CD Review
Jimmy Thackery and Tab Benoit
Whiskey Store: Jimmy Thackery and Tab Benoit Live
(Telarc CD-83584)
by Tali Madden
Review date: March 2004
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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.
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