Featured “Video of the Week” is the great, Tab Benoit, blazing blues guitarist and singer, performing, “Shelter Me.”
If you like blues and blues-rock, you’ll love Tab Benoit. He has a massive following and has won the awards, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Best Contemporary Male Performer from the Blues Music Awards in Memphis. He also received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Traditional Blues Album for Brother to the Blues. Tab Benoit is Louisiana’s #1 blues-roots artist.
Medicine, is Tab Benoit’s latest album. Co-produced by Grammy-winner Anders Osborne and featuring drummer, Brady Blade, keyboardist Ivan Neville, bassist Corey Duplechin and Michael Doucet of BeauSoleil. Medicine is Benoit’s 7th solo release and features seven new originals co-written by Anders Osborne.
Benoit is also a very active environmental conservation advocate. He is the driving force behind Voice of the Wetlands, an organization working to save Louisiana’s wetlands. In 2010 he received the Governor’s Award for Conservationist of the Year from the Louisiana Wildlife Federation.
For more information on Tab Benoit:
Website: http://www.tabbenoit.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TabBenoit
Super write up and tune,and he is so into the environment , thank you Martine
Marcus,
Thanks for your comment. Glad you like the tune too. He’s, he’s a real activist. We’re lucky to have people like Tab Benoit.
I’ve got a couple cd’s of this artist. He is a very talented artist and he’s one of my favorites along with Robben Ford and Coco Montoya.
Brian,
Youre right, he is very talented. Thanks for yoyr otger favorites. I think we are abput to do an interview of Coco Montoya.