Is the Marshall Tucker Band's Doug Gray the Last Southern Rocker Standing?

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Is the Marshall Tucker Band's Doug Gray the Last Southern Rocker Standing?
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If you think metaphorically about Southern Rock, its barstool has three legs serving as its base: the Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band. The Allmans quietly dissolved in 2014, and now drummer Jaimoe is the only surviving member of the original lineup. Skynyrd continues on their...

The Marshall Tucker Band , 2024: B.B. Borden, Ryan Ware, Doug Gray , Marcus James Anderson, Rick Willis, and Chris Hicks.If you think metaphorically about Southern Rock, its barstool has three legs serving as its base: the Allman Brothers Band , Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Marshall Tucker Band .

“And I feel the respect that people give me at shows. It’s an honor. I mean, I walk on and they applaud. How great is that? And then they applaud for the band and that’s showing respect for the music.” Signed to the Southern Rock-centric Capricorn Records, the band racked up a slew of hits and well-received tunes like “Can’t You See,” “Take the Highway,” “This Ol’ Cowboy,” “Fire on the Mountain," “Searchin’ for a Rainbow,”"24 Hours at a Time" , “Long Hard Ride” and “Heard it in a Love Song.”

The hit years MTB: Doug Gray, Paul Riddle, George McCorkle, Tommy Caldwell, Toy Caldwell, Jerry Eubanks.“The beautiful part is that his dad, Ronnie, worked for me as my bodyguard for eight years. Ryan had inherited Tommy favorite bass when he was just born. He plays that bass every night on stage now,” Gray says. He also notes that Ware had gigged with “20 or 30 different country bands while living in Nashville,” but told Gray that he was at one point"exhausted.

He notes that some of those new fans like MTB in the same way they do a current artist like Carrie Underwood or Lee Brice or Jason Boland. Some artists, he says, even call him up for advice, to which he always gives them the same suggestion: “Write, write,! Write music that touches the heart and the soul and the mind. You don’t have to always live on the edge to have good music.”

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