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“Freedom is another word,” so the song went back in an easier and less costly time, “for nothing left to lose.” Freedom—the kind that Tedeschi Trucks Band has created for themselves since their inception in 2010—has come at a much higher price and required a deeper sense of dedication. It’s the kind of freedom that has allowed them to keep a band that has grown to more than a dozen musicians and crew on the road for five years, garnering an ever-increasing international audience, while developing a musical identity that has yielded original, award-winning recordings.

Let Me Get By is the third and latest studio album by the TTB, featuring ten new, original songs that together stand as a testament to the hard work, independent spirit, and now full-on commitment of the husband-and-wife team of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, plus the musicians and music professionals who are part of the band’s ongoing journey. The album’s artwork—a Mongolian golden eagle caught a moment after flying from its master’s glove—and even the album title, reflect the sense of total dedication that serves as the driving wheel of TTB.

“’Let Me Get By’ actually refers to a lot of things,” says Trucks, “like the band becoming more self-reliant than ever before—writing our own songs and producing our own music in our own studio. It’s about moving on to a new recording label with a deal that gives us more freedom, and personally, I found myself with more time to focus on TTB after the Allman Brothers played their final shows this past year.

“It definitely took time for us to get here. I think the connections we have in this band and among the crew and extended family are the real reason why. I look around the stage every night and am just in awe of the situation—the music’s amazing and road-tested and we all really like each other. That’s what I hear in the music on this new album—this feeling that we’re now putting 100% of what we have into this band, not going back to anything else, not having anywhere else to go.”

The TTB journey began on April 1, 2010 with their first gig at the Savannah Music Festival, and led to the recording and release of their Grammy-winning debut album Revelator in 2011, and Made Up Mind two years later. During their five-year rise, the group toured incessantly, raising their profile and being handpicked to play with the likes of Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and Santana; to appear on television shows hosted by Jay Leno, Conan, and on the premiere of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show; and hosting special all-star musical salutes themselves, including Bonnaroo’s Superjam in 2014 (with Chaka Khan, Anthony Hamilton, Taj Mahal, and others), and Lock’n Festival’s Tribute to Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs & Englishmen in 2015 (with Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, and many other original members.)

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Tedeschi Trucks Band At Red Rocks

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Tedeschi Trucks Band Red Rocks Denver, CO July 29-30, 2022 The international COVID lockdown was a burden on everybody. Musicians were especially hard hit with no ability to play live and sing for their supper. Many hunkered down and, after some time processing the initial shock of it all, got to work priming the creativity pump. In the case of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, they brooded. No concerts, not even the ability to ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band with Hot Tuna and The Wood Brothers at Red Rocks

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Tedeschi Trucks Band with Hot Tuna and The Wood Brothers Red Rocks Amphitheater Denver, CO July 29-30, 2017 The Tedeschi Trucks juggernaut continues to snowball. The band's inaugural Denver concert in November 2011 was at the Fillmore Auditorium; capacity 3,000. The venue quickly shifted to an annual summer show at Red Rocks; capacity 9,000. Their first show at the iconic amphitheater didn't sell out, but that changed quickly and sell-outs became then norm. Then, this ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band at Red Rocks

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Tedeschi Trucks Band Red Rocks Denver, CO July 25, 2014 Never underestimate the power of a cover. A cleverly selected and well executed cover tune can be like a firecracker with a too-short fuse, a shot of vodka when you expected water, a lightning bolt out of a clear, blue sky. The Tedeschi Trucks Band threw a lightning strike with its very first song Friday night, July 25, at Red Rocks, exhuming Traffic's “Who Knows ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Vogue Theater

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Tedeschi Trucks Band Vogue Theater Vancouver, BC November 8, 2013 Jazz has always taken from the pop music of its day and culturalized it, intellectualized it, added some soul or swing and for those who are capable, added the personalized artistic X factor that is unique to that artist's DNA. Not that simple by any means, of course. Today, the younger rock generation often wishes they were around when the Rolling ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: Made Up Mind

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Tedeschi Trucks Band's debut, Revelator (Sony Masterworks, 2010), was a marvel of modern blues-rock. Songs deeply rooted in genre tradition ultimately comprised a deeply felt personal statement by the dual leaders of the group, guitarist Derek Trucks and vocalist/guitarist Susan Tedeschi.The group's sophomore album, Made Up Mind, not surprisingly, radiates an even more mature sense of style. Placing the title song first may seem an obvious ploy to set a tone, but the sequencing works: Tedeschi's singing, as ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: Made Up Mind

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In so many ways, Tedeschi Trucks Band has bucked the odds: a band, on paper, doomed to fail and yet, here it is with its second studio recording, after the 2011 debut, Revelator and 2012 live album, Everybody's Talkin' (both, Sony Masterworks). In these days of escalating touring costs, the idea of an eleven-piece rock/soul/blues band being not just viable but successful would seem impossible. Then there's the decades-old unwritten rule: never date--or, worse, marry--one of your band mates.

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: Made Up Mind

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Since the assimilation of the Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks bands into the eleven-member Tedeschi Trucks Band, the group has worked, creatively speaking, non-stop. The band debuted with 2011's Revelator (Sony Masterworks) followed by the live set, Tedeschi Trucks Band Live: Everybody's Talkin' (Sony Masterworks, 2012), and its requisite tour, reviewed within these electrons. The band releases its second studio recording with a hint that it has acquired its musical sea legs, forging ahead with a confidence ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band To Play 2-hour Set At Newport Jazz Festival Sunday, 5pm

Tedeschi Trucks Band To Play 2-hour Set At Newport Jazz Festival Sunday, 5pm

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Tedeschi Trucks Band to Perform Full 2-hour Set to Close 2012 Newport Jazz Festival presented by Natixis Global Asset Management Sunday, August 5, 5:00 pm Newport Jazz Festival® Produced by Newport Festivals Foundation Takes Over International Tennis Hall of Fame at Newport Casino and Fort Adams State Park August 3 – 5, 2012 NEWPORT, RI: The stellar 11-piece Tedeschi Trucks Band will make its only New England appearance this summer when it closes this year’s Newport Jazz Festival® presented by ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band Celebrates 1st Anniversary With Release Of Live Double-Disc Album "Everybody's Talkin"

Tedeschi Trucks Band Celebrates 1st Anniversary With Release Of Live Double-Disc Album "Everybody's Talkin"

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Everybody’s Talkin’ — released on May 22 — is the title of the uplifting, energy-packed sophomore recording by Tedeschi Trucks Band, the 11-piece ensemble led by husband-wife team Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi that recently marked their first anniversary with a Grammy win for their debut album Revelator. TTB (as their fans know them) shows off a stunning rate of musical progress on Everybody’s Talkin’, eleven tracks selected from a year’s worth of concerts from around the globe plus one ...

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Mountain Jam Adds James Murphy, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lotus

Mountain Jam Adds James Murphy, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lotus

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TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND, JAMES MURPHY DJ SET, AND LOTUS JOIN ALREADY JAM-PACKED LINEUP Radio Woodstock and world-renowned guitarist Warren Haynes (Gov't Mule, Allman Brothers Band, The Dead) are pleased to announce additions to the already stellar lineup for the 8th annual Mountain Jam Festival at Hunter Mountain, NY from Thursday, May 31 through Sunday, June 3, 2012. Gov't Mule will headline Friday and Saturday nights, with the legendary Steve Winwood headlining Sunday night following performances by Michael Franti & Spearhead, ...

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Susan Tedeschi Says Sprawling Tedeschi Trucks Band Owes Much to Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'

Susan Tedeschi Says Sprawling Tedeschi Trucks Band Owes Much to Joe Cocker's 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'

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There is, of course, an obvious comparison for the newly formed Tedeschi Trucks Band—yeah, we made it too—in the 1970s-era husband-and-wife tours led by Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett. Susan Tedeschi, however, says their group's main inspiration goes further back. All the way back to the traveling caravan of grease-popping soul and eye-popping excess that was Joe Cocker's late-1960s jaunts with Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, members of Derek and the Dominoes, Jim Keltner, Bobby Keys and others—mythical, then as now, for ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band | Summer Tour | Review | Pics

Tedeschi Trucks Band | Summer Tour | Review | Pics

Source: JamBase

By Joe Roman The Tedeschi Trucks Band played three great shows at the Pittsburgh Blues Festival on 07.23.11, the Tower Theatre in Upper Darby, PA on 08.18.11, and Hot August Blues Festival in Cockeysville, MD on 08.20.11 as part of their extensive summer tour promoting their debut album, Revelator (for more on the album and this band check out the JamBase interview with Derek & Susan here). The band resumes touring on October 14 in Brookville, NY. Find full tour ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator (2011)

Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator (2011)

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Ever since Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi married in 2001, the two have frequently contributed to each other projects and performed together. But through (and likely because of) the rigors of The Allman Brothers, The Derek Trucks Band, Tedeschi's own band, and the rigors of raising two kids, they never fully consummated their musical marriage. That is, until now. Tedeschi, a pretty good guitarist and a phenomenal singer and Trucks, a great guitarist and an all-world slide specialist, finally join ...

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Tedeschi Trucks Band: So what does Revelator reveal?

Tedeschi Trucks Band: So what does Revelator reveal?

Source: Alan Bryson

Two wings of equal strength endow a bird with the capacity to truly soar. This principle also helps to explain why Revelator (Sony, 2011), the debut album of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, has soared to #1 for blues releases on Amazon, #2 in rock, and #3 in all of music. This band brings together vocalist Susan Tedeschi, whose previous release in 2009 earned her a Grammy nomination, with slide guitarist Derek Trucks, who won the Grammy for his 2009 release. ...

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Hot August Blues Fest: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Robert Randolph

Hot August Blues Fest: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Robert Randolph

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, OREGON RIDGE PARK, COCKEYSVILLE, MD; EARLY-EARLY BIRD TICKETS ON SALE THIS WEDNESDAY With the Hot August Blues & Roots Festival nearing its second decade, the excitement is mounting as details emerge about the lineup. Confirmed acts include Tedeschi Trucks Band, Robert Randolph and The Family Band, Kings Go Forth, J. Roddy Walston and The Business, and Tom Larsen. Set for Saturday, August 20, 2011 at Oregon Ridge Park in Cockeysville, MD, early-early bird tickets go on sale ...

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