Tab Benoit at the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center -- August 12.
Thursday, August 12, 8:30 p.m.
Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center, 7077 Elmore Avenue, Davenport IA
Praised by Music Connection as “a superb guitar player who takes his audience on a joyride like no other,” award-winning blues superstar Tab Benoit brings his talents to Davenport's Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center on August 12, the artist a Delta-blues icon who was twice named the Blues Music Awards' B.B. King Entertainer of the Year.
Born on November 17, 1967, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Benoit grew up in the nearby oil and fishing town of Houma, where he still resides today. Musically, he was exposed early on to traditional Cajun waltzes and the country music broadcast on his hometown’s only radio station. Benoit’s father was himself a musician, and his son began playing drums before switching to guitar – a decision made because the only gigs to be had in rural Louisiana were held in churches and at church fairs, and organizers would not allow loud drums to be played at these events.
In 1992, Benoit released his first recording Nice and Warm on the Justice Label. The title track became a AAA Radio hit and prompted comparisons to such blues-guitar heavyweights as Albert King, Albert Collins, and Jimi Hendrix. Consequently, Benoit began playing roughly 250 shows a year, a schedule that (with the exception of 2020) he has kept up for more than two decades. He recorded four albums for Justice Records before being signed to the Vanguard label, which allowed Benoit to produce his own recordings, and the artist's music evolved again after he signed with the Telarc International/Concord Music Group in 2002. Wanting to use his music to bring attention to Louisiana’s coastal erosion issues, Benoit began to spend more time in the Wetlands, which became the title of his first Telac/Concord International release and combined many musical styles indigenous to Louisiana.
Since then, in 2007, Benoit won his first B.B. King Entertainer of the Year citation as the Blues Music Awards, and the artist was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame in 2010. Two years later, Benoit won three additional Blues Music Awards for Contemporary Blues Male Artist, Contemporary Blues Album (for 2011's Medicine), and, for the second time, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, while in 2013, Benoit again won the Blues Music Award for Contemporary Blues Male Artist. Other high-profile credits for the artist include a Grammy nomination for 2006's Brother to the Blues and a 2009 Governor's Award for Conservationist of the Year presented by the Louisiana Wildlife Federation.
Tab Benoit plays the Rhythm City Casino Resort Event Center at 8:30 p.m.on August 12, admission is $25-35, and more information and tickets are available by calling (844)852-4386 and visiting RhythmCityCasino.com.
