{"id":2798,"date":"2010-09-21T18:19:33","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T01:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthologysd.com\/blog\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2010-09-21T18:27:43","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T01:27:43","slug":"benoit-is-his-own-cajun-brew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/2010\/09\/21\/benoit-is-his-own-cajun-brew\/","title":{"rendered":"Benoit is his own Cajun brew"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>by Michael Kinsman | froggerdogger.com<\/a><\/cite><\/p>\n

Strangely, the first notes I remember from a Tab Benoit recording were of an organ. It was 18 years ago, but I can still recall this very soothing Hammond B-3 intro to \u201cNice And Warm,\u201d the title cut from Benoit\u2019s debut CD.<\/p>\n

But then comes this piercing, frightening Fender Telecaster with some slow blues that cut deep. Benoit\u2019s solo would last more than a minute and I was already sold on a new guitar hero.<\/p>\n

I still go back to that record when I want to feel good.  Benoit is a sort of swashbuckling guitarist who produces a simple, down-home sound when he\u2019s traveling, his Telecaster backed only by a bass and drums. On recordings, he can get adventurous when he adds a keyboard player.<\/p>\n

After more than two decades as a professional musician, Benoit performs with the fire of his earliest days.  Go back to the day a very young Benoit wondered how his guitar would sound over the PA system of his Catholic school in Houma, La.  So he locked himself in a room and proceeded to blast the school with his rock \u2018n\u2019 roll guitar in a shocking display that the school\u2019s nuns never really got over.<\/p>\n

But Benoit is a proud man. He loves the swamps of his homeland and all of the Cajun culture.  So he\u2019s developed his own style of blues that are as welcomed at Sunday afternoon fais-do-dos as they are at giant blues festivals.<\/p>\n

I just listened all the way through Benoit\u2019s debut and can say there is not a bad song among the 13 there.  He\u2019s got some tried-and-true covers \u201cThe Killing Floor,\u201d \u201cDrownin\u2019 On Dry Land\u201d and \u201cI Put A Spell On You.\u201d  Even those sound more swampy than ever before.<\/p>\n

But his coolest songs are his originals. \u201cUp And Gone,\u201d  \u201cBone Pickin\u2019\u201d and \u201cSo High\u201d have great energy and a great blues feeling that might be natural only to a this Cajun bluesman.<\/p>\n

Tab Benoit plays Anthology<\/a> in San Diego on Wednesday, Sept. 22.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Tab Benoit jams Cajun-style with Janiva Magness<\/p>\n

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Via froggerdogger.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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WHAT: Tab Benoit<\/strong>
\nWHEN: Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010, 7:30pm<\/strong>
\nTICKETS: $15 – $29 BUY TICKETS<\/a><\/strong>
\nMORE INFO: Artist Profile<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Michael Kinsman | froggerdogger.com Strangely, the first notes I remember from a Tab Benoit recording were of an organ. It was 18 years ago, but I can still recall this very soothing Hammond B-3 intro to \u201cNice And Warm,\u201d the title cut from Benoit\u2019s debut CD. But then comes this piercing, frightening Fender Telecaster […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,863],"tags":[170,255,888,887],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-upcoming-shows","tag-blues","tag-blues-guitar","tag-blues-guitarist","tag-tab-benoit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anthologysd.com\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}