After debuting a location-appropriate Bruce Springsteen cover on Friday night, Tedeschi Trucks Band rounded out a two-night stand in Atlantic City, NJ on Saturday with a performance featuring another debut from The Boss’s playbook in addition to a first-time-played cover of a 1970 Aretha Franklin track that featured a young Duane Allman on guitar.
The Derek Trucks– and Susan Tedeschi-led 12-piece kicked things off with longtime staple “Don’t Let Me Slide” and a pair of I Am The Moon tunes, “Playing With My Emotions” and “Ain’t That Something” before giving its first nod of the night to 1970 Duane Allman with a well tested cover of Derek and the Dominos‘ “Tell the Truth”. Following “Where Are My Friends?” and “Idle Wind”, Tedeschi Trucks Band one-upped the previous night’s “Atlantic City” with its first-ever tangle with Bruce Springsteen’s New Jersey Turnpike lament from 1982’s Nebraska, “State Trooper”, sung with gusto by Susan and Mike Mattison for the New Jersey faithful.
The band’s live debut of somber Aretha Franklin blues vamp “It Ain’t Fair” came a few songs later, Alecia Chakour providing Franklin’s soulful vocal part while Derek embellished on Duane’s weeping blues guitar licks to thematic effect. The alt-Allman interlude came full circle from there as Trucks guided the band into an emphatic cover of The Allman Brothers Band‘s “Dreams”.
Watch a selection of crowd-shot videos from the Saturday night Tedeschi Trucks Band performance in Atlantic City, NJ below. Scroll down to view the full setlist.
Tedeschi Trucks Band’s Deuces Wild Tour continues in early March with a three-night stand at Washington, D.C.’s Warner Theatre. For a full list of upcoming Tedeschi Trucks Band tour dates, head here.
Tedeschi Trucks Band – “Tell The Truth” (Derek and the Dominos) – 2/17/24
[Video: Daniel Marino]
Tedeschi Trucks Band – “It Ain’t Fair” (Aretha Franklin w/ Duane Allman), “Dreams” (The Allman Brothers Band) – 2/17/24
[Video: Terry Lee]
Tedeschi Trucks Band – “State Trooper” (Bruce Springsteen) – 2/17/24
[Video: mshalfstep]
Setlist: Tedeschi Trucks Band | Hard Rock Live | Atlantic City, NJ | 2/17/24
Set: Don’t Let Me Slide, Playing With My Emotions, Ain’t That Something, Tell The Truth (Derek and the Dominos), Where Are My Friends?, Idle Wind, State Trooper (Bruce Springsteen) [1], Keep On Smilin’ (Wet Willie), It Ain’t Fair (Aretha Franklin) [1], Dreams (The Allman Brothers Band), Made Up Mind, Just Won’t Burn (Susan Tedeschi), Beck’s Bolero (Jeff Beck)
Encore: Space Captain
[1] First time played by Tedeschi Trucks Band