Jimmy Thackery & Tab Benoit 2004 Whiskey Store Live

Genre: Blues
Rate: 320 kbps CBR / 44100
Time: 01:13:30
Size: 168,07 MB

Telarc continues down the booze and blues trail with this appealing live set. Journeymen guitarists Benoit and Thackery both have established comfortable niches fronting their own bands. The powerful combination of their talents insists this blues is best experienced live. Thackery's stinging attack combines nicely with Benoit's bayou leanings, providing a rich stylistic duality. The twin lead guitars are nicely fattened up with Hammond b-3 and sax plus two drummers.

"Freddy's Combo", an instrumental dedicated to Freddie King, kicks things off solidly. Tab Benoit steps up next with an up and jumping "I Got Loaded". Inspired soloing from both guitar slingers permeates the set. Elder guitarist Thackery is known to occasionally drift into 'classic' rock territory and has a mean version of Hendrix's "Rainy Day Dream Away" up his sleeve, though it's not on this set. Dylan's "Leopard Skin Pill Box Hat" is given the Thackery treatment here, though, with excellent results. The younger Louisiana bayou born and raised Benoit brings that region's spicy spin on the blues to the table. One of the most exemplary of latter-day blues artists, Benoit is a consistent pleasure vocally and instrumentally. Benoit lets it all hang out swamp style for nine-plus minutes on the high gear "Bayou Boogie", fueled with funky manic picking. He continues with the band smoldering through an almost 10 minute serving of Otis Redding's "These Arms of Mine". A heavy, dramatic "Whiskey Store" brings the set to a close. Not a wasted moment in this gratifying set of live blues from two talented, unique latter-day blues artists.

"This review is copyright © 2004 by Tali Madden, and Blues On Stage at: www.mnblues.com, all rights reserved.



Tracklist:

01 - Freddy's Combo 08:22

02 - I Got Loaded 07:06

03 - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat 07:48

04 - Bone Pickin' 06:11

05 - Away, Way Too Long 07:22

06 - Strange Things Happen 07:35

07 - Bayou Boogie 10:00

08 - These Arms Of Mine 10:02

09 - Whiskey Store 09:04




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