★★★★★
With classic songs like "Heard it In A Love Song" and "Can't You See," The Marshall Tucker Band had an influence on a wide variety of modern country stars, from multi-decade stars like Garth Brooks, Toby Keith and Mark Chesnutt to more recent stars like Randy Houser, The Zac Brown Band and Gretchen Wilson. So it makes great sense for us, then, to be highlighting the re-issued and expanded release of the Marshall Tucker Band's Greatest Hits...
- roughstock.com
2011-04-11
★★★★★
The Marshall Tucker Band Beyond the Horizon Shout!Factory 2004 The Marshall Tucker Band had a wider palette of musical influences than any other Southern rockers. The eternally high-spirited Wet Willie (of "Keep On Smilin'" fame) mixed r&b;, gospel and pop into their rock and roll stew...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Hillbilly Band; Another Cruel Love; Take The Highway; Can't You See; See You Later, I'm Gone; Ramblin'; Everyday (I Have The Blues); 24 Hours At A Time. Personnel: Toy Caldwell: lead guitar, vocals; Tommy Caldwell: bass; George McCorkle: rhythm guitar: Paul Riddle: drums: Jerry Eubanks: flute: Doug Gray: vocals...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-04-15
★★★★★
Sound: This album is a fine collection of some of the Marshall Tucker Band's biggest hits and best songs throughout the three decades they've been recording. They have been one of the greatest southern rock bands for the past thirty years and are known for fusing a down-home country feel with some sweet sounding blues and good ol' rock n' roll...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
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.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
I can distinguish Tucker from the other boogie bands because they favor cowboy hats, but danged if I can tell their albums apart. Country people know one cow from the next, too, but poor deracinated souls like me refuse to be bothered until A&P runs out of milk and r&r runs out of gimmicks. Toy Caldwell does write pretty good songs for a boogie man, though, about one a year to go with the album, and it's nice to have them all in one place...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The three live cuts (especially "24Hours at a Time," which dang near lasts 24 hours!) mosey along on The Best of the Marshall Tucker Bank: The Capricorn Years, but almost everything else swings with a jazz-hoedown energy that proves the Southern rockers to be true heirs to Bob Wills, Gene Autry, and even Hoagy Carmichael.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
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...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The Marshall Tucker Band's third set only underlines the difficulties of this country-tinged six: lackluster arrangements and long solos. On the studio half of this double album, the band meanders slowly and almost randomly through Toy Caldwell's songs, running workable ideas into the ground from lack of variation. Caldwell in turn allows his sometimes exciting guitar work to slip back to phrases he used on The Marshall Tucker Band and A New Life...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08