Tab Benoit and Duane Betts bring the Southern Gentlemen Tour to Minglewood Hall

The blues-rock double bill plays Memphis on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2027, the next-to-last night of a run through the South.

There are a handful of nights each winter when Memphis gets reminded what blues-rock sounds like at full volume in a full room. One just got booked: Tab Benoit plays Minglewood Hall on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2027, with Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster.

The date is part of a package the two acts are calling the Southern Gentlemen Tour, announced Oct. 27. According to JamBase, the run opens Feb. 5 at Tipitina's in New Orleans and works its way across the Southeast through February, with stops in Hattiesburg, Birmingham, Mobile, Dothan and Athens, Georgia, before wrapping Feb. 25 in Philadelphia, Mississippi. The Music Universe has the same February kickoff.

That routing makes Memphis the second-to-last night of the tour. By the time the bill rolls into Minglewood, both bands will have spent nearly three weeks on the road together, playing to Southern crowds who know exactly what they came for. Late-tour shows on a run like this tend to be loose in the best way: the sets are tight, the players know each other, and nobody is saving anything for later.

Benoit has made a habit of naming his tours for where his music comes from; his last run went out as the Soul of the Swamp Tour. The Louisiana guitarist is the headliner here, and JamBase files the show under rock and blues, which is the right shelf for a bill like this.

Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel have kept a steady touring schedule of their own, from fall headline runs to new dates announced through Relix. Pairing them with Benoit puts two guitar-forward Southern bands on one stage, and that is the appeal in a single sentence.

Minglewood Hall holds 1,500, enough to make a Wednesday feel like a weekend if the room fills. A midweek blues show in Memphis is not a hard sell, and a double bill this strong gives people a reason to make the drive from across the Mid-South rather than wait for a weekend that may not come.

The show falls in that late-February stretch when winter starts to wear thin and everybody is ready for a night that feels like spring is coming. Tickets are on sale now at the link above. Get them, clear your Thursday morning, and plan to stay for both sets: on a bill billed as a pairing, the second band is not the only reason to show up.

Sources: Tab Benoit & Duane Betts Announce Southern Gentlemen Tour 2027 (JamBase) (jambase.com); The Southern Gentlemen Tour kicks off in February (The Music Universe) (themusicuniverse.com); Tab Benoit Brings Soul Of The Swamp Tour to Atlantic City (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Duane Betts fall tour dates with Palmetto Motel (Live for Live Music) (liveforlivemusic.com); Duane Betts & Palmetto Motel announce new tour dates (Relix) (relix.com); Tab Benoit at Minglewood Hall (JamBase) (jambase.com)