HOMEBOYS ON THE RANGE: TUCK’S GONNA DO IT
You’d expect a lot of people to show up for the very first Marshall Tucker Band concert in the capital city of their home state, and you’d be right. A big auditorium in downtown Columbia, South Carolina is packed with glistening Tuckerphiles, and there ain’t a rhinestone in the place.
HOMEBOYS ON THE RANGE: TUCK’S GONNA DO IT
BY
TOM DUPREE
You’d expect a lot of people to show up for the very first Marshall Tucker Band concert in the capital city of their home state, and you’d be right. A big auditorium in downtown Columbia, South Carolina is packed with glistening Tuckerphiles, and there ain’t a rhinestone in the place. As the Tucker boys wander out on stage, Tommy Caldwell decides he’ll test him out a microphone: “How about it, Columbia?” YEEEEE-HAAAAA! go the people. Hot goddamn! A little FOOOOM from an amplifier, then the Tucks strike up “Hillbilly Band,” and the people lock and load on a fervent devotion that won’t let Marshall Tucker go home until they’ve played three encores.