Tedeschi Trucks Band

BIOGRAPHY

Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks: Individually and together, their musical pedigrees and prowess are untouchable. But it’s the heart, honesty and full-band collaboration that makes Future Soul the most powerful and unique album to date by the revered 12-piece Tedeschi Trucks Band.

The 11 songs comprising TTB’s sixth studio LP include the standout singles “I Got You,” “Who Am I” and “Future Soul.” Early summer 2024, the core of the band—with newest members keyboardist Gabe Dixon and drummer Isaac Eady--adjourned to the Tedeschi Trucks family farm in Georgia to write the songs that would become Future Soul. Mike Elizondo--who Trucks first met in 2006 around the time Trucks was in the studio with J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton—produced the album to add an outside perspective. “This is a band of a high-level musicianship,” says Trucks. “And Mike Elizondo is as good or better than everyone in the room. So it was a good marriage. He could speak everyone's language and then some.”

“There are lots of great writers in this band but because there are 12 of us,” says Tedeschi, “we have to choose a core group to bring songs to the table. We focus on Derek, Mike, Gabe, Tyler and me to write the songs.” But whatever the band does, together or separately, is a wholly organic process. In TTB, “We are 12 people who have sure footing,” Trucks adds. “A machine or some other person is never going to be able to do what we do.”

Future Soul has a lot to live up to…. and it does. Tedeschi Trucks Band’s debut album, Revelator, won the 2012 Grammy Award for Best Blues Album, while 2018’s Live From the Fox Oakland was nominated for a Best Contemporary Blues Album Grammy. TTB was nominated for numerous Americana Music Honors & Awards and won Band of the Year in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2023 at the Blues Music Awards. They’ve sold out Madison Square Garden and over 20 nights at Red Rocks Amphitheatre. In 2024, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi performed at the Kennedy Center Honors, honoring Bonnie Raitt, Grateful Dead, and more. The full band played the 2025 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony honoring one of their biggest influences, Joe Cocker. In 2026, in support of Future Soul, TTB brings their electrifying live show across the U.S. on their annual headlining tour as well as performances at Bonnaroo and New Orleans Jazz Fest, among other festivals.

BAND: Susan Tedeschi (Guitar & Vocals), Derek Trucks (Guitar), Mike Mattison (Guitar & Vocals), Gabe Dixon (Keys & Vocals), Brandon Boone (Bass), Tyler Greenwell (Drums & Percussion), Isaac Eady (Drums & Percussion), Mark Rivers (Vocals), Alecia Chakour (Vocals), Kebbi Williams (Saxophone), Emmanuel Echem (Trumpet), Elizabeth Lea (Trombone)

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