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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on, Vinnie? Mark Brusard here.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Mark Bruceard, how are you, my man? I've been looking
forward to this. Welcome to the show coming to the
Ridgefield Playhouse Sunday, July thirteen. Been listening to some of
your music. I missed the performance with Kelly Clarkson. I
don't know how I miss that, big fan, and I
was reading some stuff and you know, buy you Soul.
(00:23):
You know what it is, Mark, In my opinion, it's
music to me, it's that voice. It's music to make
love to. You should I believe. I believe you're being
marketed incorrectly and you should be marketed as music to
make love to.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You know. I don't mind when people make love to
my music. In fact, people have told me for years
that they conceived children opting to my songs.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love it, and I remember when you know you've
been around a while, You've been at this a while.
As a matter of fact, do a talk show now.
But I started Top forty radio. We were spending you
had a song Top forty back. I'm going back fifteen
maybe twenty years now, yeah, probably twenty years now that
(01:11):
I'm trying to recall that it performed really well on
the top forty charts. Well some of your earliest music.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, there was a song on an album twenty one
years ago called Homes that did fairly well. I think
we made it to the top one hot one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is that still part of the set? Is this set
we're going to get at the Ridgefield Playoffs because I
see you know, I'm a huge Sam Cook fan. It's
quite something to be able to nail some of the
voices that you're now Sam Cook, Otis Redding. Those those
aren't the easiest. Those are tough guys to tackle. You
do it comfortably.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You do it with these man. It's been a real
joy to be able to sing that material. You know.
We started the SOS Foundation and started recording covers records
to raise money for charity. It's allowed me to record
some of my favorite music of all time and really
try my best to pay homage to the greatest singers,
(02:08):
in my opinion, that have ever existed, guys like you
mentioned Sam Cook and Otis Redding, Al Green, Stevie Wonder,
Marvin Gay. And it's really been a joy to not
only sing that music but also to raise money for
great causes at the same time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I think so too, otis Redding. I feel like, you know,
he gets his due because a lot of people have
covered his music and had their own hits with them,
you know, sitting on Doctor Bay of course comes to
mind Sam Cook. I don't feel like he gets his due.
When I was a kid, my father had a Sam
Cook album. I still got the turntable going in my house,
(02:44):
and I was obsessed with some old Sam Cook vinyl
with Cupid and whatnot. And it's unfortunate because it feels
like somebody needs to cover, you know, these greats from
days gone by and have a hit with it. Otherwise
they're just lost to time. You know, you're a victim
of time.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know, Sam is honestly one of the greatest singers
of all time. His voice rings through you. Actually hear
a lot of Sam Cook in Steve Perry from Journey
if you pay attention. Damn all those big high runs
and the o's, and he's I think, influenced singers more
(03:25):
than more than most people know.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, you know it's interesting too, Mark. You'll appreciate this,
especially because you know you're a dad. I don't know
the ages of your kids. My daughter just graduated college.
She's twenty two years old. But you know I was
spending that vinyl, like I said, when she was a kid,
so not too far back, because probably high school. One
(03:50):
day she turns up in a Sam Cook T shirt,
you know, vintage T shirt, and I remember thinking to myself,
some smart dude out there is going to be like like,
you're going to be the coolest You're Anyone who gets
that is all right by me. I felt as a dad,
the guy who gets that, he's going to be all
(04:11):
right by me.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, then my son is twenty two, and you know
I was spending I was spending the same music in
our house. Yeah, but my kid, my kid ended up
liking Dinback, Darryl and Pantera and Metallica a little bit
more than Sam Cook. Yeah, he's on a different path.
He's not going to be the kid that shows up.
(04:33):
Thank God, thank you lucky stars that he's not going
to be the kid that shows up. I swept that,
your daughter. I swept that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
For a minute because I've got a son too, And
for a minute there he was going right where you
just described. And then I don't know what happened somehow
on his own. You know, they listen. They taking music
differently than you and I did when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They sure do.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Somehow my son wound up in a weird seventies. He
wound up in the seventies. There's noth something like your
nineteen year old son pulling down the driveway listening to
Bread's greatest hits. I don't even I can't even take credit.
I don't know how it happened.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Brother. My my nineteen year old son is he's got
two or three favorite albums. One is The Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh yeah, my son loves some beach but yeah, I
love it. That's great classic.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
His next favorite album is Tyler the Creator, a hip
hop album. Yeah yeah, he's all over the map with stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah were you that way too? But I mean I
kind of was. I mean I was all over the
place too. I mean I would have Jack Jackson five
forty five, you know, in my little forty five holder
right next to the police. If you're you know, a
great policing on some Huey Lewis in the news, do
wop right there too.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Man, I was not really all over the place. I
was kind of what I described as a snob when
it comes to singers. For a long time. Yeah, so
I was really into Stevie Wonder and a little later
into Brian mcnight. Interesting, Brian was like my favorite singer
(06:13):
of all time until I've discovered Donnie Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, and and Brian McKnight. Is that's making love music?
I mean, that's sure there it is. So we've just
uncovered it. Tell me about uh, tell me about the
latest record, Time as a Thief and is this is
what we're getting, because I mean it just came out
(06:37):
in the fall. Is this the Time as a Thief
tour that you're on.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, we'll be playing a bunch of stuff from Time
as a Thief. But really, man, you know, I've got
I don't even know how many albums at this point.
We've got a really big catalog and we try to
make sure that the fans get what they what they
came for. So there'll be a lot from Time as
a Thief. They'll be a lot from my first album,
Karen Crow, which is you know, it's been out twenty
(07:02):
one years now. It'll be a real nice mix from
all the albums basically that the fans respond to, so
you can tell them to put their their dance and
shoes on and come down to the Ridgeville Playhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I love it. And probably a ton of covers too, right,
I mean you put out that on vinyl before, and
what are what are some new covers you're tackling.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, we're actually in the studio next week to record
SOS five, focusing on fifty kind of music, So we'll
be we'll be recording some Sam Cook again, some some Rachal. Yeah,
it's going to be a real fun project and that
I can't wait to get out later this year.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, Ray Charles another tough one to tackle. But like
I said, you know a guy who's gotten his due,
Mark Broussard, You've got to get your dude too. A
hell of a voice, man, And it was funny because
when I watched the Kelly Clarkson clip, you know, in
my head, I'm like, I remember that song I was playing,
you know when I wrapped up my top forty days
(08:08):
and come a long way. I mean, you know, tempo wise,
and your voice has changed quite a bit. I means
twenty years a decidedly different voice.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, honestly, man, when I listened back to the original
version of Home, I kind of cringe a little bit.
Because I feel like I was trying my hardest to
sound like a man, and these days I just sound
like a man, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah? Sure, Yeah, No. I loved that too, and it's
a great too. Is it a tough one to tackle?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, man, I wrote that song with my father. We
were in the car ride on the way back from
a show that we played with Martin Sexton in Birmingham, Alabama. Wow,
And my dad started singing that song. He literally, you know,
just the lyric pops into his head and he started
singing it to me, and we passed by my Mark
one twelve and I kind of said the second line
(09:02):
back to him, and the rest is history. I wouldn't
have a career without that song, and it's all due
to my father. So it's a very very special song
for me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah. That's interesting too because Martin Sexton is playing here
in Connecticut coming up shortly, and I mean, your father
is a legend. He let you just run with that song.
Does he get a co writer credit on it? Did
you give him a co writer credit?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh? Of course, brother, I wasn't gonna shake my daddy
down for that one.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I love it. I can't wait for the show Man.
I'm looking forward to a nice, small, intimate room. It's
like a living room. It's a great, great venue.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I've been to ridgecal Playhouse many many times. I'm really
looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Going back opening Jamie McClain. It's a great summer night show.
Mark Pressard, I appreciate you coming on and hopefully i'll
meet you. I'll see you then.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Thanks, Van, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Take care of my man later brother
What's going on, Vinnie? Mark Brusard here.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Mark Bruceard, how are you, my man? I've been looking
forward to this. Welcome to the show coming to the
Ridgefield Playhouse Sunday, July thirteen. Been listening to some of
your music. I missed the performance with Kelly Clarkson. I
don't know how I miss that, big fan, and I
was reading some stuff and you know, buy you Soul.
(00:23):
You know what it is, Mark, In my opinion, it's
music to me, it's that voice. It's music to make
love to. You should I believe. I believe you're being
marketed incorrectly and you should be marketed as music to
make love to.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
You know. I don't mind when people make love to
my music. In fact, people have told me for years
that they conceived children opting to my songs.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love it, and I remember when you know you've
been around a while, You've been at this a while.
As a matter of fact, do a talk show now.
But I started Top forty radio. We were spending you
had a song Top forty back. I'm going back fifteen
maybe twenty years now, yeah, probably twenty years now that
(01:11):
I'm trying to recall that it performed really well on
the top forty charts. Well some of your earliest music.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yeah, there was a song on an album twenty one
years ago called Homes that did fairly well. I think
we made it to the top one hot one hundred.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Is that still part of the set? Is this set
we're going to get at the Ridgefield Playoffs because I
see you know, I'm a huge Sam Cook fan. It's
quite something to be able to nail some of the
voices that you're now Sam Cook, Otis Redding. Those those
aren't the easiest. Those are tough guys to tackle. You
do it comfortably.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
You do it with these man. It's been a real
joy to be able to sing that material. You know.
We started the SOS Foundation and started recording covers records
to raise money for charity. It's allowed me to record
some of my favorite music of all time and really
try my best to pay homage to the greatest singers,
(02:08):
in my opinion, that have ever existed, guys like you
mentioned Sam Cook and Otis Redding, Al Green, Stevie Wonder,
Marvin Gay. And it's really been a joy to not
only sing that music but also to raise money for
great causes at the same time.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I think so too, otis Redding. I feel like, you know,
he gets his due because a lot of people have
covered his music and had their own hits with them,
you know, sitting on Doctor Bay of course comes to
mind Sam Cook. I don't feel like he gets his due.
When I was a kid, my father had a Sam
Cook album. I still got the turntable going in my house,
(02:44):
and I was obsessed with some old Sam Cook vinyl
with Cupid and whatnot. And it's unfortunate because it feels
like somebody needs to cover, you know, these greats from
days gone by and have a hit with it. Otherwise
they're just lost to time. You know, you're a victim
of time.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know, Sam is honestly one of the greatest singers
of all time. His voice rings through you. Actually hear
a lot of Sam Cook in Steve Perry from Journey
if you pay attention. Damn all those big high runs
and the o's, and he's I think, influenced singers more
(03:25):
than more than most people know.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Yeah, you know it's interesting too, Mark. You'll appreciate this,
especially because you know you're a dad. I don't know
the ages of your kids. My daughter just graduated college.
She's twenty two years old. But you know I was
spending that vinyl, like I said, when she was a kid,
so not too far back, because probably high school. One
(03:50):
day she turns up in a Sam Cook T shirt,
you know, vintage T shirt, and I remember thinking to myself,
some smart dude out there is going to be like like,
you're going to be the coolest You're Anyone who gets
that is all right by me. I felt as a dad,
the guy who gets that, he's going to be all
(04:11):
right by me.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Well, then my son is twenty two, and you know
I was spending I was spending the same music in
our house. Yeah, but my kid, my kid ended up
liking Dinback, Darryl and Pantera and Metallica a little bit
more than Sam Cook. Yeah, he's on a different path.
He's not going to be the kid that shows up.
(04:33):
Thank God, thank you lucky stars that he's not going
to be the kid that shows up. I swept that,
your daughter. I swept that.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
For a minute because I've got a son too, And
for a minute there he was going right where you
just described. And then I don't know what happened somehow
on his own. You know, they listen. They taking music
differently than you and I did when we were kids.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
They sure do.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Somehow my son wound up in a weird seventies. He
wound up in the seventies. There's noth something like your
nineteen year old son pulling down the driveway listening to
Bread's greatest hits. I don't even I can't even take credit.
I don't know how it happened.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Brother. My my nineteen year old son is he's got
two or three favorite albums. One is The Beach Boys.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Oh yeah, my son loves some beach but yeah, I
love it. That's great classic.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
His next favorite album is Tyler the Creator, a hip
hop album. Yeah yeah, he's all over the map with stuff.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yeah were you that way too? But I mean I
kind of was. I mean I was all over the
place too. I mean I would have Jack Jackson five
forty five, you know, in my little forty five holder
right next to the police. If you're you know, a
great policing on some Huey Lewis in the news, do
wop right there too.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Man, I was not really all over the place. I
was kind of what I described as a snob when
it comes to singers. For a long time. Yeah, so
I was really into Stevie Wonder and a little later
into Brian mcnight. Interesting, Brian was like my favorite singer
(06:13):
of all time until I've discovered Donnie Hathaway.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, and and Brian McKnight. Is that's making love music?
I mean, that's sure there it is. So we've just
uncovered it. Tell me about uh, tell me about the
latest record, Time as a Thief and is this is
what we're getting, because I mean it just came out
(06:37):
in the fall. Is this the Time as a Thief
tour that you're on.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Yeah, we'll be playing a bunch of stuff from Time
as a Thief. But really, man, you know, I've got
I don't even know how many albums at this point.
We've got a really big catalog and we try to
make sure that the fans get what they what they
came for. So there'll be a lot from Time as
a Thief. They'll be a lot from my first album,
Karen Crow, which is you know, it's been out twenty
(07:02):
one years now. It'll be a real nice mix from
all the albums basically that the fans respond to, so
you can tell them to put their their dance and
shoes on and come down to the Ridgeville Playhouse.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
I love it. And probably a ton of covers too, right,
I mean you put out that on vinyl before, and
what are what are some new covers you're tackling.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, we're actually in the studio next week to record
SOS five, focusing on fifty kind of music, So we'll
be we'll be recording some Sam Cook again, some some Rachal. Yeah,
it's going to be a real fun project and that
I can't wait to get out later this year.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, Ray Charles another tough one to tackle. But like
I said, you know a guy who's gotten his due,
Mark Broussard, You've got to get your dude too. A
hell of a voice, man, And it was funny because
when I watched the Kelly Clarkson clip, you know, in
my head, I'm like, I remember that song I was playing,
you know when I wrapped up my top forty days
(08:08):
and come a long way. I mean, you know, tempo wise,
and your voice has changed quite a bit. I means
twenty years a decidedly different voice.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, honestly, man, when I listened back to the original
version of Home, I kind of cringe a little bit.
Because I feel like I was trying my hardest to
sound like a man, and these days I just sound
like a man, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah? Sure, Yeah, No. I loved that too, and it's
a great too. Is it a tough one to tackle?
Speaker 1 (08:40):
No, man, I wrote that song with my father. We
were in the car ride on the way back from
a show that we played with Martin Sexton in Birmingham, Alabama. Wow,
And my dad started singing that song. He literally, you know,
just the lyric pops into his head and he started
singing it to me, and we passed by my Mark
one twelve and I kind of said the second line
(09:02):
back to him, and the rest is history. I wouldn't
have a career without that song, and it's all due
to my father. So it's a very very special song
for me.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah. That's interesting too because Martin Sexton is playing here
in Connecticut coming up shortly, and I mean, your father
is a legend. He let you just run with that song.
Does he get a co writer credit on it? Did
you give him a co writer credit?
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Oh? Of course, brother, I wasn't gonna shake my daddy
down for that one.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I love it. I can't wait for the show Man.
I'm looking forward to a nice, small, intimate room. It's
like a living room. It's a great, great venue.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I've been to ridgecal Playhouse many many times. I'm really
looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Going back opening Jamie McClain. It's a great summer night show.
Mark Pressard, I appreciate you coming on and hopefully i'll
meet you. I'll see you then.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Thanks, Van, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Take care of my man later brother
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