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Some years ago, singer-guitarist Tab Benoit said he had no interest in playing the zydeco music of his native southern Louisiana. He dismissed the style, calling it something like “the chanka-chanka ...

Where: The Knitting Factory, 919 W. Sprague Ave. Cost: $39.50 and $48. Info: (509) 244-3279, www.sp.knittingfactory.com Tab Benoit is refreshingly old school. The gritty vocalist, who is a dynamic ...

Grammy-nominated Bayou Blues guitarist-vocalist Tab Benoit will perform 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29 at the Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. Blues trio GA-20 will open the show. Benoit is ...

Success hasn’t slowed Tab Benoit. The Blues Music Association’s Contemporary Blues Artist of the Year for both 2007 and 2008 ” and a tireless environmental advocate for his home state, Louisiana, ...

Material from Houma blues musician Tab Benoit’s first five albums is now out in a new best-of CD. Fresh on the heels of Benoit’s first-ever Blues Music Association award in May, California-based ...

CAPA welcomes acclaimed Louisiana Bayou blues guitarist Tab Benoit on his ambitious, coast-to-coast "I Hear Thunder" 2025 Tour, for a show in the Lincoln Theatre (769 E. Long St.) on Friday, October ...

Tab Benoit can always be counted on to release solid Creole blues recordings. That special mix of the Mississippi Delta and Louisiana deep bayou is what makes Benoit stand out from an ever-burgeoning ...

When John Fogerty sang “Born on the Bayou” with Creedence Clearwater Revival during the iconic band’s prime back in the ‘60s, it was belted out from a distance. Fogerty grew up in Northern California ...

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How does a Cajun from Little Caillou, Louisiana get the blues? Tab Benoit lets loose a throaty guffaw when asked this question, fully appreciating the incongruity of who he is and how he got to where ...

The blues take on different flavors in different places. There’s Delta blues and Piedmont blues, big city blues, country blues, etc. Tab Benoit plays what you might call bayou blues. His music is ...