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Nice & Warm | 
 enlarge | Artist: Tab Benoit
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 31447
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79542
UPC: 015707954228
EAN: 0015707954228
ASIN: B00000IIW3
Release Date: April 20, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Nice and Warm - Tab Benoit, Benoit, Tab | | • | Open Book - Tab Benoit, | | • | So High - Tab Benoit, | | • | I Put a Spell on You - Tab Benoit, Hawkins, Screamin' | | • | Bone Pickin' - Tab Benoit, Benoit, Tab | | • | Shining Moon - Tab Benoit, Hopkins, Lightnin' | | • | The Killing Floor - Tab Benoit, Burnett, Chester Ar | | • | Up and Gone - Tab Benoit, | | • | She's Out There Somewhere - Tab Benoit, Guy, Buddy | | • | Drowning on Dry Land - Tab Benoit, Jones, Alan [3] | | • | Down in the Swamp - Tab Benoit, Benoit, Tab | | • | Voodoo on the Bayou - Tab Benoit, | | • | Ramblin' on My Mind - Tab Benoit, Johnson, Robert [01 |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Blues purists are sure to chafe at the sound of Benoit's heartfelt but eminently smooth guitar lines. Nevertheless, this 1992 debut is easily his best effort to date, an unstrained mix of Cajun, R&B, and blues stylings honed by his then-recent apprenticeship in the bars of Baton Rouge. Recorded live over a two-day period, Benoit's clean, spontaneous phrases avoid both New Age somnabulence and overheated roadhouse cliches. His extended solo at the end of "I Put a Spell on You" puts a silky, authoritative sheen on that rabble-rousing staple, and both "Bone Pickin'" and "Voodoo on the Bayou" acknowledge his Louisiana roots without ruffling the fabric of his own identity. Nice and Warm isn't perfect: Benoit's rendition of "The Killing Floor" is simply too antiseptic beside Howlin' Wolf's definitive version, and Benoit's vocals are merely passable throughout. But overall, the music here is indeed nice and warm, and played with a self-assurance that adds substance to its relaxed attitude. --Britt Robson
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| Customer Reviews:
 A fan of the blues September 20, 2008
T. R. Castle (San Diego Ca.)
I think Tab Benoit is a musians musian.He plays his music with a passion.
Johnny Lang thought so much of Nice and Warm he covered it on his first cd. Tabs music is the blues cajun style.I've seen him play live and he gives you more than your monies worth.This cd is one of his best and I have them all.
 Review from a blues junkie May 28, 2008
Kavity Killer (denver, colorado United States)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
When I first got the album, I thought it was good. The vocals are pretty good for a white guy singing the blues. There are plenty of good white blues guitarists out there, but to really be able to sing the blues well is rare. Not great singing, but expressive, gruff, and with a nice feel.
Now to the guitar playing: I played this for some friends of mine who, at the time, were deeply into playing electric blues themselves. They scoffed. I was wounded. I went back and listened again and again.
10 years later, I've listened to enough blues to have, what I humbly think, is a relatively objective opinion.
If you heard Tab play in a blues bar, it would be a good night. The guy can throw down some decent blues. I still feel that he sings pretty well. His guitar playing, though, is that of a good hobbyist. I've heard mechanics, dentists, and plumbers play as well or better. This isn't to put him down, but go to youtube and search Robben Ford or Larry McCray. Tab just isn't in the same league as seasoned and naturally talented blues guitar players. Larry McCray's live clips in particular will blow you away.
Must we compare? Actually, yes. There must be some standard!
He sounds like he's trying a little too hard, or its a tad sloppy, or the phrasing is off. Hard to explain, but I don't get that sense of awe hearing him play.
Take it for what it is. I call it Blues Lite- not bad, but is it worth your hard earned clams?
Competes with the originals July 31, 2003
David Kn. (Newton, MA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a great blues album. His covers of three of my favorite blues classics "I'll Put A Spell on You", "Killing Floor" and "Drowning on Dry Land" are loving, soulful tributes...and great renditions in their own right. Benoit can wring a piercing cry from that guitar that makes your spine shudder and brings tears to your eyes.
A remarkable debut August 31, 1999
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
A co-worker of mine made me a tape of 'nice and warm' as a parting gift. I didn't know who played it or the name of the tape. I only knew it was blues. After listening to it I was floored. I was thoroughly impressed. His guitar playing was rawest, raunchiest, sweetest, and most refreshing sound I had heard in ages. His licks make my skin crawl with goosebumps. My favorite line is (paraphrased) "I feel like I'm drowning in dry land... and that's a bad way of going down". If you like blues and even if you don't love the blues, you'll be glad you got your hands on this hot CD.
 MOMENTS OF BLUESY GUITAR EUPHORIA - IRRESISTABLE. April 30, 1999
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
THIS ALBUM CONTAINS SOME OF THE CHUNKIEST, MEATIEST BLUES GUITAR COMMITTED TO DISC. AT TIMES THE LEAD BREAKS CAN BE OVERLY FRENETIC & EAR -DRUM DISTURBING BUT WHEN TAB RETURNS TO THE GUTS OF THE TUNE THEN ITS A GUITAR LOVERS FEAST. VOCALLY HE IS NOT EARTH SHATTERING BUT CERTAINLY MORE THAN ADEQUATE. AS A FIRM BELIEVER THAT SLOW BLUES ARE A NECESSARY EVIL I MERELY BIDE MY TIME THROUGH THE LESS UP TEMPO NUMBERS THIRSTING FOR THE START OF ONE OF A NUMBER OF BRILLIANT "KEEP STILL IF YOU DARE" BLUES BOOGIE SMORGASBORDS. THIS ALBUM LEAD ME TO PURCHASE ALL OTHER TAB BENOIT RELEASES.GET YOUR LISTENING FANGS INTO THIS AURAL DELIGHT AND I'M SURE YOU'LL FOLLOW SUIT. THE VERY BEST MOMENTS ON THIS ALBUM ARE WHAT MAKES MUSIC SUCH AN ADDICTION TO ME IN THE FIRST PLACE. WHEN AN ALIEN LANDS ON EARTH UTTERING "WHAT'S SO GOOD ABOUT MUSIC? " AN EARFULL OF THIS WILL SOON CONVINCE HIM HE SHOULD REMAIN ON THE PLANET FOR GOOD. PURCHASE NOW TO DO YOURSELF A MONUMENTAL FAVOUR.
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