BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//YourSite//Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT UID:28034-0@www.visitcalgary.com DTSTAMP:20260514T113405Z DTSTART:20260708T090000Z DTEND:20260709T043000Z SUMMARY:The Marshall Tucker Band DESCRIPTION:When you wake up and want to put a smile on your face\, you thi nk of the songs that always manage to reach down and touch your soul the mo ment you hear the first note. The Marshall Tucker Band is one such group th at continues to have a profound level of impact on successive generations o f listeners who’ve been "Searchin’ for a Rainbow" and found it perfectl y represented by this tried-and-true Southern institution over the decades. \n\n“I’ve been in tune with how music can make you feel\, right from wh en I was first in the crib\,” explains lead vocalist and bandleader Doug Gray\, who’s been fronting the MTB since the very beginning. “I was bor n with that. And I realized it early on\, back when I was a little kid and my mom and dad encouraged me to get up there and sing whatever song came on the jukebox. It got to the point where people were listening to me more th an what was on the jukebox! There’s a certain gift I found I could share\ , whether I was in front of five people or 20\,000 people. I was blessed wi th that ability and I’m thankful I can share with others.”\n\nThe Marsh all Tucker Band came together as a young\, hungry\, and quite driven six-pi ece outfit in Spartanburg\, South Carolina in 1972\, having duly baptized t hemselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribe d 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 t han 20 studio albums and a score of live releases\, has racked up multi-pla tinum 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 si gnature 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.\n\nIndeed\, the secret ingredient to the ongoing success of The Marshall Tucker Band’s influence can be seen a nd felt far and wide throughout many mainstream digital outlets (Netflix\, Amazon\, etc.). In essence\, it’s this inimitable down-home sonic style t hat helped make the MTB the first truly progressive Southern band to grace this nation’s airwaves — the proof of which can be found within the gro oves and ever-shifting gears of “Take the Highway\,” the first song on their self-titled April 1973 debut album on Capricorn Records\, The Marshal l Tucker Band. “We had the commonality of having all grown up together in Spartanburg\,” explains Gray about his original MTB bandmates\, guitar w izard Toy Caldwell and his brother\, bassist Tommy Caldwell\, alongside rhy thm guitarist George McCorkle\, drummer Paul T. Riddle\, and flautist/saxop honist Jerry Eubanks. “The framework for Marshall Tucker’s music is mor e like a spaceship than a house\,” Gray continues\, “because you can lo ok out of a lot of windows and see a variety of things that show where we ve been and what we’ve done\, and how we’ve travelled through time to bring those experiences out in all of our songs.”\n\nThe Marshall Tucker Band’s influence can be felt far and wide through many respected contempo raries and the artists who’ve followed the path forged by their collectiv e footsteps and footstomps. “MTB helped originate and personify what was to become known as Southern rock\, and I was privileged to watch it all com e together in the ’70s\, night after night\,” said the legendary late C harlie Daniels. “In fact\, The Charlie Daniels Band has played more dates with The Marshall Tucker Band over the past years than any other band we ve ever worked with. Even after all these years — after the tragedies\, the miles\, the personnel changes\, and the many developments in the music business.” Daniels added that he never got tired of seeing his MTB brothe rs on the road: “Whenever Doug Gray walks into my dressing room with that big ol’ smile of his and then we hug each other and sit and talk for a w hile\, the evening is complete.”\n\n“I remember seeing Marshall Tucker and The Outlaws play together in Jacksonville many years ago\, when I was j ust a kid\,” recalls Lynyrd Skynyrd lead singer Johnny Van Zant. “And I heard them all over the radio back then too. They were just so cool and so unique that I fell in love with the band\, and I also fell in love with th e music. Having them open for us on all those dates was like a dream come t rue\, and they’re still as good as I’ve ever seen them. It brought back a lot of memories for me\, because I really looked up to those guys when I was first starting out.”\n\nEd Roland\, the lead vocalist and chief song writer for Collective Soul\, adds “The Marshall Tucker Band had a big inf luence on me and they still do.” Roland\, who’s lived the majority of h is life in and around Atlanta\, also proudly points out that his band’s b iggest hit\, “Shine\,” owes a clear debt to the musical structure of Can’t You See\,” and he’ll often start off by singing the opening li ne to that song — “I’m gonna take a freight train” — whenever Col lective Soul performs “Shine” live. “We don’t want to stray from wh at we grew up listening to\,” Roland continues. “I think that’s somet hing important for people to hear. It’s just who we are\, and I don’t t hink we should run from it. Hopefully\, people see that southern connection to the bands we love like Marshall Tucker in our music.”\n\nDoug Gray se es no end to the road that lies ahead for The Marshall Tucker Band\, whose legacy is being carried forward by the man himself and his current bandmate s\, drummer B.B. Borden (Mother’s Finest\, The Outlaws)\, bassist/vocalis t Ryan Ware\, keyboardist/saxophonist/flautist/vocalist Marcus James Hender son\, guitarist/vocalist Chris Hicks\, and guitarist/vocalist Rick Willis. “You know\, I think it was Toy Caldwell’s dad who said\, ‘There’s m ore to gray hair than old bones\,’ and we still have a lot of stories yet to tell\,” Gray concludes. “People ask me all the time what I’m gonn a do when I turn 80\, and I always say\, ‘The same thing that we’re con tinuing to do now.’  We’re road warriors\, there’s no doubt about th at — and I don’t intend to slow down.” May the MTB wagon train contin ue running like the wind on a long hard ride for many more years to come. O ne thing we absolutely know for sure: If you heard it in a Marshall Tucker Band song\, it certainly can’t be wrong.\n\nhttps://www.visitcalgary.com/ events/the-marshall-tucker-band\n\nhttps://www.calgarystampede.com/the-big- four-roadhouse/the-marshall-tucker-band LOCATION:The Big Four Roadhouse\, Calgary END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR