Tedeschi Trucks Band

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.5 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Today we have Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks of the Tedeschi Trucks Band on the show. Derek Trucks made his name as a slide guitar prodigy with a Hall of Fame pedigree. He’s the nephew of Butch Trucks, drummer of the Allman Brothers Band, who Derek toured with extensively throughout the 2000s before forming the Derek Trucks Band.

Somewhere along the road, Derek met another great guitarist with a Berklee-pedigree, Susan Tedeschi, who is one of the best singers working today. Eventually the two married and merged their bands in 2010. Their latest album, I Am The Moon, is a collection of 24 songs across four different albums.

On today’s episode, Justin Richmond speaks with Susan and Derek about the beginnings of their band, and how their new album came to be. They also play some of their new songs live from backstage at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles.

You can listen to a playlist of some of our favorite Tedeschi Trucks Band favorite songs HERE.

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0:00.0	Pushkin
0:11.2	Today we have Susan Tedesky and Derek Trucks of the Tedesky Trucks band live from the
0:16.1	Greek theater in Los Angeles.
0:18.7	Derek Trucks made his name as a sligh guitar prodigy with a Hall of Fame pedigree.
0:23.5	He's a nephew of Butch Trucks drummer of the Almond Brothers band which Derek toured
0:27.5	with extensively throughout the 2000s, all while leading his own group, the Derek Trucks
0:32.5	band.
0:33.7	Somewhere along the road, Derek met another great guitar so they berkly pedigree, Susan
0:38.3	Tedesky, who in my view is one of the best singers working today.
0:43.1	Susan was also leading her own group when she and Derek met.
0:46.4	Eventually the two fell in love, got married and merged their bands into one colossal family
0:51.2	band in 2010.
0:53.4	The Tedesky Trucks band has 12 members, which just for perspective is about the average
0:58.8	number of players in Duke Ellington's big band.
1:02.5	Derek and Susan are clearly an adventurous couple and it comes through in their music.
1:07.7	Although the blues is the band's foundation, none of their albums sound all that similar.
1:13.1	This year they managed to achieve that same diversity of sound on their I Am The Moon
1:17.0	project.
1:18.0	A collection of 24 songs across four different albums.
1:21.8	It's inspired in part by the isolation of early pandemic life and the loss of longtime
1:26.8	keyboardist Kofi Burbridge.
1:29.6	On today's episode, I speak with Susan and Derek about the beginnings of their band
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