


Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks: Individually and together, their musical pedigrees and prowess are untouchable. But it’s the heart, honesty and full-band collaboration that makes Future Soul the most powerful album to date by the revered 12-piece Tedeschi Trucks Band.
The 11 songs comprising TTB’s sixth studio LP include the standout singles “I Got You,” “Who Am I” and “Future Soul.” The LP drops March 20, 2026 in the midst of Tedeschi Trucks Band’s 10-show headlining run at NYC’s Beacon Theatre, which kicks off March 10.
“I feel like this is the most unique record we’ve done, says Trucks. “It’s my favorite collection of songs that we’ve ever put on a record. From song to song, there’s just not a weak spot.”
“I love Future Soul because it’s a little bit more punk,” Tedeschi adds.
Kicking off Future Soul is the laid-back funky soul of ‘Crazy Cryin’,” into the infectious, driving mid-tempo classic “I Got You.” Third up, the timeless “Who Am I” has a J.J. Cale feel and harkens back slightly to “Midnight in Harlem” while also being its own beast. “Future Soul” kicks the door down sonically, highlighting a collection whose depth is matched by its buoyant spirit. On “Future Soul,” Trucks, who has notched two appearances on Rolling Stone’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list, had fun with his 1958 “crazy Space Age Flying V.” His goal for the sonics? “I just want it to sound like the building’s going to blow apart.”
“It sounds like an airplane when he comes in on the solo,” Tedeschi adds. “I like it because Derek is not known for using pedals, so having a record where he gets to play around and get new sounds was exciting and fun.”
“I Got You,” written by the band’s guitarist/vocalist Mike Mattison, takes cues from the spirit of Derek and the Dominos and Delaney and Bonnie. “He had dual guitar lines in his head. But when he did the demo, he was singing them or humming them,” Trucks says. “I remember thinking, ‘I really like that. I like a guitar-voice instead of guitar and guitar.’ Trucks and Tedeschi feel “I Got You” is a “breath of fresh air, and pretty different for us. It feels like the band, but it doesn’t feel like anything we’ve done before. That’s what you try for every time, but it doesn’t often happen.”
“One thing that’s kind of funny about this record–a lot of people know us as blues musicians,” Tedeschi says. “I’ve been a blues artist for a long time, and strangely, we never recorded an original song that was a shuffle. Gabe Dixon’s ’Devil Be Gone’ is a great blues shuffle. As well as ‘Be Kind,’ also penned by Gabe, which reminds me of Paul McCartney meets Chuck Berry in a timeless rock n roll classic.”
Future Soul follows the 2022 release of the conceptual quadruple album I Am The Moon. Then, post-pandemic, “we hit the road for two years, as hard as we’ve ever hit it, trying to make up for lost time,” Trucks says. In early summer 2024, the core of the band—with newest members keyboardist Gabe Dixon and drummer Isaac Eady–adjourned to the Tedeschi Trucks family farm in Georgia. Thanks to road work, “we knew how to interact musically in a different way. We were a well-oiled machine. There were a lot of ideas flowing around,” says Trucks. “Two or three songs immediately came out of that first session and we knew it was the start of a record. We were contemplating, ‘do we go in and just record a million songs, or do we try to focus this one a little differently?’”
The decision was to forge a new path that included a producer for an outside perspective. Mike Elizondo–who Trucks first met in 2006 around the time Trucks was in the studio with J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton–came to a recent TTB show in Nashville and met with the lineup. The connection was immediate. “This is a band of a high-level musicianship. People really know their instruments and have done a lot of things,” says Trucks. “And Mike Elizondo is as good or better than everyone in the room. So it was a good marriage. He could speak everyone’s language and then some.”
TTB recorded all the basic tracks and most vocals and guitar overdubs at their own Swamp Raga studio in Florida before going to Elizondo’s studio outside Nashville for background vocals and horns, along with some acoustic guitars, keyboard overdubs, and extra flourishes.
“It’s nice to get the whole band in there and kind of put them under the gun: it was, ‘we’re going to take one or two or three cracks at this song, let’s get it!’ There’s a real energy that comes with that because everybody is locked and loaded, and you capture that live energy,” Trucks says. Having Elizondo in their corner was a boon: “it was really fun working with somebody who could take your kind of esoteric ideas and bring them to life in 30 seconds.”
“There are lots of writers in this band but because there are 12 of us, we have to choose a core group to bring songs to the table, so we focus on Derek, Mike, Gabe, Tyler and myself to write the songs,” says Tedeschi. “Some will bring fully formed songs, however, others may bring a lyric or a groove and then we will go from there. Everybody’s amazing, and really, really talented, so that takes a lot of pressure off of us.”
Trucks concurs, “There’s no jockeying for position. Everyone is gung-ho at all times, and just wants to get the thing across the finish line and make it as good as it possibly can be. It’s a unique band that way, it really is.”
Tedeschi Trucks Band, who formed in 2010, is proud of their early work: “If we look back musically, we had great songs out of the gate, but now I feel the band is a stronger unit. The way we operate, communicate, and coalesce together allows the music to be more free. It keeps growing,” Trucks says. “It’s a rare thing. There are six or seven people in this band who are band leaders on their own in their free time. It’s a pretty wild group, like a bunch of X Men and Women, a Marvel Universe kind of thing.”
Future Soul has a lot to live up to…. and it does. Tedeschi Trucks Band’s debut album, Revelator, won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Blues Album, while 2018’s Live From the Fox Oakland was nominated for a Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy. TTB was nominated for numerous Americana Music Honors & Awards and won Band of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2023 at the Blues Music Awards. They’ve sold out Madison Square Garden and over 20 nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In 2024, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi performed at the Kennedy Center Honors, honoring Bonnie Raitt, Grateful Dead, and more. The full band played the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony honoring one of their biggest influences, Joe Cocker, with an all-star set featuring special guests Nathaniel Rateliff, Teddy Swims, Cyndi Lauper, Bryan Adams, Chris Robinson, and more. Coming up in 2026, TTB will bring their electrifying live show across the U.S. on their annual headlining tour as well as performances at Bonnaroo and New Orleans Jazz Fest, among other festivals.
Whatever the band does, together or separately, is a wholly organic process. In TTB, “We are 12 people who have sure footing,” Trucks says. “A machine or some other person is never going to be able to do what we do. What Susan does, or what Mike does, or what I do, or what this band does collectively, because everyone’s backgrounds are so unique and diverse,” he adds. “It’s just a special skill set. When you get out and play live music to give to people, they believe you, because it’s true and it’s honest.”
That honesty, he believes, “is the heart of the matter with this whole record and the whole thing that we do as a band. That’s why we tour as much as we do, and it’s why we keep a 30-piece band and crew together when it’s a hell of a lot easier to do it other ways. It means something to people. When you see a small army roll on stage, you know it didn’t get there with lack of effort or by accident.”
“We’ve done some pretty incredible things that I don’t think in the beginning we would have even imagined. I feel like it’s still on that trajectory. It’s been a little bit better every year, slow and steady,” says Trucks. “We just keep doing the best we can do it, you’re never jaded by it, you just keep putting in the work.”
BAND: Susan Tedeschi (Guitar & Vocals), Derek Trucks (Guitar), Mike Mattison (Guitar & Vocals), Gabe Dixon (Keys & Vocals), Brandon Boone (Bass), Tyler Greenwell (Drums & Percussion), Isaac Eady (Drums & Percussion), Mark Rivers (Vocals), Alecia Chakour (Vocals), Kebbi Williams (Saxophone), Emmanuel Echem (Trumpet), Elizabeth Lea (Trombone)
Produced by Mike Elizondo
Co-Produced by Derek Trucks
Engineered by Justin Francis & Bobby Tis
Recorded at Swamp Raga Recording (Jacksonville, FL) & Phantom Studios (Gallatin, TN)
Assistant Engineers: Erica Block & Alex Wilder
Mixed by Justin Francis
Mastered by Chris Gehringer at Sterling Sound
A&R: Mark Williams for Concord
Derek Trucks – Younkin Music (BMI)
Susan Tedeschi – Purple Peace Wagon Publishing (BMI)
Gabe Dixon – Five R Music (BMI)
Mike Mattison – Thumb Plus Music (ASCAP)
Tyler Greenwell – Tyler Greenwell Music (BMI)
Brandon Boone – Boone Brandon Music (ASCAP)
Paul Olsen – Swampfoot Music (ASCAP)
Warren Haynes – Buzzard Rock Music (BMI)
Tia Sillers – Toby & Molly Songs (BMI)/ Cassiopeia & Geronimo Songs (BMI)
Crazy Cryin’ (3:31)
(Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals, electric guitar
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: B3
Isaac Eady: Drums
Tyler Greenwell: Drums
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals, tambourine
Mike Mattison: Background vocals
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
Abe Rounds: Percussion
(Mike Mattison)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: B3, piano
Isaac Eady: Drums, percussion
Tyler Greenwell: Drums
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals
Mike Mattison: Background vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
(Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Gabe Dixon, Mike Mattison)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Mike Elizondo: Bass, acoustic guitar, additional keyboards
Gabe Dixon: B3, keyboards
Tyler Greenwell: Drums
Mark Rivers: Shaker
Alecia Chakour: Tambourine
(Tyler Greenwell, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals, electric guitar
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Mike Elizondo: Bass, additional keyboards
Gabe Dixon: B3, keyboards
Tyler Greenwell: Drums
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals
Mike Mattison: Background vocals
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
(Paul Olsen)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar, acoustic guitar
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: B3
Isaac Eady: Drums
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals
Mike Mattison: Background vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
Future Soul (3:19)
(Mike Mattison)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals, electric guitar
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: Keyboards
Isaac Eady: Drums
Tyler Greenwell: Drums, percussion
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals, tambourine
Mike Mattison: Background vocals
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Mike Elizondo: Additional keyboards
(Mike Mattison, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi)
Mike Mattison: Lead vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar, Clap Trap
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: B3, keyboards, background vocals
Isaac Eady: Drums
Tyler Greenwell: Shaker
Abe Rounds: Percussion
Susan Tedeschi: Background vocals
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
Mike Elizondo: Additional keyboards
(Gabe Dixon)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals, electric guitar
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Mike Elizondo: Bass
Gabe Dixon: Piano, keyboards
Tyler Greenwell: Drums
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals, tambourine
Mike Mattison: Background vocals
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
(Gabe Dixon)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals, electric guitar
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: B3, keyboards
Isaac Eady: Drums
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals
Mike Mattison: Background vocals
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
(Mike Mattison, Tyler Greenwell, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals, electric guitar
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: B3, keyboards
Isaac Eady: Drums
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals
Mike Mattison: Background vocals, acoustic guitar
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
Mike Elizondo: Additional keyboards
Abe Rounds: Percussion
Austin Hoke: Cello
(Derek Trucks, Gabe Dixon)
Susan Tedeschi: Lead vocals
Derek Trucks: Electric guitar
Brandon Boone: Bass
Gabe Dixon: B3, keyboards
Isaac Eady: Drums
Tyler Greenwell: Drums
Abe Rounds: Percussion
Alecia Chakour: Background vocals
Mike Mattison: Background vocals
Mark Rivers: Background vocals
Emmanuel Echem: Trumpet
Elizabeth Lea: Trombone
Kebbi Williams: Saxophone
Mike Elizondo: Additional keyboards
Cover Illustration: Marc Sasso
Photography: Chapman Baehler
Art Direction & Design: Lisa Glines
Social Media & Content Manager: Bradley Strickland
Styling: Julie Mendelsohn
Management: Andy Mendelsohn, Jeffrey Azoff & Alaina Rocci for Full Stop Management
Business Management: Jamie Cheek & Sloan Shore for FBMM
Legal: Elliot Groffman & Leah Seymour for Carroll Guido for Groffman Cohen Bar &
Karalian, LLP
US Touring: Josh Kurfirst, Seth Seigle & Jay Williams for WME
International Touring: Rod MacSween and Diana Pereira for ITB
Tour Manager: Kenneth “Skip” Richman
Swamp Raga Studios Staff: David Trucks, Bobby Tis & Ethan Dupries
℗ & © 2025 Swamp Family Music LLC. Under exclusive license to Fantasy Records. Manufactured for and Distributed by Concord, 10 Lea Avenue, Suite 300, Nashville, TN 37210. All Rights Reserved. Unauthorized duplication is a violation of applicable laws. Made in U.S.A. FAN02976
If I feel the way I feel
Am I crazy ‘cause I’m cryin’
I was a man made of steel
I was living like a lion
I gave all I could give
And I took all I could take
With just one life to live
And all this love at stake
It’s too late
It’s too late
I was beaten black and blue
By a beauty hard as diamond
I lost my love in you
Now I’m crazy ‘cause I’m cryin’
I made a hearth and home
And she made out like a thief
I call down all my stars
To fight this fool in me
Can’t you see
This ain’t me
This ain’t me
I gave all I could give
And I took all I could take
With just one life to live
And all this love at stake
It’s too late
It’s too late
Standing in the back of line
Tell ol’ sister Valentine
Baby, don’t forget to miss me when I’m gone
Heaven help, it weighs a ton
A combination rip and run
And every tear is going for a song
I got you
You belong to me
I got you
Written on the breeze
There’s music in the wine
A melody so fine
I got you
You know I do
Every town is getting worse
Show me, baby, where it hurts
You know I ain’t no doctor, but I’m kind
Crack it open, take a look
Somewhere in that crazy book
Something, something, seek and ye shall find
I got you
You belong to me
I got you
I got you
You belong to me
I got you
Written on the breeze
Combination please
Hand over the keys
I got you
You had me at hello
The poetry and the wine flowed
And in the dream you were mine
We walked into the night
You vanished from my sight
But you stayed in my smile
Who could have known on that warm summer night
Oh, all the places we’d go in this world side by side
The night would disappear
And I’d rinse my happy tears
With the morning dew
With wine stain on my tongue
When all is said and done
I become a part of you
Who, who am I without you in my arms
And who, who are you all alone in the glow of the bright summer stars
A seed without the dirt
A poet lost for words
Or a wave without an ocean
I’ll never understand
The life that I once had
Before the song of our devotion
Oh, hear the call of that old-fashion tune
Oh, that we played side by side on that Strawberry Moon
Who, who am I without you in my arms
Who, who are you all alone in the glow of the bright summer stars
Who am I without you in my arms
Who, who are you all alone in the glow of the bright summer stars
From the bed to the ballad
Love is only word salad, my dear
From the profane to the hallowed
From the blade to the marrow
From the lame to the hero
I’m number zero
I’m number zero
I’m not your hero
I’m number zero
Let’s leave this place forever
Even if ever means never, never, never
Kathryn hates this place
I’ve never felt better
I’ve never felt better
I’m not your hero
I’m number zero
What in the world am I to do
Birds ain’t singing since I lost you
I’ll keep it simple, I’ll keep it plain
You were the snow, and I was the rain
What in the world am I to do
Never been a love so true
Hands full of gravel, hands full of sand
Show me a man a girl can understand
What in the world am I to do
Up against the wall feeling blue
There went the fire, there went the spark
Now a woman and man are alone in the dark
What in the world am I to do
Pass me a pencil
Before I lose my mind
I’m evidently trying to
Waste your time
There’s a bomb in the building
But we don’t look back
Well, they want it on paper
But we got it on wax
Almost ashamed say
Well, say it anyway
Hope your future’s got soul in it
Hope your future’s got soul
Put on a platter, baby
Sing me a song
Lonesome whistle’s crying
Won’t be long
Two steps forward
Taking three steps back
If they want it on paper
Say we got it on wax
Almost ashamed say
Well, say it anyway
Hope your future’s got soul in it
Your story’s got a hole in it
Hope your future’s got soul
Under the knife
Under the knife
That crazy moon
Has cut me in two
Into the night
Aw, the streetlights are cellophane blue
Are cellophane blue
Be raining soon
The kids are on the corner
Preaching marijuana
It’s me and you
And the frozen time
On the billboard sign
Is mystical
It’s rock and roll
It’s got me feeling stoned
Chemical
It’s honey gold
It shocks me to my soul
Got me under the knife
Gimme a sign
Let’s bring it up
And break it down
Gonna break it down
Up in the sky
Them tiny airplanes are flashing around
Without making a sound
Be raining soon
The kids are on the corner
Preaching marijuana
It’s me and you
And the frozen time
On the billboard sign
Is mystical
It’s rock and roll
It’s got me feeling stoned
Chemical
It’s honey gold
It shocks me to my soul
I see you’re back to your old tricks
Told me you been working late
Don’t you think that you’re so slick
Well, I ain’t gonna let you skate
You better catch your flies with honey
I’m telling you it’s not too late
You’re laughing but it ain’t that funny
So you better not hesitate
Won’t you just be kind to me
Just be kind to me
I think in time you’ll see
What it is you want from me
Baby just be kind to me
Just be kind to me
You might like what you find
If you just be kind to me
I waited for you like a fool
For hours but you didn’t show
No I’m sorry, no I love you
Now how am I gonna let that go
You wonder why I’ve been so cold
Why lately I’ve been hard to get
If you love me, show me, just be bold
And you’ll find a love that just won’t quit
Won’t you just be kind to me
Just be kind to me
I think in time you’ll see
What it is you want from me
Baby just be kind to me
Just be kind to me
You might like what you find
If you just be kind to me
I might change my mind
If you just be kind to me
Devil be gone
Leave me alone
I’m just trying to walk down the street
And say hi to whoever I meet
Don’t you tell me that it’s wrong
Devil be gone, Devil be gone
I can’t see in front of me
And I’m tripping on my feet
Let me sing my joyful song
Devil be gone, Devil be gone
Devil be gone, Devil be gone
I’m singing my song
Devil be gone, Devil be gone
I’m just trying to smile my face
So just go and leave no trace
So my day can carry on
Devil be gone
I’m just trying to live my life
I don’t need your damn advice
You just go and move along
Devil be gone, Devil be gone
Devil be gone
Oh I’m singing my song
Oh Devil be gone
I said, I said, I said, no more, no more, no more
I’m moving, moving to the farther shore
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
I’m moving, moving to the farther shore
Loving you a long time
You sure you’re still a friend of mine
Take another sip we got all night
I thought I was your oldest friend
Now all the news is secondhand
Weren’t we running this thing
Down to the end
Shout out to me about it
The feeling’s never gone
Shout out to me
Shout out to me about it
You know you’re not alone
Just shout out to me
I thought you were my brother
Now you’re living undercover
Better off together
Tried and true
Shout out to me about it
You know you’re not alone
All you got to do
Shout out to me about it
You know you’re not alone
Brother shout out to me
Shout out to me about it
You can always come back home
All you got to do
Shout out to me about it
You can always count on me
Shout out to me
Oh, the feeling’s never gone
Why, why, why, don’t you come back home
You know you’re not alone
Shout to me
Turned up the volume in my
Old truck, tried to drown those
Old troubled voices in my head
Somewhere I hear intuition
Crying out and wishing
I’d set down my regrets
In the jubilation, wine stains
Song lines and cocaine
The sacred and the profane collide
I guess I’m just along for the ride
Gliding down this road another night
You’re the only home I’ve ever tried
I can hear the engine running
Ride on home, ride on
You picked out a lonely rose
And rushed off to find me
Oh, you did your best to win my love
We walked down a broken road
I clung to your overcoat
And some old stars lined up above
You found all my diamonds in the mud
Then washed them all
And dusted off my dirty angel wings
I guess I’m just along for the ride
Gliding down this road another night
You’re the only home I’ve ever tried
I can hear the engine running
Ride on home, ride on
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