Gabe Dixon and Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band

Gabe Dixon and Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band

From The Working Songwriter by Joe Pug

July 10, 2026 · 41 min

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Joe Pug interviews Gabe Dixon and Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band about their musical journeys and the band's success.

Our guests this week are Gabe Dixon and Mike Mattison of the Tedeschi Trucks Band, the Grammy-winning roots ensemble led by Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. Formed in 2010, their debut album, Revelator , won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album, and the group has since become one of the country’s premier live bands, selling out Madison Square Garden and playing more than twenty shows at Red Rocks. Mike Mattison has been working with Derek Trucks for more than two decades. He joined the Derek Trucks Band as lead vocalist in the early 2000s and became a founding member of the Tedeschi Trucks Band. He is also one of the group’s principal lyricists and co-wrote one of its best-known songs, “Midnight in Harlem.” Keyboardist, singer and songwriter Gabe Dixon joined the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2019. Before that, he led the Gabe Dixon Band and built a solo career of his own. Within Tedeschi Trucks Band, Dixon has become a key songwriter, vocalist and instrumentalist. The band has appeared on Austin City Limits , The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel Live NPR called the band “a deeply skilled and spirited ensemble,” while Rolling Stone has praised its “freewheeling, soulful…

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Host: Joe Pug

Guests: Gabe Dixon, Mike Mattison

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Organizations: Tedeschi Trucks Band, Austin City Limits, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live, NPR, Rolling Stone

Books & works: Revelator, Midnight in Harlem

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