Jamel, thank you for bringing me so much joy right now. I'm a Native American on my reservation and an elder. I remember hearing all these "olden goldies" back when they were NEW! It tickles me how much YOUR reactions are just like mine were back in the day! Keep those reactions coming!
Here in the Carolinas, we call The Marshall Tucker Band "southern rock." A friend I've known for most of my life has played in the band several times over the past couple of decades. "Fire on the Mountain" is my favorite by them.
There was no need to be saved, man. Granted, If I had to choose one of the 2 genres, It would have to be Southern Rock (so, I´m with you there), but there are 100´s of amazing, groovy, soulful, Disco tunes which I´d consider high quality music too.
@@apataye OK maybe I should rephrase it to Save us from John Travolta. Everybody jumped on the Saturday Night Fever train. You know the look. Southern Rock was a nice break until Travolta hit the stage again with Urban Cowboy and everyone had to look like a cowboy. Travolta ruins everything!
The late great Toy Caldwell. He and his brother Tommy are gone (RIP). I was heavily influenced by their long time founding member, drummer, Paul Riddle. He was captivating on record and the stage. GREAT SINGING AND OVERALL MUSICIANSHIP by the whole band. You should check out their tune, "24 Hours at a time".
I remember going to their concert and the lead singer picked me up and took me on stage with them and he held me while singing this song. I also got a signed t-shirt from them!
This song came out in 1977, two years after graduating from high school. I'm 65 now and still burst out singing it, word for word, every time I hear it. Love me some Marshall Tucker Band music.
Back in the 1980s I worked for my friends' band in Los Angeles. Our band did a 3-day run in Northern California as opening act for Marshall Tucker Band. Our drummer was a guy who could listen to a song one time and memorize the lyrics and melody immediately. He would often make a monetary bet with one of us if there was a dispute over the lyrics of a song, and he was ALWAYS right, an impressive talent. Until the first gig on the Tucker tour... Marshall Tucker Band were doing their sound check before the gig. They broke into this song. As "head-roadie" (a title which was eventually changed to "stage manager"), I was running around getting our stuff ready to take onstage, and I happened to pass by our drummer, who was listening to Tucker intently, and singing along with them. He knew all the words... except when it came to the chorus/title of the song, he sang "Pretty little love song" with the first word pronounced with a drawl, sounding like "Purdy". I broke into laughter, and called him out on it. "Drake, it's "Heard it in a..." , not "Purdy little". He thought I was crazy, and defended his faulty lyrics. I did not back down. "Look, it's the friggin' title of the song, and you got it wrong, and I'm ready to bet against you with it". Of course I won, and of course he refused to pay me. 20 years after the band broke up in 1990, I got them back together again for a reunion party gig. At the gig, I was talking with the drummer and laughing about the good old times. At some point, I brought up this incident. He turned red and argued with me that it didn't happen, that he had purposely sung the wrong words. The bassist and one of the old roadies were standing next to us, and when they heard the drummer's comment to me, they laughed and came to support my claim. Everybody remembered the incident. It was a good laugh. Anyway, I can't hear this song without remembering, and I always sing along: "Purdy little lo-ove so-ong... Can't be wrong!" .
I was 2 to about 5 or 6. But then my mother had extremely good taste in music. MTB, ELO, CCR, ZZtop, just all over the place, but old rock and blues especially. She can still sing like an angel.
Being born in '65, I clearly remember hearing this now one-of-my favorite songs of the mid-seventies for the first time in my mom's 1976 Pontiac Trans Am! I'm so thankful for having grown up in the seventies and eighties!
This is the song that turned me on to southern rock. I remember where I was when I first heard this song. I working my college job in a warehouse listening to my radio. When that flute started, when the honky-tonk riffs came in (blues anyone [that appealed to my Led Zeppelin ear]), and then Doug Gray's crooning voice came up, I said damn, this speaks to me.
They're kind of Southern Rock, but more Country with some Blues. Though, they aren't really in the Country genre, or at least, they aren't really considered, when people think of the country genre. They're kind of outsiders, doing they're own style. To me, they're like The Eagles, not in style, but in having their own distinct sound.
They are considered in the Holy Trinity of Southern Rock. Look up “Stompin’ Room Only”...country is the furthest from my mind when I think of them, even if rooted in it. Country is Charlie Pride, George Strait, Dolly, Alan Jackson. The Marshall Tucker Band is a rockabilly blues band. We just call it southern rock.
Definitely country rock -- southern rock is a record company label that just means a bunch of groups from the south, that all more or less played rock... but they were quite different from each other. Skynyrd is like English blues rock.... Marshall Tucker Band is country rock with some jazz thrown in... Allman Brothers were a blues and jazz band. All different music... the only unifier was they were all from the south. And the record companies pounced on this untapped music industry for about ten to twenty years, and then it lost some popularity. But goddamn, is it good music... no matter what band you listen to. It's all good.
I saw an interview with Toy Caldwell where the interviewer mentioned how big Southern Rock was and what happened? Toy said, "Just woke up one morning and it was gone".
Toy Caldwell is one of the most underrated geniuses in music history. Musician, song writer, Marine, wounded hero, and just all around great people of all time. He taught himself to "thumb strum" because of the arm injuries sustained in Vietnam. Just a beautiful soul. Thanks for sharing this!
Saw them play a concert with Charlie Daniels and Greg Allman also on the bill. At the end of Greg's set, everyone came out in stage and jammed for 30 minutes.
I’m addicted to watching your reactions. You choose SO much good music to listen to. Takes me back to my childhood. Thanks for the joy, peace, love, and positivity your channel is about.
"Pretty little love song". The flute, the piano riff, the vocals, the lyrics, the lead guitar...a country western band? It was whatever you wanted it to be. That's the beauty of the MTB: those boots fit so many different feet.
More Marshall Tucker please"searchin for a rainbow","fire on the mountain","take the highway","this ole cowboy","24 hours at a time" . They are a southern rock band with country roots. I believe they were from Spartanburg SC. RIP Tommy and Toy Caldwell 🙏
“Fire On The Mountain” is consdered Marshall Tucker Band’s BEST song by a lot of people. And this is Southern Rock NOT country. You asked so I figured I’d let ya know. Great reaction video!
One thing contemporary music cannot match is the instrumentation of the old-school music. It RULES! Guitar, piano, violin, flute, whatever, those folks knew how to compose and PLAY! It reached into your soul-and the instant you heard it you were into it.
You know, I’m a millennial too and I certainly love a lot of contemporary electronic music, etc. but there’s something so magical about analog old music that I do not hear in modern recordings. It’s like 4k Video: It’s almost too synthetic or too real.
Without a doubt my favorite flavor of rock and roll , Southern Rock . I lived in the south for many years and was stationed at Fort Bragg , North Carolina ...twice . 82nd Airborne 🇺🇸
When I was in college, my roommates were have a goodby party for my other roommate Amy (she was transferring)... well I had to work. When I left they had just started a pony keg and were singing Amie ... when I got back 4 hours later I was greeted by my dorm mates telling me to make them stop - they were STILL playing Amie (non-stop), were trashes, dancing around the room and somehow were barely dressed at that point. 🤣🤣. Well, I didn’t stop it, I had had to miss it so just joined them, drinking singing & dancing to this truly classic song... 🤣 Can’t Heat it without laughing remembering that night.
Speaking of Charlie Daniels, Jamel should check out "The South's Gonna Do It Again," an incomplete education on southern rock that name-drops pretty much every band you need to know.
One of my favorite songs ever!! Love your reaction. Southern Rock Southern rock has a tradition of the musicians having a part in every song where the shine. Allman Bros, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker, Little River Band, Charlie Daniel's, Barefoot Jerry and many more all have fantastic instumentals.
"24 hours at a time" , "Take the Highway"," Blue Ridge Mountain Sky" among others are GREAT songs to experience the jamming of the MTB! Heard in a love Song is a Western theme as al of of their music is.
This is one of my favorite driving tunes. Driving in the country with the sun shining and this tune on just makes you feel so good. I call it Western-Rock :-)
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the Marshall Tucker Band live a few times. The best show was at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. Another great concert was the RoundUp in Philly..maybe 1978. This type of music was called Southern rock.
Yes it's country.,,,aka...Southern Rock. ALWAYS on the radio, juke box and sellout LP albums back in the day. Music is outstanding still today. If there was a Tucker Band concert announced they would fill 3 arenas at least! My fave song is "Cattle Drive
