The Marshall Tucker Band Songs Ranked
The Marshall Tucker Band is an American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country, and jazz into its eclectic sound, The Marshall Tucker Band helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s. While the band had reached the height of its commercial success by the end of the decade, it has recorded and performed continuously under various lineups for 45 years. Lead vocalist Doug Gray remains the only original member still active with the band.
The original lineup of the Marshall Tucker Band, formed in 1972, included lead guitarist, steel guitarist, vocalist, and primary songwriter Toy Caldwell (1947–1993), lead vocalist Doug Gray (born 1948), keyboard player, saxophone player, and flutist Jerry Eubanks (born 1950), rhythm guitarist George McCorkle (1947–2007), drummer Paul Riddle (born 1953), and bassist Tommy Caldwell (1949–1980). They signed with Capricorn Records and in 1973 released their first LP, The Marshall Tucker Band.
After Tommy Caldwell was killed in an automobile accident in 1980, he was replaced by bassist Franklin Wilkie. Most of the original band members had left by the mid-1980s to pursue other projects. The band’s current lineup consists of Gray on vocals, keyboard player, saxophonist, and flutist Marcus James Henderson, guitarists Chris Hicks and Rick Willis, bassist Tony Black and drummer B.B. Borden. Here are all of The MarshallTucker Band songs ranked.
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12. It Takes Time (Tenth, 1980)
“A great laid back album with real guitar playing, I wouldn’t rate them as highly as skynyrd or allman brothers but they’re a fantastic band.”
11. Bound and Determined (Searchin’ for a Rainbow, 1975)
“The other really good song on this album is ‘Bound and Determined’, and there are a few average songs on this LP as well, but the four favourites are so good this makes an album totally worth having. This South Carolina band made at least two excellent country rock albums and now I have them both.”
10. Long Hard Ride (Long Hard Ride 1976)
“Long Hard Ride is arguably the greatest Instrumental outside of possibly In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed in Southern Rock’s entire Lexicon. And then you have Windy City Blues which is one of the finest, and certainly most underappreciated songs Marshall Tucker ever created. And good God isn’t Toy Caldwell a beast with that Guitar. That tone is astounding. Get this disc, you won’t be disappointed.”
9. Ramblin’ (Where We All Belong, 1974)
“The band has the trademark Southern Rock characteristics that we all recognize immediately. What distinguishes this band from the others are the jazzy interludes – the flute on Can’t See You for instance. Hillbilly Band has elements of country, jazz and, rock – how many Southern Rocks bands have guitar, flute and fiddle in the same song?”
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8. Running Like the Wind (Running Like the Wind, 1979)
“The title song is kind of aimless, not really going anywhere and taking its time getting there. You gotta love the flute playing, though, in it. I have no idea why I respect bands that play unorthodox instruments on a rock cd, but I do and I give them more leeway than I would other bands because of their originality.”
7. 24 Hours at a Time (A New Life, 1974)
“Classic southern rock album. Toy Caldwell is one of the unsung guitar heroes. The band had a great jazzy feel to their southern blues style. “24 Hours at a Time”, is a mid tempo country rocker featuring Charlie Daniels on fiddle”
6. Take the Highway (The Marshall Tucker Band, 1973)
“I love these guys they rank up there with The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Outlaws.This wasn’t a song of theirs that I wasn’t familiar with but after hearing it it is one of my favorites.”
5. Searchin for a Rainbow (Searchin for a Rainbow, 1975)
“Only a couple of times did the CDB pass the quality of tone and great guitar playing on this Southern Rock classic. Bound and Determined a greatly overlooked southern blues tune.Toy Caldwell,s tone and that of the Hammond organ are leaning in on Birmingham Blues by Charlie Daniels. Toy and Tom Crain had awesome guitar sounds, based on Duane Allman’s 59 humbucker and Marshall sound.(Toy Caldwell got this with Fender twins wired and modified like Jerry Garcia’s.) Amazing.”
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4. Fire On the Mountain (Searchin’ for a Rainbow, 1975)
“This is one of the songs the Marshall Tucker Band is famous for. I actually had heard of the Marshall Tucker Band before, but had never heard anything by them. I happen to catch a special on TV about them and heard this song.”
3. Heard It In a Love Song (The Charlie Daniels Band/The Marshall Tucker Band / Best Of 2 Super Groups, 1992)
“I can play this song over and over. As an hobby songwriter I pay close attention to the lyric content of a song and this song just stays on track with its home grown, easy going concept. I even went to chordie.com so I can learn to play it on my guitar.”
2. This Ol’ Cowboy (Country Tucker, 1996)
“It could be the ultimate guy breakup song. He’s bumming. But isn’t going to be a wuss about it. He’s moving on and hopping back on another horse. And when he is going to be banging the next chick, he isn’t going to be too worried about his previous girlfriend either.”
1. Can’t You See (The Marshall Tucker Band, 1973)
“This is another song I have heard before, most likely through comercial exposure over the years, it was just one of those tracks that I put off as being Allman Brothers Band and was actually the Marshall Tucker Band. This is one of those 70’s Southern Rock tracks in the same vein as the Allmans and Skynyrd and since those bands rocked in high amounts, this non surprisingly succeeds in the very same ways. They can play this kind of stuff all day for me. Drink a beer and watch the game, and eat some bbq with that girl. God yeah”