Song:Midnight In Harlem
Album:Revelator
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have been married since 2001. Both have had successful solo careers and they tour constantly. They decided to join forces musically mostly so they could spend more time together. Tedeschi Trucks Band is currently one of the top concert draws in music. Susan has recorded and toured since 1993 for labels like New West and Verve Forecast. Of course Trucks uncle Butch Trucks was a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He led The Derek Trucks Band since 1997 and he joined The Allman Brothers Band in 1999. They married in 2001 and they have two kids. In 2007, they started touring together as Soul Stew Revival. In 2010 they decided to make the band permanent and renamed it Tedeschi Trucks Band. The band is mostly guys who have toured with Trucks. They signed with Sony Masterworks for the 2011 album Revelator. Susan is lead singer. Trucks plays slide guitar. Other members are Oteil Burbridge on bass, Tyler Greenwell and JJ Johnson on drums, Kofi Burbridge on keyboards, Kebbi Williams on sax, Maurice Brown on trumpet, Saunders Sermons on trombone and Mike Mattison and Mark Rivers on backup vocals. Trucks wrote most of the songs. He wrote Midnight In Harlem with Mattison. The album was a big success. It reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 200. And it won a Best Blues Album Grammy. That's pretty good for music that is not mainstream. After three albums with Sony, Tedeschi Trucks Band moved to Concord's Fantasy label for the 2016 album Let Me Get By. Live From The Fox Oakland was released last year. Bassist Oteil Burbridge was replaced by session musician Tim Lefebvre. Ephraim Owens replaced trumpeter Maurice Brown and Elizabeth Lea replaced Saunders Sermons on trombone. Tedeschi Trucks Band is currently on tour with Drive By Truckers. I guess the merger experiment turned out pretty well. Here's Tedeschi Trucks Band performing Midnight In Harlem in Atlanta 2011.
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