Our guests this week on the Working Songwriter are Gabe Dixon and Mike Mattison of Tedeschi Trucks Band, the GRAMMY-winning roots ensemble led by Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks. Formed in 2010, their debut album, Revelator, won the GRAMMY Award for Best Blues Album. The group has since become one of the country’s premier live bands, selling out Madison Square Garden and playing more than 20 shows at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
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Mike Mattison has been working with Derek Trucks for more than two decades. He joined the Derek Trucks Band as lead vocalist in the early 2000s and became a founding member of Tedeschi Trucks Band thereafter. He is also one of the group’s principal lyricists and co-wrote one of its best-known songs, “Midnight in Harlem.” Keyboardist and singer-songwriter Gabe Dixon joined TTB in 2019. Before that, he led the Gabe Dixon Band and build a solo career of his own. Within Tedeschi Trucks Band he has become a key songwriter, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
TTB have appeared on Austin City Limits, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! NPR called the band “a deeply skilled and spirited ensemble” while Rolling Stone has praised their “freewheeling, soulful sound.”
I got a chance to catch up with Gabe and Mike to hear about their musical journey so far.
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