1. You Met Your Match
2. Kissing My Love
3. I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know
4. If I Could Build My Whole World Around You (with Toby Lightman)
5. Come In From the Cold
6. Love and Happiness
7. Harry Hippie
8. Let the Music Get Down in Your Soul
9. I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
10. Respect Yourself
11. Yes We Can Can
12. Inner City Blues
Total time: 47:25
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S.O.S.: Save Our Soul
Marc Broussard
Vanguard
This is the third album for the Louisianan, who usually practices a distillation of blues, soul, Cajun, rock and swamp. Deciding that soul music needed a crusader to bring it back to the people, he recorded this collection of 11 Stax-Motown classics and one original, live to analog in Nashville.
One wouldn’t know it was blue-eyed soul without seeing Broussard, because it’s all about that husky baritone for this mature-beyond-his-years performer – although the backing musicians are superb as well, particularly on keyboards and bass.
He started playing club gigs at the age of 5 with his father, Ted Broussard, who was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame for jazz and R&B guitar. He sang in a Catholic church choir. He fronted numerous bands, beginning in his late teens. So it should come as no surprise (but still does) that this twentysomething can sing songs by icons such as Bill Withers, Al Green, Bobby Womack and Otis Redding like there’s no tomorrow.
Incredibly impressive are Broussard’s renditions of “You Met Your Match,” originally by Stevie Wonder on 1968’s “For Once in My Life”; the Al Kooper classic, “I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know,” from that first and best Blood Sweat and Tears album; “Let the Music Get Down in Your Soul,” recorded in the early ’70s but unissued until 1997, by the obscure Rance Allen Group; the Staple Singers’ “Respect Yourself”; Allen Toussaint’s masterpiece, “Yes We Can Can”; and “Inner City Blues,” by the master, Marvin Gaye.
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