Jazz Articles about The Marshall Tucker Band

The Marshall Tucker Band: Beyond the Horizon

by Doug Collette
August 28, 2004

The Marshall Tucker Band Beyond the Horizon Shout!Factory 2004

The Marshall Tucker Band had a wider palette of musical influences than any other Southern rockers. The eternally high-spirited Wet Willie (of “Keep On Smilin'" fame) mixed r&b, gospel and pop into their rock and roll stew. Even the granddaddies of the genre, The Allman Brothers Band, forged their style from the three distinct, albeit open-ended, sources: English hard rock ala The Jeff Beck Group, ...