The Tedeschi Trucks Band is a rare outfit. It’s a group steeped in rock, in blues, in soul, in jazz, in American music, and with the musicianship and spirit to immerse themselves in songs and allow the songs to go where they want to go. It’s tough keeping any band together, but the level of commitment necessary to carry full time harmony vocalists and horn players is exceptional. The dividends, however, were plain to see when the full complement of the 12-piece unit assembled at Strange Weather Studio in Brooklyn to perform songs from the new album Signs.

The TTB’s fourth studio effort sits firmly in a 2019 political moment, as well a personal one that has them working through the loss of a number of loved ones. And as you’ll hear in my conversation with Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, that list now includes the very recent loss of their multi-talented bandmate Kofi Burbridge, who passed away the day Signs was released.

In this FUV Live session, listen in on that chat along with performances of “Hard Case,” “When Will I Begin” and “I’m Gonna Be There.”

Derek Trucks Talks Listening In The Tedeschi Trucks Band

Tonight – Saturday, October 8th 2016 – marks the nineteenth show for the Tedeschi Trucks Band at The Beacon Theater. It caps a six night Fall ’16 residence for the twelve piece group that included three nights of support from Jorma Kaukonen, Amy Ray, and Dave Mason as well as three nights, including tonight, of nothing but TTB!

The footage here in this video as well as the interview with Derek was shot earlier this year when he and his mates were celebrating the release of Let Me Get By with a show at The Apollo. It is not a repeat of the report from that time however. I married together some fresh performance clips with previously unheard bits of conversation.

Note: this report aired on NY1 on Tuesday so it refers to four shows remaining in the Beacon run.

Derek Trucks Reveals Special Sauce of Tedeschi Trucks Band –

Epic show on Tuesday at The Apollo by the TTB!  They are a twelve piece juggernaut and, as Derek explained in the interview, with trust as their foundation, they’ve never before been this locked in…this dangerous and ready to go wherever the song wants to go.

After co-producing the first two TTB studio records with Jim Scott, the new album, Let Me Get By, was produced solely Derek Trucks.  (The first album he produced by himself was Roadsongs by the DTB and he also produced the live TTB album Everybody’s Talkin‘.)  He mentioned that he applied a lot that he had learned from Jim and that, being free from a relationship with a record company, it felt like the perfect time to go down that road.  More about that as well as more about Harlem, The Apollo, and Tim Lefebvre (who makes his second appearance of the year on this blog on Ground Hog Day) in the bonus interview footage below.

TTB – it’s easy as 123!