When George McCorkle, guitarist, wrote this song, he knew Charlie Daniels was working on an album called Fire on the Mountain, and was hoping Daniels would record it. This was the first song George McCorkle brought to the band. "It wasn't really a thought-out song," he said in an interview with Craig Cumberland. "Me and my brother came up with the intro to it. The two of us were just playin' acoustics and that little hook line just came up from me and him sitting around playing."
Daniels liked the song and helped out by playing fiddle on the track, but he decided not to record it as he felt it didn't fit in with the rest of his album, which was released in 1974. Daniels was a frequent Marshall Tucker collaborator, having been "blown away" by their performance when he first saw them onstage. Toy Caldwell played steel guitar on this track, but according to McCorkle, he played it out of tune because he had just recently bought the instrument and didn't know how to tune it properly.
The flute on this song comes courtesy of the band's multi-instrumentalist Jerry Eubanks.
As for who is Marshall Tucker, there is no actual such person in the band; they got the name off the key to the door to the warehouse they rented to practice in. Marshall Tucker was the person who had rented the warehouse before them and his name was still inscribed on the key.
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When George McCorkle, guitarist, wrote this song, he knew Charlie Daniels was working on an album called Fire on the Mountain, and was hoping Daniels would record it. This was the first song George McCorkle brought to the band. "It wasn't really a thought-out song," he said in an interview with Craig Cumberland. "Me and my brother came up with the intro to it. The two of us were just playin' acoustics and that little hook line just came up from me and him sitting around playing."
Daniels liked the song and helped out by playing fiddle on the track, but he decided not to record it as he felt it didn't fit in with the rest of his album, which was released in 1974. Daniels was a frequent Marshall Tucker collaborator, having been "blown away" by their performance when he first saw them onstage. Toy Caldwell played steel guitar on this track, but according to McCorkle, he played it out of tune because he had just recently bought the instrument and didn't know how to tune it properly. The flute on this song comes courtesy of the band's multi-instrumentalist Jerry Eubanks.
As for who is Marshall Tucker, there is no actual such person in the band; they got the name off the key to the door to the warehouse they rented to practice in. Marshall Tucker was the person who had rented the warehouse before them and his name was still inscribed on the key.