My brother-in-law Ed and I saw the Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Warner Theater in Washington, DC, a couple of weeks ago. It was a good 2.75 hours of tunes. Mike Madison and some guys with whom I gather he is trying to form a band opened up. Thanks to Mike they were good, but w/o him they were squat. Susan Tedeschi dominated the vocals when DT and they rest of the crew came out. ST sounds like Bonnie Raitt now more than ever. Mike Madison was relegated to the far right back of the stage behind the brass section, alto sax, trumpet, and trombone (dude also did a good voice solo not unlike Stevie Wonder), with another backup vocalist.
I am listing to Revelator, their newest album, right now and Susan is talking about not wanting to get out of bed. I would hate to be DT and have my soul mate possibly lay down the “I will be your lead singer or else” rap on me. But I surely would not sleep w/ Mike Madison.
It was a very interesting concert w/ two drummers, the brass, three singers, etc. The playlist was mostly based on Susan’s songs including a number of Motown covers that I recognized and knew, but now don’t remember. She did do a song that Joe Cocker does tho I am not sure it is an original Joe Cocker and I am sure I was one of very few people there that recognized it.
Speaking of Mike Madison, Ed and I ran into him on the back side of the Warner as we were going to the parking garage. Nice garage, you could get to the Warner from the same street coming out of the garage but had to go all the way back around the building to get back to your vehicle. So we are around the back side looking one of those tour bus things w/ a trailer on the back, probably band vehicles, when we come around the corner and I see this guy that had to have been Mike.
He was by himself walking toward the bus, no one else was out there, looking at his phone when I saw him and said, “Mike, are you Mike Madison?” He kind of looked at me like I was a nut for a minute. I pointed him out to Ed and by then he was walking away and I was looking for the words I couldn’t say like, “Dude you can sing.” I would have liked to shake his hand or get a picture but it all happened so fast.
Thanks to Ed for driving…especially on the way home in the rain.