Back to the River is the sixth studio album

Studio album

A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 musician Susan Tedeschi

Susan Tedeschi

Susan Tedeschi is an American blues and soul musician, who has received multiple Grammy Award nominations, and is well-known for her singing voice, guitar playing, stage presence, and marriage to blues guitarist Derek Trucks...

, released October 28, 2008, on Verve Forecast. Production was handled by Tedeschi herself. Upon its debut, Back to the River has received favorable reviews from music critics, including a four out of five star review from Allmusic. The album would peak at number on on the Billboard Top Blues Albums. Tedeschi was nominated for the 2010 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album

Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album

The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album was awarded from 1988 to 2011. From 2001 to 2003 the award recipients included the producers and engineers as well as the artists...

, which is her fifth Grammy nomination to date, but she lost the award to her husband, Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks

Derek Trucks is a Grammy Award-winning, American guitarist, songwriter, and record producer. He founded The Derek Trucks Band and worked as a session musician when he was still in his early teens. Throughout those teenage years, he toured with The Allman Brothers Band primarily as a slide...

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Track listing

1. Talking About – 4:22
2. 700 Houses – 4:36
3. Back To The River – 3:55
4. Love Will – 3:47
5. Butterfly – 4:07
6. People – 3:25
7. Learning The Hard Way – 4:37
8. Revolutionize Your Soul – 4:45
9. True – 3:20
10. There's A Break In The Road – 3:26
11. Can't Sleep At Night – 3:53

Personnel

• Susan Tedeschi – vocals, guitar
• Tyler Greenwell – drums, percussion
• Ted Pecchio
  Ted Pecchio
  Ted Pecchio is an American bassist and currently a member of Grammy nominee Susan Tedeschi's touring group. Prior to that he played with Colonel Bruce Hampton and the Codetalkers. Aside from playing an amazing bass, he is best known for making some awesome faces while on stage...
  
   – bass guitar
• Matt Slocum
  Matt Slocum (keyboardist)
  Matt Slocum is a keyboardist who collaborates predominantly with southern jazz, funk, fusion and blues musicians. He has worked with Susan Tedeschi, Jimmy Herring, and Allman Brothers bassist Oteil Burbridge, among many others....
  
   – keyboards, piano
• Dave Yoke

Weekly

Chart (2008)	Peak position
US Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	71
US Blues Albums (Billboard Billboard (magazine) Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis... )	1