Marc Broussard

Marc Broussard, along with JJ Grey & Mofro, represent a new generation of husky Southern growlers revisiting the vintage blue-eyed soul of Delaney Bramlett, Joe South and Tony Joe White. But where Grey also digs into sweaty blues rock, Keep Coming Back finds Broussard wrapping his voice in funky, orchestral soundscapes inspired obviously by Curtis Mayfield and early-'70s Isaac Hayes. This guy can flat-out croon. On the country ballad "When It'd Good" he even goes toe to toe with LeAnn Rimes.

Marc Broussard's early albums established him as the heir to Texas white-soul icon Delbert
McClinton. But Keep Coming Back shows the 26-year-old Louisiana singer coming into his
own. His coarse baritone fires up the Seventies-style funk of "Power's in the People," the
disco-fied anthem "Man for Life" and the warm, strings-drenched piano ballad "Evil Things."
He lapses into pedestrian pop-soul-disco on the ponderous "Another Night Alone,... More >