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Tab Benoit on guitar.
Tab Benoit in action.
Renowned guitarist Tab Benoit continues his year-long "Whiskey Bayou Revue" Tour (named for his Louisiana-based record label) with a performance at the Westampton Beach Performing Arts Center on Sunday, August 18, at 8 p.m.
Tab Benoit is Louisiana’s number one roots music export. He kicks out Delta blues with a bayou twist that’s lean, mean, and full of stinging Telecaster guitar. One of the most impressive guitarists to emerge from the rich bayous of southern Louisiana in recent years, Mr. Benoit’s guitar tone can be recognized before his Otis-Redding-ish voice resonates from the speakers. He doesn’t rely on any effects and his set up is simple. The effects that you hear come from his fingers.
No matter whether he’s channeling Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, or Professor Longhair, this 2007 B.B. King Entertainer of the Year winner sings and plays music with a blues fever, calling up everything that gets the hips shaking and staying that way.
Tickets for his WHBPAC show are $56 to $76 at 631-288-1500 or whbpac.org. The theater is at 76 Main Street in Westhampton Beach.
Staff Writer on Aug 9, 2019