Susan Tedeschi

You might remember Susan Tedeschi from such opening act performances as with B.B. King, The Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones. It’s the blues musician’s performance with the latter group that brought her national recognition in her native America in 2003.

She also has a wonderful, wonderful voice. Tedeschi’s 2004 album Live From Ausitin, TX is exemplary of a gravelly, gracious tone – one as majestic as the solos she executes. And if it’s a boisterous kind of blues that gets you going, the rumbling riffs of songs like “Rock Me Right” and the voluptuous bass of “Back To The River” expose such a fervent experience that it’s no wonder so many got hooked on Tedeschi’s outpourings of material throughout this decade.

In the years following her breakthrough, Tedeschi was the recipient of no less than seven Grammy Awards – just one more reason that Tedeschi should be a staple in your blues guitarist collection.

With a superfluous number of influences and idols, Tedeschi’s sound is so very augmented by a variety of styles that it’s hard to know where Tedeschi begins and her role models end – but that’s what makes her music it so endearing. Tedeschi somehow encompasses that to create a sensual singularity – a dichotic statement, sure, but an accurate one nonetheless.