2012 Grammy Winner:
Best Blues Album
180g 2 LP Set Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios!
Revelator is the debut album by husband & wife team Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. 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' 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' 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 twelve 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 ensemble overflowing with talent and musical familiarity. Brothes Oteil Burbridge & Kofi Burbridge 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 supplies 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.
Features:
180g Vinyl
Double LP
Gatefold Packaging
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios
Musicians:
Derek Trucks, guitar
Susan Tedeschi, guitar, vocals
Oteil Burbridge, bass
Kofi Burbridge, clavinet, organ
Tyler Greenwell, drums, percussion
J.J. Johnson, drums, percussion
Mike Mattison, harmony vocals
Ryan Shaw, harmony vocals
Kebbi Williams, sax
Maurice Brown, trumpet
Saunders Sermons, trombone
Selections:
LP1 - Side 1:
1. Come See About Me
2. Don't Let Me Slide
3. Midnight In Harlem
LP1 - Side 2:
1. Bound For Glory
2. Simple Things
3. Until You Remember
LP2 - Side 3:
1. Ball and Chain
2. These Walls
3. Learn How To Love
LP2 - Side 4:
1. Shrimp And Grits (interlude)
2. Love Has Something Else To Say
3. Shelter
Best Blues Album
180g 2 LP Set Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios!
Revelator is the debut album by husband & wife team Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. 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' 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' 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 twelve 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 ensemble overflowing with talent and musical familiarity. Brothes Oteil Burbridge & Kofi Burbridge 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 supplies 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.
Features:
180g Vinyl
Double LP
Gatefold Packaging
Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios
Musicians:
Derek Trucks, guitar
Susan Tedeschi, guitar, vocals
Oteil Burbridge, bass
Kofi Burbridge, clavinet, organ
Tyler Greenwell, drums, percussion
J.J. Johnson, drums, percussion
Mike Mattison, harmony vocals
Ryan Shaw, harmony vocals
Kebbi Williams, sax
Maurice Brown, trumpet
Saunders Sermons, trombone
Selections:
LP1 - Side 1:
1. Come See About Me
2. Don't Let Me Slide
3. Midnight In Harlem
LP1 - Side 2:
1. Bound For Glory
2. Simple Things
3. Until You Remember
LP2 - Side 3:
1. Ball and Chain
2. These Walls
3. Learn How To Love
LP2 - Side 4:
1. Shrimp And Grits (interlude)
2. Love Has Something Else To Say
3. Shelter
