“Home” by Marc Broussard

"Home" was the first single off Carencro, the Island Records album of August 2004 that marked Marc Broussard's major-label debut and took its name from his Louisiana hometown. Marshall Altman produced and arranged it and sang backup, and he packed the session with swampy texture: Sonny Landreth's slide guitar, David Egan's organ, Jim McGorman on Wurlitzer, Lenny Castro on washboard and triangle, and a crew billed as the Bayou Bruce Steppers & Entourage supplying the handclaps and foot stomps. Dino Meneghin takes the electric solo, Ted Broussard plays acoustic, Calvin Turner holds down the bass and Chad Gilmore the drums, while Joe Zook adds twelve-string and then recorded and mixed the lot.

Radio played it when the album came out and again after Hurricane Katrina, when its video, a highway jammed solid with cars going nowhere, looked uncomfortably like people fleeing New Orleans.

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