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Rating: Marshall Tucker Band is a southern rock group from Southern California and made their debut on the music scene with their eponymous album in 1973. Unfortunately, they have always been considered a non-essential and marginal band, but in my humble opinion, they should be regarded as one of the best groups in the southern rock genre.
If you're looking for sounds long lost and would like to be transported for about fifty minutes to the deepest South of the States... perfect, pour yourself two fingers of whiskey in a glass, light a cigarette, or better yet, start chewing tobacco. Then put on Marshall Tucker Band, and I'd say you've completed the perfect mix of the true "corncracker." Let yourself be carried away by the soft and typically southern voice of Toy Caldwell. Imagine yourself on your hammock in the shade with a piece of straw in your mouth, perhaps in Alabama or Louisiana, and enjoy every last second of this album. In any case, you cannot remain indifferent to the sound of this album if you are passionate about the genre. You will find Marshall Tucker Band is one of the albums that most encapsulates the spirit and essence of the American hinterland. The content is a mix of country, southern rock, and blues without particular technicalities, but with lots and lots of passion.
The pearl of the album is the very famous "can't you see" (which is also featured in the soundtrack of the movie "Blow").
A tremendously imaginative piece! Simply fantastic. Another standout track is "ramblin'" where guitarist George McCorkle delights us with raw and rustic sounds contributing to making it all even more "rustic."
Try it to believe it, after all, if you like the southern rock genre, it is impossible not to consider this album a masterpiece.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Take the Highway (06:15)
Take the highway
Lord knows I've been gone too long
Lot of sad days, yeah
One day you'll turn around
and I'll be gone
And the time has finally come
for me to pack my bags and walk away
Hear me say...
I'll be back someday
But darlin' please don't
wait for me too long
There's just one place I can't stay
Memories of your love still linger on
And the time has finally come
for me to pack my bags and walk away
Here me say....
Take the highway
Take the highway
Take the highway
And the time has finally come
for me to pack my bags and walk away
Here me say...
04 Hillbilly Band (02:35)
Gatta get home before the sun goes down
Gatta go listen to my favorite sound
It's a hillbilly fiddle and an ol' guitar
Cousin stanely on a corn liquor jar
Sometimes I stay up late at night
A little moonshine whiskey and everything's alright
You'll probably get stuck, ya don't know where ya are
As you stomp your feet to a country guitar
You can have fun I'm tellin' you can
When you stomp your feet to a hillbilly band
Everynight just where I go
I grab me a lady and I dose E doe
Ain't nuthin' in this world I'd rather do
Then to guitar pick some country blues
I'm gonna do a little chicken pickin'
I'm gonna do a little chicken pickin'
You can have fun I'm tellin' you can
When you stomp your feet to a hillbilly band
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