Blues Masters Live Tab Benoit

• 1 Muddy Bottom Blues (Live) 05:38
• 2 Her Mind Is Gone (Live) 04:37
• 3 Nice and Warm (Live) 08:47
• 4 Let Love Take Control (Live) 07:26
• 5 Dog Hill (Live) 06:20
• 6 I Got Loaded (Live) 08:02
• 7 Louisiana Style (Live) 06:08
• 8 Crawfishin' (Live) 04:55
• 9 Mardi Gras Medley (Live) 09:40
• 10 Cherry Tree Blues (Live) 08:11
• 11 Bayou Boogie (Live) 05:56
• Total Runtime 01:15:40

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Tab Benoit took the Blue Heaven Studios stage in October 2002 for the fifth annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads while touring behind Wetlands, the album that put him on the national map. This unreleased set captures the Houma, Louisiana bluesman at full power, from "Muddy Bottom Blues" to a "Mardi Gras Medley" and a closing run of "Cherry Tree Blues" into "Bayou Boogie." The night also brought a "Louisiana Legends" crew onstage with Benoit for Lil' Bob & The Lollipops' "I Got Loaded."

Rather than simply documenting another night on tour, these recordings captured the artists directly to two-track half-inch tape at 15 inches per second. More than twenty years later, those original analog tapes now form the foundation of the first two releases in the new archival series.

“For Tab Benoit, the 2002 performance was a homecoming of sorts. At 34, the Louisiana guitarist was already an acclaimed performer, but found himself sharing the Blue Heaven stage with elder statesmen of the music he had grown up admiring. Recorded with bassist Carl Dufrene Jr. and drummer Darryl White, the performance captures Benoit moving through the blues, New Orleans R&B, swamp pop and zydeco traditions that shaped his sound.

The recording remained unreleased for more than two decades. When Acoustic Sounds’ Chad Kassem decided to begin releasing recordings from the Blues Masters at the Crossroads archive during Acoustic Sounds’ 40th anniversary year, Benoit’s performance was an obvious place to begin.

The double album moves from Benoit originals including “Muddy Bottom Blues,” “Nice and Warm,” “Let Love Take Control,” “Louisiana Style,” “Crawfishin’” and “Cherry Tree Blues” to deeply rooted Louisiana material, including Professor Longhair’s “Her Mind Is Gone,” Boozoo Chavis’ “Dog Hill,” and “I Got Loaded,” performed with its creator, Camille Bob, aka Lil’ Bob. The set closes with the aptly titled “Bayou Boogie,” Benoit delivering on his promise to “give it all I got.”

If Benoit’s album captures a rising Louisiana artist stepping into the company of his heroes, Blues Masters Live: Tony Joe White documents a performance that Kassem has privately treasured for years. “This recording in particular is one of the best things I’ve ever been a part of. I’ve been playing this for people for 23 years and it stops me cold every single time.”” (Tracking Angle Review by Michael Fremer)

Tab Benoit, vocals, electric guitar
Carl Dufrene, bass
Darryl White, drums
Camille Bob (Lil' Bob), vocals on „I Got Loaded“

Recorded live at Blue Heaven Studios, Salina, Kansas, USA, in October 2002, during the fifth annual Blues Masters at the Crossroads festival
Engineered by David Baker and Katsuhiko Naito
Mastered by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab, Salina, Kansas, from the original analog master tapes

Tab Benoit
In 1992 Benoit released his first recording Nice and Warm on the Justice Label. The title track became a AAA Radio hit and Benoit’s touring career kicked into high gear. Nice and Warm prompted comparisons to blues guitar heavyweights like Albert King, Albert Collins and even Jimi Hendrix. Tab began playing two-hundred and fifty shows a year, a schedule he has kept up for over twenty years. He recorded four albums for Justice Records before being signed to the Vanguard label, and became Louisiana’s Number One Blues export. Vanguard allowed Tab to produce his own recordings; Tab wanted to record the sound that he was trying to create and in 1999 Vanguard Records released These Blues Are All Mine.

Tab Benoit’s music evolved again after he signed with the Telarc International/Concord Music Group in 2002. He began to strip it down to a three-piece group, where he found more freedom as a guitarist. He was also on a mission in wanting to use his music and his energy to bring attention to Louisiana’s coastal erosion issues. Tab began to spend more time in the Wetlands and it was where he began to write his songs. Wetlands was the title of his first Telac/Concord International release. The record combined many musical styles that are indigenous to Louisiana, while he began to play accordion lines and washboard on guitar. Wetlands was a mile marker that definitively marked Tab’s further musical progression into his own original sound and style.

Following the release of Wetlands in 2004 Benoit founded the Voice of the Wetlands non-profit organization and began to use music and gather other musicians to use their platforms for getting the message out. He put together an all-star band that featured Cyril Neville, Anders Osborne, George Porter Jr, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Johnny Vidacovich, Johnny Sansone, and Waylon Thibodeaux that became The Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars. The Voice of the Wetlands All-Stars have released two CDs and occasionally tour throughout the country.

Benoit recently launched his own imprint, Whiskey Bayou Records, with partner and manager, Rueben Williams. The label has thus far released albums by such established artists as Eric McFadden, Damon Fowler, Eric Johanson, Jeff McCarty, and Dash Rip Rock. In 2019 Benoit hits the road for a major U.S. Tour, the Whiskey Bayou Revue, featuring Benoit and several of his label’s artists.

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