For Immediate Release
Tedeschi Trucks Band Pays Tribute to Joe Cocker with Leon Russell and original Mad Dogs & Englishmen members Plus Special Guests at Lockn’ Festival
September 16, 2015 - - Tedeschi Trucks Band paid tribute to the late Joe Cocker by re-creating
the legendary 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen
tour with Leon Russell at this past weekend’s Lockn’ Festival in Arrington, Virginia. Welcoming
original Mad Dogs & Englishmen members as well
as special friends, Tedeschi Trucks Band, led by guitarist Derek Trucks and singer/guitarist
Susan Tedeschi, headlined a Friday evening set dedicated to the influential rock and soul collective
that featured a historic gathering of guests Chris Leon Russell, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Claudia Lennear Robinson, Dave Mason, John Bell, Warren Haynes and Anders Osborne alongside
renowned percussionist Chuck Blackwell, keyboardist Chris Stainton and Leon Russell
himself.
In addition to the 11-member power of Tedeschi
Trucks Band’s dual drummers and three-piece horn Levine Stuart credit: section, the packed stage included Rita Coolidge,
Claudia Lennear and Pamela Polland
alternating lead and background vocal performances, joined by other Mad Dogs alumni Chris Robinson, Susan Tedeschi
Bobby Torres on percussion and Bobby Jones,
Matthew Moore and Daniel Moore on vocals. Even original tour photographer Linda Wolf was
on hand to capture the inspired 100-minute tribute, with the expanded congregation of musicians
performing a slew of classics selected from the Mad
Dogs film and live double album. Capping the momentous evening was a center stage microphone
and single spotlight to honor Joe Cocker during “The Ballad of Mad Dogs & Englishmen” followed
by a rousing and fitting encore of The Beatles’ Credit: John Patrick Gatta
“With a Little Help from My Friends,” leaving the Derek Trucks, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, festival crowd as awestruck witnesses to this once- Pamela Polland, Susan Tedeschi in-a-lifetime event.
SET LIST
The Letter (lead vocals, Susan Tedeschi) Darlin’ Be Home Soon (lead vocals, Susan Tedeschi)
Cry Me A River Levine Stuart credit: Leon Russell (lead vocals, Claudia Lennear) Girl From the North Country (lead vocals: Leon Russell & Claudia Lennear) Dixie Lullaby (lead vocals: Leon Russell) Bird On a Wire (lead vocals: Rita Coolidge) The Weight (shared vocals, Pamela Polland, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, Susan Tedeschi, Claudia Lennear) Superstar (lead vocals Rita Coolidge) Delta Lady Derek Trucks, Dave Mason, Chris Robinson (lead vocals: John Bell )
Lets Go Get Stoned (vocals Susan Tedeschi, Alecia Chakour, Mike Mattison (TTB), Mark Rivers (TTB) Something (lead vocals Doyle Bramhall II) She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (lead vocals Warren Haynes w/ guitarist Anders Osborne) Feelin’ Alright (lead vocals: Dave Mason w/ guitarist Anders Osborne) Anders Osborne and Warren Haynes Sticks & Stones (lead vocals Chris Robinson)
Space Captain (lead vocals: Chris Robinson, Susan Tedeschi)
Encore The Ballad of Mad Dogs & Englishmen
(vocals: Leon Russell) Levine Stuart credit: With A Little Help from My Friends (lead vocals Susan Tedeschi, Chris Robinson)
Derek Trucks and John Bell
credit: Stuart Levine
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