The Marshall Tucker Band

Both the Marshall Tucker and the Allman Brothers bands have Southern backgrounds, play
involved and accomplished musical lines, and expand their material with jams that vary the
original themes before returning to them. But on their second album, the Tuckers have
achieved a greater definition of their own identity. The Allmans have drawn more from
blues influences, while the Tuckers take more from country. When they combi... More >

If I were from the South, I imagine I'd love this record, because it would be about me, which would be some kind of relief. Since I'm from New York, I have to complain about the almost complacent evenness of the band's aural landscape even as I take off from an occasional rill and dig into their heimische rural mysticism. (Grade: B)