Tedeschi Trucks Band Cancel Newport Performance, Citing Surgery

Tedeschi and her husband, the guitarist Derek Trucks, lead the Tedeschi Trucks Band. In March, they released their latest album, Future Soul, and have been touring in support of the record all summer, including a stop at Bonnaroo in June that was nearly derailed by a severe storm. During an appearance on Rolling Stone’s Nashville Now podcast, Tedeschi and Trucks talked about touring with such a large band — the group features 12 members. “When you roll into town with a 12-piece band…people know you mean business,” Trucks said.

Tedeschi also recalled a memorable experience on the road with Bob Weir shortly after she gave birth to her and Trucks’ son Charles. Weir had offered her psychedelic mushrooms. “I was nursing on that first tour. He’s like, ‘You want some?’ I’m like, ‘Dude, I’m nursing!’ [And he’d say,] ‘Oh, OK, I’ll do yours too,’” Tedeschi said. “I’m like, ‘Wait, you just took a handful of mushrooms. We’re walking out on Madison Square Garden, you’re about to play ‘Shakedown Street,’ and you just did a heroic dose of mushrooms. How do you even perform?’”

The Tedeschi Trucks Band are currently slated to return to the road for a pair of shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado, on July 31 and Aug. 1.