Carencro native Marc Broussard is back in town, fresh off the road, touring in support of his new Atlantic Records release Keep Coming Back. When you hear Broussard sing, it’s evident that he was blessed with the God-given voice of a rhythm & blues master two or three times his age. There’s no argument; he’s got “it.” And music lovers want more if it. Last week, Keep Coming Back was downloaded more that 4,400 times from iTunes and debuted on The Billboard 200 at No. 136.
And what Broussard chose to do with it — in between record label struggles and a rapidly changing music industry — is do what he does best. Keep Coming Back has a retro-inspired sound, infused with R&B and a heaping of Southern roots, a dash of funk, some jam, a pinch of rock ’n’ roll, and a fully smoking band. The entire album’s wrapped up in a laid-back attitude free from exaggerated pretense and overwrought affectation. Broussard has kept his soul, and it’s evident in his music — not an easy task when caught up in the innards of The Machine, with the grind and scrape of money-hungry morons trying to call the shots and bleeding all over you with their vampire juices and soul-extraction tools. Marc Broussard hosts his CD release party for Keep Coming Back on Saturday, Oct. 4, at Nitetown in downtown Lafayette. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are available online at www.nitetowndowntown.com. For more information on Marc Broussard, visit www.marcbroussard.com.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
Carencro native Marc Broussard is back in town, fresh off the road, touring in support of his new Atlantic Records release Keep Coming Back. When you hear Broussard sing, it’s evident that he was blessed with the God-given voice of a rhythm & blues master two or three times his age. There’s no argument; he’s got “it.” And music lovers want more if it. Last week, Keep Coming Back was downloaded more that 4,400 times from iTunes and debuted on The Billboard 200 at No. 136.
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