It’s So Heavy, Easy to Remember Kofi Burbridge, RIP

Susan’s plaintive vocal on this beautiful song is so heart-piercing good I was moved almost to tears listening to this on the drive home last evening. It is an indisputable fact that Susan is one of the great R&B/Blues, Gospel, Americana vocalists working today.   The nation is indebted to musicians at this talent level.   Music that you feel in your bones. The media focuses disproportionate attention on the husband of this dynamic band couple. Susan vocals and rhythm guitar is as important to the unique sound of TTB as Derek’s lead guitar solos. Derek is a beyond brilliant slide guitarist , a prodigy as a child, weaned on some of the best American hybrid music- see Allman Brothers.  Derek is on every musician’s top 3  guitarist’s lists for meritorious reasons. Derek knows Susan was a blues singer/guitar of note prior to joining forces with Derek to form TTB.  Watching this band live it is readily apparent that Susan and Derek have an abundance of respect/love for one another and the entire Tedeschi Trucks band family.

Most know that Durham Cool has a soft spot for TTB and you will likely join us in this reverie (after listening to this song) if you have not already done so.

Very sad news for all fans of great music and gifted musicians to lose an integral member of touring TTB, Kofi Burbridge
American keyboardist, flautist for TTB on February 15, 2020.  Please review all of the live videos of TTB on this website and YouTube for first-hand evidence of this musician’s superb talent on the keys and flute.

Kofi Burbridge was an American keyboardist and flautist of the blues and blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band. Burbridge was born to William and Carol Burbridge in the Bronx, New York, United States, although the family moved to Washington, D.C., two years later. Wikipedia
Born: 1961, New York
Died: February 15, 2019, in Atlanta, GA
Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts
Music groups include Tedeschi Trucks Band (2010 – 2019) and The Derek Trucks Band (1999).