From the Album: The Sea Saint Sessions, Year of Release: 2003 Lyrics: Darkness I'm walkin' slow with a weary mind She's draggin' me low i'm fallin' behind You got me where you want me Still I keep on tryin' Tryin' to see through the darkness Between you and I Sometimes it gets hard to find Any love of any kind Lord turn on the love light Before I go blind And pick me up off the ground Let's let our hearts shine Shine our way through the darkness Between you and I You know I love you but I did you wrong And we both made our choices Now it's time to move on So please, please forgive me And let's walk side by side And fill in this darkness between you and I With his 1992 debut, Nice and Warm [Justice JR 1201-2] and its title track hit, Tab Benoit was earned mention as a prospective mainstream rock and blues guitar god. On that album Benoit had the good and bad luck of working with a new label looking to break it big - good because Justice provided him excellent facilities to launch a career and bad because they quickly overextended themselves and so Benoit soon found himself at a crossroads, either try to buy into the whole rock guitar god thing and sell his soul to a mainstream label in hopes thereof, or go back to his roots and play the blues. Fortunately for us he chose the latter path, and after a bit label wandering has spent the last several years at Telarc turning out several discs a year of striped-down, Cajun-blues. This, his most recent album, features Benoit on guitar and vocals backed by his regular road band, Carl Dufrene on bass and Darryl White on drums. The trio take on five songs alone while labelmate Brian Stoltz adds his guitar on other two tracks, George Porter does the same on one song, while Big Chief Monk Boudreaux sings on one tune and then plays on the last track with Cyril Neville sharing vocals with Benoit on a song, one Neville wrote just for this occasion, the occasion being a recording session at Big Easy Recording Studio in New Orleans, a legendary studio known fondly as Sea Saint. The combination of New Orleans, a funky studio, a tight road band and local heros adds up to Benoit's finest and truest album. The opener, Baby Blue is all syncopated Big Easy blues with room for Benoit and Stoltz to solo. In a more traditional blues vein, Benoit covers the Eddie Jones tune, Sufferin' Mind as well offering up his original, Darkness. Both are the quintessence of tasteful, latenight bluesology. Monk's Blues, Benoit's duet with Monk Boudreaux sounds absolutely live and as if it was composed with the tape running. On the Making the Bend, George Porter adds a bit of rough and tumble that juices the tune up, while the Cyril Neville cut, Plareen Man, concludes the album with a second-line, blues jam that perfectly sums up the loose, funky drive of The Sea Saint Sessions. Sonically, The Sea Saint Sessions is textbook Telarc. Clean, warm and detailed, the production moves you to New Orleans rather then putting Benoit et al in your room, undoubtedly the right approach with this album. Tab Benoit – guitar, vocals Monk Boudreaux – tambourine, vocals Cyril Neville – percussion, vocals George Porter, Jr. – bass, guitar Brian Stoltz – guitar, vocals Darryl White – drums You can download the music : https://www.amazon.com/Sea-Saint-Sessions-Tab-Benoit/dp/B00009NH8K https://www.facebook.com/TabBenoit/ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100016972594434 https://www.tabbenoit.com/music/the-sea-saint-sessions-2006/ VIDEO COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER: Video is made for entertainment purposes only and you can download this track on any authorized website such as, iTunes and Amazon.com... No copyright infringement is intended in the making of this video. All rights to published audio, video, graphic and text materials belong to their respective owners. If you are the author or copyright owner of any of the material I use, and you don't like it to be used by me, please contact: https://www.facebook.com/petrovic.ilija.92 https://twitter.com/ilijacapko I recommend you my channel Blues & Rock Ilija Capko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aicjf0gBIPs&list=UULPiX15Upr_JzT1f9ixSCMF2Q