brothers Band alum) Warren Haynes, on his Man In Motion (Stax, 2011), has ...
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