Marc Broussard with Sons of William & Josh Hoge

“My fans have been asking me for years,” said Marc Broussard, his road-hewn voice unmistakable over the phone. “Every time I come out with a record, they’re like, ‘It’s good but it doesn’t do the live show justice.’ With Keep Coming Back, I feel that we’ve finally delivered an album that does exactly that.”

Marking his debut release on Atlantic Records, this set of original tunes does more than that. Recorded in just 11 days at Nashville’s historic Ocean Way Studios, Keep Coming Back confirms Broussard’s position as an artist with a unique gift of channeling the multiple spirits of classic R&B and soul into contemporary terms.

“But what you hear on Keep Coming Back is actually what we played in real time,” Broussard continues. “The musicians just play, and you can tell on the tape that we were really having a good time out there. That’s another thing: We tracked it all to 2″ analog tape because analog is pleasing to the ear, and it gives you a quality that digital recording can’t duplicate.”

“None of these tunes were rehearsed,” he reveals. “I’d demoed most of them, whether with acoustic guitar, a drum loop with keyboards and vocals, or whatever. I’d put it up on iTunes, everybody would listen and write a chart, and then they’d get back to the studio and play. And we had a ball. We had the Nashville String Machine on a couple of cuts and a seven-piece horn section, with [saxophonist] Jeff Coffin as our point man – and they were all coming into the control room even to listen to the tracks they didn’t play on!”

“Keep Coming Back is me writing what I want to write at this moment in time,” Broussard says. “And I’m very content to be able to do this at Atlantic Records, where the tradition for real music is so strong. I do wish Ahmet was still alive; I know he and I would have gotten along really well. But I also know Atlantic is the right place to be and the right time for Keep Coming Back.”

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