By Kelsey Butler
DATE:
September 17
DOORS: 6:15 pm
SHOW: 7:00 pm
TICKETS:
$25, $35, $45
BUY TICKETS
W
e’re 45 years together and I see no end to any of it. I really
don’t.” Doug Gray, founding member and lead singer of
The Marshall Tucker Band says he’ll never retire.
The Marshall Tucker Band will perform at the Oxford Performing
Arts Center on September 17. The Sunday show starts at 7:00 pm
and tickets are available for $25, $35, and $45.
Gray, 69, has been The Marshall Tucker Band frontman for nearly
half a century. “I have been very fortunate to have people that
really love to be out there on the road with me, the drivers and all
of us… it’s almost like having a family that you like,” Gray laughed.
The Marshall Tucker Band came together in the fall of 1973, a time
when music giants such as The Allman Brothers Band, The Rolling
Stones, and The Grateful Dead were topping charts.
While Gray is the last remaining original member in the band, he
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