By Brent Thompson

At the 2015 LOCKN’ festival, Tedeschi Trucks Band hosted a star-studded tribute to Joe Cocker and Leon Russell’s famed 1970 Mad Dogs & Englishmen Tour. It’s taken 10 years for this recording to appear, but it was well worth the wait. On September 12, Fantasy Records released Tedsechi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live at LOCKN’). Over the course of the album’s 14 tracks, some well-worn classics are given a new shine. Highlight appearances include John Bell (“Delta Lady”), Rita Coolidge & Doyle Bramhall II (“Bird on the Wire”), Chris Robinson (“Sticks and Stones “) and Warren Haynes and Anders Osborne (“She Came in through the Bathroom Window”). Toss in other guests including Dave Mason, Pamela Polland and Claudia Linnear, and you’ve got quite the event. The album has a twinge of sentimentality and sadness, however, as the great Leon Russell passed away a year after this recording. All in all, Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited is reverent and relevant at the same time and should be in any rock fan’s collection.