Borden, a former member of both Mother’s Finest and The Outlaws, multi instrumentalist Marcus Henderson of Macon, Georgia, plays flute, saxophone and keyboards in addition to lead and background vocals, Pat Elwood on bass guitar, and Rick Willis on lead guitar and vocals, both of Spartanburg SC, are disciples of the Caldwell Brothers. Current members include the highly respected drummer B.B. Gray is quick to credit the band’s current dynamic members with carrying on the timeless essence of the Marshall Tucker Band sound. Still led today by founding member and lead singer Doug Gray, they represent a time and place in music that will never be duplicated. More than four decades later, the new vinyl Greatest Hits release takes us back to the early years of The Marshall Tucker Band, both literally and physically. As it turned out, the collective talents of The Marshall Tucker Band took them very far indeed. “We were a bunch of young guys who didn’t know any boundaries” says founding member and longtime lead singer Doug Gray. The band’s recent release of their Greatest Hits album, in traditional vinyl form, is a time capsule from that period. Their debut album had already spawned numerous hits. In the early fall of 1973 The Marshall Tucker Band was still a young and hungry group out to prove themselves every time they hit the stage.
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