![]() What Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have recorded proves something beyond their well. There’s finally some energy on the John Lee Hooker-like “Learn How to Love’’ and the funky “Love Has Something Else to Say,’’ but it feels too little, too late. Revelator is the debut studio album from the 11-piece TedeschiTrucks Band. “Ball and Chain’’ has a title that suggests Janis Joplin punch, but it fades away. “Midnight in Harlem’’ is shockingly laid-back, given that one lyric conjures heroin needles on the ground. After a promising start with “Come See About Me’’ (suggesting a groove from the Allman Brothers Band of which Trucks is a member), they suddenly slip into a rut of seven straight slow songs. ![]() What went wrong here? Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks were each nominated for a Grammy in the best contemporary blues album category last year - Trucks ultimately winning for his exquisite “Already Free.’’ Expectations were high for this first joint record from the husband-and-wife team, but they generally settle for easy-listening, adult-contemporary blues music that rarely unleashes the power for which they are known.
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