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Twenty seven years after it was compiled, the apocryphal Stompin' Room Only is finally released. The album, which suffers only from being the seam album between Marshall Tucker's tenures at Capricorn and Warner Bros, was recorded during the European tour in support of Carolina Dreams. Here are 11 tracks by the original band -- with guests on a few -- with two cuts from a Milwaukee 1974 show tacked on for good measure. This is Marshall Tucker as they have never been heard on record. Like the Allmans, the Tuckers were all about seamlessly expanding from one musical form into another. Whereas studio versions of "Can't You See," "Take the Highway," "Ramblin'," and "24 Hours at a time," would weave elements of jazz, blues, honky tonk, gospel, and Appalachian folk music into the body of a song, on these extended jamming excursions they fully indulged their passions, winding in and out of genres without seams or sudden shifts. On an elongated cover of B.B. King's signature tune, "The Thrill Is Gone," with a number of guests including Dickey Betts and Charlie Daniels (making for a four-guitar front line!) as well as Jimmy Hall and Chuck Leavell, Chicago blues, jazz, and country are all enmeshed simultaneously, as the hidden nuances in the song come to the fore. On the gloriously long "24 Hours at a Time," Tom Caldwell's bass moves through the various jazz eras as Daniels fiddles his ass off to keep time with Toy Caldwell's knotty, razor-wire leads. And for those fans of the Marshal Tucker Band whose gauge is the song, "Can't You See," there isn't a better one on record or bootleg that's better than this one. With its shuffling, funky backbeat, and Toy Caldwell's impassioned vocal leading the charge to his burning solos, it literally send chills up the spine. This is one of the few cases where a found "lost" recording lives up its legend. ~ Thom Jurek
The Marshall Tucker Band includes: Doug Gray (vocals); Toy Caldwell (guitar); Jerry (flute); Tommy (bass); Paul (drums).
Live Material Fr. 1974-1976.
Recorded between 1974 & 1976.
Personnel: Toy Caldwell (vocals, guitar); Doug Gray (vocals, percussion, background vocals); Charlie Daniels (guitar, fiddle); Richard Betts (guitar); Jerry Eubanks (flute, saxophone, keyboards, background vocals); Jimmy Hall (harmonica); Chuck Leavell (piano); Fred Edwards, Paul Riddle (drums); Jamie Nichol (congas); Tommy Caldwell (background vocals).
Audio Remasterer: Paul Hornsby.
Liner Note Author: Michael Buffalo Smith.
Recording information: The Hammersmith Odeon, London, England (07/11/1974-12/02/1976); The Palace Theatre, Manchester, England (07/11/1974-12/02/1976); Uhlein Hall Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, WI (07/11/1974-12/02/1976); Volunteer Jam, The Murphy Center, Middle Tennessee Stat (07/11/1974-12/02/1976).
Photographer: Dean Horton.
Stompin' Room Only Music | List Price | $18.98 (You save $5.29) | | Category | Rock/Pop Albums, Rock CDs, Jazz, Pop, Live Performances, Country Rock, Southern Rock | | Label | Shout! Factory | | Orig Year | 2003 | | All Time Sales Rank | 2697  | | CD Universe Part number | 6395574 | | Catalog number | 31656 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Nov 04, 2003 | | Studio/Live | Live | | Mono/Stereo | Stereo | | Producer | Paul Hornsby | | Engineer | Paul Hornsby | | Personnel | Chuck Leavell - piano Charlie Daniels - guitar, fiddle Toy Caldwell - vocals, guitar Jerry Eubanks - flute, saxophone, keyboards, background vocals Paul Riddle - drums Tommy Caldwell - background vocals Doug Gray - vocals, percussion, background vocals Jimmy Hall - harmonica Richard Betts - guitar Fred Edwards Jamie Nichol - congas
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Marshall Tucker Band Stompin' Room Only Songs Stompin' Room Only Music Review Average Rating: (4.8 out of 5 stars)    List All Reviews Unbelievable Toy This CD is by far the best MTB I've ever heard. Submitted by tcmcmanus (Lancaster, Pa USA)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
gotta luv imports altho two of the songs are off of "where we all belong" , the rest are worth it ! especially "hillbilly band" thats why it only gets 4 stars Submitted by mvs784 (owen wi.)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No 1 of 1 found this helpful.
Toy Caldwell Brings It Toy Caldwell is one of the best guitar players not known by many of the younger people of today. This is an outstanding CD that jams from start to finish. I can not get enough of Toy's guitar. Doug Gray and the rest are equally fine on this CD. Submitted by bpringle (Audubon, NJ)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
about time i can't believe they had this stuff for twenty seven years and didn't release it this brought back a lot of memories of seeing them and cdb and lynyrd skynyrd, wet willie the outlaws, back when this was recorded, i must have seen these guys 15 or 20 times and they were better live than they were in the studio, this is just like one of their sets, thanks for the memories. Submitted by chop74 (mortons gap, ky)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
Toy Caldwell lives! The first incarnation of MTB was incredible. This live sample gives you a full dose of just how talented they were, and reminds us why we miss Toy Caldwell's guitar so much. Submitted by billdaniels77 (Texoma, TX, USA)  Was This Review Helpful? Yes No
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