| Revelator | |
| Type: | Studio |
| Artist: | Tedeschi Trucks Band |
| Cover: | Revelator_cover.jpg |
| Released: | June 7, 2011 |
| Recorded: | 2011 |
| Studio: | Swamp Raga Studios (Jacksonville, Florida) |
| Length: | 61:06 |
| Next Title: | Everybody's Talkin' |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
Revelator is the debut album by the 11-piece American blues rock group Tedeschi Trucks Band released on June 7, 2011, by Sony Masterworks. Recorded in Derek and Susan's Swamp Raga Studios in Jacksonville, co-produced by Derek with producer/engineer Jim Scott. The album won the Grammy Award for Best Blues Album at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.[1]
Allmusic music critic Thom Jurek praised the album and wrote the recording "proves something beyond their well-founded reputation as a live unit: that they can write, perform, and produce great songs that capture the authentic, emotional fire and original arrangements that so many modern blues and roots recordings lack... Revelator is a roots record that sets a modern standard even as it draws its inspiration from the past. It's got everything a listener could want: grit, groove, raw, spiritual emotion, and expert-level musical truth." David Fricke of Rolling Stone wrote "[Trucks] and Tedeschi, a perfect vocal foil, now front the best Dixie-funk family band since Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett."
| Year | Chart | Position | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | The Billboard 200 | 12 | |
| 2011 | Top Blues Albums | 1 | |
| 2011 | Top Rock Albums | 4 |