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The Tedeschi Trucks Band , formerly known as the Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band is a blues rock group based in Jacksonville , Florida . Formed in 2010, the band is led by husband-and-wife musicians Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi , and primarily features members from their solo groups. Their debut album, Revelator (Tedeschi Trucks Band album)|Revelator , won a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album .

History

The Tedeschi Trucks Band was founded in 2010 after both Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi put their solo bands on hiatus to form a new group that lets the married couple focus on making music together, and allows them to spend more time together while touring and recording. Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi had toured together in 2007, under the name Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi's Soul Stew Revival; this group's material was largely culled from Derek and Susan's solo projects, while the Tedeschi Trucks Band mostly focuses on performing original songs.

After the announcement in late 2009 of a hiatus for both The Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi Band,. www.derektrucks.com. the couple began writing new material, working out of their home studio in Jacksonville with a rotating cast of friends and musicians. Their first concert was on April 1, 2010 at the Savannah Music Festival, and although their touring schedule was limited in 2010, the group did perform at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival , Fuji Rock Festival , and several other festivals and venues.

The collaboration between Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi has also extended to other artists. Trucks and Tedeschi appeared together on Herbie Hancock 's album, The Imagine Project , performing the track "Space Captain" with additional members of Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band, including Oteil Burbridge, Kofi Burbridge, and Mike Mattison. A music video was also released, showing Herbie Hancock as he recorded the song at Trucks & Tedeschi's home studio. Trucks and Tedeschi also appeared with Herbie Hancock to perform "Space Captain" at his 70th birthday concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl .

On 7 March 2011, the band announced that it was changing its name to the Tedeschi Trucks Band. The first Tedeschi Trucks Band CD, Revelator (Tedeschi Trucks Band album)|Revelator , was released on June 7, 2011. Rolling Stone gave the album four out of five stars, referring to it as a "masterpiece." The album peaked at #92 on the Canadian Albums Chart , http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Charts/ALBUMS.html
and peaked at #164 in the UK albums chart . http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/110618cluk.txt The album won a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album at the 54th Grammy Awards.

Their second album, Everybody's Talkin' (Tedeschi Trucks Band album)|Everybody's Talkin' , will be released on May 22, 2012. It is a live album consisting of performances of songs from Revelator as well as covers of rock, R& B and gospel music|gospel classics.

Discography

Revelator (Tedeschi Trucks Band album)|Revelator (2011)

'' Everybody's Talkin' (Tedeschi Trucks Band album)|Everybody's Talkin' (2012)

Notes and references

Horowitz, Scott (January 21, 2011). , JamBase. Retrieved April 8, 2011

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