The Marshall Tucker Band 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 — and they’ve been in
tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe
ever since. Plus, the band’s 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 “Heard It in a Love
Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune of
MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy
Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of
“Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,’” to name but a
few.