Tab Benoit (born November 17, 1967 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States) is a blues guitarist, musician and singer. He plays a style that is a combination of Swamp blues, Soul blues and Chicago blues.
If Hollywood ever decides to remake Mad Max, swamp rock dynamo Tab Benoit is the artist that should play in the concert scene. His two-hour sellout concert at Cohoes Music Hall Thursday night (October 28th) was post-Apocalyptic.
“I consider myself a live artist, not a recording artist,” the Louisiana blues guitarist told the audience at The Birchmere last week. A native of Baton Rouge currently residing outside of New Orleans, Benoit's playing has earned well-deserved comparisons to iconic virtuosos like Albert King and Albert Collins.
Tab Benoit packed the house last night and boy was he happy to be playing live music. The Fort Collins crowd welcomed him and his band with open arms and hearts.
Material: Tab Benoit is an artist singing and playing rock & roll, blues, country and a combination of all three mixed with assorted good vibes, licks, progressions and melodies from old to new.
A curious thing happened during the opening act prior to Tab Benoit’s set at Atomic Cowboy on Aug. 24. Johanson, a master of blues guitar, took the stage alone and tuned his own guitar. Johanson then introduced his stripped-down backup band, which included Corey Duplechin on bass and the drummer: headliner Ta
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