Let Me Get By by the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Fantasy / Concord via AP
Let Me Get By by the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Fantasy / Concord via AP
Let Me Get By by the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Fantasy / Concord via AP
Let Me Get By by the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Fantasy / Concord via AP

Album review: Let Me Get By by the Tedeschi Trucks Band is an album that achieves a wonderful sonic balance

TTB’s third studio album reflects their hundreds of days on the road – not in the sense of endless bus rides or monotonous hotel rooms but the ease with which the 12 musicians gel and the energy and depth they bring to the party.

Associated Press

February 08, 2016

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Let Me Get By

Tedeschi Trucks Band

(Fantasy/Concord)

Four and a half stars

With a roster expanded to an even dozen – in addition to Doyle Bramhall II, who guests on and co-wrote several songs – the band, led by husband-and-wife team singer-­guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitar hero Derek Trucks, master a wide range of styles and sounds on Let Me Get By, from Memphis soul to R&B to blues and funk.

TTB’s third studio album reflects their hundreds of days on the road – not in the sense of endless bus rides or monotonous hotel rooms but the ease with which the 12 ­musicians gel and the energy and depth they bring to the party. Produced by Trucks, the album achieves a wonderful sonic balance and each tune offers multiple layers.

There’s excellent musicianship throughout – but Tedeschi’s steaming, yet never overwhelming, vocals, bassist Tim Lefebvre and Kofi Burbridge’s keyboard arsenal deserve special mention.

Check out ­echoes of the Allman Brothers on ­opening track Anyhow, or the Al Green-meets-Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan combination of Crying Over You/Swamp Raga. If you can't catch TTB live, Let Me Get By is no small comfort.