Tab Benoit and Jesse Dayton bring the Soul of the Swamp tour to Hard Rock Live on Nov. 13

A blues-rock double bill lands in Biloxi on a Friday night, in the middle of a Gulf South run the two guitarists are playing together.

Some double bills are a headliner and a warm-up. This one is two guitar players who keep choosing to tour together, and Biloxi gets them on a Friday night.

Tab Benoit plays Hard Rock Live in Biloxi on Friday, Nov. 13, with Jesse Dayton, and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets run $37.25 to $127.85 through Ticketmaster. The room holds about 1,500.

The Biloxi date sits in the thick of Benoit's fall swing through the South. He plays Charlotte on Nov. 5, Columbia on Nov. 7, Charleston on Nov. 8, Atlanta on Nov. 11 and Gulf Shores & Orange Beach on Nov. 12 before crossing into Mississippi, then heads to Little Rock on Nov. 15. Dayton is on the bill for a run of those November dates, from the Newberry Opera House in South Carolina on Nov. 7 to The Hall in Little Rock on Nov. 15, with Texas shows at Houston's Heights Theater on Nov. 18 and Gruene Hall on Nov. 20 to follow.

The tour carries the name Soul of the Swamp, and it has been running since spring. Earlier legs paired Benoit with other acts; a May stop in Colorado Springs featured the Ghalia Volt Band, per Grateful Web, and the tour reached Atlantic City over the summer, Grateful Web also reported.

The Benoit–Dayton pairing is not new. The two played together last December too, on dates billed as Tab Benoit with Jesse Dayton at rooms like Infinity Music Hall in Hartford, which listed a Dec. 14, 2025 show. Coming back to the same partnership a year later says something about how well it works on stage. For Gulf Coast blues fans, it means two sets from players who know each other's habits, and a decent chance of the two ending up on stage at the same time.

Two guitar players who keep choosing to tour together, on a Friday night in Biloxi.

The ticket range is wide, so it is worth looking at the seating map before you buy; the top end will be closest to the stage, and in a room of 1,500 even the cheaper seats are not far from it. With an 8 p.m. start, check your ticket for door time, and leave room for Friday traffic on the beach road.

Blues tours don't often stop on the Coast with this kind of pairing. Benoit and Dayton together, for one night only in Biloxi, is worth taking off work early for.

Sources: Tab Benoit w/ Jesse Dayton: Soul of the Swamp Tour (The Hall, Little Rock) (littlerockhall.com); Tab Benoit Brings Soul Of The Swamp 2026 Tour to Colorado Springs (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Tab Benoit Brings Soul Of The Swamp Tour to Atlantic City (Grateful Web) (gratefulweb.com); Tab Benoit, Newberry Opera House (newberryoperahouse.com); Tab Benoit 12-14-2025 (Infinity Music Hall) (infinityhall.com); Tab Benoit at Hard Rock Live (JamBase) (jambase.com)