Music
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@goosehd I’m a huge fan of The Brothers and especially Derek Trucks. My accountant works for the company that does the bookkeeping for the ABB and he would always get me tickets(Not for free),but they’d be first 10 rows. I’ve seen them countless times and have a pretty great live tape collection from the shows. The solo in that song was off the charts.
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I'll stick around this Allmans family tree for a minute.
Tedeschi Trucks Band is good, but I really miss Derek Trucks Band. Yonrico Scott, their amazing drummer, and Kofi Burbridge, their amazing flutist/keyboardist/brother of bass great Otiel Burbridge, have prematurely and tragically died since the band broke up and was partially merged with Tedeschi's band to form Tedeschi Trucks Band, but they were so adventurous and free, playing all sorts of genres, from classical Indian to blues to jazz to funk. Tedeschi Trucks Band by comparison stays in their blues rock/R&B lane, and while entertaining, is just not as interesting IMO.
Here is DTB covering "Freddie's Dead" by Curtis Mayfield from the legendary soundtrack to "Superfly." Mike Mattison, their vocalist, does an amazing job paying tribute to Curtis' falsetto. He's been relegated to backing vocals in Tedeschi Trucks, with an occasional lead thrown his way. Seems like a waste of a helluva vocalist.
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@mclaincausey As much as I like Derek Trucks,and as much as I enjoyed it whenever Susan Tedechi would jam with the Brothers,I flat out,for the life of me,can’t get into the DTB. Probably because I’ve never been fan of horn sections in rock bands.
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I saw these two multi-intrumentalists playing live in the impressive Gigspanner Big Band at the English Folk Dance & Song Society last week.
Hannah Martin surprised me by singing one song (Estren) in Kernewek, the Brittonic language of Cornwall in south west England.
Phillip Henry is a very talented player of many types of slide guitar, as well as beatbox harmonica and various other instruments.
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The touring band didn’t have horns unless you’re counting Kofi playing flute occasionally @Jett129 ? It was just drums, keys, bass, guitar, volcals, percussion.
You could be thinking of a specific show with sit-ins or Tedeschi Trucks Band, which pales by comparison to DTB.
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Speaking of slides, one of my favorite string players of all time id David Lindley. He plays just about anything with strings, from Hawaiian lap steel to bouzouki to violin. A very fun live show if you get the chance.
Unfortunately, he is very guarded about recordings of his live performances and distribution of his published material. It's a huge shame, because, for example, the albums he put out with Wally Ingram, the great drummer featured below, are not available on streaming services, but so so good--hard to find, but worth the effort. Most of what you can hear of his on the streaming services is via his long-standing partnership with Jackson Browne. The live duo album they released recently has some good stuff, even his own songs and vocals.
