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
Length61:06
Label
Producer
Tedeschi Trucks Band chronology
Revelator
(2011)
Everybody's Talkin'
(2012)

Revelator is the debut album by the 11-piece American blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band released on June 7, 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 Annual 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]
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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"
3:48
2."Don't Let Me Slide"
5:04
3."Midnight in Harlem"
  • Trucks
  • Mattison
5:52
4."Bound for Glory"
  • Trucks
  • Tedeschi
  • Mattison
5:28
5."Simple Things"
  • Trucks
  • Tedeschi
  • Louris
4:43
6."Until You Remember"
6:11
7."Ball and Chain"
3:58
8."These Walls"
  • Trucks
  • Eric Krasno
  • Sonya Kitchell
6:01
9."Learn How to Love"
  • Trucks
  • Tedeschi
  • Krasno
  • Adam Deitch
  • Adam Smirnoff
4:23
10."Shrimp and Grits (Interlude)" (instrumental)
1:45
11."Love Has Something Else to Say"
5:55
12."Shelter"
  • Trucks
  • Tedeschi
  • David Ryan Harris
4:20
13."Ghost Light" (hidden track, instrumental)
  • Trucks
  • O. Burbridge
  • K. Burbridge
  • Greenwell
  • Johnson
3:38
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

References

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