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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

25th Anniversary of Susan Tedeschi's Album 'Just Won't Burn' on Fantasy / Concord

25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF SUSAN TEDESCHI’S BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM JUST WON'T BURN OUT NOW
VIA FANTASY RECORDS / CONCORD

 

16-TRACK SPECIAL EDITION INCLUDES PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BONUS MATERIAL AND LIVE VERSIONS

PBS NewsHour profile:
https://www.pbs.org/video/tedeschi-trucks-band-1695416927/

 

The 25th Anniversary edition of Susan Tedeschi’s breakthrough album, Just Won’t Burn, is available now via Fantasy Records / Concord. This special, 16-track expanded edition features the original album plus five previously unreleased bonus tracks: an alternate take of “Looking For Answers,” two new album outtakes, and two live versions of Just Won’t Burn album tracks recorded with Tedeschi Trucks Band at NYC’s Beacon Theatre.

 

Tedeschi is one of the most celebrated blues and American roots musicians of her generation, known for her unyielding commitment to her craft – both as a solo artist and in Tedeschi Trucks Band – which has earned her multiple GRAMMY nominations and the adoration of audiences around the world. It all began humbly at blues jams in her native Boston back in the early ‘90s and led to significant regional  acclaim, but with the 1998 release of her solo debut, Just Won’t Burn, Tedeschi put the wider music world on notice that she was a true force to be reckoned with. 

 

“Making Just Won’t Burn was a pivot,” Tedeschi says of the album, which features musicians such as guitarists Adrienne Hayes and Sean Costello, harmonica player Annie Raines, percussionist/songwriter Tom Hambridge, and keyboardist Tom West tackling her original songs in tandem with material popularized by Ruth Brown (“Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean”), Junior Wells (“Little by Little”), and John Prine (“Angel From Montgomery”).

 

“All of a sudden, I was working with different groups of people, new musicians, new songwriting collaborators,” she adds. “We had no idea how it was going to turn out. I think the thing that held it all together was the blues. Blues is a language that I love. You can take it anywhere in the world and communicate with people, which isn’t necessarily true about other forms of music. And being a white artist in a black milieu, you just have to let the music speak.”

 

Speak it did, as Just Won’t Burn went platinum (a rare achievement for a blues-based album at that time) and earned Tedeschi a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist in 2000 (alongside the hilariously of-the-moment cast of Britney Spears, Macy Gray, Kid Rock, and Christina Aguilera). It would be the first of five Grammy nominations for Tedeschi as a solo artist, with each of her next three solo releases earning nods for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Previously, Tedeschi shared a live performance of her existential showstopper “Looking For Answers performed by Tedeschi Trucks Band at NYC’s Beacon Theatre from 2022 and a blistering version of Koko Taylor’s Voodoo Woman.”

 

Even after 25 years, the past-decade plus of which have seen Tedeschi rise to even greater heights with her husband Derek Trucks in Tedeschi Trucks Band, Just Won’t Burn remains a touchstone of blues-based rock’n’roll. “The way people react to Just Won’t Burn has always been heartwarming and surprising,” she admits. “I used to get letters from a prisoner who identified with the songs and found hope in them, and then I started getting letters from the rest of the prisoners on the cell block because it was the only cassette they had.”

 

“Sometimes when I look back on the 25 years since the release, I think about the places I’ve been and the adventures I’ve had, and I feel like Forrest Gump,” Tedeschi continues. “I say, ‘No! You’re a baseball mom. You didn’t do all that!’ But I must have. The blues has its demands. You have to be honest — musically, emotionally, and personally — above everything else, and that can lead to some uncomfortable truths. But the blues hasn’t burned me. It hasn’t hurt me. It’s my main resource. I can express myself and get stuff out about my life – or, like B.B. always said, ‘whatever ails you.’ The blues got me here.”

 

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#Artist and Track TitleTime
1.Susan Tedeschi - Rock Me Right04:27
2.Susan Tedeschi - You Need To Be With Me03:05
3.Susan Tedeschi - Little By Little03:49
4.Susan Tedeschi - It Hurt So Bad04:50
5.Susan Tedeschi - Found Someone New02:20
6.Susan Tedeschi - Looking For Answers05:14
7.Susan Tedeschi - Can't Leave You Alone03:02
8.Susan Tedeschi - Just Won't Burn04:46
9.Susan Tedeschi - Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean04:44
10.Susan Tedeschi - Angel From Montgomery05:23
11.Susan Tedeschi - Friar's Point04:23
12.Susan Tedeschi - Looking For Answers (Alternate Take)02:58
13.Susan Tedeschi - Voodoo Woman (Album Outtake)03:57
14.Susan Tedeschi - Waste Of My Time (Album Outtake)02:03
15.Susan Tedeschi, Tedeschi Trucks Band - Looking For Answers (Live at the Beacon Theatre / 2022)06:21
16.Susan Tedeschi, Tedeschi Trucks Band - Just Won’t Burn (Live at the Beacon Theatre / 2022)07:29

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