• Big Time Entertainment, LLC, in partnership with The Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center, is bringing the 50^th Anniversary Tour of The Marshall Tucker Band to downtown Clarksburg on Thursday, Oct. 20, at the historic Robinson Grand Performing Arts Center in Clarksburg.
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• When you wake up and want to put a smile on your face, you think of the songs that always manage to reach down and touch your soul the moment you hear the first note. The Marshall Tucker Band (MTB) is one such group that continues to have a profound level of impact on successive generations of listeners who’ve been “Searchin’ for a Rainbow” and found it perfectly represented by this tried-and-true Southern institution over the decades.
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• “I’ve been in tune with how music can make you feel, right from when I was first in the crib,” explained lead vocalist and bandleader Doug Gray, who’s been fronting MTB since the very beginning. “I was born 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 than 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 with that ability, and I’m thankful I can share with others.”
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• The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to the 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 than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over.
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• 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 signature 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.
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• “Simply put, The Marshall Tucker band is southern rock at its finest,” said Jason A Young, the Robinson Grand’s program manager. “And to have them stop at the Robinson Grand as a part of their 50^th Anniversary tour…wow, what a privilege.”
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• Doug Gray sees 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 bandmates, B.B. Borden, Ryan Ware, Marcus James Henderson, Chris Hicks, and Rick Willis.
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• “You know, I think it was Toy Caldwell’s dad who said, ‘There’s more to gray hair than old bones,’ and we still have a lot of stories yet to tell,” Gray concluded. “People ask me all the time what I’m gonna do when I turn 80, and I always say, ‘The same thing that we’re continuing to do now.’ We’re road warriors, there’s no doubt about that…and I don’t intend to slow down.”
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• Tickets for The Marshall Tucker Band start at only $49, and go on sale on Friday, September 9, 2022, at 10 a.m. All tickets can be purchased online at tickets.therobinsongrand.com or by calling the Robinson Grand ticketing center at (855) 773-6283.
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• Editor's Note: Photo of Marshall Tucker Band by Mariah Gray.

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