Warner Vineyards and JL Entertainment present The Marshall Tucker Band Friday, July 24th!

Ages | All Ages

Doors | 6pm

Show | 7:30pm

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• PIT tickets and PARKING LOT tickets are separate for this show. To enter the PIT area you will need a PIT ticket.

• All PIT tickets will be reserved seating

• All Reserved tables DO include table service

• All table tickets are sold in pairs and each table sits 4 people. One table ticket will get 2 people in plus 2 reserved seats at a table. If you'd like to purchase all 4 seats at a table then purchase 2 table tickets.

• Beer, cider and wine is available from the venue.

• A valid ID is required for anyone over 21 to consume alcohol

• Venue offers a bar food menu.

• No outside food or beverage is allowed In.

• All bags are subject to search upon entry.

• Children under 5 are free with adult.

• Lawn chairs are welcome in the concrete viewing area across the river. Lawn chairs are NOT ALLOWED in the PIT area in front of the stage.

• All events are "Rain or Shine" unless in the event of severe weather. In that case, the event will be rescheduled and all purchased tickets will be valid for the new date.

• Free parking is available nearby.

• Tickets are $5 more the day of.

• Doors open 90 minutes prior to each show.

• All sales are final.

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Listed below, are available lots for concert parking:

Warner Parking - 595 S Gremps Street Paw Paw, MI 49079 (behind St. Julian Winery)

Tapper Ford Auto - 816 S Kalamazoo St, Paw Paw, MI 49079

County Court House- 212 E Paw Paw St, Paw Paw, MI 49079

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The Marshall Tucker Band

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When you wake up and want to put a smile on your face, you think of the

songs that always manage to reach down and touch your soul the moment

you hear the first note. The Marshall Tucker Band is one such group that

continues to have a profound level of impact on successive generations of

listeners who’ve been "Searchin’ for a Rainbow" and found it perfectly

represented by this tried-and-true Southern institution over the decades.

“I’ve been in tune with how music can make you feel, right from when I was

first in the crib,” explains lead vocalist and bandleader Doug Gray, who’s

been fronting the MTB since the very beginning. “I was born with that. And I

realized it early on, back when I was a little kid and my mom and dad

encouraged me to get up there and sing whatever song came on the

jukebox. It got to the point where people were listening to me more than

what was on the jukebox! There’s a certain gift I found I could share,

whether I was in front of five people or 20,000 people. I was blessed with

that ability and I’m thankful I can share with others."

The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite

driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly

baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it

inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they’ve been in

tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe

ever since. Plus, the band’s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than

20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum

album sales many times over. A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over 

with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love

Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune of

MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy

Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of

“Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,’” to name but a

few.

Indeed, the secret ingredient to the ongoing success of The Marshall

Tucker Band’s influence can be seen and felt far and wide throughout many

mainstream digital outlets (Netflix, Amazon, etc.). In essence, it’s this

inimitable down-home sonic style that helped make the MTB the first truly

progressive Southern band to grace this nation’s airwaves — the proof of

which can be found within the grooves and ever-shifting gears of “Take the

Highway,” the first song on their self-titled April 1973 debut album on

Capricorn Records, The Marshall Tucker Band. “We had the commonality

of having all grown up together in Spartanburg,” explains Gray about his

original MTB bandmates, guitar wizard Toy Caldwell and his brother,

bassist Tommy Caldwell, alongside rhythm guitarist George McCorkle,

drummer Paul T. Riddle, and flautist/saxophonist Jerry Eubanks. “The

framework for Marshall Tucker’s music is more like a spaceship than a

house,” Gray continues, “because you can look out of a lot of windows and

see a variety of things that show where we’ve been and what we’ve done,

and how we’ve travelled through time to bring those experiences out in all

of our songs.”

The Marshall Tucker Band’s influence can be felt far and wide through

many respected contemporaries and the artists who’ve followed the path

forged by their collective footsteps and footstomps. “MTB helped originate

and personify what was to become known as Southern rock, and I was

privileged to watch it all come together in the ’70s, night after night,” said

the legendary late Charlie Daniels. “In fact, The Charlie Daniels Band has

played more dates with The Marshall Tucker Band over the past years than

any other band we’ve ever worked with. Even after all these years — after

the tragedies, the miles, the personnel changes, and the many

developments in the music business.” Daniels added that he never got tired

of seeing his MTB brothers on the road: “Whenever Doug Gray walks into

my dressing room with that big ol’ smile of his and then we hug each other

and sit and talk for a while, the evening is complete.” 

“I remember seeing Marshall Tucker and The Outlaws play together in

Jacksonville many years ago, when I was just a kid,” recalls Lynyrd

Skynyrd lead singer Johnny Van Zant. “And I heard them all over the radio

back then too. They were just so cool and so unique that I fell in love with

the band, and I also fell in love with the music. Having them open for us on

all those dates was like a dream come true, and they’re still as good as I’ve

ever seen them. It brought back a lot of memories for me, because I really

looked up to those guys when I was first starting out.”

Ed Roland, the lead vocalist and chief songwriter for Collective Soul, adds

“The Marshall Tucker Band had a big influence on me and they still do.”

Roland, who’s lived the majority of his life in and around Atlanta, also

proudly points out that his band’s biggest hit, “Shine,” owes a clear debt to

the musical structure of “Can’t You See,” and he’ll often start off by singing

the opening line to that song — “I’m gonna take a freight train” — whenever

Collective Soul performs “Shine” live. “We don’t want to stray from what we

grew up listening to,” Roland continues. “I think that’s something important

for people to hear. It’s just who we are, and I don’t think we should run from

it. Hopefully, people see that southern connection to the bands we love like

Marshall Tucker in our music.”

Doug Gray sees no end to the road that lies ahead for The Marshall Tucker

Band, whose legacy is being carried forward by the man himself and his

current bandmates, drummer B.B. Borden (Mother’s Finest, The Outlaws),

bassist/vocalist Ryan Ware, keyboardist/saxophonist/flautist/vocalist

Marcus James Henderson, guitarist/vocalist Chris Hicks, and guitarist/

vocalist Rick Willis. “You know, I think it was Toy Caldwell’s dad who said,

‘There’s more to gray hair than old bones,’ and we still have a lot of stories

yet to tell,” Gray concludes. “People ask me all the time what I’m gonna do

when I turn 80, and I always say, ‘The same thing that we’re continuing to

do now.’ We’re road warriors, there’s no doubt about that — and I don’t

intend to slow down.” May the MTB wagon train continue running like the

wind on a long hard ride for many more years to come. One thing we

absolutely know for sure: If you heard it in a Marshall Tucker Band song, it

certainly can’t be wrong.