Mulligan Stew With Terry David Mulligan

Susan Tedeschi co-partner with  Derek Trucks in life and music is our guest this week. Tedeschi Trucks Band has created “one of those albums” that will become the standard by which all other such albums are created. It's an amazing story and we are thrilled to have to share it with Susan.  It's our complete 30-minute interview – with the tracks from the first album. The concept behind I Am The Moon, the GRAMMY-winning band’s fifth studio recording, was suggested by TTB vocalist Mike Mattison in May 2020, two months after the band was forced off the road by the pandemic. The 12th-century poem Layla & Majnun by Persian poet, Nizami Ganjavi, was the title inspiration for Eric Clapton’s 1970 double-LP with Derek and the Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs – an influential album for Tedeschi Trucks Band.  Interestingly,  Ganjavi’s source material resonated with Mattison and the rest of the band in an altogether different way. Finding complex themes and storylines that inspired their creative process,