Tedeschi Trucks Band returned to Westville Music Bowl on Wednesday as part of the Wheels Of Soul tour. The New Haven, CT concert featured support from Los Lobos and keyboardist Gabe Dixon‘s solo band as well as a full-album performance of TTB’s I Am The Moon: I. Crescent.
Following an opening set from Los Lobos which included covers of Ritchie Valens, Cream, The Crickets, Grateful Dead, and more, Tedeschi Trucks Band took the stage. After tellings of “Signs, High Times” and “Do I Look Worried” came a double dose of Derek and the Dominos with “Bell Bottom Blues” and “Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad?”. Derek and the Dominos’ one and only studio album, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, was inspired in part by the 12th-century epic poem Layla and Majnun, which also influenced TTB’s four-album multi-media project I Am The Moon.
Wednesday’s concert witnessed a chronological telling of the first installment of I Am The Moon, Crescent, with “Hear My Dear”, “Fall In”, “I Am The Moon”, and “Circles ‘Round The Sun” into “Pasaquan”. Up next came Susan Tedeschi‘s solo composition, “Just Won’t Burn”, followed by “Part of Me”, Dr. John‘s “I Walk on Guilded Splinters”, and finally Billy Taylor‘s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” to close out the main set. Returning for the encore, Tedeschi Trucks Band finished the show with “So Long Savior” and a special rendition of “Space Captain” featuring Mitch Chakour, Alecia Chakour‘s father, who played with the late Joe Cocker.
Check out a collection of fan-shot videos of Los Lobos and Tedeschi Trucks Band at Westville Music Bowl from YouTuber user Kami. A pair of image galleries are available from photographers Andrew Blackstein and David Gray.
Setlist: Tedeschi Trucks Band | Westville Music Bowl | New Haven, CT | 7/6/22
Set: Signs, High Times, Do I Look Worried, Bell Bottom Blues (Derek and the Dominos), Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad? (Derek and the Dominos), Hear My Dear, Fall In, I Am The Moon, Circles ‘Round The Sun > Pasaquan, Just Won’t Burn, Part of Me, I Walk on Guilded Splinters (Dr. John), I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Billy Taylor)
Encore: So Long Savior, Space Captain (Matthew Moore)*
*w/ Mitch Chakour
Setlist: Los Lobos | Westville Music Bowl | New Haven, CT | 7/6/22
Set: Evangeline, Come On, Let’s Go (Ritchie Valens), Politician (Cream), I Got Loaded (Little Bob & the Lollipops) > Not Fade Away (The Crickets) > Bertha (Grateful Dead)
