For Immediate Release Tedeschi Trucks Band Pays Tribute to Joe Cocker with Leon Russell and original Mad Dogs & Englishmen members Plus Special Guests at Lockn’ Festival September 16, 2015 - - Tedeschi Trucks Band paid tribute to the late Joe Cocker by re-creating the legendary 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour with Leon Russell at this past weekend’s Lockn’ Festival in Arrington, Virginia. Welcoming original Mad Dogs & Englishmen members as well as special friends, Tedeschi Trucks Band, led by guitarist Derek Trucks and singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, headlined a Friday evening set dedicated to the influential rock and soul collective that featured a historic gathering of guests Chris Robinson, Dave Mason, John Bell, Warren Haynes and Anders Osborne alongside renowned percussionist Chuck Blackwell, keyboardist Chris Stainton and Leon Russell himself. In addition to the 11-member power of Tedeschi Trucks Band’s dual drummers and three-piece horn section, the packed stage included Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear and Pamela Polland alternating lead and background vocal performances, joined by other Mad Dogs alumni Bobby Torres on percussion and Bobby Jones, Matthew Moore and Daniel Moore on vocals. Even original tour photographer Linda Wolf was on hand to capture the inspired 100-minute tribute, with the expanded congregation of musicians performing a slew of classics selected from the Mad Dogs film and live double album. Capping the momentous evening was a center stage microphone and single spotlight to honor Joe Cocker during “The Ballad of Mad Dogs & Englishmen” followed by a rousing and fitting encore of The Beatles’ “With a Little Help from My Friends,” leaving the festival crowd as awestruck witnesses to this once- in-a-lifetime event. Leon Russell, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Claudia Lennear Chris Robinson, Susan Tedeschi Derek Trucks, Rita Coolidge, Claudia Lennear, Pamela Polland, Susan Tedeschi credit: Stuart Levine Credit: John Patrick Gatta