Nathaniel Rateliff and Tedeschi Trucks Band opened the Joe Cocker tribute at the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Los Angeles with a soul-drenched performance of “The Letter,” the song that gave Cocker his first top 10 hit in the U.S. when his Mad Dogs & Englishmen version reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970. Susan Tedeschi’s vocals kicked things off before Rateliff joined in, the two voices meeting somewhere between Sheffield and Denver, both carrying the kind of raw, ragged soul that Cocker built his entire career on. No band has carried Cocker’s legacy more deeply than TTB, who recreated the entire ‘Mad Dogs & Englishmen’ album at the 2015 LOCKN’ Festival with surviving members of Cocker’s original touring band including Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge, and Claudia Lennear, a performance finally released as ‘Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live At LOCKN’)’ just two months before the ceremony. The tribute continued with Teddy Swims on “Feelin’ Alright” before closing with an all-star finale of “With a Little Help From My Friends” featuring TTB, Rateliff, Swims, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, and Chris Robinson.