For 25 years, New York City’s Beacon Theatre was the domain of the Allman Brothers Band. The southern-rock pioneers performed there a record-breaking 238 times, consistently playing multi-night residencies in March from 1989 to 2014. Derek Trucks played guitar at many of those concerts, having joined the Allman Brothers Band in 1999.
In 2010, Trucks formed the blues-rocking Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife, Susan Tedeschi. This newer band seems to be paralleling the legacy of the Allman Brothers Band at the Beacon Theatre. Tedeschi Trucks Band returned to the Beacon Theatre this year for a 10-show residency after a 64-concerts history there.
Much like the Allman Brothers Band, no two performances by Tedeschi Trucks Band are ever alike. Every concert brings its own unique repertoire. The band’s fans know that, with each show, the 12-member collective will bring a distinct program of guest musicians, deep cuts, cover songs, debut performances and extended jams.
On night two of Tedeschi Trucks Band’s March 2026 residency, guest musicians did not join the headline set. Instead, the duo of Steve Earle and Vincent Neil Emerson traded songs as the evening’s first set. Tedeschi Trucks Band, which regularly performs two sets, on this night came on stage after intermission for one long set.
Tedeschi Trucks Band will release its sixth studio album, Future Soul, on March 20. On the opening night of this year’s Beacon Theatre run, the band performed three songs from the new album. On night two, the band played four songs from the album, with two of the songs, “Shout Out” and “Be Kind,” receiving their live debuts.
Between Tedeschi and Trucks’ original compositions, they interspersed familiar songs by Derek & the Dominos, Jeff Beck, Prince and Joe Tex. The band performed Eddie Kirkland’s 1959 song “(I Must Have) Done Somebody Wrong” very similar to how the Allman Brothers Band reinvented it in the 1970s. Tedeschi Trucks Band also debuted new covers, with Sturgill Simpson’s “All Around You” plus a medley of Sly and the Family Stone’s “You Can Make It If You Try” and “Everyday People.” (Tedeschi Trucks Band’s covers repertoire continues mining the late 1960s as TTB frequently covers a medley of Sly and the Family Stone’s “Sing a Simple Song” and “I Want to Take You Higher.”)
Under the astute leadership of Tedeschi and Trucks, the 12 musicians collaborated masterfully for a big-sounding, summit-filled concert, repeatedly enriched with crisp vocals and mesmerizing musicianship. Throughout the program, Tedeschi and Trucks remained the axis on which the large ensemble spun. While the duo often invited the horn players, the keyboardists and the two drummers to contribute vocals and/or long-form instrumental improvisations on loose arrangements, the music always centered back to Tedeschi’s earthy, soulful singing and Trucks’ soaring blues guitar licks. Tedeschi also played a mean lead guitar on a few songs. The Beacon Theatre’s extraordinary sound system took the music to its highest level.
Tedeschi Trucks Band will continue its 2026 Beacon Theatre residency through the end of March. As is the band’s custom, each performance will be unique. And each performance will be awesome.
Setlist
Don't Let Me Slide
Who Am I
Fall In
I Am the Moon
Future Soul
Isaac/Kebbi Jam (>) Keep On Growing (Derek and the Dominos cover)
Learn How to Love
All Around You (Sturgill Simpson cover)
(I Must Have) Done Somebody Wrong (Eddie Kirkland cover)
I Want More (>) Beck's Bolero (Jeff Beck cover)
1999 (Prince cover)
Do I Look Worried
Shout Out
You Can Make It If You Try (>) Everyday People (Sly & the Family Stone covers)
Let Me Get By
Encore
Be Kind
Show Me (Joe Tex cover)
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