The Tedeschi Trucks Band () is an American
blues and
blues rock
Blues rock is a fusion music genre that combines elements of blues and rock music. It is mostly an electric ensemble-style music with instrumentation similar to electric blues and rock (electric guitar, electric bass guitar, and drums, sometimes w ...
group based in
Jacksonville
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,
Florida
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. Formed in 2010, the band is led by married couple
Susan Tedeschi and
Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999. In 2010, he formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife, blues s ...
. Their debut album, ''
Revelator'' (2011), won the 2012
Grammy Award for Best Blues Album. The band has released six studio and three live albums.
History
After touring together in 2007 as the Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi's Soul Stew Revival, the couple merged their respective groups to form the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010.
Their first concert was on April 1, 2010, at the Savannah Music Festival.
The first Tedeschi Trucks Band album, ''
Revelator'', was released on June 7, 2011. The album peaked at No. 92 on the
Canadian Albums Chart
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, No. 164 in the
UK Albums Chart
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and won a
Grammy Award for Best Blues Album.
Their second album, ''
Everybody's Talkin'
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'' was recorded live and released in May 2012.
In 2013, the band was nominated for the
Blues Music Award
The Blues Music Awards, formerly known as the W. C. Handy Awards (or "The Handys"), are awards presented by the Blues Foundation, a non-profit organization set up to foster blues heritage. The awards were originally named in honor of W. C. Handy ...
s and released their third album, ''
Made Up Mind.''
The band gave a
Joe Cocker
John Robert "Joe" Cocker (20 May 1944 – 22 December 2014) was an English singer known for his gritty, bluesy voice and dynamic stage performances that featured expressive body movements. Most of his best known singles were recordings of son ...
''
Mad Dogs and Englishmen'' tribute concert at the 2015 Lockn' Festival featuring alumni musicians from that album including Leon Russell, Claudia Lennear and Dave Mason.
The band's first three albums were published by
Sony Masterworks
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,
but their 2016 album ''
Let Me Get By
''Let Me Get By'' is the third studio album from blues-rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band, released in 2016.
Background
During breaks in touring in early 2015, the band used Trucks and Tedeschi's home studio in Jacksonville, FL to record the album. ...
'' was released on
Fantasy Records
Fantasy Records is an American independent record label company founded by brothers Max and Sol Stanley Weiss in 1949. The early years of the company were dedicated to issuing recordings by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, who was also one of its invest ...
. Produced by Trucks, the album debuted at number 15 on the
''Billboard'' 200 album sales chart. In 2017, Tedeschi Trucks Band released a full-length concert film and album recorded in Oakland, CA, ''
Live from the Fox Oakland
'' Live from the Fox Oakland ''is the second live album from American rock ensemble Tedeschi Trucks Band. Released on March 17, 2017 through Fantasy Records in both audio and video, the work was recorded on the second night of a two-day September ...
''.
The fourth studio album, ''
Signs
Signs may refer to:
* ''Signs'' (2002 film), a 2002 film by M. Night Shyamalan
* ''Signs'' (TV series) (Polish: ''Znaki'') is a 2018 Polish-language television series
* ''Signs'' (journal), a journal of women's studies
*Signs (band), an American ...
'', was released on February 15, 2019, on Fantasy Records and
Concord. On January 9, 2019, the band announced tour dates through August 2019. ''Signs'' was chosen as a 'Favorite Blues Album' by
AllMusic
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.
''Layla Revisited (Live at LOCKN')'' was announced on May 7, 2021. The album is a one-time live recording of the
Derek and the Dominos
Derek and the Dominos was an English–American blues rock band formed in the spring of 1970 by guitarist and singer Eric Clapton, keyboardist and singer Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Radle and drummer Jim Gordon. All four members had previou ...
album ''
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs'' performed in full with
Trey Anastasio
Ernest Joseph "Trey" Anastasio III (born September 30, 1964) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Phish, which he co-founded in 1983. He is credited by name as composer of 152 Phish o ...
. Recorded on August 24, 2019 at the
LOCKN' Festival in Arrington, VA, the album was released on July 16, 2021.
On April 20, 2022, Tedeschi Trucks Band announced ''I Am the Moon'', four new studio albums featuring 24 original songs. Each of the four ''I Am the Moon'' albums — ''I. Crescent'', ''II. Ascension'', ''III. The Fall'' and ''IV. Farewell'' — will be released in successive months beginning with ''I. Crescent'' released on June 3, ''II. Ascension'' released on July 1, and ''III. The Fall'' released on July 29. Vinyl configurations will be released September 9.
Band members
*
Susan Tedeschi – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, lead guitar
(2010–present)
*
Derek Trucks
Derek Trucks (born June 8, 1979) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and founder of The Derek Trucks Band. He became an official member of The Allman Brothers Band in 1999. In 2010, he formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band with his wife, blues s ...
– slide guitar/lead guitar
(2010–present)
* Tyler Greenwell – drums, percussion
(2010–present)
*
Mike Mattison – harmony vocals, acoustic guitar
(2010–present)
* Mark Rivers – harmony vocals
(2010–present)
* Kebbi Williams – saxophone
(2010–present)
*
Ephraim Owens
Ephraim Owens (born November 5, 1972) is an American musician, composer, and jazz bandleader who plays trumpet and flugelhorn. He has toured and recorded with the Tedeschi Trucks Band since 2015. He is one of the most highly regarded jazz musicia ...
– trumpet
(2015–present)
* Elizabeth Lea – trombone
(2015–present)
* Alecia Chakour – harmony vocals
(2015–present)
* Brandon Boone – bass guitar
(2019-present)
*
Gabe Dixon – keyboards, vocals
(2019-present)
* Isaac Eady – drums, percussion
(2021-present)
Former band members
*
Oteil Burbridge
Oteil Burbridge is an American multi-instrumentalist, specializing on the bass guitar, trained in playing jazz and classical music from an early age. He has achieved fame primarily on bass guitar during the resurgence of the Allman Brothers Ba ...
– bass guitar
(2010-2012)
*
Tim Lefebvre
Tim Lefebvre (born February 4, 1968) is an American bass guitarist. Both as a session musician and band member, he has worked with a wide range of musicians, including David Bowie, The Black Crowes, Elvis Costello, Sting, Empire of the Sun, The ...
– bass guitar
(2013–2018)
*
Maurice "Mobetta" Brown – trumpet
(2010–2015)
* Saunders Sermons – trombone
(2010-2015)
*
Kofi Burbridge
Kofi Burbridge (September 22, 1961 – February 15, 2019) was an American keyboardist and flautist of the blues and blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band.
Burbridge was a classically trained multi-instrumentalist who provided keyboards, organ ...
– keyboards, flute
(2010–2019; his death)
* J.J. Johnson – drums, percussion
(2010–2020)
Touring musicians
* Dave Monsey – bass
(2012)
* Ted Pecchio – bass
(2012)
*
George Porter, Jr.
George Porter Jr. (born December 26, 1947) is an American musician, best known as the bassist and singer of The Meters. Along with Art Neville, Porter formed the group in the mid 1960s and came to be recognized as one of the progenitors of fun ...
– bass
(2012)
* Eric Krasno – bass
(2013)
*
Bakithi Kumalo – bass
(2013)
* Carey Frank – keyboards
(2017)
Timeline
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Archival releases
EPs
Charted singles
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
"Derek Trucks & Susan Tedeschi Band NYE Review" JamBase article.
"Tedeschi Trucks Band Bring It Home" Rolling Stone article.
Herbie Hancock, 'Space Captain,' Feat. Susan Tedeschi and Derek TrucksSpinner magazine article.
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Southern rock musical groups from Jacksonville
American blues musical groups
American blues rock musical groups
American world music groups
Grammy Award winners
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