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Revelator (Tedeschi Trucks Band album)

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Released
  
June 7, 2011

Length
  
61:06

Producers
  
Jim Scott, Derek Trucks

Recorded
  
2011

Release date
  
7 June 2011

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Label
  
Sony Masterworks, Sony Music Entertainment

Revelator (2011)
  
Everybody's Talkin' (2012)

Artists
  
Tedeschi Trucks Band, Derek Trucks

Genres
  
Blues, Rock music, Blues rock, Soul music

Awards
  
Grammy Award for Best Blues Album

Similar
  
Tedeschi Trucks Band albums, Blues albums

Tedeschi trucks band midnight in harlem


Revelator is the debut album by the 11-piece blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band released in 2011 by Sony Masterworks. Recorded in Derek and Susan's Swamp Raga Studios in Jacksonville, co-produced by Derek with producer/engineer Jim Scott. The album won Grammy Award for Best Blues Album at the 54th Grammy Awards.

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Reception

Allmusic music critic Thom Jurek praised the album and wrote the recording "proves something beyond their well-founded reputation as a live unit: that they can write, perform, and produce great songs that capture the authentic, emotional fire and original arrangements that so many modern blues and roots recordings lack... Revelator is a roots record that sets a modern standard even as it draws its inspiration from the past. It's got everything a listener could want: grit, groove, raw, spiritual emotion, and expert-level musical truth." David Fricke of Rolling Stone wrote "[Trucks] and Tedeschi, a perfect vocal foil, now front the best Dixie-funk family band since Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett."

Personnel

  • Derek Trucks – lead guitar
  • Susan Tedeschi – lead vocals, rhythm guitar
  • Oteil Burbridge – bass guitar
  • Kofi Burbridge – keyboards, flute
  • Tyler Greenwell – drums, percussion
  • J. J. Johnson – drums, percussion
  • Mike Mattison – harmony vocals
  • Mark Rivers – harmony vocals
  • Kebbi Williams – saxophone
  • Maurice "Mobetta" Brown – trumpet
  • Saunders Sermons – trombone
  • Additional musicians

  • Oliver Wood – guitar and vocals
  • David Ryan Harris – guitar and vocals
  • Ryan Shaw – harmony vocals
  • Eric Krasno – acoustic guitar
  • Alam Khan – sarod
  • Salar Nader – tabla
  • Credits

  • Producers – Jim Scott and Derek Trucks
  • Engineers – Jim Scott and Bobby Tis
  • Additional Engineer – Kevin Dean
  • Mixing – Jim Scott
  • Mastering – Bob Ludwig
  • Art Direction – Josh Cheuse
  • Photography – James Minchin
  • Songs

    1Come See About Me3:51
    2Don't Let Me Slide5:05
    3Midnight in Harlem5:53

    References

    Revelator (Tedeschi Trucks Band album) Wikipedia