Nothing Takes the Place of You - Tab Benoit - MP3 instrumental karaoke

A prime cut of blues-drenched soul from Tab Benoit, "Nothing Takes the Place of You" is the Louisiana maestro's take on a much-covered classic. A Top 10 R&B hit and breakthrough track for fellow Louisianian Toussaint McCall in 1967, this standard about a lover yearning for the woman who left him has been reimagined on numerous occasions over the years, from Brook Benton in 1970 and Al Green in 1976 to Robert Plant in 2020. For his smouldering 2011 rendition, Tab Benoit showcased his world-famous blues guitar playing—the type that earned him the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year award in 2007 and a spot in the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame—while applying his gravelly voice to a broken-hearted elegy. "Cause without you, without you nothing seems the same," he laments. The song was included on Tab Benoit's 2011 album Medicine, his seventh solo offering, which featured seven new original songs co-written with Anders Osborne.