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Where We All Belong

The Marshall Tucker Band - Where We All Belong Audio CD

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Band: The Marshall Tucker Band
Title: Where We All Belong
Rating:

Release Date: 1990-10-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: This Ol' Cowboy 2: Low Down Ways 3: In My Own Way 4: How Can I Slow Down 5: Where a Country Boy Belongs 6: Now She's Gone 7: Try One More Time 8: Ramblin' 9: 24 Hours at a Time 10: Everyday (I Have the Blues) 11: Take the Highway

Part Studio/Part Live But All Good
Studio. What can I say? I just like the Marshall Tucker Band. live, country, rock, heavy, soft, these guys were talents that rivaled the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

This band's instruments and vocals just blend so nicely. Just listen to This Ol' Cowboy with the interplay between the flute and guitar. Toy Caldwell's soft vocals fit like a hand in a glove. Low Down Ways is a nice blend of country and rock. Good sharp guitar solo with nice drumming by Paul Riddle. And how about the slide guitars by Elvin Bishop on Where A Country Boy Belongs? Can't forget the pretty piano on Try One More Time. Perfect for romancing that lady.

Anyway, the live portion of this CD is good but you really have to be in the right mood. 24 Hours At A Time is catchy tune but at nearly fourteen minutes in length, the jamming can be a bit too long. Its OK when you are in the mood for extending instrumentation and tolerable when you are not. Everyday I Have The Blues has a few interesting shifts in tempo but merely is performed as an excuse for Toy Caldwell to show off his fine soloing. Don't get me wrong, Toy was a fabulous guitar player and on this track he sounds fine. However eleven and a half minutes of noodling is not exactly my cup of tea.

Some flaws but certainly a fine release. I would get Searching For A Rainbow, the debut, and Carolina Dreams first.

Wow!!! It's Back!!!!
It had gone out of print for a long time. This is Marshall Tucker's best album. It is great to see back!

Musically, Marshall Tucker was the secong best of all the Southern Rock bands (behind the Allman Brothers). They didn't write powerful lyrics like Lynard Skynard, but they certainly could outplay them. Most of Marshall Tucker's material was either love songs or about being a cowboy.

This was originally a double LP. But like all of Marshall Tucker's albums, the sides were short enough that you could easily fit two LP's on one CD.

This album is Marshall Tucker at it's countriest and at it's rockingist (how's that for two made up words). The first half is studio material, that has more of a country twang than most other Marshall Tucker albums. It also features two of the best songs, This Old Cowboy and In My Own Way. These two songs were on the first side of the LP. The second side of the LP rarely got played, but it still has some strong songs, like Scared Me to Death.

The last half of the CD is live material. Marshall Tucker was a fantastic live band. But, unfortunately, there are not too many live recordings available. Other than this album, there is one other live track, Can't You See on Searching For A Rainbow. The real stand out is 24 Hours At A Time, which is the best thing on any Marshall Tucker album. It is a fantastic 14 minute jam, that even features a little bit of Charlie Daniels on violin.

I have an earlier version of the CD. It is a little flatter than the original LP. It is a slight difference and very difficult to tell unless you play them side by side. I don't know if this newer version has an improved dynamic range.

In the beginning, I had written off Marshall Tucker as a band going nowhere. The first time I saw them as a lead act, they only played 20 minutes and then came back for a 20 minute encore. However, the next times I saw them, they really opened up their show. They had a really great version of Never Trust A Stranger. They were opening act for Fleetwood Mac at a sold out University of Arizona football stadium. The starting time for the concert was changed to earlier time, because both groups wanted to play longer.

Marshall Tucker stuck together for a long time, until bassist Tommy Caldwell died. The group continued for a while longer and then disbanded. Singer Doug Gray and reedman, Jerry Eubanks reformed Marshall Tucker into a gospel band. Be careful of any CD's released after 1983.

Toy Caldwell continued to perform on his own and released a few CD's. I really like his CD "Can't You See". It is a little bit rough, but it is one last chance to hear him play live. Toy Caldwell died in 1993.

3rd Time's a Charm
Though a notch or so below Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Allman Brothers, MTB put out some excellent music, especially during their 1970s heyday. The Marshall Tucker Band's third album "Where We All Belong" is another strong effort from one of southern rock's better artists. A little less rocking and more country oriented than Skynyrd or the Allmans, MTB was actually better at writing ballads. This album lacks only a first rate single, though the best tracks are "In My Own Way," "Where a Country Boy Belongs" and "Now She's Gone. " The second half is live, and features extended versions of earlier MTB standouts like "24 Hours at a Time," (with Charlie Daniels on fiddle) and "Take the Highway. "

Overall, a fine but often overlooked southern rock album.

The 3rd MTB album
(One), their first two releases "The Marshall Tucker Band" and "A New Life" had made them nearly co-equal with the best of the Southern Rock bands and (Two), fans who had not already seen them perform live (as I had a chance to do just as this album was being released) would get a chance to hear them live. The Marshall Tucker bands third release was eagerly anticipated for two reasons. And what a fearless live band they were! Half of this album is live with two songs off the first album ("Ramblin' and "Take the Highway") and one off of the second album ("24 Hours at a Time") getting extended jam here as well as another live gem ("Everyday I Have the Blues") that has Toy Caldwell playing some intro licks that make you feel as if there must be smoke coming off of his Gibson Les Paul.
The other half of this album was cut in the studio and showcases a great piece of western swing/jazz melancholy called "This Ole Cowboy", plus some superb vocals by Doug Gray, especially on "How Can I Slow Down" (the band opened with this tune when I saw them live) which has him really stretching his vocal range; and a sentimental favorite, "In My Own Way", which he sings as convincingly as any song they ever performed. And although Charlie Daniels was not an official member of the group, his fiddle playing contributes essentially to this record and can be heard on the studio as well as the live portions of this record.
All in all, this album finds the Tucker Boys at the top of their form, and to many of us MTB fans, they would not come off of this until several albums later.

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