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Tedeschi Trucks BandsI Am The Moonis a four album rock n roll event. Inspired by classical literature and driven by the isolation and mourning of the pandemic era,I Am The Moonfeatures 24 original tracks and more than two hours of music. The four albums that compriseI Am The MoonI. Crescent, II. Ascension, III. The Fall, and IV. Farewell will be released in successive months beginning with I. Crescent.

The concept behind the bands fifth studio recording, was suggested by vocalist Mike Mattison in May 2020, two months after the band was forced off the road by the pandemic. The 12th century poem Layla & Majnun by Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi was the title inspiration for Eric Claptons 1970 double-LP with Derek and the Dominoes, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs an influential album for TTB. But Ganjavis source material resonated with Mattison and the rest of the band in an altogether different way. Finding complex themes and storylines that inspired their creative process, they forged a new, modern interpretation of the vast 100-page poem.

I Am The Moonwas written collectively and collaboratively, with band members contributing their own unique perspectives on the work. By January 2021 the band was recording at Tedeschi and Trucks home studio, Swamp Raga, in Jacksonville, FL, with Derek behind the soundboard as producer and long-time studio engineer Bobby Tis in charge of recording and mixing. Operatic in scope, Tedeschi Trucks Band explores romantic relationships, collective struggle, faith, and the human experience onI Am The Moon.

Tracklist:

SIDE A
1. Somehow
2. None Above
3. Yes We Will

SIDE B
1. Gravity
2. Emmaline
3. Take Me As I Am