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musician

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. The album was released by Island Records on August 3, 2004. The album title pays tribute to the musician's hometown of

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. The album's first single, "Home", received airplay during the initial album release, and also after Hurricane Katrina. The song's

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, showing masses of people stuck in a traffic jam on the highway, seemed appropriate to depict displaced people fleeing

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. The track "Gavin's Song" was written for Broussard's son, Gavin.

Track listing

#"Home" (

, Shannon Sanders, Marshall Altman, Ted Broussard, and Andrew Ramsey) #"Rocksteady" (Broussard, Jeff Trott,

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, and David Ryan Harris) #"Beauty of Who You Are" (Broussard, Radney Foster, and Justin Tocket) #"Save Me" (Marc Broussard and

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) #"Come Around" (Broussard and Harris) #"Where You Are" (Broussard, Altman, and Angelo) #"Lonely Night in Georgia" (Broussard, Dave Barnes, and Martin Sexton) #"Saturday" (Marc Broussard, Ty Smith, and Ramsey) #"The Wanderer" (Broussard and Altman) #"Hope For Me Yet" (Broussard, Foster, Tocket) #"Let Me Leave" (Broussard and Altman) #"Gavin's Song" (Hidden Bonus Track)

Personnel

Marshall Altman Marshall Noah Altman is a Nashville-based A&R for Nettwerk Music Group, and a record producer and songwriter who owns the Galt Line studio in Nashville, Tennessee. He was formerly an A&R person for such labels as Capitol Records, Hollywood Rec ...

- Fender Rhodes, moog synthesizer, programming, string arrangements,

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, background vocals * Bayou Bruce Steppers & Entourage - clapping * Glen Berger - flute,

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, baritone saxophone * Brothers William - background vocals *

- acoustic guitar, lead vocals * Ted Broussard - acoustic guitar * Carencro Symphony Orchestra Gospel Choir - background vocals * Lenny Castro -

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, shaker,

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, washboard * Julian Coryell - banjo,

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, keyboards, background vocals * David Egan - organ * Chad Gilmore - drums * Sonny Landreth - slide guitar * Jim McGorman - Fender Rhodes, organ,

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, background vocals * Dino Meneghin - electric guitar, soloist * Shannon Sanders - programming * Kevin Stevens - percussion * Lee Thornburg -

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* Calvin Turner -

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, horn arrangements * Joe Zook - 12-string bass guitar, electric guitar, percussion,

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, recording engineer and mixer

Singles

"Home" was the album's lead single. It was originally just sent out to pop radio stations, but it

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radio, with the video eventually being added to Country Music Television (CMT). "Where You Are" served as the second single. The music video received substantial airplay on VH1.

References

2004 albums Marc Broussard albums Island Records albums {{2000s-R&B-album-stub