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Standing on the Bank | 
 enlarge | Artist: Tab Benoit
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 70374
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79544
UPC: 015707954426
EAN: 0015707954426
ASIN: B00000IIZE
Release Date: April 20, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Make Your Mind Up | | • | Me and My Guitar | | • | Downtown | | • | Standing on the Bank | | • | Match Box Blues | | • | Rainy Day Blues - Tab Benoit, Nelson, Willie | | • | You Got What I Want | | • | The Seventh Son - Tab Benoit, Dixon, Willie | | • | If I Could Quit You | | • | Laundromat Blues - Tab Benoit, Jones, Sandie | | • | Going Down - Tab Benoit, Nix, William Donald | | • | Still Going Down the Road |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
On his first two albums, Tab Benoit epitomized everything that's wrong-headed about young blues revivalists; the twentysomething Louisianan overplayed his guitar, over-emoted his vocals and generally replaced the drama of the blues with histrionic melodrama. If one were to prescribe an antidote for such excesses, it would be a trip to Pedernales, Texas, and a collaboration with Mr. Laid-Back himself, Willie Nelson. That's precisely what Benoit has done on his latest recording, "Standing on the Bank." The cure isn't wholly successful, for Benoit still overdoes it on occasion, especially when he tries to act the macho stud on tunes such as "Make Your Mind Up" or "You Got What I Want." But when he reins himself in, he reveals just what a strong, handsome tenor he has and just how easily he can get around on the guitar. --Geoffrey Himes
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| Customer Reviews:
 Mr. Himes? try a quote from the blues-god known as Clapton March 16, 2007
nota1ab (Twin Cities, MN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Upon the death of SRV, Rolling Stone asked, 'how does it feel to be the best blues guitar player alive today?' E.C. replied, "I've no idea, go ask Tab Benoit."
I've seen him in person - a wonderful, powerful, full-on assault of blues and bending the frets as he cares to - and now own several of TB's works, and love them all.
If your taste for the blues runs like mine - ZZ Top to Clapton to SRV to Robert Randolph and the Family Band to Muddy Waters to Buddy Guy to Erida Badu to the Blues Brothers - ANY of Tab's works will make you smack your lips in indulgence and reflect 'mighty tasty indeed'.
What the blues is all about! February 14, 2004
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
This is the first review I've ever written so I'll be brief. If you don't like music don't buy this album, that is the only excuse I can think of not to buy this album or any of Tab's stuff for that matter.Mr. Himes needs to spend more time in New Orleans contemplating why he is wasting everyones time writing reviews. I'm sure he doesn't like Stevie Ray Vauhn, Cool John Ferguson or BB King either. What an idiot! If you don't like the blues don't review the blues. This album is awsome.
Tab's third April 9, 2003
CS (Houston, TX United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
One of my favorite Tab albums. His own material is great, and he covers the "Alberts" to a T. This guy (from Houma, LA by the way) has with "Standing on the Bank" recorded a master piece. But he is even better live. Catch him at the Rock-N-Bowl on a Saturday night, and get blown away. He plays really hard - usually pops at least 4-5 strings per show. And on home turf he doesn't want to quit, and will go as long as they let him. Go see him when he comes to your town!
Great Stuff! April 10, 2001
deepbluereview (SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA USA)
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I don't generally comment on other peoples reviews but after reading Mr. Geoffery Himes review, I avoided this cd and opted for "These Blues Are All Mine" instead. Then, Tab Benoit came to town and put on a little show. Not only was he a fantastic performer, but I realized that several of the tunes he was playing, and which had the audience in a frenzy, were all songs off of this cd. In fact, at the show, Benoit sold every copy of this cd that he had brought with him. Shortly after the show, I came back to this cd and reread Himes review. What is this guy smoking? The cd is excellent and may well be the best that Benoit has produced. Benoit's mastery of the fret board is astonishing and, as one writer commented, "the man knows more chords than Six Figures Mandel and is able to make them all sound like Uncle Paul could play them". Oddly, and again contrary to Himes comments, Benoit's least likeable song on this cd is "Rainy Day Blues" with Willie Nelson. Not that it is a bad song, but it just doesn't fit with the rest. Don't make the same mistake I did and rely on Mr. Himes, buy this cd today.
Gooffy Himes review earns less than 1 Star! July 31, 2000
Joel L. Finch (the Heart of Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Pay no attention to Mr. Himes' Blues Snob review! Tab Benoit delivers great, gritty blues guitar and vocals throughout this CD. This IS the blues Geoffy! Don't believe it? Just catch Tab's live show some Saturday night in New Orleans and watch him pack'em in. If the blues is about energy & passion...Tab is a FIVE STAR BLUESMAN!
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