The Marshall Tucker Band - Dedicated
#577
May 1981
The Marshall Tucker Band
Dedicated
Genre: Southern Rock
2.75 out of 5
Highlights:
Rumors are Raging
What’s the deal with Southern Rockers in the 70s/80s. Why do so many of them end up crashing their vehicles and dying?
I really don’t know The MTB but I’m game. If we are gonna listen to Skynrd and Hatchett and RCB, I can give this a shot.
Besides, I grew up in the era of Any Which Way You Can and Every Which Way But Loose and Convoy. The early 80s were the still hot from the burning embers of our national obsession with Southern Rock. We hadn’t apexed with Urban Cowboy or jumped the shark with Rhinestone yet.
You wanna know what I like?
Brad Paisley.
I think he’s just great and his song about an adoptive father, “He Didn’t Have to Be” caused me to pull over on my bicycle so I could weep.
I knew his songwriting partner’s mother. She’s really proud. She should be.
This Marshall Tucker Band album feels like a forebear for that stuff. It’s nowhere near as good as “Ticks” or “Online” or “American Saturday Night” but, as an opener for Mr. Paisley? Sure. Not the first opener. This version of MTB is the band that plays at 3PM when the headliners goes on at 9.
It gets pretty late 70’s unctuous on Side Two with the pop country disco “This Time I Believe” and then the quasi-soul “Tell the Blues to Take Off Tonight”.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dedicated/1324103083
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