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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)

Credits

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

I Got You (4:20)

(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

Who Am I (4:56)

(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

Hero (4:12)

(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

What In The World (2:59)

(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

Under The Knife (3:32)

(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

Be Kind (3:22)

(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

Devil Be Gone (4:35)

(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

Shout Out (4:16)

(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

Ride On (3:16)

(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

Lyrics

Crazy Cryin’

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

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

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

I Got You

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

You belong to me

I got you

Written on the breeze

Combination please

Hand over the keys

I got you

Who Am I

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

Hero

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 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’m not your hero

I’m number zero

What In The World

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

Future Soul

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

Be Kind

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

Devil Be Gone

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

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

Shout Out

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

Ride On

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