The Marshall Tucker Band
- Origin: Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
- Genre: Southern Rock, Country Rock
- Years active: 1972-present
- Website: www.marshalltucker.com
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Biography
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.
The original lineup of the Marshall Tucker Band, 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 flautist 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 flautist Marcus James Henderson, guitarists Chris Hicks and Rick Willis, bassist Tony Black and drummer B.B. Borden.
Members:
- Tommy Caldwell - bass, vocals (1972-1980)
- George McCorkle - rhythm guitar (1972-1983)
- Paul Riddle - drums (1972-1983)
- Toy Caldwell - lead guitar, vocals (1972-1983)
- Jerry Eubanks - flute, saxophone, vocals (1972-1996)
- Doug Gray - lead vocals, tambourine (1972-present)
- Franklin Wilkie - bass, vocals (1980-1984)
- Ronnie Godfrey - piano, keyboards, vocals (1982-1984)
- Bob Wray - bass (1984)
- James Stroud - drums (1984)
- Kenny Mims - guitar (1984)
- Bobby Ogdin - piano, keyboards (1984-1989)
- Rusty Milner - guitar (1984-2003)
- Tom Robb - bass (1985-1987)
- Ace Allen - drums (1985-1992)
- Stuart Swanlund - guitar, pedal steel guitar, vocals (1985-2012)
- Tim Lawter - bass, vocals (1987)
- Don Cameron - keyboards, vocals (1989-1992)
- Frank Toler - drums (1992-1994)
- Mark Pettey - keyboards (1992-1994)
- Ronald Radford - guitar, keyboards (1993-1995)
- Paul Thompson - keyboards (1994)
- Garry Guzzardo - drums (1994-1996)
- David Muse - flute, keyboards, saxophone, vocals, organ, synthesizer, horn, mandolin (1996-2000)
- Chris Hicks - guitar (1996-present)
- B.B. Borden - drums (1997-present)
- Clay Cook - saxophone, flute, keyboards, guitar (2000-2009)
- Tony Heatherly - bass, vocals (2001-2004)
- Pat Ellwood - bass, vocals (2004-present)
- Marcus James Henderson - saxophone, flute, keyboards, vocals (2009-present)
- Rick Willis - guitar, vocals (2009-present)
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