Photo by Bradley Strickland via Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Facebook page
Over the weekend, Tedeschi Trucks Band made their way to Morrison, CO’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre for marquee shows on Friday, July 31 and Saturday, August 1, after Susan Tedeschi cancelled a pair of festival stops due to appendix surgery a few weeks earlier. Lukas Nelson opened both nights and the guitarist honored Jerry Garcia on his birthday Saturday by performing “Althea” for the first time with his current solo combo.
The evening’s headliners kicked off Friday’s show with a pair of Sly & the Family Stone favorites, segueing from “You Can Make It If You Try” into “Everyday People.” In addition to their own modern classics and trademark mix of covers, the outfit prominently nodded to Derek Trucks’ time in The Allman Brothers Band, offering up “Come and Go Blues” and “Dreams” as well as a bit of “Mountain Jam” during their original “Pasaquan.”
As luck would have it, The Black Crowes were enjoying a day off in the Denver area between gigs in Riverside, MO and Colorado Springs, CO. And, at the end of their set, TTB invited out their old friend Chris Robinson and his current Black Crowes guitarist Nico Bereciartua for a take on Matthew Moore’s “Space Captain,” which Joe Cocker famously performed on the Mad Dogs & Englishmen live album that TTB paid tribute to at LOCKN’ with Robinson’s help…