‘Take the Highway’ to the Newton Theater

NEWTON — Southern rockers The Marshall Tucker Band is returning to The Newton Theatre on Saturday, Dec. 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets for The Marshall Tucker Band will go on sale to the general public on Friday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m. Tickets range from $44 to $59 and may be purchased by visiting www.TheNewtonTheatre.com or contacting the Box Office at 973-940-NEWT.
In 1973, The Marshall Tucker Band was still a young and hungry group out to prove themselves every time they hit the stage. “We were a bunch of young guys who didn’t know any boundaries,” says founding member and lead singer Doug Gray.
Today, the band continues to release new and previously unreleased material. Still led by Doug Gray, they represent a time and place in music that will never be duplicated. Gray is quick to credit the band's current dynamic members with carrying on the timeless essence of The Marshall Tucker Band sound. Current members include the highly respected drummer B.B. Borden, a former member of both Mother's Finest and The Outlaws; multi-instrumentalist Marcus Henderson of Macon, Georgia; Pat Elwood on bass guitar, and Rick Willis on lead guitar and vocals, both of Spartanburg SC, are disciples of the Caldwell Brothers; and acclaimed lead guitarist and vocalist Chris Hicks rejoined the band after a two-year hiatus.
With hit singles like Heard It In a Love Song, Fire On The Mountain, Can't You See, and Take The Highway, The Marshall Tucker Band earned seven gold and three platinum albums while they were on the Capricorn Records label. During the 90's, the MTB scored four hit singles on Billboard's country chart and one on Billboard's gospel chart.
“The buying public never really cared whether we were country or rock & roll" says Gray. "They called us a Southern rock band, but we have always played everything from country, jazz, blues, rock & roll and all things in-between. As we've become older," Gray adds, "our Southern heritage seems to come out even more. But, no matter how old we get, we can still rock your socks off." Gray also notes that people have gotten "married and buried" to classic MTB songs like Desert Skies and Can't You See.