A New Life by Marshall Tucker Band

A New Life, the Marshall Tucker Band's second album, came out on Capricorn Records in 1974, hard on the heels of the Spartanburg, South Carolina outfit's debut, and it was cut at Capricorn Studios in Macon, Georgia, with Paul Hornsby producing. The lineup was the original six: Toy Caldwell on lead guitar and writing most of the songs, Doug Gray singing lead, Jerry Eubanks on keyboards, sax and flute, George McCorkle on rhythm guitar, Paul Riddle on drums and Tommy Caldwell on bass.

That flute and sax are the giveaway. This is Southern rock with its boots in country and its head drifting toward a jazz club, loose-limbed and unhurried, the guitar lines rambling instead of bludgeoning. A couple of guests dropped by, too: Charlie Daniels, and Jai Johanny Johanson from the Allman Brothers Band. "24 Hours At A Time" is the song from it that turned up on the countdowns.

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