Description
Release Date: 2024
Label: Whiskey Bayou Records
Track List
1. I Hear Thunder
2. The Ghost of Gatemouth Brown
3. Still Gray
4. Inner Child
5. Watching the Gators Roll In
6. Overdue
7. Why, Why
8. Little Queenie
9. I’m A Write That Down
10. Bayou Man
Personnel
- Tab Benoit – guitar, vocals
- Corey Duplechin – bass
- Terence Higgins – drums
- Anders Osborne – guitar
- George Porter Jr. – bass (tracks 8 & 9)
Notes
I Hear Thunder is Tab Benoit’s first studio album in over a decade. During the creative sabbatical, Benoit concentrated on his passion directed towards being an advocate for the preservation of Louisiana Wetlands and coastal erosion in the region that he calls home. In 2004, he founded “Voice of the Wetlands” and over the course of his thirty-plus-year career, he performed up to 250 dates a year with a break during the pandemic. Since his first album, Nice and Warm, over thirty years ago, he’s produced nearly 20 albums. During that time period he’s received four Grammy Award nominations and multiple Blues Music Awards.
I Hear Thunder reaffirms Tab Benoit as a powerful voice in the blues rock genre while at the same time expressing his passion for Louisana’s wetlands. This album combines Benoit’s prowess as a blues rock singer/songwriter/guitarist extraordinaire with his writing partners Anders Osborne and George Porter Jr. The result is an album that is a testament to Benoit’s enduring talent by showcasing a collection of tracks that are steeped in the rich cultural and environmental history of his beloved bayou.
