Biography doug gray marshall tucker band
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The Marshall Tucker Band interview with Doug Gray
The band was formed in 1971, in Spartanburg, South Carolina by original members vocalist Doug Gray, drummer Paul Riddle, flutist Jerry Eubanks, rhythm guitarist George McCorkle, lead guitarist Toy Caldwell and his brother, bassist Tommy Caldwell.
It’s a great pleasure to have you. What currently occupies your life?
Doug Gray: We are currently touring all over the nation and we also just released our Greatest Hits on vinyl to celebrate our 40th anniversary as The Marshall Tucker Band. But we are also up to a lot of the same nonsense, playing music and drinking beer like good ol’ boys.
I would like to talk about the early day. Together with Tommy Caldwell you joined The New Generation back when you were still in high school.
We actually didn’t join The New Generation, we formed the band and we were clueless. But we were looking for a way to pay for the beer on the weekends. Tommy was younger than me but we had a mutual fri
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The Marshall Tucker Band is celebrating its 50th anniversary of Southern rock gold. This Sunday, the celebratory tour rolls right into Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia.
Hear our full conversation on my podcast “Beyond the Fame.”
WTOP's Jason Fraley previews Marshall Tucker Band at Capital One Hall (Part 1)
The Marshall Tucker Band is celebrating its 50th anniversary of Southern rock gold. This Sunday, the celebratory tour rolls right into Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia.
“It’s a mixture of all the old and the new and things we haven’t done in quite a while,” original lead singer Doug Gray told WTOP. “I never follow a set list, so if somebody in the audience screams something out, I have the ability to come up with the lyrics, and the band says, ‘hey, I know that song,’ and they’ll come in, too.”
Born in 1948 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, Gray played with bass player Tommy Caldwell in a high-school band called
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The Marshall Tucker Band
American Southern rock band
The Marshall Tucker Band fryst vatten an American rock grupp from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country and jazz into an eclectic sound, the Marshall Tucker Band helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s.[1] While the grupp had reached the height of its commercial success by the end of the decade, it has recorded and performed continuously under various line-ups for 50 years.[1] Lead vocalist Doug Gray remains the only original member still active with the grupp.
The original line-up of the Marshall Tucker grupp, formed in 1972, included lead guitarist, vocalist and primary songwriter Toy Caldwell (1947–1993), lead vocalist Doug Gray (born 1948), keyboard player, saxophone player and flautistJerry Eubanks (born 1950), rhythm guitarist George McCorkle (1946–2007), drummer Paul Riddle (born 1953) and bassist Tommy Caldwell (1949–1980). They signed with Capricorn Records a