
The Marshall Tucker Band is an American rock band 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. 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 line-ups for 50 years. Lead vocalist Doug Gray remains the only original member still active with the band.
The original line-up 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 (1946–2007), drummer Paul Riddle (born 1953), and bassist Tommy Caldwell (1949–1980). They signed with Capricorn Records and released their first album in 1973, The Marshall Tucker Band.
After Tommy Caldwell was killed in a car accident in 1980, he was replaced by bassist Franklin Wilkie. Most of the original band members had left by the mid-1980s. The band's current line-up 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.
Just So Nostalgic.
I've been down around Houston, Texas
Where the sun shines most of the time
I've been drivin' about six hours
Tryin' to reach that Arkansas line
But Texarkana's an hour ahead
And I've got to keep my wheels rollin'
But woman you're always on my mind
Twenty-four hours at a time
So my woman I'm hoping you feel the same way
Woman you know that I miss you
And I can't miss you no more
I got this ride doing seventy miles an hour
She's loaded she's down to the floor
But I've got to reach that Arkansas line
Before the sun goes down... Yeah
But woman you're always on my mind
Twenty-four hours at a time
So my woman I'm hoping you feel the same way
Woman you know I need you
I've been on the road too much
Tired of looking at the highway
Got to keep in touch some way
I've been down around Houston, Texas
Where the sun shines most of the time
I've been driving about six hours
Tryin' to reach that Arkansas line
But Texarkana's an hour ahead
And I've got to keep my wheels rolling
But woman you're always on my mind
Twenty-four hours at a time
So my woman I'm hoping you feel the same way
Feel the same way
Feel the same way
Feel the same way...
I rode into town today, in my mind, I said 'Lord I'd like to stay
Something in me said boy, move on
Don't know what it is the good lord bred it in my bones
And I'm searchin' for a rainbow, and if the wind ever shows me where to go
You'd be waiting at the end and I know, I'd see the hill with that pot of gold
I'd say to hell with that pot of gold
This old mount I'm ridin', she's gettin' kinda' tired
But in my heart she knows there's this one desire
She's gonna' take me to the end of our road
Then she'll lay down and die and I'll say 'God reat her soul
And I'm searchin' for a rainbow, and if the wind ever shows me where to go
You'd be waiting at the end and I know, I'd see the hill with that pot of gold
I'd say to hell with that pot of gold
And I'm searchin' for a rainbow, and if the wind ever shows me where to go
You'd be waiting at the end and I know, I'd see the hill with that pot of gold
I'd see the hill with that pot of gold
And I'm searchin' for a rainbow.. And if the wind ever shows me where to go
I'll say to hell with that pot of gold
I'll say to hell with that pot of gold
"Got all the floor I can use ..."
woo-hoo luv dem blues : )
www.wikipedia.com Blue Monochrome (1961), Yves Klein, Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.wikipedia.com Blue Monochrome (1961), Yves Klein, Museum of Modern Art, New York
At least he wasn't face down in the blues.