If you go
› What: Marc Broussard in concert, featuring Peter Aristone› When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23› Where: Revelry Room, 41 E. 14th St.› Admission: $15 in advance, $17 day of› Phone: 423-521-2929› Artist website: marcbroussard.com› Venue website: revelryroom.co
Discography
2015: “Magnolias & Mistletoe”2014: “A Life Worth Living”2011: “Marc Broussard”2008: “Keep Coming Back”2007: “S.O.S.: Save Our Soul”2004: “Carencro”2002: “Momentary Setback”
Marc Broussard isn’t in any hurry to put in his two-week notice, but the Louisiana native is pretty sure he could sell you on taking over his job as a touring soul-fusion singer.
“At this point, if you had to list my job on Craigslist, it would read like the best job in the world,” he says. “It would say: ‘Must be willing to travel extensively all over the world. Must be willing to be paid well for the job. Must be OK with hearing from clients regularly about how amazing you are.'”
A native of Carencro, La., a community of about 6,000 an hour east of Baton Rouge, Broussard grew up listening to jazz musicians loved by his father, Ted Broussard, a guitarist and former member of Louisiana Hall of Fame inductees The Boogie Kings. Occasionally, however, the elder Broussard would mix things up a bit and throw on an album by Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye, and it was the soulful vocals of these R&B legends to which Marc says he felt drawn.