Open G has been embraced by legends including Keith Richards, The Black Crowes and Led Zeppelin. Now it’s your turn to revel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between the time bluesman Tab Benoit released his first solo album, Nice and Warm, in 1992, until Medicine dropped in 2011, he kept his foot on the accelerator, putting out new collections of original ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He told The Beat not to confuse it with a greatest hits record. "I don't have any hits," the Louisiana bluesman said. "I guess it would be better to have all hits, because I wouldn't want to be a ...

Roots music comes in several flavors. Some enthusiasts look to early Mississippi Delta roots blues, others the music of W.C. Handy. They have a lot in common. Some look to rock & roll, and others, ...