Tedeschi Trucks Band
2012-08-30
Red Rocks
Morrison CO
Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
01. Introduction
02. Everybody's Talkin'
03. Don't Let Me Slide
04. Rollin' and Tumblin'
05. Isn't It a Pity >
06. Bound for Glory
07. The Sky Is Crying
08. Shelter
09. Get What You Deserve +
10. Mahjoun
11. Midnight In Harlem
12. Learn How To Love You
13. That Did It
14. Kissing My Love
15. Uptight (Everything's Alright)
16. Jam >
17. Love Has Something Else To Say
18. encore break
Encore:
19. Wade In The Water >
20. Give It Up Or Let Me Go
Guest:
+ with Todd Smallie - bass (no Oteil)
Line Up:
-Susan Tedeschi - guitar, vocals
-Derek Trucks - guitar
-Oteil Burbridge - bass, vocals
-Kofi Burbridge - keyboards, flute, vocals
-Tyler Greewell - drums
-J.J. Johnson - drums
-Mike Mattison - vocals
-Mark Rivers - vocals
-Kebbi Williams - trumpet
-Maurice Brown - saxophone
-Saunders Sermons - trombone
Notes:
-- Before the song, Susan explains that Learn How To Love You was written with Eric Krasno and Adam Dietch
-- Kissing My Love contains band intros throughout the song
-- Love Has Something Else To Say contains "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" lyrics.
-- Co-Headline show with BB King. BB King (who was nearly 87 years old) played first.
-- The TTB set was filmed and live broadcast by Denver AXS/TV.
-- Isn't it a Pity is a George Harrison cover
-- The Sky Is Crying is an Elmore James cover
-- That Did It is a Bobby Blue Bland cover
-- Kissing My Love is a Bill Withers cover
-- Uptight (Everything's Alright) is a Stevie Wonder cover
-- Give It Up Or Let Me Go is a Bonnie Raitt cover
Review:
Tedeschi Trucks Band, B.B. King at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, 8/30/12
By Jason Blevins | September 4th, 2012
If ever dueling electric guitars can sound romantic, Derek Trucks and his wife Susan Tedeschi can make it happen.
Trucks’ raging fingerpicking slide melded with Tedeschi’s soulful tone Thursday at Red Rocks, swelling the
swollen venue with their swooning sound. Backed by a nine-piece band – including two drummers, three brass
blasters and two back-up singers – the six-stringing couple shredded through a nearly two-hour set that saw
echoes of Stevie Wonder and Bill Withers swirl with Professor Longhair and Bonnie Raitt, all backdropped
with Trucks’ masterful old-school blues riffs.
Trucks was barely a teenager when he began fronting the Allman Brothers Band, his back turned to the audience
as he faced his uncle Butch on drums. Today the still bashful, baby-faced yet bearded 33-year-old blues
legend turns halfway to the crowd, facing his wife as he rips his signature Gibson SG. Trucks lays low
when Tedeschi sings – like in the early “Echoes Of My Mind” – but cranks up the wattage with succulent
jamming in tunes like “Bound For Glory” and “Shelter.” Joined briefly by his longtime cohort on bass,
Todd Smallie, in “Get What You Deserve,” Trucks flourished in an intricately assembled moment of improvisation.
For “Midnight in Harlem,” Trucks led his betrothed in a winding jam that revealed just how far singer-songwriter
Tedeschi has come on the six string since marrying her guitar hero.
Truly both can carry their own bands, but the merger of their two formerly independent outfits has obviously
smoothed their rambling lives – they often tour with their two kids – and provided fans a chance to marvel at
the double-barreled virtuosity that is the Tedeschi Trucks Band.
The band is touring with blues king B.B. King, who opened the nearly sold-out show fronting an eight-piece band.
Cradling his Gibson “Lucille,” the 86-year-old swaggered through a moving set, stopping only to remove his
necklace and rings, which his helpers distributed to wheelchaired rockers in the front row as he crooned
“Someone Really Loves You.”
At 86, King sings with passion and plays with fire, but the ever-touring guitar giant’s days at Red Rocks
are likely numbered. In “Key To The Highway,” King rumbled “I won’t be back no more” asking for “one more kiss,
darling, just before I go.”
And, as the full moon peaked from behind a pocket of cloud, more than 9,000 stomped and hollered in an
ecstatic, moving embrace of the greatest blues guitarist of all time.