Tab Benoit

One thing about Louisiana-born guitarist Tab Benoit that most people don't know is that he's a dedicated activist for his native state's environment; back in 2005, he and some fellow musicians got together to make a disc warning of the danger a hurricane might bring if the levees broke — well before Katrina's onslaught. "We were trying to tell people what was going to happen," he says over the phone. "It wasn't like it was a mystery to us, but I think it was a mystery to the rest of the country, and so I wanted to make sure that people understood it."

Darren Ray

Tab Benoit is used to being mistaken for Friday Night Lights' Coach Taylor by now.

Details

8 p.m. Friday, June 19, at Fitzgerald's, 2506 White Oak, 713-862-3838 or www.fitzlive.com.

Related Content

• iFest Aftermath: After The Rain, A Downpour Of Gulf Coast Soul
  April 19, 2010
• Upcoming: Radiohead, In Flames, Man Or Astro-Man?, Wu-Tang Clan, Robert Ellis
  November 8, 2011
• Miss Rockefeller's? Marcia Ball and Texas Johnny Brown Headline iFest Benefit February 12
  January 11, 2010
• Heavy Weather
  April 29, 2010
• Teley Blues
  December 2, 1999

More About

• Tab Benoit

Like this Story?

Sign up for the Music Newsletter: Keep your thumb on the local music scene with music features, additional online music listings and show picks. We'll also send special ticket offers and music promotions available only to our Music Newsletter subscribers.

Privacy Policy Cancel Continue

Benoit takes his cause extremely seriously. "What killed the coast of Louisiana was not global warming, but man-made problems," he says. "We diverted the river away from the Delta where it's built, and as a result the Delta is dying because it's losing its feeding tube."

Onstage, however, it's about the music — Benoit hasn't been to Houston in, he says, "quite a while," and is looking forward to this return. "It's gonna be my trio [guitar, bass and drums] — we are just going to turn it on and throw it out. There is no plan. You can't play the same show to a stadium full of people that you play for 20 people in the corner of a smoky bar."