#116 Marshall Tucker Band Interview, Doug Gray, Lead Singer

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Paul Vogelzang

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🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Marshall Tucker Band Interview, Doug Gray, Lead Singer

The Not Old Better Show, Interview Series

Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. My guest today, Doug Gray, frontman, lead singer for the Marshall Tucker Band, is part of Rock & Roll legend, aristocracy, and good man, US Army vet all rolled into one.

Now, at age 68, nearly 45 years since first taking the highway, Doug Gray is loving life, the music, and the fans, as the guiding force, leader, mastermind, master-of ceremonies and lead-singer for the Marshall Tucker Band. The Marshall Tucker Band, formed in the early 1970s and, in the early-to-mid-1970s, they played a string of show as opening act for The Allman Brothers Band, another rock and roll legend. Both groups, incidentally, became famous for their jazzy solos, blues-rock and extended jams.

“Heard It In a Love Song,” which, of course, you’re listening to now, is one of the Marshall Tucker Band’s most recognizable hits, and a song that took Gray, as lead singer, is a Southern Rock classic, and reached #14 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart.”

Doug Gray, a U.S. Army, loves the settings of small intimate theaters, like Tally Ho, where the Marshall Tucker Band will be performing Thursday, June 15, 2017.

In recent years, the Marshall Tucker Band has been paid “a whole lot of respect” by younger generations of musicians, despite not having had a hit in years.

Many country bands have begun to cover the band’s tunes.

And that has put this band back in demand, even as Gray now stands as the only original member remaining with the group.

The Marshall Tucker Band will be performing live at the Tally Ho Theater, June 15, 2017, but we’ve got Doug Gray today on The Not Old Better Show.

Click HERE for tickets and more information: TallyHo Theater.

Enjoy.

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0:00.0	Welcome. Welcome to the Not Old Better Show. I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zag.
0:17.0	My guest today, Doug Gray, frontman, lead singer for the Marshall Tucker Band is part of rock and roll legend,
0:26.8	Aristophasy, and Good Man, U.S. Army vet, all rolled into one. We've been the gales so long now that both need we so.
0:37.0	If I ever settle down, you'd be my kind. Now at age 68 nearly 45 years since first taken the highway Doug Gray is on the road, love and life, the music, and the
0:55.9	fans as the guiding force, leader, mastermind, master of ceremonies and lead
1:01.6	singer for the Marshall Tucker Band.
1:05.0	I can't be done. The Marshall Tucker band formed in the early 1970s and in the early to mid
1:21.2	1970s they played a string of shows as opening act for the
1:25.3	Aulman Brothers band, another rock and roll legend. Both groups,
1:29.6	incidentally, became famous for their jazzy solos, blues, rock, and extended james. I heard it in a love song
1:52.1	it in a love song heard it in a love song which of course you're listening to right now, is one of the
1:56.0	Marshall Tucker band's most recognizable hits and a song that took Doug Gray almost a year to record.
2:03.7	Heard it in a love song with lead singer Doug Gray is a southern rock and
2:14.8	roll classic and it reached number 14 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart.
2:19.2	Doug Gray, a US Army vet loves the settings of small intimate theaters like
2:29.0	Tallahoe where the Marshall Tucker Band will be performing Thursday, June 15, 2017.
2:35.0	Well, for the people that's never been there before, what I think that Tills C is,
2:41.0	this has never seen one of our shows there.
2:43.0	They'll find out that it's a little bit more intimate
2:45.6	on the reasoning behind it,
2:48.4	just because we feel like we,
2:50.1	you know, we're playing in a living room type situations.
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