Music CD - Tab Benoit: Power of the Pontchartrain

	Music CD: Power of the Pontchartrain Artist: Tab Benoit List Price: $17.98 Our Price: $12.44 Your Save: $ 5.54 ( 31% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Telarc
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Tracks: 1. Don't Make No Sense 2. Good To Ya, Baby 3. Shelter Me 4. Power Of the Pontchartrain 5. For What It's Worth 6. Midnight And Lonesome 7. Sac-au-lait Fishing 8. Somebody's Got To Go 9. I'm Guilty Of Lovin' You 10. Addicted 11. One Foot In the Bayou
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0089408365423 Label: Telarc Manufacturer: Telarc Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Telarc Release Date: 2007-06-26 Studio: Telarc
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Call to Spirit Comment: I bought this CD for one song, track 3, Shelter Me. To my surprise and pleasure all the tracks are good but track 3 is still the stand-out. Customer Rating: Summary: Benoit knows NO feel Comment: Good guitar. Has the feel of the New Orleans scene. Excusing an arrangement or two, it's a good listen. Customer Rating: Summary: Power of the Pontchartrain Comment: Excellent Blues cd with a strong dose of Cajun from a very talented artist! I had never heard of Tab Benoit before I found him here on Amazon, but after hearing this wonderful cd, I'm anxious to get more of his work! I'm a true fan now! Customer Rating: Summary: Nearly Perfect Blues Disc Comment: I first heard Tab Benoit at the 2006 Western Maryland Blues Fest and this is the first cd of his that I purchased. He really knows his way around a guitar and that sound dominates this effort. He runs the gamut from soulful ballads to rousing up-tempo stomps and each song is well crafted and performed. The only way he could improve this collection would be the addition of a great horn section. But it still gets 5 stars in my book. Customer Rating: Summary: Master Blues Player Comment: I have been collecting blues for over 50 years, and this is one of the albums that is exceptional overall in the story telling type of blues I like. Even the songs he does by other artists are just different enough to make it great. Cant say enough about Tab Benoit. Gary More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Tab Benoit's album titles leave little doubt as to where he's from or the music he plays. Brother to the Blues, Fever for the Bayou, Wetlands, and now Power of the Pontchartrain exude the sweaty Louisiana swamp, blues, and R&B inherent in their names. But that only tells part of the story--the rest is in the grooves where Benoit's distinctive, grainy voice and tough Telecaster leads bring soul, grit, and intensity to a sound already infused with an earthy sensibility. There's more of the same on this disc, but that's no criticism. Benoit generally sticks with others' songs here, yet he unearths hidden gems. Julie Miller's "Midnight and Lonesome" is dragged into the murky swamps as a driving ballad with eerie qualities that live up to its name. Miller and husband Buddy are also credited with the righteous-yet-rugged gospel of "Shelter Me." "Somebody's Got to Go," originally by Lonnie Johnson, gets a crisp, frisky makeover, and even Buffalo Springfield's crusty "For What It's Worth" takes a swim in the muddy waters of Benoit's home state, with a little help of some altered, post-Katrina lyrics. The guitarist lets his Cajun influences fly on the bouncy rhythms of "Sac-Au-Lait Fishing," the album's only original, and shifts into pleading Otis Redding mode for the aching blues ballad "I'm Guilty of Lovin' You." The Chicago-by-way-of-the-Delta shuffle of "One Foot in the Bayou" is also an apt description of Benoit's approach. He touches on a variety of Americana styles, yet always keeps part of himself planted firmly in the wetlands of his roots. --Hal Horowitz