Tedeschi Trucks Band

As husband-wife couples go in the world of music, it is a challenge to find a duo as well fitted and naturally prolific as that of singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks. They are both heavily steeped in the blues tradition, yet open to far-ranging influences including rock, gospel, jazz and World music. Each has produced recordings that share a sensibility best described as a swampy mix of rootsy, rockin’ American music. As well, they often perform together with the Allman Brothers Band—with whom Trucks continues to play as co-lead guitarist. On June 7, the Tedeschi Trucks Band will release their debut album Revelator, the result of eighteen months of dedicated musical focus. True to Trucks’ promise, the album is a confident yet unforced triumph offering a cohesive vision: an idyllic, musical world in which the echoes of so many great traditions—Delta blues and Memphis soul, Sixties rock and Seventies funk—flow together naturally, blending with an entirely original, modern sensibility. An true to a title that suggests both the gospel-flavored intensity and sunning, soulful impact of its twelve original tracks, the album includes smoky, blues-dipped rockers and heart-stilling ballads that show off respectively, the gutsier and softer side of Tedeschi’s vocal ability, plus a series of emotive, storytelling solos shaped by Trucks’ uncanny agility on slide guitar.