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The magic happened midway through the Wheels of Soul tour Sunday night, when Los Lobos tore into the opening chords of their biggest hit, "La Bamba".

Eighty-three year old Micaela "Mickey" Trujillo and her kid sister, 82-year-old Frances L. Ortega, got up from their chairs and walked up to the very edge of the stage and danced liked they were kids again.

"That's the music we knew," Trujillo said of growing up near Bingham Canyon and listening to the original 1958 Ritchie Valens hit.

There is a timelessness to blues-infused guitar rock that Tedeschi Trucks Band, Los Lobos and the North Mississippi Allstars brought to Red Butte, music now firmly rooted in the American psyche, to the point that it's easy to imagine July Bergreen — who, at barely four weeks old, was attending her first concert, strapped to her mom and wearing big pink headphones — dancing to these songs when she's in her 80s.

The evening was a guitar-lover's dream, featuring truly nasty licks and jaw-dropping solos, including Derek Trucks, named by Rolling Stone as the 16th-greatest guitarist in history.

Tedeschi Trucks headlined the night, opening the set with "Anyhow," off their new album, Let Me Get By, featuring Susan Tedeschi's soaring vocals. A meandering, jazz-inspired 13-minute version of "Midnight In Harlem" built into a showcase for Trucks' slide guitar virtuosity — and he was barely tripped up when he busted a string.

The best guitar work of the night came on "Had To Cry Today," a cover of the track by the super-group Blind Faith, which featured Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech. Trucks was joined on stage by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo as the two shredded their way through an absolute stunner.

Backed by an impressive ensemble of musicians that included a horn section, two drummers, a keyboardist/flutist and a trio of terrific backup singers, Tedeschi Trucks had the sold-out crowd on their feet throughout, as they wound their way through a series of the band's favorites.

They closed down the night with Tedeschi belting out a powerful rendition of James Taylor's "Fire and Rain," featuring backup singer Mark Rivers' soulful vocals.

Earlier in the night, Los Lobos turned in another electric performance by the East L.A.-based band that has been at it since 1973. Opening with the staple "Evangeline," they really hit their stride on "Don't Worry Baby," where the band was joined on stage by North Mississippi Allstars guitarist Luther Dickinson and Tedeschi Trucks singer Alicia Chakour.

In releasing their latest album, "Gates of Gold," the band has talked about it serving as an exploration of what it means to be an American for a group of children of immigrants, and they seemed to roll those themes into an excellent cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" with Tedeschi belting out the vocals.

"It's the best show that's ever been gave," Hidalgo shouted to the audience, before launching into a Spanish-language number. They wrapped up the set with the trademark "La Bamba," the familiar tune covered for the 1987 film and a clear crowd favorite.

The musicians borrowed from Tedeschi Trucks, including Trucks himself, added a dimension to Los Lobos' Sunday set that may have made their performance even stronger than their outstanding and much more intimate two-set show that blew the doors off The State Room a night earlier.

True to form, at The State Room, Los Lobos threw in a handful of spectacular covers, including Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away," and their encore, Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl," around Los Lobos staples and traditional Latin-infused blues and rock. They were joined for the second set by Kofi Burbridge, the Tedeschi Trucks flute player who won over the crowd.

The opener for Sunday's Red Butte tour was the North Mississippi Allstars, now a blues power trio fronted by Dickinson who cut his teeth with the Black Crowes and can play a mean guitar in his own right. The band gave a nod to its roots with a cover of Muddy Waters' "Got My Mojo Workin'," and "Drinking Muddy Water," a Yardbirds reboot of "Rollin' and Tumblin'," — yeah, I had to Google that — originally recorded by Hambone Willie Newbern in 1929, three years before Micaela Trujillo was born the daughter of a miner.

Timeless.

Trujillo, by the way, will be back at Red Butte tonight to see Boy George and Culture Club.