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Tab Benoit - Medicine

Featuring the music of Tab Benoit
Duration: 2:26

Benoit in studio featuring Anders Osborne, Ivan Neville, Corey Duplechin, drummer Brady Blade, and Michael Doucet.
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News: Recording

Tab Benoit - Medicine (2011)

Tab Benoit - Medicine (2011)

Since his 1992 debut Nice And Warm, you always know exactly what you'll get from a Tab Benoit record: honest, rough-and-ready electric blues with a dash of Cajun seasoning, soulful bayou ballads and a two-step or two thrown in for good measure, In many ways, that can sum up Benoit's new offering, Medicine, too. I'm still ...

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News: Event

New Orleans Jazz Musicians Perform at G-20 to Highlight Climate Change in Pittsburgh

New Orleans Jazz Musicians Perform at G-20 to Highlight Climate Change in Pittsburgh

NEW ORLEANS JAZZ MUSICIANS PLAY BEFORE G-20, DRAW ATTENTION TO CLIMATE CHANGE Tonight, Wednesday, September 23, 2009 9:00 PM to 12 Midnight The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh 117 Sandusky St. Pittsburgh, PA PITTSBURGH, PA -- The music and culture of New Orleans took center stage at the Andy Warhol ...

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Article: Live Review

New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009

Read "New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 2009" reviewed by Gary Firstenberg


If you want to experience music as wide and as deep as the mighty Mississippi River, it is best to go right to the source. In the lush surroundings of the oldest horse racing track in The Big Easy, the 40th Annual New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival celebrated a diverse assortment of music, and provided ...

Album

Brother to the Blues

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Pack It Up; Bring It On Home to Me; Brother to the Blues; Why Are People Like That?; I

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Article: Album Review

Tab Benoit: Brother to the Blues

Read "Brother to the Blues" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Tab Benoit can always be counted on to release solid Creole blues recordings. That special mix of the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana deep bayou is what makes Benoit stand out from an ever-burgeoning population of blues artists. He capitalizes on this fact by giving his road band a vacation and taking on Louisiana's Leroux as his ...

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Article: Album Review

Tab Benoit: Brother to the Blues

Read "Brother to the Blues" reviewed by Jim Santella


Roots music comes in several flavors. Some enthusiasts look to early Mississippi Delta roots blues, others the music of W.C. Handy. They have a lot in common. Some look to rock & roll, and others, like Tab Benoit, look to country & western music for their blues roots. It all comes together when you look back ...

Album

Fever for the Bayou

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Night Train; Little Girl Blues; I Smell A Rat; Fever For The Bayou; Lost In Your Lovin'; Golden Crown; I Can't Hold Out; The Blues Is Here To Stay; Got Love If You Want It; Blues So Bad; My Bucket's Got A Hole In It.

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Article: Album Review

Tab Benoit: Fever for the Bayou

Read "Fever for the Bayou" reviewed by Jim Santella


Tab Benoit's title track reflects the Zydeco music of his homeland. It's in his blood. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he's grown up with this “poor man's music" and has come to find that it's a perfect way of expressing what ordinary people like us feel every day of our lives. The message is plain and ...

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Article: Album Review

Tab Benoit: Fever for the Bayou

Read "Fever for the Bayou" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Looking at the cover photo of Tab Benoit's new recording, Fever for the Bayou, one would fear that the big label creep might have cleaned up Mr. Benoit a bit too much. The guitarist/singer is sporting a crisp purple (mauve, as my wife would say) shirt, a stylish gelled haircut, and perfectly cultivated five-o'clock shadow. Is ...


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