Bayou soul: Marc Broussard brings the heat to Crystal Bay

Marc Broussard headlines at the Crystal Bay Casino on Saturday, Nov. 5.

Lafayette, Louisiana bluebeard soul man Marc Broussard will make his first appearance in more than six years at the Crystal Bay Casino when he performs Saturday, Nov. 5.

Broussard played in 2016 at the Crystal Bay Casino and Olympic Valley’s Brews, Jazz & Funk Fest. He also appeared in Reno in 2014 with the Southern Soul Assembly, which included Luther Dickinson, J.J. Grey and Anders Osborne.

Broussard recently released a single, “Fire,” which will be among his original songs on an EP to be released this year. It is a follow-up EP to 2019’s “A Lullaby Collection.” A studio album produced by Joe Bonamassa will be released in 2023. It is part of a series of cover albums that benefit Broussard’s charitable organization, SOS Foundation (Save our Soul).

Broussard, 40, began his recording career at the age of 20. He is the son of Louisiana Hall of Fame guitarist Ted Broussard.

Broussard spoke with Tahoe Onstage editor Tim Parsons:

Tahoe Onstage: What do you remember about your last appearance at the Crystal Bay Casino? It was a New Year’s Eve show in 2016.
Marc Broussard: My wife was with me, and she had never done a snow angel. And she was in very rare form that night and she ended up doing a snow angel in her bra and panties. I’ve got video that’s for my eyes only.

TOS: Tahoe doesn’t have snow yet, but it’s starting to get cold at night.
Broussard: I’m going to bring the heat, so even if it gets cold, I’m coming in hot.

TOS: You already have a busy 2023 schedule, including a European tour. Have you played there much?
Broussard: We just got back from almost three weeks in Europe. We had nothing but sold-out shows everywhere we went. It was a ball, man. I love going over there. We did Switzerland, Italy, the Netherlands and the U.K.

TOS: I say you play soul music. How do you describe it?
Broussard: I like to describe it as soul music too. Some people call it Bayou soul. I think either one of those two descriptors does a fairly good job in describing what it is that we do. I tend not to pigeonhole myself when it comes to my songwriting. There are definitely songs of mine that have come from all over the spectrum but generally speaking my influences tend not to stray too far out of soul music.

TOS: When did you realize you have a good singing voice?
Broussard: My dad discovered that I could sing in key at about 5 ½ years old and he put me onstage that very weekend. I was in choirs on school and whatnot. My father didn’t really push me too hard to go into music professionally. There was no formal training other than public middle school and high school choir. But I was confident in my abilities at a fairly young age, much to the dismay of almost everyone around me. I was a cocky little prick. I think I developed a love of the stage before I even knew what social anxiety was.

TOS: I’ve read that you will release a Joe Bonamassa-produced album early next year.
Broussard: Joe and I worked on this album together. It will be the fourth album in the SOS series where we make covers albums to make money for charitable projects. For this project we are raising money for post incarceration work. We’re raising money for folks coming out of prison and the blues just seemed like the right pick for that kind of a project. Joe jumped at the opportunity. He flew me and my guitar player out to L.A. We set up at Sunset Sound for about two weeks and we just had a field day. I got to use his band, which is maybe the best band on Planet Earth, and we knocked it out of the park. I’m extremely excited about this album. We’re going into final mastering in a few days.

TOS: You are a bit of a bluesman yourself.
Broussard: I always had blues in my wheelhouse but I was always more of a fan of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Bobby Blue Bland was always in the back pocket. It was a bit of a homecoming in a way, and sort of a graduation in a way. It feels like I stepped into my skin in the recording process.

Marc Broussard
Opener:
Walden
When: 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5
Where: Crystal Bay Casino Crown Room
Tickets: $25 in advance or $30 on the day of the show

ABOUT Tim Parsons

Tim Parsons
Tim Parsons is the editor of Tahoe Onstage who first moved to Lake Tahoe in 1992. Before starting Tahoe Onstage in 2013, he worked for 29 years at newspapers, including the Tahoe Daily Tribune, Eureka Times-Standard and Contra Costa Times. He was the recipient of the 2011 Keeping the Blues Alive award for Journalism.

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