Marshall Tucker Band’s Doug Gray reflects on 50th anniversary: People ‘didn't know where to put us’

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Marshall Tucker Band has been playing at the highest level of the music scene since forming in 1972 and 50 years after coming together, Doug Gray – a founding member of the original Southern rock band – is "feeling good" as the group continues performing sold out shows. "I've been working my butt off for this 50th year, going to United Talent Artists (UTA) and I thought [it] was going to be difficult being an older band," Gray, 74, told Fox News Digital. "Usually, you’re kind of weeded out, and you play a few dates here and there and stuff like that.

When we last spoke, we talked about the ability of Marshall Tucker Band to write songs and the crowds liking the songs and the memories that we created those first eight years that keep people of all ages keep coming back because they bring their kids, and they bring their grandkids." "It’s amazing because all those songs were kind of meant for people," Gray added of the band's infusion of blues, country and jazz music. "They were thought through.

And Toy (Caldwell) and Tommy (Caldwell) and myself, we'd write songs that meant something to people. We’ve got songs on two Netflix movies right now, and then we’ve got about three coming up on Amazon and on their stuff because they still like our songs." Original Marshall Tucker Band members included Gray, brothers Toy and Tommy Caldwell, George McCorkle, Paul T.

Riddle and Jerry Eubanks.Tommy died in 1980 following a car accident in the band’s hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina, and Toy in 1993 from respiratory failure.