The Fall, in their ambitious I Am The Moon four-part project. kicked off the show with “Yes We Will” from the recently released third installment, I Am The Moon: III. This is monumental for me.”Īt Beach Road Weekend, Veterans Memorial Park, Vineyard Haven. I’m really looking forward to going back - it’s been 20 years. I played the Rare Duck, David’s Island House, the Ritz, the Hot Tin Roof. “There was one July where I had 30 gigs out of 31 days. “I used to be on the Vineyard all the time,” she says. Tedeschi, for one, can’t wait to return to Martha’s Vineyard. Now they’re itching to be on the road (though they won’t be accompanied by their entire band for the Beach Road dates or other stops on their “Fireside Live” tour). “We probably have two or three albums in the can,” Trucks says. While hunkered down during quarantine, the couple stayed busy in their home studio. But if somebody’s not upset, you’re probably not trying,” Trucks says with laugh. Still, “there was a little blowback - people who wanted my band to continue what it was doing, wanted Sue to continue what she was doing. Couples have formed from a Tedeschi fan meeting a Trucks fan at a show. When they married bands, they wed fanbases too - sometimes literally. There’s a magic because of the camaraderie and love in this band.” “We work hard in this group, and it’s always fresh. “I’m just honored to be in a band with Derek. Since 2010, Tedeschi Trucks Band have won a Grammy and played the Obama White House with guitarist Warren Haynes, among other career highlights. “They sold it a few years back,” but she still has family in Norwell, Marshfield, Hanover, and Plymouth. You’ve likely shopped at her family’s chain, Tedeschi Food Shops. That band released a half-dozen albums, receiving multiple Grammy nominations in both the rock and blues categories.

She performed in bands in high school and college, immersed herself in the Boston club scene (“I used to love the Plough and Stars, Toad’s Place, Johnny D’s, Harpers Ferry, the Paradise, House of Blues”), then started the Susan Tedeschi Band a couple of years after graduating from Berklee in 1991. Like Trucks, Tedeschi started playing at a young age. “I was like: That can’t be possible,” Trucks says. We have so many connections to the album from 100 directions.”Īnother connection: As Trucks was looking up lyrics to a song, he noticed the album had been released on the day Tedeschi was born, Nov. “As soon as we thought about it, it seemed like the perfect thing. The idea to perform the album came up organically, says Trucks, who was named after the fictitious “Derek” of the Dominos, a band fronted by Clapton and featuring another guitar wizard, Duane Allman, who founded the group that would eventually include Trucks. “I was like, ‘All right, it was a good night. When it’s good he lets you know, and when it’s not good he lets you know, and he was pumped,” Trucks says. “My dad was sitting side stage with the most massive grin. It exceeded our expectations,” says Trucks.Įven Chris Trucks was impressed. “It was just one of those shows that, from the first note, felt different. If you’re into the jam scene and had access to the Internet in 2019, you heard about this magical set at LOCKN’ Festival in Virginia, in which Tedeschi Trucks played the classic Derek and the Dominos album “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” almost in its entirety, with Anastasio and Doyle Bramhall II. Now they’re getting ready for a trip to Martha’s Vineyard Saturday and Sunday to play at the Beach Road Weekend festival, just days after releasing a double-disc live album, “ Layla Revisited (Live at LOCKN’)” featuring Trey Anastasio. Sparks fly when they’re in a groove, and they’ve earned a reputation as a bring-down-the-house live act. If Bonnie Raitt and Eric Clapton started a 12-piece jam band, it might sound something like Tedeschi Trucks. “We’d been married about 10 years and had two children and we were like: ‘I think we’re ready to start a band,’” Trucks says with a laugh (he says almost everything with a laugh). In 2010, they married bands, forming Tedeschi Trucks Band. “I think I actually surprised her,” Trucks adds.

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