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There are very few families in which Susan Tedeschi wouldn’t be the best guitar player. But when you marry Derek Trucks you don’t have a chance, even if you’re arguably the best female guitarist out there. Rolling Stone named Trucks the 16th best guitarist of all time — living or dead — and at 33 he’s the youngest of the Top 100. But, damn, Tedeschi can really play.

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That was just one of the revelations that emerged from the Tedeschi Trucks Band’s amazing, transcendent, two-hour concert Sunday at Robinson Center Music Hall. Tedeschi and Trucks were each major musical forces before they united as a couple and more recently as co-band leaders. “Revelator,” the TTB’s debut album, won the Grammy last year for best blues album, but it’s selling the band short to categorize it as strictly a blues band. This band rocks, and the gospel underpinnings are easy to hear. And, yes, it’s a bluesy bunch, too.

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