The Marshall Tucker Band is an American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country, jazz, into 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. Lead vocalist Doug Gray remains the only original member still active with the band.

The original lineup of the Marshall Tucker Band, formed in 1972, included lead guitarist, steel 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 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 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.

 

Tenth is the tenth album by The Marshall Tucker Band. It was recorded in 1980 in Coconut Grove, Florida, at Bayshore Recording Studios, and was the final studio album with Tommy Caldwell who died from injuries sustained in a car crash later the same year.

 

Track listing

All songs written by Toy Caldwell, except where noted.

  1. "It Takes Time" - 3:34
  2. "Without You" (Tommy Caldwell) - 3:36
  3. "See You One More Time" - 3:51
  4. "Disillusion" (Jerry Eubanks/George McCorkle) - 3:57
  5. "Cattle Drive" (Toy Caldwell/Tommy Caldwell) - 6:19
  6. "Gospel Singin' Man" (McCorkle) - 3:26
  7. "Save My Soul" - 4:36
  8. "Sing My Blues" - 3:27
  9. "Jimi" (instrumental) (Toy Caldwell/McCorkle) - 2:14
  10. "Foolish Dreaming" (Doug Gray/McCorkle) - 4:52