Chords for The Last Word - Tedeschi Trucks Band

If you're ready, [B] say yeah!
_ Yeah! _
_ _ Yeah!
_ _ _ [C#] _
Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi.
[D#m] It's the Tedeschi Trucks Band, 11 [A]-piece monster, rolling down the road. _
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I mean, really, since we met, we talked about putting a band together.
You know, the way she sang and played and where she was coming from musically and what I was [D] doing.
There's a lot of common ground there.
It's something we've [E] wanted to do, [F#m] but we wanted to make sure [A] that we did it right.
We met on the road [Am] _
[E] in 1999 at the Sanger Theatre.
She was opening for the Allman Brothers.
[F#] One of the first tours that I did with them.
[Am] We met on the road, doing what [D] we do.
That's been an easy transition. _
A lot [A] of times when you're in [Am] relationships and you're a musician, you're trying to [E] explain what you're actually doing on the road.
It was nice not having to have that conversation. That's true.
That's true.
I'm just kidding.
[A] _ _ _ _ We have two kids, 11 and [D] 9 years old.
It makes touring [B] a little bit different.
If [C#m] you're going to be on the road doing [Am] it, you better [A] be making good music.
[E] You better mean it.
It better be good.
It makes the time away [A] from home tough, but it makes you dig in.
You're [B] not going to be out there spinning your wheels if you could be home.
We [D] have a very family-oriented band.
A lot of the [Am] guys in our band are fathers.
_ [E] _
They know what we're [A] going through and we know what they're going through.
We all try to work [E] together.
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_ _ [C#] Two [A] drummers, J.J. Johnson and Tyler [E] Greenwell.
Mike Madison and Mark Rivers [C] singing as [G#m] well.
[C#] Saunders Sermons on trombone.
_ [E]
Maurice Brown on trumpet.
Kevvy Williams on [E] tenor sax.
Tophie Burbridge [A] on clavinet, [Am] organ, flute, piano.
[G] _ [Am] Tim LaFave, our newest member.
Originally from Foxborough, Mass.
I guess me and Mike [E] have been together for probably close to a decade now.
Amazing musician, great singer, great songwriter.
When we put this band together, [D#] _
[F#] I think one of the reasons it turned into a big band
is because we really wanted to find a place for [F#] Mike in it.
He was such a big part of what I was doing with my group.
_ _ He's great to be around.
Conceptually, he's great.
He's got a lot of great ideas and just a real talent.
He's amazing and I never had the opportunity to do this kind of a thing
where I could front and have so much support. _
[F] Also, I get freed up to not sing all night, which is great.
So if I'm a little tired, I'm like, hey, Mike, get up there and sing.
He usually sings a couple songs a [D] night anyway.
I think it's nice for the audience to not have just [Am] the whole night
hearing a female voice [A] or a male voice.
It really breaks it up, which is [E] nice because some people prefer one or the other.
So a little bit for everybody.
I'm the only girl out of band [C] and crew.
How did you do it?
[G] I don't know.
I think growing up, I was lucky I had two older [C#] brothers
and all my friends were pretty much guys.
[C] A lot of my best friends were guys.
And she's feisty.
[E] She is unafraid.
She can punch hard, too.
If they're acting up, I beat them up.
She abuses the band.
Derek's like, honey, don't punch them.
They're sensitive.
I'm like, what?
They're a grown man.
[Em] _
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_ _ [E] We don't have a massive crew.
The band is a lot bigger than the crew,
[C#m] so they [E] shoulder a lot of the [E] burden and a lot of the weight.
[G] They work really hard.
But as far as the music that [E] happens on stage, it's happened pretty organically.
[Em] _
You [D] know, over _ [G] _ time, you know where people's strengths are
and you know what you want to showcase
and you know there's certain things that _ it would be tough to go through a show without showing.
You know, Kofi is such an amazing [F#] _ B3 [Em] player on [Bm] flute.
You want to show these things [F#] and you want Mike Madison to step out front and [E] sing.
But then you realize there's a lot of things that you want to [G] showcase. _
How [Em] much can you get in a two-hour set?
[C] I'm a little nervous.
[D] _
[Em] I'm a little nervous.
_ _ _ [A] _
_ Made Up Mind, it was [E] amazing right out of the gate, this record.
From the songwriting to the recording, it _ _ just kind of happened.
When the band showed up, we just hit the ground running.
It was the most enjoyable [F#] recording process I've had to date. _
Everyone felt good about it right out of the gate, [E] you know.
We were originally rehearsing bass players to go on the road
[E] and we got through rehearsal early [Em] and decided,
we just wrote [D] this tune, maybe we should try [F#] it.
And after two [C] takes, I think that's that.
[A] So [Em] it just kind of started [F#] before we were planning on making a record
and it just went from there.
And you could feel that [G#] the band had been on the road for a while.
You could feel that the [D#] band knew the possibilities
and what it was supposed to sound like and what it could sound [G] like.
But not [F#] afraid to kind of stretch the boundaries
and try things that [G] we hadn't tried before. _ _ _
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2014 being my [B] last year with the Allman Brothers,
it's [Bm] exciting to know that there's extra months [G] that exist now that didn't before.
[Bm] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
I [G] would love to spend two, three, four, five [C] weeks with the band
just writing and doing that thing.
And it's never really been an option before.
And the beauty is with [Bm] this band, everybody's gung [Em]-ho to do that.
Everybody loves working [B] and being out there,
but everyone wants to put the [G] time and energy in to make it great.
[Am] Everything is frozen, [Bm] _ burning just the same.
[G] As long as it's fun and the music [C] we're making is strong,
[Bm] I don't see any reason to_
_ There's nothing else [G] I'd rather be doing, that's for sure.
_ [C] _ _ _
[D] Oh, it's so heavy.
We're the Chideski Trucks [G] Band and look for us on Last.fm.
[C] Oh, it's so [D]
heavy.
_ _ _ I gotta [Bm] let a little be, [Am] _ let a [D] little go.
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[Bm] For our song will [C] pass _