News: B.B. King headed to Red Rocks with Tedeschi Trucks Band
By Ricardo Baca | March 5th, 2012 | 1 Comment »After a super-profitable, if critically underwhelming, summer last year, Red Rocks is already boasting an epic schedule for summer 2012. And it’s barely March.
And now this news: Blues genius B.B. King and next-gen rockers Tedeschi Trucks Band will play at the foothills amphitheater together this summer, making for a legendary summertime blues bill on the Rocks.
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1 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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2 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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3 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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4 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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5 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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6 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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7 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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8 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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9 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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10 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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11 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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12 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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13 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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14 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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15 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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16 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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17 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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18 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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19 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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20 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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21 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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22 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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23 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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24 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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25 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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26 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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27 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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28 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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29 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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30 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
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31 of 31B.B. King played to a sold-out crowd at Denver Botanic Gardens during summer 2011. Photos by Michael McGrath, heyreverb.com.
King and the TTB (fronted by the husband-wife team of Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi) will play Red Rocks on Aug. 30, promoter AEG Live reported this afternoon.
Tickets, $39.75-$85, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday via Ticketmaster.
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Ricardo Baca is the founder and executive editor of Reverb, the co-founder of The UMS and an award-winning critic and journalist at The Denver Post.
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