the Last song called ”The ending” and is dedicated to the five musicians who left us in recent years. Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks from The Allman Brothers Band, the was the legendary BB King and Leon Russell – as well as CeDell Davis, a light obscure bluesfarbror from Arkansas, best known for having developed the world’s strangest slidegitarrstil.

All have links to the Tedeschi Trucks Band: the Derek Trucks started playing with The Allman Brothers Band tonårigt prodigy, the other three, the band has played with.

Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks make it dimmed and acoustically, with only Oliver Woods from The Wood Brothers on andragitarr. A song to sing all the way to the end, and besides that, it is a warm and nice goodbye can also be imagined that it is about so that this married musikerpar see their future. They are here to stay, safely anchored in its context and more interested in tradition than innovation.

really have been a band Tedeschi Trucks Band before.

at Least not permanently, for it has large similarities with the rolling carnival that Leon Russell put together for Joe Cocker in 1970 under the name of ”Mad Dogs & Englishmen”. As well as the variegated kompisfölje, which toured around the same time as Delaney & Bonnie & Friends (where Leon Russell was also).

Tedeschi Trucks Band is a full twelve people, including three blowers and three in the choir. Nevertheless, there are guest musicians on almost every song on the new album. In the ”I’m gonna be there” is the eighteen in total, with the låtskrivarkompisen Doyle Bramhall II, an extra percussionist, plus an added string quartet.

That there still is so much air in music is a small wonder in itself, but puts the finger on this band’s greatest asset: the ability to move so easily and touchy, and hold back when necessary, despite the fact that there are how much force anything to take to. And completely regardless of the Derek Trucks clean weightless solo guitar.

In principle, the supermusiker all of them and it is unlikely a large retinue to keep in time during a whole tour, even more so in ten years time. But Tedeschi and Trucks have built slowly. First, they got married and started a family, then when the children had learned to go, they began to realize the absurdity and svårplanerade – in to pursue a career with a band. So they slapped them together, more or less.

built their reputation more through touring than through the discs. ”Signs” is just the fourth album, if you disregard the two double live album that really captures them better (and where half of them are cover songs).

today, they mentioned among AMERICA’s greatest rock band and be called a phenomenon, as the they seem to have grown huge in the dark. Despite the fact that they have networked more with other artists than most.

at the same time, the surface is unremarkable, and most of the songs a slight disappointment at first sight. Usually a little trögrörlig soulrockballad of a conventional cut – as like damn grow mighty and catchy before you made really what happened. And the more you listen the more small bells and whistles you can hear.

All of it is recorded in the peace and quiet at home, in the studio that Tedeschi and Trucks have behind their house at home in Florida. Yet there is something so uncharacteristic compressed of format: only one song over five minutes, only a three quarters of an hour in total.

As if this is all in preparation for the concerts, not more.

Best tracks: ”I’m gonna be there”, ”Hard case”

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