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Sony Masterworks
Release Date: June 7, 2011

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Tedeschi Trucks Band - The Making of Revelator
Off-Air Performances Jimmy Kimmel Live
Tedeschi Trucks Band 07/29/2018 Red Rocks; Lord Protect My Child; Bound For Glory
1 Come See About Me  
2 Don't Let Me Slide  
3 Midnight In Harlem  
4 Bound For Glory  
5 Simple Things  
6 Until You Remember  
7 Ball And Chain  
8 These Walls  
9 Learn How To Love  
10 Shrimp and Grits (Interlude)  
11 Love Has Something Else To Say  
12 Shelter  
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Revelator (Sony MASTERWORKS), the long-awaited, song-oriented debut album by the husband-wife team of singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks, will be released June 7.  Filled with 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, story-telling solos shaped by Trucks's uncanny agility on slide-guitar, Revelator also serves to introduce the couple's new, 11-piece ensemble-Tedeschi Trucks Band. 

A dramatic leap forward for two of the music world's most dynamic performers,  Revelator 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-organically flow together, blending with an entirely original, modern sensibility. 

In addition to the combined weight of Tedeschi and Trucks's equally renowned abilities, Revelator benefits from an impressive circle of talent that the two brought together. Trucks co-produced the album with multi-Grammy-winning engineer Jim Scott, whose genre-bending credits include popular albums by the Dixie Chicks, Johnny Cash, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Both Tedeschi and Trucks co-wrote the album's eleven new songs with an impressive list of experienced songwriters, including Jeff Trott, John Leventhal, David Ryan Harris and Sonya Kitchell; Gary Louris and Oliver Wood-of the Jayhawks and the Wood Brothers, respectively; and old friends like guitarists Doyle Bramhall II and Eric Krasno (of Soulive), and band members Mike Mattison, Kofi Burbridge and Oteil Burbridge.

Most notably, Revelator features the newly formed Tedeschi Trucks Band, an eleven-member ensemble overflowing with talent and musical familiarity. Brothers Oteil Burbridge (noted for his years as bassist with the Allman Brothers Band) and Kofi Burbridge (longtime keyboardist/flutist with The Derek Trucks Band) have joined forces with a pair of drummers J. J. Johnson and Tyler Greenwell, trumpeter Maurice Brown, tenor saxophonist Kebbi Williams, trombonist Saunders Sermons, and harmony singers Mark Rivers and Mike Mattison. (Additionally, Ryan Shaw and David Ryan Harris supplied harmony vocals to various tracks on the album, and Alam Khan adds his masterful sarod playing to "These Walls".) The fact that this aggregation includes so many musicians related by experience-and blood-clearly adds to the notion of Revelator as a true group album, the product of a musical family.

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Saenger Theater with George Porter Jr., had a bit of everything / offBEAT Magazine
    Posted At: November 4, 2024
    offBEAT Magazine's Brett Milano writes….The Tedeschi Trucks Band is the proudest kind of throwback, showing remarkable affinity for an era of music that happened largely before Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks were born (that would be the glory days of FM rock radio, roughly 1969-71). But they treat that era as a well to draw from, to fuel their own personal explanations.Friday night’s show at the Saenger Th...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band 'Midnight in Harlem' from 'Revelator' makes Blues Rock Review's '10 Iconic Blues Rock Guitar Solos'
    Posted At: October 16, 2024
    Revelator the long-awaited, song-oriented debut album by the husband-wife team of singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi and guitarist Derek Trucks was released on June 7 2011 via Sony Masterworks.  Filled with 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, story-telling solos shaped by Truc...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band set to headline Artpark's Mainstage Theater / Lockport Union-Sun Journal
    Posted At: August 15, 2024
    Lockport Union-Sun Journal's Thom Jennings writes….A familiar name will headline Artpark's Mainstage Theater on August 20. Tedeschi Trucks Band will return for what can only be described as an intimate show compared to other stops on the tour. In 2010, 2015, 2018 and 2022, the band performed at the Amphitheatre; this year, they are performing at the Mainstage Theater.For some perspective on the significance...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band puts on its 'Sunday best' at Michigan's Lottery Amphitheatre / Macomb Daily
    Posted At: August 12, 2024
    Macomb Daily's GARY GRAFF writes…..Sunday was anything but a day of rest for the Tedeschi Trucks Band.But you’ll find few people who enjoy their work more than the 11-piece band that lit up the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre in Sterling Heights for two hours and 10 minutes on Aug. 11.The annual visit from the troupe, fronted by the married couple of Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, was typical of what we’ve ...

  • Watch Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi join The Doobie Brothers in Jacksonville, for 'Dont Start Me Talkin' / relix
    Posted At: July 10, 2024
    relix writes…..On Monday, July 8, The Doobie Brothers brought their sprawling 50th Anniversary Tour to Jacksonville, Fla., and picked up some very special guests on the way to the stage. For the legendary yacht rockers’ staging Daily’s Place Amphitheater, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi joined in the celebration, giving some regional nuance from the Southern rock bastion that the Tedeschi Trucks Band calls ...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band announce 'Deuces Wild Tour' / relix
    Posted At: December 4, 2023
    relix - David McClister writes…..Today, Tedeschi Trucks Band announced the Deuces Wild Tour, a run of North American dates set to take place over the winter of 2024. The new dates will follow the 12-person ensemble’s venerated residency at the Beacon Theatre in New York, which was announced during their massive arena shows, The Garden Parties, at TD Garden in Boston and Madison Square Garden in New York.The...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band & Rickie Lee Jones announce 'Bluesfest' tours / TONE DEAF
    Posted At: October 12, 2023
    They join the previously announced Newton Faulkner and Drive-By TruckersTONE DEAF'S David McClister WRITES…..Two more Bluesfest Tours have been announced. Tedeschi Trucks Band, a packed 12-piece rock and soul collective, will play two sets in Melbourne on Wednesday, April 3rd, and two sets in Sydney on Friday, April 3rd, after their Bluesfest Byron Bay appearance.And two-time GRAMMY winner Rickie Lee Jones ...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band throw a grand garden party with MSG debut (A Gallery) / relix
    Posted At: October 2, 2023
    relix writes….On Friday, magic and history once again intertwined at Madison Square Garden as Tedeschi Trucks Band made their debut at the arena. The performance was lush with unforgettable and inimitable moments of musical excellence furthered by the inclinations of Trey Anastasio along with Norah Jones and welcomed by an opening set by Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real.Nelson’s passionate set include...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band woos and wows an excited crowd at Blossom Music Center / Cleveland.com
    Posted At: July 20, 2023
    Tedeschi Trucks Band and Ziggy Marley at BlossomCleveland.com's Malcolm X Abram writes….. In a pop world where bands young and old use backing tracks to augment or “fill out” their sound and make what the audience hears more like the recording, it’s refreshing, perhaps even encouraging, for live music lovers to see a band that is put together to provide every sound necessary to present and make their music ...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band returns to 'Peach Music Festival' after 9 year abscence / LIVE FOR LIVE MUSIC
    Posted At: July 5, 2023
    LIVE FOR LIVE MUSIC's Andrew O'Brien writes….While the Allman Brothers Band officially retired nearly a decade ago, The Peach Music Festival, the outfit’s annual summer summit in Scranton, PA, has continued to carry the ABB flame into the present day. Even as The Peach’s founding act stepped away from the festival and its lineups expanded to include more styles of music and more contemporary sounds, the mem...

  • Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi release the first of a four-album set called 'I Am The Moon' / VINTAGE GUITAR
    Posted At: June 6, 2023
    Go back to December 31, 2008 when guitarist Derek Trucks and his wife, singer/guitarist Susan Tedeschi, were preparing to ring in the New Year. Married since 1999, these two soulmates, equally steeped in the musical roots of blues, jazz, and gospel, had finally decided the time was right to set aside their successful solo careers and commit to a new band melding their vision and talent. It wasn’t the first ...

  • Derek Trucks Q&A's with GOLDMINE
    Posted At: January 16, 2023
    "I saw them live and it was mind blowing. [Derek] has taken the guitar, specifically slide guitar, somewhere it has never been. His phrasing both with and without slide is uniquely his and just odd and jarring and exciting to listen to. [Susan] is an earnest blues player as well and her voice is astounding. The band was mind-blowing. They take a form that is arguably tired and turn it inside out with origin...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band: Gravity's Rainbow / relix
    Posted At: October 21, 2022
    “We really haven’t changed a lot as humans since the 12th century,” observes Susan Tedeschi while commenting on the Persian poem that inspired I Am the Moon, the new 24-song, four-record opus from the Tedeschi Trucks Band. “A lot of the themes are similar, particularly those involving relationships and heartaches. So while we were writing these songs, I felt like some of them could be from the 12th century ...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band brings 'Moon' music to Alabama / AL.com
    Posted At: June 16, 2022
    AL.com's Lawrence Specker writes…The release of the Tedeschi Trucks Band's "I Am the Moon" will take place throughout summer 2022. The pandemic shutdown gave the Tedeschi Trucks Band time to cook up a big vision for its project "I Am the Moon."Courtesy of the Tedeschi Trucks BandWhen the Tedeschi Trucks Band hits Mobile and Tuscaloosa on June 25 and 26, the fans on hand will be among the first to hear live ...

  • Watch Derek Trucks and Jerry Douglas perform 'Little Martha' at Ryman Auditorium / jambands.com
    Posted At: March 2, 2020

    On Feb. 29, Tedeschi Trucks Band performed at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, which was the band's final performance for four months. The show was highlighted by an extended sit-in by Jerry Douglas, which included a Trucks/Douglas duo performance of The Allman Brothers Band's "Little Martha" to open set two. The second set began with Trucks taking the stage with Jerry Douglas. The two performed "Little...

  • TTB brings their 'Wheels Of Soul tour to CCNB Heritage Park Amphitheatre / Greenville Journal
    Posted At: July 4, 2019

    For the last six months or so, The Tedeschi Trucks Band has essentially been playing tribute shows; every time they go out onstage, they're paying homage to a fallen brother, their keyboardist Kofi Burbridge, who passed away in February from complications from emergency heart surgery. "Every show that we do, we're working through it and trying to honor him," says Derek Trucks, "but we're also trying to h...

  • Don Was sits in at Tedeschi Trucks Tokyo show / Live For Live Music
    Posted At: June 15, 2019

    On Friday night, Tedeschi Trucks Band opened up their three-night run at Tokyo, Japans' Tokyo Dome City Hall with an electric performance, which featured a guest sit-in from acclaimed record executive, producer, and musician, Don Was. The band opened up their one-set show with "High Times", which was followed up by TTB originals "Do I Look Worried" and "Don't Know What It Means". Moving forward, the ...

  • Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi are sworn in as honorary deputies by Jones County, GA Sheriff / Live for Live Music
    Posted At: June 6, 2019

    On Tuesday, May 4th, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi of Tedeschi Trucks Band were officially sworn in as honorary deputies of the Jones County Sheriff's Office in Jones County, Georgia. According to local FOX affiliate WGXA, Sheriff Butch Reece explained at the ceremony that Trucks used to ride around with Jones County deputies when he played at the nearby Georgia Rib Company as a 14-year-old guitar prod...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band plays 'Kimmel' / JamBase
    Posted At: May 16, 2019

    The Tedeschi Trucks Band served as the musical guest on last night's ( Wednesday's ) episode of ABC late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. Led by Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, the 12-piece performed four songs during an outdoor concert held on the streets of Los Angeles and one that was broadcast on the show. Kimmel Live featured a performance of "Shame" from the band's recently released Signs LP. "S...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band plays the Howard Stern Show / JamBase
    Posted At: April 1, 2019

    Tedeschi Trucks Band recently stopped by Howard Stern's studios at SiriusXM headquarters in New York City to record a mini-set. The 12-piece ensemble barely fit in the studio. They were so cramped both drummers had to stand and play stripped down kits. Renditions of the original "Hard Case" from the recently released Signs and a cover of Derek & The Dominos' "Keep On Growing" can be viewed on the Sir...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band is in for the long haul / Premier Guitar
    Posted At: March 15, 2019

    The Tedeschi Trucks Band is a 12-piece ensemble fronted by the husband and wife team of Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. The band's members are A-list, first-call players, and many of them could easily front bands of their own-yet they don't, they're loyal to TTB. Many have been in the band since its founding in 2010, and a few are holdovers from Tedeschi and Trucks' solo projects of the previous decade....

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band do it the old fashioned way in Chicago / Forbes
    Posted At: January 30, 2019

    So much of what the Tedeschi Trucks Band is doing right now flies directly in the face of contemporary wisdom. Contemporary wisdom would advise against the potent mix of diverse styles that sits at the heart of the Tedeschi Trucks stew. Contemporary wisdom would advise against touring a twelve-piece band.Contemporary wisdom would also advise against scheduling four concerts in one city over the course of...

  • TTB's upcoming 'Signs' makes Ultimate Classic Rock - 2019 NEW MUSIC RELEASES
    Posted At: January 18, 2019

    Classic rock promises plenty of intrigue for 2019, as Billy Joel, Metallica, Keith Richards, Whitesnake, Santana, Heart, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Joe Jackson, REO Speedwagon, Bryan Adams and Altitudes & Attitude – a new band featuring Dave Ellefson and Frank Bello – have already confirmed new albums. On February 15 TTB and Fantasy Records will release Signs, their 4th studio album and a ...

  • Derek Trucks, the 'Already Free' days / Something Else! Reviews
    Posted At: January 13, 2019

    If there was a guitarist who grew up learning at the knee of Son House while listening to Sun Ra records, toured with Jimi Hendrix, became a star in his own right in the early '70s and is now putting the finishing touches to a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame career, that guy would probably sound a lot like Derek Trucks. Only thing is, Derek Trucks seemed to just be getting started when Already Free arrived on...

  • TTB debuts 'Hard Case' / axs
    Posted At: January 12, 2019

    Tedeschi Trucks Band have announced details of an upcoming new studio album Signs, Feb. 15 via Fantasy Records, and have also debuted the lead track "Hard Case." TTB premiered "Hard Case" via NPR on Wednesday ahead of the launch of its 2019 U.S. winter tour, which kicks off Jan. 17 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, at Paramount Theatre. Signs is the veteran blues-rockers fourth studio effort and long awaited follow...

  • After a busy 2018, Tedeschi Trucks Band are set again for Wheels of Soul Tour this summer / RollingStone
    Posted At: December 11, 2018

    The road goes on for Tedeschi Trucks Band. After a busy 2018 and already with a hearty slate of winter and spring tour dates on the horizon, the versatile 12-piece outfit, led by the husband-and-wife team of guitarist Derek Trucks and blues singer-guitarist Susan Tedeschi, have announced they will once again headline the multi-band Wheels of Soul Tour in the summer. Rolling across the country for the fif...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band confirms London Palladium show / stereoboard
    Posted At: September 17, 2018

    Tedeschi Trucks Band have announced a spring London show. Led by married couple Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, the American blues-rock collective will perform at the Palladium on April 27. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on September 21. The band have released three studio and two live albums, including their latest full length, 'Let Me Get By', which arrived in 2016 through Fantasy Records....

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band donates nearly 50K in musical instruments to Englewood High School / WJCT: Jacksonville
    Posted At: August 7, 2018

    "We are deeply thankful to the Tedeschi Trucks Band for their incredible support, not just of the Englewood High School music program, but music programs across the district," said Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Diana Greene. "Through their generous donations over the years, they have truly given hundreds of students the gift of music. Knowing that these instruments came from an alum from...

  • Southern rock and roll rises up in Saratoga / NYSMusic
    Posted At: July 8, 2018

    Southern rock and roll rose up in Saratoga NY on July 3rd, led by Greenville, South Carolina's Marcus King Band, Tuscaloosa, Alabama's Drive-By Truckers and Jacksonville, Florida's Tedeschi Trucks Band. If that lineup of musicians doesn't conjure images of extended soulful guitar solos and rock n roll in the vein of The Allman Brothers Band, you may need to eat a peach. Over three hours of combined music...

  • Win tickets to Tedeschi Trucks Band on 90.5TheFox
    Posted At: June 30, 2018

    Freedom is another word," so the song went back in an easier and less costly time, "for nothing left to lose." Freedom-the kind that Tedeschi Trucks Band has created for themselves since their inception in 2010-has come at a much higher price and required a deeper sense of dedication. It's the kind of freedom that has allowed them to keep a band that has grown to more than a dozen musicians and crew on t...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band shares Bob Dylan's 'Down In The Flood' / Live for Live Music
    Posted At: June 6, 2018

    On Saturday night, Tedeschi Trucks Band rolled through Atlantic City, New Jersey, with the show at the Tropicana Showroom acting as the exclamation point for the band's recent three-night Midwest run during the week. The group led by Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi held nothing back during the performance, making full use of the group's two full sets. In addition to long-standing fan favorites and newer ...

  • Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator makes Roots Music Report's 2017 Top Blues Rock Album Chart
    Posted At: January 3, 2018

    Tedeschi Trucks Band - Revelator has been named a Top 20 Blues Rock Album of 2017 by the venerable Roots Music Report. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; min-height: 13.0px} Revelator on Sony MASTERWORKS, was the song-oriented debut album by the husband-wife team of singer/guitarist Sus...

  • Derek Trucks discusses 2017 with Glide, during sold out three night run at Boston's Orpheum Theater
    Posted At: December 4, 2017

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #606060} Tedeschi Trucks Band's sold out, three night run at Boston's Orpheum Theater was an excellent bookend for a year that has been an emotional rollercoaster for the revue. 2017 saw the band continue to fill theaters for nights at a time and capped things off with another Grammy nomination. On the other side of the...

  • Derek Trucks talks about his return to Atlanta's Fox Theatre / 91.7 The River
    Posted At: July 14, 2017

    The Tedeschi Trucks Band performs at The Fox Theatre Saturday, July 15. Kaedy Kiely is pictured with Derek Trucks in the late 1980's when Derek played on the concert stage with The Allman Brothers Band for the first time. Kaedy and the AJC's Melissa Ruggieri spoke to Derek recently about his return to The Fox Theatre stage with wife Susan for the first time since t...

  • Craft For Causes & Tedeschi Trucks Band team up on summer tour / 88.7WNCW
    Posted At: May 18, 2017

    Craft For Causes, a non-profit dedicated to bringing together the booming craft brew industry with live music in support of charitable causes, today announced its first full-scale, national initiative. This summer, Tedeschi Trucks Band will roll its Wheels of Soul tour into 20 cities across America including a stop at Red Hat Amphitheater Raleigh on July 14 and Charlotte Metro Credit Union Amphitheatre o...

  • The most important part of any guitar solo, by Derek Trucks / GUITAR WORLD - musicradar
    Posted At: April 19, 2017

    Derek Trucks recently sat down with Music Radar to offer his top five tips for guitarists. In the course of things, the Tedeschi Trucks guitarist offered his advice about guitar soloing by way of a quote from jazz drummer Elvin Jones. "He'd say, ‘When you're playing and when you're soloing, always tell a story,'" Trucks says. "You hear it in the great musicians, whether it's a drummer or a horn pla...
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