Tedeschi Trucks Band and their Funky, Bluesy Southern Rock, Play The Klein

Unquestionably the most impressive husband/wife team in the history of southern rock and blues music, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi graced The Klein's stage back in 2007, but not as a band.  Soon, they were making arrangements to turn their mutual love and adoration for blues and rock into a family business. Since then, they’ve been sharing the stage with every single living blues legend.

Susan Tedeschi  has been compared to Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin, and her debut album with her husband, Derek Trucks, is filled with smoky, blues-dipped rockers and heart-stilling ballads that show off her vocals and his agility on slide-guitar.

Going further back into historical blues rock territory than even the Black Crowes have, Tedeschi and Trucks are masters of the genre. The songwriting team for this band might as well have been directly transplanted from the early ‘70s.
The first generation of this new lineup made appearances at some of the most prestigious festivals of last year including New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Fest, Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Fest, Telluride Blues & Brews Festival, and Japan's Fuji Rock Fest. In addition, Derek and Susan collaborated with Herbie Hancock on his “Imagine Project,” performing with the jazz master at high profile events such as “Late Night with David Letterman” and “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” as well as both of Hancock’s 70th birthday parties held at Carnegie Hall in New York and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Trucks' slide guitar playing is second to none. He has led his own The Derek Trucks Band for over 15 years, has been the slide guitarist for the Allman Brothers Band for more than ten, toured the world with Eric Clapton and was featured on the cover of the 2007 Rolling Stone “New Guitar Gods” issue. Combine that with Trucks' sixth studio album release (Already Free) debuting at #19 on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and it's no wonder why he is the youngest musician to date to make Rolling Stones list of “Top 100 Guitarists of All Time.”

Tedeschi has risen to fame with multiple Grammy Award nominations. Her powerful singing voice and fearless stage presence have made her one of the most stirring soul and blues musicians of our time. Add to her knack for musical truth telling and her commanding guitar playing, and you have an artist who is quickly taking her place as the new generation's greatest female blues guitar/singer and, perhaps, one of the best ever.

With the added accolade of individual 2010 Grammy Award nominations (The Derek Trucks Band eventually winning in the Best Contemporary Blues Album category with Tedeschi having contributed vocals to the cause), this duo is taking the world of