February 2019 - Marc Broussard is an artist with a unique
gift of channeling the spirits of classic R&B, rock and soul into
contemporary terms. This gift has been a matter of common knowledge since 2002,
when Broussard released his debut album, Momentary Setback, which he recorded
and released independently at age 20. It was no secret before then, going back
to those lucky witnesses who heard him belt "Johnny B. Goode" onstage
at age 5 while sitting in with his father's band - Louisiana Hall of Fame
guitarist Ted Broussard’s - legendary The Boogie Kings.
In 2004, he released his major-label debut; Carencro, after
the Louisiana town where he was born and raised, and its thematic centerpiece
was a hickory-smoked slab of Bayou soul called “Home.” That album and the
subsequent ones that followed revealed Broussard as an old-school Southern soul
singer blessed with a rarefied talent and innate stylistic and emotional
authenticity.
On April 5th, Marc Broussard will be releasing a live album
Home (The Dockside Sessions). Broussard wanted to offer his fans
something different prior to the release of his next studio album. Rather than
a standard greatest hits package or a perfunctory live album, he had something
different in mind. His upcoming release Home (The Dockside Sessions)
accomplishes both, but in a unique way. It provides the audio tracks from the
various videos Broussard has compiled over the course of his career, all of
them recorded live at Dockside Studios near his Lafayette Louisiana home.
The album includes a telling remake of Broussard’s signature song -- “Home.”
Although each of the 15 songs represents Broussard’s best
known material and fan favorites from throughout his storied career, Home (The
Dockside Sessions) is more than simply a reminder of past glories. The material
has been retooled and reinterpreted in stripped down aural settings, the result
of which provides an intimate opportunity to share the inherent emotion
Broussard invested in each of these soulful sessions.
While all the songs resonate as essential additives in
Broussard’s repertoire -- one informed by soul, blues, ballads and Americana –
there is one song in particular that is of special significance to the artist
himself. “Home,” the album’s title track, dates back to the dawn of his career.
Once an anthem of hope and determination, it’s come to represent the tack and
trajectory of both his life and career. Now, however, he sees the song in a
different way, one that’s reflected in his earnest and emotive delivery.
“This song has given me a career,” Broussard remarks.
“Without it, I don’t think I’d be where I am. However, when I hear the
original, I hear a boy trying to sound like a big man. It needed a redo;
something swampier and dirtier than before. Something that showed its age a
little more honestly.”
Likewise, the connection with these videos is clear;
these live performance videos have become an eagerly anticipated, ongoing
endeavor. Collectively, they have garnered more than 30 million plays. His
acoustic version of the classic “Cry to Me” has gained over 11 million views
alone on YouTube.
Broussard is currently on his 2019 Winter/Spring Tour
which includes a date at this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest on May 2nd.
Tour dates below with more to be added soon. For more information visit www.marcbroussard.com.
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