{"id":88064,"date":"2021-06-14T16:19:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=88064"},"modified":"2021-06-14T16:19:52","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T21:19:52","slug":"the-marshall-tucker-band-to-perform-at-the-bpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2021\/06\/the-marshall-tucker-band-to-perform-at-the-bpac\/","title":{"rendered":"The Marshall Tucker Band to perform at the BPAC"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row type=”in_container” full_screen_row_position=”middle” column_margin=”default” column_direction=”default” column_direction_tablet=”default” column_direction_phone=”default” scene_position=”center” text_color=”dark” text_align=”left” row_border_radius=”none” row_border_radius_applies=”bg” overlay_strength=”0.3″ gradient_direction=”left_to_right” shape_divider_position=”bottom” bg_image_animation=”none”][vc_column column_padding=”no-extra-padding” column_padding_tablet=”inherit” column_padding_phone=”inherit” column_padding_position=”all” column_element_spacing=”default” background_color_opacity=”1″ background_hover_color_opacity=”1″ column_shadow=”none” column_border_radius=”none” column_link_target=”_self” gradient_direction=”left_to_right” overlay_strength=”0.3″ width=”1\/1″ tablet_width_inherit=”default” tablet_text_alignment=”default” phone_text_alignment=”default” bg_image_animation=”none” border_type=”simple” column_border_width=”none” column_border_style=”solid”][vc_column_text]CLEVELAND, Miss.\u2014<\/strong>The Marshall Tucker Band<\/strong> will perform live in concert on Thursday, July 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the Bologna Performing Arts Center (BPAC) at Delta State University. Tickets are on sale at the BPAC Ticket Office, by phone 662-846-4626, or online www.bolognapac.com<\/a><\/p>\n

When you wake up and want to put a smile on your face, you think of the songs that always manage to reach down and touch your soul the moment you hear the first note. The Marshall Tucker Band is one such group that continues to have a profound level of impact on successive generations of listeners who\u2019ve been “Searchin\u2019 for a Rainbow” and found it perfectly represented by this tried-and-true Southern institution over the decades. \u201cI\u2019ve been in tune with how music can make you feel, right from when I was first in the crib,\u201d explains lead vocalist and bandleader Doug Gray, who\u2019s been fronting the MTB since the very beginning. \u201cI was born with that. And I realized it early on, back when I was a little kid and my mom and dad encouraged me to get up there and sing whatever song came on the jukebox. It got to the point where people were listening to me <\/em>more than what was on the jukebox! There\u2019s a certain gift I found I could share, whether I was in front of five people or 20,000 people. I was blessed with that ability and I\u2019m thankful I can share with others.”<\/p>\n

The Marshall Tucker Band<\/strong> came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space \u2014 and they\u2019ve been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe ever since. Plus, the band\u2019s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over. A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong \u201cHeard It in a Love Song,\u201d the insistent pleading of \u201cCan\u2019t You See\u201d (the signature tune of MTB\u2019s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying \u201cFire on the Mountain,\u201d the wanderlust gallop of \u201cLong Hard Ride,\u201d and the explosive testimony of \u201cRamblin,\u2019\u201d to name but a few.<\/p>\n

Indeed, the secret ingredient to the ongoing success of The Marshall Tucker Band\u2019s<\/strong> influence can be seen and felt far and wide throughout many mainstream digital outlets (Netflix, Amazon, etc.). In essence, it\u2019s this inimitable down-home sonic style that helped make the MTB the first truly progressive Southern band to grace this nation\u2019s airwaves \u2014 the proof of which can be found within the grooves and ever-shifting gears of \u201cTake the Highway,\u201d the first song on their self-titled April 1973 debut album on Capricorn Records, The Marshall Tucker Band<\/em>. \u201cWe had the commonality of having all grown up together in Spartanburg,\u201d explains Gray about his original MTB bandmates, guitar wizard Toy Caldwell and his brother, bassist Tommy Caldwell, alongside rhythm guitarist George McCorkle, drummer Paul T. Riddle, and flautist\/saxophonist Jerry Eubanks. \u201cThe framework for Marshall Tucker\u2019s music is more like a spaceship than a house,\u201d Gray continues, \u201cbecause you can look out of a lot of windows and see a variety of things that show where we\u2019ve been and what we\u2019ve done, and how we\u2019ve travelled through time to bring those experiences out in all of our songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Marshall Tucker Band\u2019s<\/strong> influence can be felt far and wide through many respected contemporaries and the artists who\u2019ve followed the path forged by their collective footsteps and footstomps. \u201cMTB helped originate and personify what was to become known as Southern rock, and I was privileged to watch it all come together in the \u201970s, night after night,\u201d said the legendary late Charlie Daniels. \u201cIn fact, The Charlie Daniels Band has played more dates with The Marshall Tucker Band<\/strong> over the past years than any other band we\u2019ve ever worked with. Even after all these years \u2014 after the tragedies, the miles, the personnel changes, and the many developments in the music business.\u201d Daniels added that he never got tired of seeing his MTB brothers on the road: \u201cWhenever Doug Gray walks into my dressing room with that big ol\u2019 smile of his and then we hug each other and sit and talk for a while, the evening is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember seeing Marshall Tucker<\/strong> and The Outlaws play together in Jacksonville many years ago, when I was just a kid,\u201d recalls Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Johnny Van Zant. \u201cAnd I heard them all over the radio back then too. They were just so cool and so unique that I fell in love with the band, and I also fell in love with the music. Having them open for us on all those dates was like a dream come true, and they\u2019re still as good as I\u2019ve ever seen them. It brought back a lot of memories for me, because I really looked up to those guys when I was first starting out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ed Roland, the lead vocalist and chief songwriter for Collective Soul, adds \u201cThe Marshall Tucker Band<\/strong> had a big influence on me and they still do.\u201d Roland, who\u2019s lived the majority of his life in and around Atlanta, also proudly points out that his band\u2019s biggest hit, \u201cShine,\u201d owes a clear debt to the musical structure of \u201cCan\u2019t You See,\u201d and he\u2019ll often start off by singing the opening line to that song \u2014 \u201cI\u2019m gonna take a freight train\u201d \u2014 whenever Collective Soul performs \u201cShine\u201d live. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to stray from what we grew up listening to,\u201d Roland continues. \u201cI think that\u2019s something important for people to hear. It\u2019s just who we are, and I don\u2019t think we should run from it. Hopefully, people see that southern connection to the bands we love like Marshall Tucker in our music.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doug Gray sees no end to the road that lies ahead for The Marshall Tucker Band<\/strong>, whose legacy is being carried forward by the man himself and his current bandmates, drummer B.B. Borden (Mother\u2019s Finest, The Outlaws), bassist\/vocalist Ryan Ware, keyboardist\/saxophonist\/flautist\/vocalist Marcus James Henderson, guitarist\/vocalist Chris Hicks, and guitarist\/ vocalist Rick Willis. \u201cYou know, I think it was Toy Caldwell\u2019s dad who said, \u2018There\u2019s more to gray hair than old bones,\u2019 and we still have a lot of stories yet to tell,\u201d Gray concludes. \u201cPeople ask me all the time what I\u2019m gonna do when I turn 80, and I always say, \u2018The same thing that we\u2019re continuing to do now.\u2019 We\u2019re road warriors, there\u2019s no doubt about that \u2014 and I don\u2019t intend to slow down.\u201d May the MTB wagon train continue running like the wind on a long hard ride for many more years to come. One thing we absolutely know for sure: If you heard it in a Marshall Tucker Band song, it certainly can\u2019t be wrong.<\/p>\n

Tickets to see The Marshall Tucker Band<\/strong> tickets are on sale at\u00a0www.bolognapac.com<\/a> or at the BPAC Ticket Office at 662.846.4626.<\/p>\n

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