Tab Benoit
Music / Singing - Performance
Friday, July 13, 2012
8:00 PM-11:00 PM
Bull Run Restaurant
Sawtelle Room
215 Great Rd
Shirley, MA 01464
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Guitarist, singer and songwriter Tab Benoit, who makes his home near New Orleans in Houma, Louisiana, is definitely a man with the blues. He's one of a handful of bright rising stars on the modern blues scene who paid his dues as a road troubadour playing 250 nights a year. He's worked each of his brilliant records the old-fashioned way, playing anywhere and everywhere he and his band could play. Unlike so many others before him, Benoit understands that blues is not a medium typically in favor with 50,000-watt commercial rock radio stations. However, in 1992, because of his major breakout tracks, Nice and Warm and Bone Pickin, radio began playing his music on the same commercial stations that were playing the popular acts of the day such as The Dave Matthews Band, Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, etc. It was the first time since the death of the Stevie Ray Vaughn that a new roots Artist was receiving heavy rotation on commercial Rock radio stations across the country. Since that time Tab has recorded with Junior Wells, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, James Cotton, Cyril Neville, Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Henry Gray, and Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie to name a few.
Besides being Louisianas No.1 roots export, Tab is a driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization working to save Louisianas wetlands. In 2010, he received the Governors Award for Conservationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. He also starred in the iMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary of Hurricane Katrinas effects and a call to restore the wetlands.
And now, after fifteen solo recordings, winning the dual awards of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Male Performer at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis (formerly the W.C. Handy Awards), three Grammy nominations and a budding movie career, Tab is a part of Louisiana folklore and legend. And though critics are comparing him to some of the greatest bluesmen and guitarists of all time, Tab doesn't aspire to be the "next" anybody. But his music, like the title of his 2011 album, "Medicine," might be just what the doctor ordered.
Watch and listen: HERE
Open: The Installers
Cost: $22 advance; $26 day of show plus ticket fee.
Suggested Audiences:
College, Adult
Website: http://tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com/
E-mail:
bullrun@nyc.rr.com
Phone: 978-425-4311
Last Modified: May 22, 2012 at 11:56 PM
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Tab Benoit
Music / Singing - Performance
Friday, July 13, 2012
8:00 PM-11:00 PM
Bull Run Restaurant
Sawtelle Room
215 Great Rd
Shirley, MA 01464
Google Maps - MapQuest
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Tab Benoit, who makes his home near New Orleans in Houma, Louisiana, is definitely a man with the blues. He's one of a handful of bright rising stars on the modern blues scene who paid his dues as a road troubadour playing 250 nights a year. He's worked each of his brilliant records the old-fashioned way, playing anywhere and everywhere he and his band could play. Unlike so many others before him, Benoit understands that blues is not a medium typically in favor with 50,000-watt commercial rock radio stations. However, in 1992, because of his major breakout tracks, Nice and Warm and Bone Pickin, radio began playing his music on the same commercial stations that were playing the popular acts of the day such as The Dave Matthews Band, Spin Doctors, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, etc. It was the first time since the death of the Stevie Ray Vaughn that a new roots Artist was receiving heavy rotation on commercial Rock radio stations across the country. Since that time Tab has recorded with Junior Wells, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, James Cotton, Cyril Neville, Kim Wilson of the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Henry Gray, and Jimmy Hall of Wet Willie to name a few.
Besides being Louisianas No.1 roots export, Tab is a driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization working to save Louisianas wetlands. In 2010, he received the Governors Award for Conservationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation. He also starred in the iMax motion picture Hurricane on the Bayou, a documentary of Hurricane Katrinas effects and a call to restore the wetlands.
And now, after fifteen solo recordings, winning the dual awards of B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Male Performer at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis (formerly the W.C. Handy Awards), three Grammy nominations and a budding movie career, Tab is a part of Louisiana folklore and legend. And though critics are comparing him to some of the greatest bluesmen and guitarists of all time, Tab doesn't aspire to be the "next" anybody. But his music, like the title of his 2011 album, "Medicine," might be just what the doctor ordered.
Watch and listen: HERE
Open: The Installers
Cost: $22 advance; $26 day of show plus ticket fee.
Suggested Audiences: College, Adult
Website: http://tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com/
E-mail: bullrun@nyc.rr.com
Phone: 978-425-4311
Last Modified: May 22, 2012 at 11:56 PM
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