TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND
''LET ME GET BY''
JANUARY 29 2016
56:28
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01 Anyhow 06:34 (Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
02 Laugh About It 05:06 (Kofi Burbridge, Tim Lefebvre, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
03 Don’t Know What It Means 05:58 (Kofi Burbridge, J.J. Johnson, Tim Lefebvre, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
04 Right On Time 04:33 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
05 Let Me Get By 04:25 (Kofi Burbridge, Tyler Greenwell, Tim Lefebvre, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
06 Just As Strange 03:41 (Doyle Bramhall II, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
07 Crying Over You / Swamp Raga For Hozapfel, Lefebvre, Flute And Harmonium 08:02 (Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
08 Hear Me 04:31 (Doyle Bramhall II, Derek Trucks)
09 I Want More 07:14 (Doyle Bramhall II, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
10 In Every Heart 06:20 (Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
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Doyle Bramhall II/Clapping, Drums, Fuzz Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Bass), Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Rhythm), Percussion, Vocals
Maurice Brown/Clapping, Horn Arrangements, Trumpet, Vocals (Background)
Kofi Burbridge/Clapping, Clavinet, Flute, Harmonium, Horn Arrangements, Mini Moog, Organ (Hammond), Pedal Piano, Piano (Grand), Vocals (Background), Wurlitzer Piano
Alecia Chakour/Clapping, Vocals
Jonathan Dinklage/Viola, Violin
Tyler Greenwell/Clapping, Drums, Percussion, Vocals (Background)
Henry Hey/Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
J.J. Johnson/Clapping, Drums, Percussion, Vocals (Background)
Tim Lefebvre/Bass (Upright), Clapping, Drones, Field Recording, Guitar (Bass), Vocals (Background)
Mike Mattison/Clapping, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Mark Rivers/Clapping, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Saunders Sermons/Clapping, Horn Arrangements, Trombone, Trombone (Bass), Vocals (Background)
Susan Tedeschi/Clapping, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Derek Trucks/Clapping, Drums, Guitar, Guitar (12 String Acoustic), Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Leslie), Guitar (Resonator), Guitar (Rhythm), Harmonium, Horn Arrangements, Percussion, Slide Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Kebbi Williams/Clapping, Horn Arrangements, Sax (Baritone), Saxophone, Vocals (Background)
Anja Wood/Cello
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
After 2013's Made Up Mind, Tedeschi Trucks Band hit the road hard, racking up 200 dates in 2014. After Derek Trucks played the Allman Brothers Band's final shows, and TTB's parting with Sony, the 12-piece band and friends (including Doyle Bramhall II) entered their Swamp Raga Studios behind Trucks' and Susan Tedeschi's home, and began recording jam-style rehearsals; everyone was encouraged to contribute ideas, songs, etc. They'd break to work the road then return to record some more. The end result is Let Me Get By, produced by Trucks, recorded by Bobby Tis, and released by Fantasy. Jazz bassist Tim Lefebvre joined permanently (he was also part of David Bowie's band on Blackstar), and Alecia Chakour was enlisted to balance Mike Mattison and Mark Rivers on backing vocals. The lineup is rounded out by keyboardist Kofi Burbridge, drummers Tyler Greenwell and J.J. Johnson, and a three-piece horn section. Trucks proves a fearless producer here. This collaboratively written ten-song set showcases the band's skill at playing and composing through Southern soul, roots rock, blues, greasy funk, jazz, Indian classical, film music, and African and Brazilian polyrhythms. An obvious studio offering, it's warm and resonant, yet crackling with energy and ideas. The feel is loose and grooving, the performances hot. Over TTB's last two albums, Tedeschi has become comfortable as the lead singer of a large band. She's almost iconic here, taking chances with phrasing, finding hidden spaces in lines and syllables, and emoting from the belly. She never oversells a song but always sings the hell out of it. (Check "Anyhow" if you want shivers.) She plays a mean guitar, too: her solo in the gritty, punchy, party funk number "Don't Know What It Means" is a highlight. But everybody gets to shine here -- Mattison with lead vocals on the Brechtian-esque carny rock of "Right on Time," and the modal soul of "Crying Over You/Swamp Raga for Hozapfel, Lefebvre, Flute and Harmonium" -- adding character and depth to TTB's signature. Lefebvre's syncopation and invention create new possibilities for harmonic and rhythmic dialogue. His bass pushes the funky dual drum breaks and biting electric piano and organ on the title cut, allowing roaring horns, soaring chorus vocals, and Trucks' spiraling slide to collide with and flow through one another. The unusual meld of Memphis soul, Bollywood-style strings, Eastern electric slide, and strummed acoustic guitars creatively come together to support Tedeschi's wrenching, affirmative vocal in the passionate "Hear Me. The rave-up dancefloor R&B in "I Want More" is guaranteed to put any party into overdrive. The meld of gospel, soul, doo wop, and blues rock on closer "In Every Heart" offers a Trucks' solo that digs deep in the emotional grain to contrast with the sweet vibe. Never has TTB sounded so organic, relaxed, and free. Let Me Get By is the album this group has been striving for since their formation. You need this.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Thom Jurek
The Imagine Project
The Tedeschi Trucks Band -- led by the husband-and-wife duo of guitarist and vocalist Susan Tedeschi and slide guitarist Derek Trucks -- began as a summer touring unit known as the Soul Stew Revival. It was both a practical consideration for the pair to spend time together with their young family and a musical endeavor. Soul Stew Revival featured members of their own bands and numerous guest musicians, and the loose-knit cooperative band performed roof-raising shows full of soul, blues, funk, and gospel standards, as well as original material. After one of these tours, the pair decided to create a home studio to be better able to finance their own recordings. Tedeschi and Trucks performed a cover of "Space Captain" on Herbie Hancock's Imagine Project, and solidified an 11-piece band from their own units, as well as horn players and percussionists. Renamed the Tedeschi Trucks Band, they signed to Sony's Masterworks imprint, recorded over 30 songs, and eventually pared the selection down to 11 tracks for their debut album, Revelator, which was released in June 2011 and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. It was followed in the spring of 2012 by Live: Everybody's Talkin', a sprawling double-disc set which featured material from Revelator, alongside some carefully-chosen cover versions. August 2013 brought a second studio album, Made Up Mind, which featured co-writing credits from the Jayhawks' Gary Louris and Soulive's Eric Krasno.
Let Me Get By
The band toured virtually nonstop. They composed new material on the fly and developed a sprawling set of covers from the annals of blues, rock, soul, jazz and country music as well as explored African and Indian music onstage. After a final Allman Brothers Band tour in 2015, Trucks was abe to focus all of his energies on his family band that had expanded over the year to include a dozen members. Tedeschi Trucks Band entered their Swamp Raga Studio at home in Jacksonville, Florida. With Trucks producing they recorded 10 new songs--all written or co-written by the band, a first. Let Me Get By was released by Fantasy in January, 2016.
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''LET ME GET BY''
JANUARY 29 2016
56:28
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01 Anyhow 06:34 (Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
02 Laugh About It 05:06 (Kofi Burbridge, Tim Lefebvre, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
03 Don’t Know What It Means 05:58 (Kofi Burbridge, J.J. Johnson, Tim Lefebvre, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
04 Right On Time 04:33 (Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
05 Let Me Get By 04:25 (Kofi Burbridge, Tyler Greenwell, Tim Lefebvre, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
06 Just As Strange 03:41 (Doyle Bramhall II, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
07 Crying Over You / Swamp Raga For Hozapfel, Lefebvre, Flute And Harmonium 08:02 (Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
08 Hear Me 04:31 (Doyle Bramhall II, Derek Trucks)
09 I Want More 07:14 (Doyle Bramhall II, Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
10 In Every Heart 06:20 (Mike Mattison, Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks)
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Doyle Bramhall II/Clapping, Drums, Fuzz Bass, Guitar, Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Bass), Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Rhythm), Percussion, Vocals
Maurice Brown/Clapping, Horn Arrangements, Trumpet, Vocals (Background)
Kofi Burbridge/Clapping, Clavinet, Flute, Harmonium, Horn Arrangements, Mini Moog, Organ (Hammond), Pedal Piano, Piano (Grand), Vocals (Background), Wurlitzer Piano
Alecia Chakour/Clapping, Vocals
Jonathan Dinklage/Viola, Violin
Tyler Greenwell/Clapping, Drums, Percussion, Vocals (Background)
Henry Hey/Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements
J.J. Johnson/Clapping, Drums, Percussion, Vocals (Background)
Tim Lefebvre/Bass (Upright), Clapping, Drones, Field Recording, Guitar (Bass), Vocals (Background)
Mike Mattison/Clapping, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Mark Rivers/Clapping, Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Saunders Sermons/Clapping, Horn Arrangements, Trombone, Trombone (Bass), Vocals (Background)
Susan Tedeschi/Clapping, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Vocals, Vocals (Background)
Derek Trucks/Clapping, Drums, Guitar, Guitar (12 String Acoustic), Guitar (Acoustic), Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Leslie), Guitar (Resonator), Guitar (Rhythm), Harmonium, Horn Arrangements, Percussion, Slide Guitar, Vocals (Background)
Kebbi Williams/Clapping, Horn Arrangements, Sax (Baritone), Saxophone, Vocals (Background)
Anja Wood/Cello
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REVIEW/AMG
Thom Jurek
After 2013's Made Up Mind, Tedeschi Trucks Band hit the road hard, racking up 200 dates in 2014. After Derek Trucks played the Allman Brothers Band's final shows, and TTB's parting with Sony, the 12-piece band and friends (including Doyle Bramhall II) entered their Swamp Raga Studios behind Trucks' and Susan Tedeschi's home, and began recording jam-style rehearsals; everyone was encouraged to contribute ideas, songs, etc. They'd break to work the road then return to record some more. The end result is Let Me Get By, produced by Trucks, recorded by Bobby Tis, and released by Fantasy. Jazz bassist Tim Lefebvre joined permanently (he was also part of David Bowie's band on Blackstar), and Alecia Chakour was enlisted to balance Mike Mattison and Mark Rivers on backing vocals. The lineup is rounded out by keyboardist Kofi Burbridge, drummers Tyler Greenwell and J.J. Johnson, and a three-piece horn section. Trucks proves a fearless producer here. This collaboratively written ten-song set showcases the band's skill at playing and composing through Southern soul, roots rock, blues, greasy funk, jazz, Indian classical, film music, and African and Brazilian polyrhythms. An obvious studio offering, it's warm and resonant, yet crackling with energy and ideas. The feel is loose and grooving, the performances hot. Over TTB's last two albums, Tedeschi has become comfortable as the lead singer of a large band. She's almost iconic here, taking chances with phrasing, finding hidden spaces in lines and syllables, and emoting from the belly. She never oversells a song but always sings the hell out of it. (Check "Anyhow" if you want shivers.) She plays a mean guitar, too: her solo in the gritty, punchy, party funk number "Don't Know What It Means" is a highlight. But everybody gets to shine here -- Mattison with lead vocals on the Brechtian-esque carny rock of "Right on Time," and the modal soul of "Crying Over You/Swamp Raga for Hozapfel, Lefebvre, Flute and Harmonium" -- adding character and depth to TTB's signature. Lefebvre's syncopation and invention create new possibilities for harmonic and rhythmic dialogue. His bass pushes the funky dual drum breaks and biting electric piano and organ on the title cut, allowing roaring horns, soaring chorus vocals, and Trucks' spiraling slide to collide with and flow through one another. The unusual meld of Memphis soul, Bollywood-style strings, Eastern electric slide, and strummed acoustic guitars creatively come together to support Tedeschi's wrenching, affirmative vocal in the passionate "Hear Me. The rave-up dancefloor R&B in "I Want More" is guaranteed to put any party into overdrive. The meld of gospel, soul, doo wop, and blues rock on closer "In Every Heart" offers a Trucks' solo that digs deep in the emotional grain to contrast with the sweet vibe. Never has TTB sounded so organic, relaxed, and free. Let Me Get By is the album this group has been striving for since their formation. You need this.
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BIOGRAPHY/AMG
Thom Jurek
The Imagine Project
The Tedeschi Trucks Band -- led by the husband-and-wife duo of guitarist and vocalist Susan Tedeschi and slide guitarist Derek Trucks -- began as a summer touring unit known as the Soul Stew Revival. It was both a practical consideration for the pair to spend time together with their young family and a musical endeavor. Soul Stew Revival featured members of their own bands and numerous guest musicians, and the loose-knit cooperative band performed roof-raising shows full of soul, blues, funk, and gospel standards, as well as original material. After one of these tours, the pair decided to create a home studio to be better able to finance their own recordings. Tedeschi and Trucks performed a cover of "Space Captain" on Herbie Hancock's Imagine Project, and solidified an 11-piece band from their own units, as well as horn players and percussionists. Renamed the Tedeschi Trucks Band, they signed to Sony's Masterworks imprint, recorded over 30 songs, and eventually pared the selection down to 11 tracks for their debut album, Revelator, which was released in June 2011 and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. It was followed in the spring of 2012 by Live: Everybody's Talkin', a sprawling double-disc set which featured material from Revelator, alongside some carefully-chosen cover versions. August 2013 brought a second studio album, Made Up Mind, which featured co-writing credits from the Jayhawks' Gary Louris and Soulive's Eric Krasno.
Let Me Get By
The band toured virtually nonstop. They composed new material on the fly and developed a sprawling set of covers from the annals of blues, rock, soul, jazz and country music as well as explored African and Indian music onstage. After a final Allman Brothers Band tour in 2015, Trucks was abe to focus all of his energies on his family band that had expanded over the year to include a dozen members. Tedeschi Trucks Band entered their Swamp Raga Studio at home in Jacksonville, Florida. With Trucks producing they recorded 10 new songs--all written or co-written by the band, a first. Let Me Get By was released by Fantasy in January, 2016.
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WEBSITE
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TO THE TOP
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