Revelator is the debut album by 11-piece blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band

Tedeschi Trucks Band

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 respective solo groups.-...

 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

Jim Scott

Jim Scott is a guitarist, singer/songwriter and composer in the genres of jazz, classical and folk music.-Life:Jim Scott has made it his business to create and perform music that celebrates peace, justice and the earth. He co-wrote the celebrated Missa Gaia - Earth Mass and many other pieces with...

 (Johnny Cash, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Wilco), the album 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 — flow together naturally, blending with an entirely original, modern sensibility.

Track listing

Personnel

• Derek Trucks
  Derek Trucks
  Derek Trucks is a Grammy Award-winning, American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded The Derek Trucks Band and worked as a session musician when he was still in his early teens. Throughout those teenage years, he toured with The Allman Brothers Band primarily as a slide...
  
  – guitar
• Susan Tedeschi
  Susan Tedeschi
  Susan Tedeschi is an American blues and soul musician, who has received multiple Grammy Award nominations, and is well-known for her singing voice, guitar playing, stage presence, and marriage to blues guitarist Derek Trucks...
  
  – guitar and vocals
• Oteil Burbridge
  Oteil Burbridge
  Oteil Burbridge, in Washington, D.C.), is a Grammy Award-nominated 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 current resurgence of the Allman Brothers Band...
  
  – bass guitar
• Kofi Burbridge – keyboards and flute
• Tyler Greenwell – drums and percussion
• J. J. Johnson – drums and percussion
• Mike Mattison
  Mike Mattison
  Mike Mattison is an American musician and the lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning blues rock sextet, The Derek Trucks Band. Mattison's vocal sound has been described as "strong," with an "expressive blues voice"...
  
  – harmony vocals
• Mark Rivers – harmony vocals
• Kebbi Williams – saxophone
• Maurice 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 - sarode
• Salar Nader - tabla

Credits

• Producers - Jim Scott
  Jim Scott
  Jim Scott is a guitarist, singer/songwriter and composer in the genres of jazz, classical and folk music.-Life:Jim Scott has made it his business to create and perform music that celebrates peace, justice and the earth. He co-wrote the celebrated Missa Gaia - Earth Mass and many other pieces with...
  
   and Derek Trucks
  Derek Trucks
  Derek Trucks is a Grammy Award-winning, American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded The Derek Trucks Band and worked as a session musician when he was still in his early teens. Throughout those teenage years, he toured with The Allman Brothers Band primarily as a slide...
  
  
• Engineers - Jim Scott and Bobby Tis
• Additional Engineer - Kevin Dean
• Mixing - Jim Scott
• Mastering - Bob Ludwig
• Art Direction - Josh Cheuse
• Photography - James Minchin

Chart positions

Year	Chart	Position
2011	The Billboard 200	12
2011	Top Blues Albums	1
2011	Top Rock Albums	4