• Track: Cry to Me
• Artist: Marc Broussard (Featuring Ted Broussard)
• Album: S.O.S. 2: Save our Soul: Soul on a Mission
• Year: 2016

Lyrics:

When your baby leaves you all alone
And nobody calls you on the phone
Ah, don’t you feel like crying?

Don’t you feel like crying?
Well here I am my honey
Oh, come on you cry to me.

When you’re all alone in your lonely room
And there’s nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah, don’t you feel like crying?

When you’re all alone in your lonely room
And there’s nothing but the smell of her perfume
Ah, don’t you feel like crying?
Don’t you feel like crying?
Ah don’t you feel like crying?
Come on, come on cry to me.

Well nothing could be sadder
Than a glass of wine, all alone
Loneliness, loneliness, it’s such a waste of time
Oh-oh yeah

You don’t ever have to walk alone, oh you see
Oh come on, take my hand and baby won’t you walk with me?
Oh ya

When you’re waiting for a voice to come
In the night and there is no one
Ah don’t you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Don’t you feel like crying? (cry to me)
Ah don’t you feel like a-ca-ca-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra, (cry to me)
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying? (cry to me)
Ah don’t you feel like a-cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra,
Cra-co-cra-co-cra-cra crying?

Get It:

You can get Marc Broussard’s S.O.S. 2: Save our Soul: Soul on a Mission at Amazon:

And Broussard’s Carencro, which features the track, Home, is available at Amazon, too:

Every now and again, an artist—a well-established one at that—sneaks up on the staff here at the Dances with Bass braintrust, and we wonder how we’ve managed to just now discover that artist’s well-established brilliance. Recently, Marc Broussard did just that.

As some of you might know, Broussard is a southern soul specialist (some call it “bayou soul”) and is the son of acclaimed guitarist Ted Broussard. The Broussards hail from the bayous of southern Louisiana. Father Ted is a former member of The Boogie Kings, but has largely gone unknown to the music world at large. Son Marc, however, has gone on to release nine studio albums, one live album, three EPs, and multiple singles, including the successful S.O.S and S.O.S. 2 albums, which are almost entirely composed of soul and blues covers from the 50s, 60s, and 70s.

What strikes us most about Broussard (aside from his musical brilliance) is his philanthropic efforts to aid those affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Also, he works closely with Habitat for Humanity to aid the homeless, which makes him aces in the Dances with Bass book. (Oh, yes, we have a book. You better believe it.)

This track, Cry to Me, was written by Bert Berns and was first made a hit in 1961 by soul artist Solomon Burke; the track reached number 5 on the R&B charts. In 2015, rock artist Tom Petty released a version of the song he recorded in 1979 on a collection of rarities and B-sides titled Through the Cracks. Petty’s version makes often appearances in the Dances with Bass blues and soul playlists.

Video:

Here is the official video of Cry to Me, which features Marc Broussard’s father, Ted Broussard, on guitar. If you don’t feel this one way down deep, you might want to get your way down deep checked out:

And here is Broussard’s (yes, that’s him sans hobo beard) 2005 video for Home:

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