Tab Benoit - 2005 - Fever For The Bayou.nfo
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Tab Benoit - Fever For The Bayou
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Artist...............: Tab Benoit
Album................: Fever For The Bayou
Genre................: Blues
Source...............: Flac
Year.................: 2005
Codec................: LAME 3.98
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........: Thanks to the flac ripper
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Tracklisting
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1. Tab Benoit - Night Train [04:17]
2. Tab Benoit - Little Girl Blues [05:11]
3. Tab Benoit - I Smell A Rat [07:03]
4. Tab Benoit - Fever For The Bayou [03:12]
5. Tab Benoit - Lost In Your Lovin' [03:41]
6. Tab Benoit - Golden Crown [06:48]
7. Tab Benoit - I Can't Hold Out [03:26]
8. Tab Benoit - The Blues Is Here To Stay [06:02]
9. Tab Benoit - Got Love If You Want It [03:18]
10. Tab Benoit - Blues So Bad [03:51]
11. Tab Benoit - My Bucket's Got A Hole In It [02:21]
Playing Time.........: 49:15
Total Size...........: 112.75 MB
NFO generated on.....: 1/25/2019 8:58:48 PM
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Tab Benoit's latest release on Telarc, Fever for the Bayou, continues in what
has become Benoit's signature territory, a funky, ragged blend of Louisiana
swamp blues and East Texas guitar, with hints of funk, soul, and country
thrown in to give the gumbo just the right spice. If it sounds like a formula,
well, Benoit's jagged guitar playing and increasingly soulful vocals make it
clear that this is the music he loves, so it hardly matters. He touches a lot of
bases here, including an eerie approximation of Elmore James' slide sound on
a cover of James' "I Can't Hold Out" (which also features some cool tenor sax
work from Jimmy Carpenter), then conjures Buddy Guy on Guy's "I Smell a
Rat," fires up on the old Slim Harpo chestnut "Got Love if You Want It," and
tears through a wonderfully swampy take on Levon Helm's "Blues So Bad"
before ending things with an acoustic version of Clarence Williams' "My
Bucket's Got a Hole in It" (made famous by another Williams, Hank Williams
Sr.). Cyril Neville guests on two tracks, "The Blues Is Here to Stay" and "Little
Girl Blues," while Big Chief Monk Boudreaux contributes and sings a delightful
Mardi Gas chant called "Golden Crown." But the strongest tracks are all Benoit
originals, including the fiery opener, "Night Train," the Stax-by-way-of-New
Orleans stunner "Lost in Your Lovin'" (which shows that Benoit is as much a
singer as he is a guitarist), and the voodoo swagger of "Fever for the
Bayou." It's not just that Benoit plays the blues with a primal punch and more
than a hint of grace and soul, it's that he has a vision for it, and grounds it in
both time and place, which means that he isn't just another Stratocaster
gunslinger, but an American original. It's time for people to catch up and
discover this guy.
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