TMP324 TYRON BENOIT TAKES THE STAGE

The singer, guitarist , accordion player, and songwriter has been barnstorming the festival circuit in advance of his "Mid-City" album. After growing up in Houma, Louisiana, in a musical family with blues titan brother Tab Benoit and studying with Elaine Aiken at the Actors Conservatory in NYC, Tyron was destined for a career in showbiz. Two combat tours with the U.S. Marines during Operation Desert Storm gave him all the tools he needed to fend off the Troubled Men.

 

Topics include a sleeping giant, a birthday dinner, an Icelandic vacation, an assassination, Robert Redford RIP, the Devo documentary, a David Duchovny gig, a 9/11 tribute, a telemarketer call, Acadian roots, the oil patch, military school, a Tulane football scholarship, near beer, an R & R ship, moonshine, a Waco casualty, Lee Strasberg, gigging in Colorado, Too Fish, ski town concerts, family obligations, Big Chief Monk Boudreaux, Reuben Williams, Scott Morrison, Randy Ellis, Stephen Randall, Doug Belote, Shane Theriot, Donald Markowitz, mushrooms, a Pelicans halftime show, Bob Forrest singing the national anthem, and much more.

Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman