“It’s just an Olympic cast of characters. Tedeschi and Trucks married in 2001, and had two kids - but the Derek Trucks Band and Susan Tedeschi Band didn’t marry until 2010. Look!’ And he held a shell up and there was a ring in it. Tedeschi recalls the moment Trucks proposed: “We went to the beach and he’s like, ‘Hey, I think I found this really big shark’s tooth. We just hit it off.”Īctually, they have another reason to celebrate while in town: Dec. “I ran into a few times at sound checks, and we just started talking, listening to music, hanging out. Her life changed again in 1999 when she opened for the Allman Brothers. John definitely helped open up my world.” Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi onstage in 2019. “So I got to know Willie Nelson quite well, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, all those guys. Mellencamp brought her to the Clinton White House for a VH1 concert, and later to Farm Aid. She was among the first to play Boston’s House of Blues, but her big break came in 1998 when she was tapped to open for John Mellencamp’s tour. “It wasn’t until ‘93 that I started my own band, the Susan Tedeschi Band. She also worked at Circuit City’s Impulse for a stint. She performed at Boston-area weddings and was a singing waitress on the Spirit of Boston cruise ship. And I was like, 'Well, I’ll just go to Berklee.’”Īfter graduating from Berklee at age 20, Tedeschi cut her teeth on the local scene: Harpers Ferry in Allston, Johnny D’s in Somerville and The YardRock in Quincy were a few haunts. I was going to go one time - and I don’t know what happened. I to go on these expeditions for sunken ships. He was a donor helping him out on some of his different adventures - finding the Titanic. My grandfather had been working and sponsoring Dr. “I’d to go to college for marine biology. I acted in a lot of plays.”Īnd yet she was almost a marine biologist, instead of a blues guitarist. “At Norwell High School, I played with The Thompson Brothers. “I started playing acoustic guitar in my teens, and started to write songs,” she says. Little Susan started out on harmonica, before graduating to piano and clarinet in her grade school days. (The chain was sold to 7-Eleven in 2015.) “Everybody in our family always played or sang or did something,” says Tedeschi, whose great-grandfather founded Tedeschi Food Shops. Born in Boston in 1970 and raised in Norwell, Tedeschi loved acting and music from a young age. I was just doing normal kid stuff,” Tedeschi, 51, says with a laugh. “Derek, as a little kid, was out touring. A child prodigy, he was crushing “Layla” as a middle schooler. Named the 16th Best Guitarist of All Time by Rolling Stone, the 42-year-old is a guitar player’s guitar player. King, the Rolling Stones, Santana, and she even opened for Bob Dylan. After graduating Berklee College of Music, Tedeschi toured with John Mellencamp, B.B. The 12-piece has a reputation as a band best seen live, as they’re apt to crank it to 11. Because Tedeschi and Trucks are a force - their band sounds as if early Bonnie Raitt and Elmore James hired 10 stellar musicians for the ultimate blues jam band. (Courtesy Stuart Levine)įor their local fans, the stop is an early gift. Just a taste of it gets you in the Christmas spirit.” Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Beacon Theatre in NYC on Oct. Living in Florida these days, it’s nice to feel the cold weather. “But it is a tradition, too - it’s nice to see family, friends from high school and college. Tradition but, also “basically a contract,” says Tedeschi, who now lives in Jacksonville, Florida. For the fifth time, Tedeschi Trucks Band will play a run of shows kicking off the holiday season - Nov. In recent years, it’s become tradition for Tedeschi to return home for the holidays with her husband/bandmate Derek Trucks to rock Boston’s Orpheum Theatre. "My grandmother used to have horses, so she’d get the sled out, have all us kids ride. We have a big close-knit Italian family that honestly, just keeps growing,” says the Norwell native. "Sometimes there would be so many people, we’d have Mass at the house. Growing up, Christmas Eve was big for Susan Tedeschi’s family. Tedeschi Trucks Band in Arrington, Virginia in August 2021.
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