1. Tab Benoit was born on November 17,1967 and is an American blues guitarist, musician, and singer.
18 Facts About Tab Benoit
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Tab Benoit's playing combines a number of blues styles, primarily Delta blues.
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Tab Benoit plays a stock 1972 Fender Telecaster Thinline electric guitar and writes his own musical compositions.
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Tab Benoit formed a trio in 1987 and began playing clubs in Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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Tab Benoit began touring other parts of the South two years later and started touring more of the United States in 1991.
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Tab Benoit was featured in the IMAX film, Hurricane on the Bayou.
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Tab Benoit landed a recording contract with Texas-based Justice Records and released a series of recordings, beginning in 1992 with Nice and Warm.
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That same year, Tab Benoit appeared on Homesick for the Road, a collaborative album on the Telarc label with fellow guitarists Kenny Neal and Debbie Davies.
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Later in 2002, Tab Benoit released Whiskey Store, a collaborative recording with fellow guitarist and Telarc labelmate Jimmy Thackery, harpist Charlie Musselwhite, and the Double Trouble rhythm section consisting of bassist Tommy Shannon and drummer Chris Layton.
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In 2003, Tab Benoit released Sea Saint Sessions, recorded at Big Easy Recording Studio in New Orleans.
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In 2006, Tab Benoit recorded Brother to the Blues with Louisiana's LeRoux.
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Tab Benoit's cover of Buddy Miller's "Shelter Me" was the theme song for the Discovery Channel TV-series, Sons of Guns.
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Tab Benoit was inducted into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame on May 16,2010, at the LMHOF Louisiana Music Homecoming in Erwinville, Louisiana.
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Tab Benoit has been involved in conservation efforts on behalf of Louisiana wetlands.
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Tab Benoit is the founder of 'Voice of the Wetlands,' an organization promoting awareness of the receding coastal wetlands of Louisiana.
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Tab Benoit uses his music to promote the issues that plague Louisiana's imperiled coast to his national audience.
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Tab Benoit owns his own recording studio in Houma, Louisiana, and runs a record label, Whiskey Bayou Records.
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Tab Benoit co-arranged and co-produced Alastair Greene's album, The New World Blues.