This year the Florida 12-piece, headed by married duo Susan Tedeschi (lead vocals, guitar) and Derek Trucks (guitar), released scintillating epic I Am The Moon in four separate volumes. With an accompanying film for each, the album became an episodic rock’n’roll experience, informed by the same ancient Persian poem, Layla & Majnun,, that had once inspired Eric Clapton’s Layla.. Then they hit the road, ending with triumphant shows across Europe. We caught up with Susan Tedeschi for a look back of what has been a good year for the band, and what lies ahead.
How was 2022 for you?
Very busy, but really fun. The band is really firing on all cylinders, we’re getting tighter and tighter.
Has there been a highlight?
Coming over to Europe. It was wonderful to play in Ireland, because my grandfather’s from there.
I loved playing London too. I’m a mixture of Irish, English and Italian. And, honestly, I’m just happy to be alive. The world is in such an uproar that it’s lovely to be back and doing what we love.
Was I Am The Moon intended from the start to be a four-volume concept piece?
developed over time. The main writers in the band – Derek and myself, Mike [Mattison] and Gabe [Dixon] – wrote songs that were all part of the same theme. And we were thinking about the old days, when people made fabulous records that were thirty-five-to-forty minutes long: or John Coltrane records, or blues records by
