SOUTHERN ROCK ICONS THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND AND THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND ANNOUNCE “FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN” TOUR

WHAT:         This morning, southern rock icons The Charlie Daniels Band (CDB) and The Marshall Tucker Band (MTB) announced the “Fire on the Mountain” tour, a national road show that will bring together two of the genre's most beloved musical legends.

“The idea of us touring again with the CDB leads to all kinds of possibilities,” says MTB lead singer Doug Gray. “It’s not just about the music, but also the friendships and the reunion with the fans who’ve been with us for many years. We’ll be playing all of our hit songs as well as material from an upcoming re-released vinyl album.”

The tour title is a nod to The Marshall Tucker Band’s 1978 hit song, “Fire on the Mountain,” as well as The Charlie Daniels Band’s 1974 platinum-selling album of the same name.

“"We have played more shows with the MTB through the years than any other band and have worked together for over forty years,” adds Daniels. "We have so much history and so many memories and the music is so compatible that when we get together, the audience, CDB and MTB have a big ole southern-style good time."

Fellow southern rock group The Scooter Brown Band will join Daniels and the MTB on select dates.

WHEN:         Saturday, September 19, 2020 @ 7:00pm

WHERE:       The Family Arena - 2002 Arena Parkway * St. Charles, MO 63303

TICKETS:     On Sale Friday, January 17 @ 10am

Tickets can be purchased at the Family Arena Ticket Office or online at www.ticketmaster.com.

Prices: $88 (Rows 1-7), $73 (Floor), $58 (Lower Level), $43 (Upper Level)

For help purchasing accessible seating, please call The Family Arena ADA Hotline at 636-896-4234.

TICKET LINK:        https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/06005826941E587B

FURTHER INFO:    Please call The Family Arena event hotline at 636-896-4242 for more information or visit our web site at www.familyarena.com.

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THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND KEEPS ON ROCKIN’

In the early fall of 1973 Marshall Tucker Band was still a young and hungry group out to prove themselves every time they hit the stage.  Their debut album had already spawned numerous hits. “Way Out West!”-Live fromSan Francisco1973, their latest CD is a time capsule from that period.  “We were a bunch of young guys who didn’t know any boundaries” says founding member and longtime lead singer Doug Gray.  As it turned out, the collective talents of the Marshall Tucker Band took them very far indeed.  More than three decades later this galvanizingSan Franciscoperformance reminds us how it all began.
Still led today by founding member and lead singer Doug Gray, they represent a time and place in music that will never be duplicated.  Gray is quick to credit the band's current dynamic members with carrying on the timeless essence of the Marshall Tucker Band sound. Current members include slide guitarist Stuart Swanlund who joined the band in 1989, the highly respected drummer B.B. Borden, a former member of both Mother's Finest and The Outlaws, multi instrumentalist Marcus Henderson of Macon, Georgia, plays flute, saxophone and keyboards in addition to lead and background vocals, Pat Elwood on bass guitar, and Rick Willis on lead guitar and vocals, both of Spartanburg SC, are disciples of the Caldwell Brothers.  Together they present a powerful stage presence as they continue to tour the country and continue to be powerful force in the world of music.
The Marshall Tucker Band got its start inSpartanburg,S.C.when Gray teamed up with Tommy Caldwell and Toy Caldwell, Paul T. Riddle, George McCorkle and Jerry Eubanks, borrowing the name "Marshall Tucker" from a piano tuner whose name was found on a key ring in their old rehearsal space. In 1972, they signed with Capricorn Records, the same label that guided The Allman Brothers Band, Wet Willie, and others to national fame. The MTB opened shows for The Allman Brothers in 1973, and the following year, they began to headline their own shows acrossAmericadue to the platinum-plus sales of their debut album.  They toured constantly playing sheds, stadiums, theaters, fairs, and festivals.
In years to come, The Marshall Tucker Band would wow critics and influence major country acts likeAlabama, The Kentucky Headhunters, Confederate Railroad, and Travis Tritt with its definitive blend of rock, rhythm & blues, jazz, country, and gospel. Now, thanks to the expanding scope of today's music, a new generation of fans is learning what the rest of their fans have known for so long- that good music knows no boundaries.  Along the way, the band has recorded twenty two studio albums, three DVDs, three live albums and many compilations.
In 1980 Tommy Caldwell died as a result of injuries from an auto accident.  In 1984 Toy Caldwell, George McCorkle, and Paul Riddle decided to retire.  Doug Gray and Jerry Eubanks with the blessings of the other three continued to record and perform as the Marshall Tucker Band.  1n 1993 Toy Caldwell, who wrote the majority of their songs, passed away, as did George McCorkle in 2007.  Jerry Eubanks retired in 1996 and Doug Gray continues to lead the current band of fine musicians winning new young fans as well as satisfying the loyal fans of several generations.
Years of rigorous tour schedules earned the band the respect of critics and countless dedicated fans. With hit singles like "Heard It In a Love Song," "Fire On The Mountain," "Can't You See," and "Take The Highway," The Marshall Tucker Band earned seven gold and three platinum albums while they were on the Capricorn Records label. During the 90's, the MTB scored four hit singles on Billboard's country chart and one on Billboard's gospel chart. Their music has also been featured on the soundtracks of movies such as Smokey and the Bandit, The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper, Shipwrecked, Crank 2, Don’t Mess with Zohan, Stop Loss, Swing Vote, Taking Chance and many others as well as many TV Shows.
“The buying public never really cared whether we were country or rock and roll" says Gray. "They called us a Southern rock band, but we have always played everything from country, jazz, blues, Rock & Roll  and all things in-between. As we've become older," Gray grins, eyes twinkling, "our Southern heritage seems to come out even more. But no matter how old we get, we can still rock your socks off."  Gray also notes that people have gotten "married and buried" to classic MTB songs like "Desert Skies" and "Can't You See". After 41 years, The Marshall Tucker Band continues to be played on classic rock and country radio, and they have never stopped touring.
Today the band records on its own RAMBLIN’ RECORDS Label which is distributed by SONY by way of a joint venture with SHOUT! FACTORY and continues to record new material and continues to regularly tour the country to the delight of their fans, old and new.

Who: The Marshall Tucker Band, The Georgia Satellites, Molly Hatchet and more..
When: Saturday, June 21
Where: Copperhead Music Festival, World Shooting and Recreation Complex
Tickets: www.copperfheadmusicfestival.com

MTB is 40

THE MARSHALL TUCKER BAND CELEBRATES 40 YEARS OF MUSIC

MTB Set to Release The Marshall Tucker Band: Greatest Hits on April 5

Nashville, Tenn (March 15, 2011) - Forty years ago theMarshall Tucker Band roared out of Spartanburg, South Carolina, at the dawn of the '70s, spurred on by camaraderie and a hunger for adventure. They began forging a musical legacy that quickly turned into a legend. Their ability to blend rock, country, jazz and blues won them a fervent following and changed perceptions of what American pop music could be.  On April 5, 2011, marking its40th Anniversary, the Marshall Tucker Band releasesThe Marshall Tucker Band: Greatest Hits (Shout Factory).  The 14-track album features original recordings of the songs that made the MTB a household name. 

The Marshall Tucker Band was brilliant at improvising onstage and, appropriately enough, they followed their career path with the same freewheeling spirit. Early on, the band established a presence on radio that grew with each new album. This greatest hits collection gathers together Marshall Tucker’s best-known singles, along with several key album tracks. Collectively, they document a band dealing lyrically with good times and bad, making great music all the while. Lead singer Doug Gray says, “looking back, it was very difficult to choose which songs to include in this album.”

MTB traces its beginnings to the late 1960s, when lead guitarist Toy Caldwelland rhythm and blues singer Doug Gray formed the Toy Factory after the two of them returned from military service in Vietnam. In 1971 Toy and Doug assembled a new group, the MTB, with bassist Tommy Caldwell (Toy’s brother), rhythm guitarist George McCorkle, drummer Paul Riddle and reed player Jerry Eubanks. Naming their group after a local piano tuner, Marshall Tucker, they began playing Spartanburg area clubs, sharing the stage with the Allman Brothers and other Southern rock peers.

It didn’t take long for MTB’s reputation for electrifying live shows to spread across the South and beyond. At the center of the group’s sound was Doug Gray’s amazing vocals with nearly limitless range and the ability to handle ballads, country honky tonk, pop, jazz, blues, and roaring rock songs with ease. George McCorkle’s constantly consistent rhythm guitar work, Paul Riddle’s Buddy Rich style drumming, Jerry Eubank’s flute and saxophone and Toy Caldwell’s impassioned songwriting, with astonishing thumb-picked guitar work, encompassed blazing solo flights and sensitive introspective passages. “I still wonder how you could get all that emotion out of one man,” says Gray. “Most people who never knew Toy thought he must’ve been this very tough guy. But the soft side of him came out in his music. And he was as gentle as a lamb to anyone who ever had the chance to shake his hand.”

Signing with Capricorn Records, the Marshall Tucker Band released a self-titled debut album in 1973; it contained such enduring Toy Caldwell originals as “Take the Highway,” “Ramblin’” and “Can’t You See.” Touring relentlessly, the band followed up with 1974’s A New Life, an album that yielded the road anthem “24 Hours at A Time,” the country-accented “Blue Ridge Mountain Sky” and the bluesy “Too Stubborn.” A year later came Where We All Belong, a two-disc set combining live tracks with such new studio recordings as “This Ol’ Cowboy” (sung by Toy) and featuring touring guest Charlie Daniels on fiddle, and the country ballad “In My Own Way.”

By the time Searchin’ for a Rainbow appeared in 1975, the band was beginning to craft more Top 40 radio-friendly tunes. The McCorkle-penned “Fire on the Mountain” and Toy Caldwell’s title song cracked the Billboard Top 40 charts and delved into the sorts of Western story themes that became a Marshall Tucker trademark. Long Hard Ride (1976) continued the band’s momentum with strong tunes such as the hard-charging instrumental title track that won them a Grammy nomination that year. Next MTB scored a big breakthrough creatively and commercially with 1977’s platinum-certifiedCarolina Dreams. This album showcased the band’s buoyant Top 10 Billboard hit, “Heard It in a Love Song,” as well as such worthy numbers as “I Should Have Never Started Lovin’ You” and the jazzy “Desert Skies.”

The band finished their contract with Capricorn Records in 1978 and Capricorn released an eight song Greatest Hits package which was discontinued in 1999. The band signed with Warner Brothers and recorded six artistically satisfying albums from 1979 to 1983. Sadly, the band suffered a tragic loss when Tommy Caldwell died on April 28, 1980, following an automobile accident. The band soldiered on but the rigors of the road and Tommy’s death weighed heavily on Toy especially and he, McCorkle and Riddle decided to take an extended break from touring and recording and turned the band over to Gray and Eubanks, with their blessings. In 1996, Eubanks retired leaving Gray as the only original member of the Marshall Tucker Band. Today the band still plays over one hundred shows per year and continues to issue albums of new material. Toy Caldwell died in 1994 from natural causes and George McCorkle succumbed to cancer in 2003.

The Marshall Tucker Band built its lasting success on raw talent, inspired live shows and innovative, heartfelt songs. The release of this updated Greatest Hits album and continuing to tour regularly will keep adding to their legendary status as one of Southern Rocks greatest, innovative, and longest lasting bands. 

In addition to releasingGreatest Hits on April 5, Doug Gray unveils his lost R&B solo album, Soul Of The South (Shout Factory), on the same date.  The unreleased 30-year-old recordings, featuring the MTB, showcases Gray's vocal affinity for Soul and Blues.

For additional information on the Marshall Tucker Band, visitwww.marshalltuckerband.com. 

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(*Review copies of The Marshall Tucker Band: Greatest Hits & Soul Of The South available upon request)

The Marshall Tucker Band: Greatest Hits Track Listing:

1.  Take The Highway

 2.  Blue Ridge Mountain Sky

 3.  In My Own Way

 4.  Fire On The Mountain

 5.  Heard It In A Love Song

 6.  Ramblin'

 7.  Searchin' For A Rainbow

 8.  I Should Have Never Started Lovin' You

 9.  24 Hours At A Time

 10.  Long Hard Ride

 11.  Can't You See

 12.  Too Stubborn

 13.  This Ol' Cowboy

 14.  Desert Skies 

Soul Of The South Track Listing:

1.  Let Me Be The Fool

2.  Who

3.  Sandman

4.  Guilty

5.  Don't Blame It On The Rain

6.  Never Enough

7.  Still Thinking Of You