Track Listing

1. Make Your Mind Up
2. Me and My Guitar
3. Downtown
4. Standing on the Bank
5. Match Box Blues
6. Rainy Day Blues
7. You Got What I Want
8. Seventh Son
9. If I Could Quit You
10. Laundromat Blues
11. Going Down
12. Still Going Down the Road

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66725 in Music
• Released on: 1999-04-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

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

Customer Reviews

Great Stuff!
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.

What the blues is all about!
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
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!