Marshall Tucker and The Allman Brothers were about the two hottest bands around at that time, and in particularly in Nashville, so when I brought the Tucker Boys and Dickey Betts on stage to a crowd that had no idea they were even in the building, the place went nuts. They got things off to a rousing start and set the pace for a night of hot music.ĬDB took the stage and did our set, getting hot versions of the two tunes we were recording live, and then it was time for some jamming. As many of you know, Tommy Crain would later spend fourteen years in The CDB, one of the finest guitarists I've ever worked beside.
The opening act that night was a band called Flat Creek Band featuring brothers Tommy and Billy Crain. Dickey Betts from The Allman Brothers band was in town and also came by. Toy Caldwell, Paul Riddle and Jerry Eubanks of The Marshall Tucker Band showed up. The date was set, the show was sold out and I had casually invited some of our friends to come and jam with us that night. The site selected for the live recording was a 2,200 seat hall in Nashville called War Memorial Auditorium and much to our delight, the show sold out well in advance and somebody - I can't remember who - came up with the idea of calling the show the Volunteer Jam, after the Volunteer State of Tennessee. I was ecstatic as we went back to Nashville to record the two live tracks. He made the band sound big, bad and energetic. We set the recording dates in Macon and working with Paul Hornsby was every bit as rewarding as we had imagined.
We would be going to Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia where so many bands had made hot albums and working with Paul Hornsby, a veteran musician and producer who had done such a great job of capturing the big and rowdy sound of The Marshall Tucker Band on record.Īnd we were adding a bonus two live tracks a song I had written called “No Place to Go” and the fabled fiddle tune that we had been performing live for years, “Orange Blossom Special.”
Plus, we were hedging our bets this time. The Charlie Daniels Band had been nipping at the heels of major success for a while with a top ten single in 1973, "Uneasy Rider," and several albums that played on a lot of radio stations around the country and sold moderately well, but never crossed the threshold into the rarified air of gold or platinum.īy 1974 I had written several songs I felt were the best collection we had put together to date and as I took the band into rehearsal in preparation for going in the studio, I felt we had a real shot this time, a shot at garnering the kind of airplay that could push an album up the charts, generate significant sales and move our career up several notches.
#MARSHALL TUCKER BAND 1973 RARE TV#
*NOTE* Charlie will be back with a new soapbox on Monday, in the meantime, enjoy this soapbox rewind on the 40th anniversary of the Volunteer Jam, and don't miss the broadcast premiere of VolJam XX on AXS TV Concerts Sunday night at 9C/10E.
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