Tedeschi Trucks Band set to rock Lynn Auditorium Oct. 15

LYNN – Head over to Lynn Auditorium one a week from tomorrow and you just might find yourself part of a live album featuring arguably the best husband and wife duo in music today.Just three months after releasing their critically acclaimed inaugural album, Revelator, which Rolling Stone called “a masterpiece,” Bay State native Susan Tedeschi and Allman Brothers member Derek Trucks bring their Tedeschi-Trucks Band to Lynn Memorial Auditorium on Oct. 15.The Grammy Award-winning Trucks, a prodigy who jammed as a teenager with his heroes including Bob Dylan, John Lee Hooker and Buddy Guy, became a member of the Allman Brothers at age 20 in 1999. His uncle, drummer Butch Trucks, is a founding member of the Allman Brothers.At the same time Derek fronted his own Derek Trucks Band, which to date has released nine albums. In 2006 Trucks was a featured soloist on Eric Clapton?s world tour.Today Derek is regarded among the best (if not the best) slide guitarists in the world.Tedeschi, granddaughter of supermarket magnate Nick Tedeschi, was raised in Norwell and at age 6 was an understudy in a Broadway musical. Raised a Catholic, she developed a passion for R&B when she was drawn at a young age to choirs in predominately African-American Baptist churches.After graduating from Berklee College of Music, Tedeschi quickly rose to prominence on the New England music scene and formed the Susan Tedeschi Band in 1994.The smooth, soulful vocalist and phenomenal blues guitarist in her own right, Tedeschi played with the all-woman traveling festival Lilith Fair in 1999. She went on to open for artists including John Mellencamp, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Bob Dylan and, in 2003, The Rolling Stones. She?s earned four Grammy nominations over 10 years and her band released six albums, including the Grammy nominated Just Won?t Burn in 1998.?That was the first time we really broke out. It was the biggest thing I had ever done as a solo performer,” Tedeschi said in a telephone interview with The Item last week from her Jacksonville, Fla. home. “It was with a small, independent label and they were hoping for 60,000 (record sales) and it did 600,000.”Tedeschi and Trucks met when her band opened for the Allman Brothers in 1999. They married in 2001 and have two children, Charlie, 9, and Sophia, 6.Trucks and Tedeschi kept their own bands together for most of the past decade but their respective touring schedules frequently kept them apart. Resolving to perform more often together, they began mixing the two bands in 2008, performing the next several years as The Soul Stew Revival, a precursor to the Tedeschi Trucks Band.?We?ve been touring all over the world this year,” Tedeschi said, rattling off gigs in New Zealand, Australia, throughout Europe, Canada and New York. “We have 12 days off right now and it?s the longest we?ve had all year.”The band has 16 remaining shows through the end of the year, at venues around the country and in Canada and Brazil.The group features members from their solo groups including brothers Oteil Burbridge, (also a member of the Allman Brothers) on bass and Kofi Burbridge on of flute and keys; Mike Mattison, backing vocalist and songwriter; Tyler Greenwell on drums; jazz trombonist J.J. Johnson; and Kenny Williams on trumpet. Tedeschi is the lead vocalist for the band while Trucks frequently launches into slide guitar solos.?Derek really blows their mind. He blows my mind,” she said.Although Tedeschi said the band does not play Allman Brothers tunes, she said, “There are definitely hints of Allman Brothers. There are hints of Little Martha; hints of Mountain Jam; and hints of Blue Sky ? Derek and Oteil can?t help it and the crowd loves it.”And the songs on the new Revelator album are proving a hit with blues audiences new and old around the world.?I love all of the songs,” she said. “It?s hard for me to pick a favorite. Bound for Glory is amazing; Until You Remember; and Midnight in Harlem is just such a beautiful song. Mike (Mattison) w