\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\tNew Orleans blues guitarist and singer-songwriter Tab Benoit first debuted on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s charts in September 1995 with his third studio album, Standing on the Bank. <\/em>The set opened at No. 12 on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Blues Albums<\/a> chart before peaking at No. 9 the following month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tTwenty-nine years later, and after charting 11 more LPs on Blues Albums, he finally earns his first No. 1 this week (chart dated Sept. 21) with I Hear Thunder.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tReleased Aug. 30 on Whiskey Bayou Records, the album rises from No. 4 to No. 1 on the latest chart, becoming his first career No. 1 album. Here\u2019s a chronological look at Benoit\u2019s history on the Blues Albums chart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\tPeak Position, Title, Peak Date<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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No. 9, Standing on the Bank, <\/em>Oct, 14, 1995<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 6, Wetlands, <\/em>May 11, 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 4, Whiskey Store <\/em>with Jimmy Thackery, Nov. 30, 2002<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 14, The Sea Saint Sessions, <\/em>July 12, 2003<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 5, Whiskey Store Live! <\/em>with Jimmy Thackery, April 3, 2004<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 4, Fever For The Bayou, <\/em>April 30, 2005<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 9, Vow: Voice of the Wetlands, <\/em>Oct. 29, 2005<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 14, Brother to the Blues <\/em>with Louisiana\u2019s LeRoux, <\/em>May 13, 2006<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 2, Power of the Ponchartrain <\/em>with Louisiana\u2019s LeRoux, July 21, 2007<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 2, Night Train to Nashville <\/em>with Louisiana\u2019s LeRoux, May, 24, 2008<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 4, Medicine<\/em>, May 21, 2011<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 8, Legacy: The Best of Tab Benoit, <\/em>May 5, 2012<\/li>\n\n\n\n
No. 1, I Hear Thunder, <\/em>Sept, 21, 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\t(Benoit released two albums prior to Standing on the Bank \u2014 What I Live For <\/em>in 1994 and Nice and Warm <\/em>in 1993 \u2014 though that was before Billboard<\/em> launched its Blues Albums chart on Sept. 2, 1995. Standing on the Bank <\/em>debuted on the fifth week the chart existed.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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