''Live on Long Island 04-18-80'' is a 2-CD set recorded by

The Marshall Tucker Band The Marshall Tucker Band is an American rock band from Spartanburg, South Carolina. Noted for incorporating blues, country, and jazz into an eclectic sound, the Marshall Tucker Band helped establish the Southern rock genre in the early 1970s. Whi ...

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and is the final recording of bassist and founding member

Tommy Caldwell Tommy Caldwell (born August 11, 1978) is an American rock climber who has set records in sport climbing, traditional climbing, and in big-wall climbing. Caldwell made the first free ascents of several major routes on El Capitan in Yosemite Natio ...

, occurring just ten days before his death in an automobile accident. Tommy Caldwell is pictured on the album cover. This is the first CD to feature a complete concert recording from the original band. However, the album wasn't released until 26 years later. The band was touring in support of their album ''Tenth'' at the time of this recording and features the songs "It Takes Time" and "Cattle Drive" from that release as well as classics such as " Heard It in a Love Song", "

Searchin' for a Rainbow ''Searchin' for a Rainbow'' is the fourth studio album by The Marshall Tucker Band, released in 1975. Track listing All songs written by Toy Caldwell, except where noted. Side one #"Fire on the Mountain (The Marshall Tucker Band song), Fire on ...

" and " Can't You See".

Track listing

All songs by

Toy Caldwell Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. (November 13, 1947 – February 25, 1993) was the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band.

, except where noted.

Disc one

#"Running Like the Wind" #"Last of the Singing Cowboys" (

George McCorkle George McCorkle (October 11, 1946 – June 29, 2007) was a founding member and guitarist for the Marshall Tucker Band. He wrote " Fire on the Mountain", the band's first top 40 hit, though had hoped that Charlie Daniels would record the song. He l ...

) #"It Takes Time" #"Cattle Drive" (Toy and

) #"See You One More Time" #"Sing My Blues" (Toy and Tommy Caldwell) #"Take the Highway" #" Heard It in a Love Song" #"Ramblin'"

Disc two

#" Fire on the Mountain" (McCorkle) #"In My Own Way" #"Desert Skies" #"24 Hours at a Time" #" Can't You See" #"Searchin' for a Rainbow" #"This Ol' Cowboy"

Personnel

Toy Caldwell Toy Talmadge Caldwell Jr. (November 13, 1947 – February 25, 1993) was the lead guitarist and main songwriter of the 1970s Southern Rock group The Marshall Tucker Band.

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, vocals *

Doug Gray Doug Gray (born May 22, 1948) is an American singer, who is a founding member and lead vocalist of The Marshall Tucker Band. Biography Doug Gray was born on May 22, 1948, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. While high school mates, Gray and bassi ...

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

- guitar *Paul Riddle -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

*Jerry Eubanks -

flute The flute is a family of classical music instrument in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, meaning they make sound by vibrating a column of air. However, unlike woodwind instruments with reeds, a flute is a reedless ...

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

, vocals

Production

*Producer: Doug Gray *Recording engineer: Buddy Strong at Southeastern Sound Studios *Art direction: Sandy Tanaka *Mastered by Keith Blake at Pacific Mastering {{DEFAULTSORT:Live on Long Island 04-18-80 Marshall Tucker Band albums 2006 live albums