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Susan Tedeschi on Why Last-Minute Jams Are the Best

Wong Notes

Premier Guitar

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

4.9587 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The Tedeschi Trucks Band frontwoman shares her approach to sitting-in and how the band “family” is working through the pandemic.

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Produced by Jason Shadrick and Cory Wong

Additional Editing by Shawn Persinger


Presented by Neural DSP


Transcript

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0:00.0

What's happening? Welcome to Wong Nodes podcast, Season 2, episode 3. Where am I? What day is it? What year is it? It's a strange year. My name's Corey Wong. Thanks for joining us. I have a very special guest today, Susan Tedeski. You may know her as the lead singer and guitar player of the Tedeschi Trucks band, along with her husband, Derek Trucks.

0:23.6

I've seen them all around jam festivals, blues festivals.

0:27.1

They are incredible.

0:30.4

Seriously, insane band.

0:32.4

She is such an incredible singer, incredible songwriter, and a great guitar player as well.

0:38.3

So we're going to dive into a lot of these things. I want you to check this out, though. Check this out. Let me pull this up.

0:44.1

In the year 2000, in the year 2000, get this, in the year 2000, Susan was nominated for a

0:51.1

Grammy, Best New Artist. Check out these nominees for this year.

0:55.7

The winner, Christina Aguilera, Macy Gray, Kid Rock,

1:01.1

Britney Spears, and Susan Tedesky.

1:04.0

Wow.

1:05.0

What an eclectic bunch.

1:06.8

Pretty cool.

1:08.4

And I have been a fan of hers for years. I did not get hip to her until about

1:13.1

eight years ago or something like that. I don't remember what it was. There was some video online

1:18.5

that was circulating of them playing a song at this giant festival and she was singing this

1:23.7

incredibly emotional tune and then matched by no other than Derek Trucks, her husband

1:29.4

on the slide guitar. They both were just destroying this stadium and me on the other side of

1:37.1

YouTube. And I have been a huge fan ever since. Anytime I'm at a festival and I see that they

1:42.2

are also on the bill, I'll either show up a day early or hang out late or stay a day late to check them out because they're that good.

1:49.7

The live band is incredible.

1:51.9

So I'm not going to hold you up any longer.

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