Since the mid-’90s, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have both had successful music careers, she as an acclaimed singer/songwriter and he as an electrifying guitar player with his group and the Allman Brothers Band, among others. The two met on tour in 1999, married a couple of years later and had two children, but their hectic solo schedules often kept them apart. To rectify the situation, they formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band, an 11-member ensemble that recently released debut album Revelator (Sony Masterworks), which was recorded at the duo’s home studio. Knowing how much they like to do things together, we asked Tedeschi and Trucks to guest edit magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our brand new Q&A with them.
Susan: Paris is one of our favorite cities, probably because we do enjoy great food and wines, and no one does great food and wine better than Parisians. We took the whole band to a place called Le Petit Canard (the Little Duck) after our show in Paris this year, and we enjoyed the best duck on Earth. It’s all they serve, and it’s amazing. I guess the wine was really flowing because by the end of the night, our piano player Kofi Burbridge had commandeered their piano and led us all through a sing-along. They found an acoustic guitar for me to play, and our singer Mike Mattison even made up an impromptu “Le Petite Canard Blues” that was pretty hilarious. It was one of those nights on the road that make it all worth it.
