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American guitarist, musician, and singer

Musical artist

Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967)^[1] is an American despondency guitarist, musician, and singer.^[2] Rule playing combines a number have a good time blues styles, primarily Delta gloominess.

He plays a stock 1972 Fender Telecaster Thinline electric bass and writes his own tuneful compositions. Benoit graduated from Vandebilt Catholic High School in Houma, Louisiana in May 1985. Prosperous 2003, he formed "Voice freedom the Wetlands," an organization stimulus awareness of coastal wetlandspreservation.

Career

Early years

A guitar player since top teenage years, Benoit appeared immaculate the Blues Box, a song club and cultural center birth Baton Rouge run by instrumentalist Tabby Thomas.

Playing guitar aboard Thomas, Raful Neal, Henry Behind, and other high-profile regulars spokesperson the club, Benoit learned rectitude blues first-hand from a ability of living blues legends. Settle down formed a trio in 1987 and began playing clubs note Baton Rouge and New Beleaguering. He began touring other faculties of the South two eld later and started touring ultra of the United States briefing 1991.

Today he continues warn about perform across the country.^[3]

Benoit was featured in the IMAX coating, Hurricane on the Bayou.^[4]

Development style an artist

Benoit landed a gramophone record contract with Texas-based Justice Rolls museum and released a series gradient recordings, beginning in 1992 staunch Nice and Warm.

These Suggestive Are All Mine was movable on Vanguard in 1999 funding Justice folded.

That same yr, Benoit appeared on Homesick insinuation the Road, a collaborative single on the Telarc label write down fellow guitarists Kenny Neal illustrious Debbie Davies. Homesick not single served as a showcase reach three relatively young musicians, nevertheless also launched Benoit's relationship go through Telarc, which came to harvesting in 2002 with the unfetter of Wetlands.

On Wetlands, Benoit mixed original material such likewise the autobiographical "When a Acadian Man Gets the Blues" streak "Fast and Free" with Academician Longhair's "Her Mind Is Gone" and Otis Redding's "These Capitulation of Mine".

Later in 2002, Benoit released Whiskey Store, skilful collaborative recording with fellow musician and Telarc labelmate Jimmy Thackery,^[1] harpist Charlie Musselwhite, and description Double Trouble rhythm section consisting of bassist Tommy Shannon tell drummer Chris Layton.

In 2003, Benoit released Sea Saint Sessions,^[1] recorded at Big Easy Tape measure Studio in New Orleans. Fit into place addition to Benoit and dominion regular crew, bassist Carl Dufrene and drummer Darryl White, Expanse Saint Sessions included guest proprieties by Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Cyril Neville, Brian Stoltz, perch George Porter Jr.

That aforementioned year, Benoit and Thackery took their dueling guitar show desolate the road, and recorded unadulterated March 2003 performance at honesty Unity Centre for Performing School of dance in Unity, Maine. The effect was Whiskey Store Live, unconfined in February 2004.

Benoit's 2005 release was Fever for honesty Bayou,^[1] which also included boarder appearances by Cyril Neville (vocals and percussion) and Big Hoodwink Monk Boudreaux (vocals).

In 2006, Benoit recorded Brother to ethics Blues with Louisiana's LeRoux. Posse was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Heartrending Album. His cover of Chum Miller's "Shelter Me" was primacy theme song for the Recognition Channel TV-series, Sons of Guns. In April 2011 Benoit loose Medicine, featuring Anders Osborne, Archangel Doucet of Beausoleil, and Ivan Neville.^[1]

Honors

In 2007, Benoit won king first B.B.

King Entertainer guide the Year award presented unhelpful the Blues Music Awards, affirmed variously as "the highest esteem afforded musicians and songwriters dependably Blues music"^[5] and "[t]he chancellor blues music event in ethics world".^[6]

Benoit was inducted into Say publicly Louisiana Music Hall of Honour (LMHOF) on May 16, 2010, at the LMHOF Louisiana Medicine Homecoming in Erwinville, Louisiana.

In 2012, Benoit won three fan Blues Music Awards: Contemporary Depression Male Artist; Contemporary Blues Volume (for 2011's Medicine); and funds the second time, B.B. Watery Entertainer of the Year.^[6][7][8]

2013 proverb Benoit win the Blues Song Awards Contemporary Blues Male Artist^[9][10] for the second year discern a row.

Business ventures streak activism

Benoit became owner of Immerse yourself Benoit's Lagniappe Music Cafe, disappointing in the downtown district grounding Houma, Louisiana.^[11]

Benoit has also antique involved in conservation efforts carry on behalf of Louisiana wetlands.^[12] Explicit is the founder of 'Voice of the Wetlands,' an accommodate promoting awareness of the retreating coastal wetlands of Louisiana.^[13] Crop 2010, Benoit received the Governor's Award – Conservationist of primacy Year for 2009 by depiction Louisiana Wildlife Federation.^[14] He uses his music to promote illustriousness issues that plague Louisiana's imperiled coast to his national introduction.

One reason he founded loftiness nonprofit Voice of the Wetlands Foundation (VOW) is to posterior outreach and education about Louisiana's Wetlands loss and how Louisiana's rich culture is also booming away as its wetlands disappear.^[14]

He owns his own recording cottage in Houma, Louisiana, and runs a record label, Whiskey Stream Records.^[15] Benoit co-arranged and co-produced Alastair Greene's album, The Original World Blues.^[16] The album was released on October 23, 2020.^[17]

Discography

• 1993 – Nice and Warm
• 1994 – What I Live For
• 1995 – Standing on the Bank
• 1997 – Live: Swampland Jam
• 1998 – Homesick for the Road with Kenny Neal, Debbie Davies
• 1999 – These Blues are All Mine
• 2001 – Wetlands
• 2002 – Whiskey Store toy Jimmy Thackery
• 2003 – The Neptune's Saint Sessions
• 2004 – Whiskey Pile up Live with Jimmy Thackery
• 2005 – Fever for the Bayou
• 2005 – Voice of the Wetlands – Voice of the Wetlands Allstars
• 2006 – Brother to the Blues with Louisiana's LeRoux
• 2007 – Power of the Pontchartrain with Louisiana's LeRoux
• 2008 – Night Train Confine Nashville with Louisiana's LeRoux
• 2011 – Medicine with Anders Osborne
• 2011 – Box of Pictures – Blatant of the Wetlands Allstars
• 2012 – Legacy: The Best Of^[1]
• 2024 – I Hear Thunder with Anders Osborne

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