Tab Benoit, “Louisiana’s Living Legend’ former Grammy nominee and longtime Louisiana Wetlands environmental activist, is on his year-long ‘Soul of the Swamp’ Tour and is coming to Variety Playhouse in Atlanta on Wednesday, November 11, along with opening act, exciting Americana/roots artist, Jesse Dayton.
Tab Benoit is a 4x Grammy nominated singer, songwriter and guitarist who has built a remarkable 30+ year career on the foundation of his gritty and soulful Delta swamp blues, acquiring a devoted legion of fans along the way, as well as 5 Blues Music Awards, including BB King Entertainer of the Year (twice) and an induction into The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.
Tab will take you on a musical journey, performing songs from his vast catalog and digging deep into the rich tones and storytelling lyrics that have made him an admired figure in the music world. True to his authentic style, Tab performs without effects—just a guitar, a cord, and an amp—allowing the magic of his music to shine through his hands, fingers, and his band.
Greg Freeman releases “Cahokia,” the ferocious and thought-provoking new single from his recently announced forthcoming album, All Set The Bone. “Cahokia,” the album’s opening track and thesis statement, invokes the American civilization that rose, thrived, and then vanished in the Middle Ages. It’s a metaphor for contemporary society, where consumerism, environmental anxiety, and authoritarian threats compound and we all become participants as well as victims in this vicious cycle.
Freeman calls All Set The Bone a “reflection of a lot of change, and a lot of tension.” It’s a box of political and personal yarns spread across four sides, “inhuman events” and grief pulled into a “perfect tsunami.” While writing and recording it, F The following album is populated by a grain of similarly unsettled people: a voter buried in credit card debt, a pair of Christian hearts clanking like trapped lobsters, a town of bent necks, a lover with limbs bent like crabapple trees.
The songs of Hovvdy’s Big World find the duo trading in overt emotional directness for subject matter that leans enigmatic, contemplating their place in the world through a mosaic of songs that sees the band at their most secure and self-aware.
Since 2024’s Hovvdy, the band’s most expansive album to date, which earned them the coveted Best New Album distinction from Pitchfork, both Martin and Taylor have become published songwriters in their new home of Nashville – a career development that heavily informed their approach to making Big World.
“With this one,” says Martin, “we wanted to take on the challenge of making something more concise and to the point, and give the fans something that feels like a shorter but more exciting ride.”
Disciples of planet Earth’s rock deities, space-time voyagers Klek and Khn de Poitrine gaze in wonder at hot dogs, pyramids and rock music in all its glorious excess. Asymmetrical and dissonant, Angine de Poitrine’s music makes hearts race and bodies move with ecstatic abandon.
Through tight, pulsing drum grooves and intricate tangels of double-neck microtonal guitar, the band summons swirling vortices of hypnotic sound and vision. Since the release of Vol. 1 in 2024, the duo is in the eye of an ever-growing storm of enthusiasm from audiences, critics and the music industry’s main actor. Andine de Poitrine are simply thrilled to play rock ‘n’ roll.
About their latest release: Vol. 2: Repetition. Isn’t that the very essence of loop-based music? Hell no! A brisk, high-voltage album, Vol. 2 stretches the boundaries of the genre with even bolder, more dynamic structures. Its humor lies in the details, waiting to be decoded! Once again, three essential forces fuel the inspiration of the duo: acid techno, disco, and rock.
