Revelator (Tedeschi Trucks Band album)

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Revelator
Revelator cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 7, 2011
Recorded2011
StudioSwamp Raga Studios (Jacksonville, Florida)
Genre Rock, blues rock, blues, soul
Length61:06
Label Sony Masterworks, Sony Music Entertainment
Producer Jim Scott, Derek Trucks
Tedeschi Trucks Band chronology
Revelator
(2011)
Everybody's Talkin'
(2012)

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 the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. [1]

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Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]

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." [2] 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." [3]

Track listing

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Come See About Me" Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Tyler Greenwell, Mike Mattison, Theodore Pecchio3:48
2."Don't Let Me Slide" Gary Michael Louris, Tedeschi, Trucks5:04
3."Midnight in Harlem"Mattison, Trucks5:52
4."Bound for Glory"Mattison, Tedeschi, Trucks5:28
5."Simple Things"Louris, Trucks, Tedeschi4:43
6."Until You Remember" John Leventhal, Tedeschi, Trucks6:11
7."Ball and Chain"Tedeschi, Trucks, Oliver Wood 3:58
8."These Walls"Eric Krasno, Sonya Kitchell, Trucks6:01
9."Learn How to Love"Trucks, Tedeschi, Krasno, Adam Deitch, Adam Smirnoff4:23
10."Shrimp and Grits (Interlude)" (instrumental)Trucks, Tedeschi, Oteil Burbridge, Kofi Burbridge, Tyler Greenwell, J. J. Johnson1:45
11."Love Has Something Else to Say"O. Burbridge, Trucks, Doyle Bramhall II, Mattison5:55
12."Shelter"David Ryan Harris, Tedeschi, Trucks4:20
13."Ghost Light" (hidden track, instrumental)Trucks, O. Burbridge, K. Burbridge, Greenwell, Johnson3:38
Total length:61:06

Personnel

Additional musicians

Credits

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
2011 The Billboard 200 12
2011 Top Blues Albums 1
2011 Top Rock Albums 4

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References

  1. "Tedeschi Trucks Band". Grammy Awards. Archived from the original on 24 August 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
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  3. 1 2 Fricke, David (7 June 2011). "Revelator > Review". Rolling Stone . Retrieved February 10, 2015.