Where We All Belong
Where We All Belong | ||||
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Released | November 1974 | |||
Recorded | Live at Uhlein Hall, Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin July 31, 1974 Capricorn Studios, Macon, Georgia, 1974 | |||
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Length | 74:09 | |||
Label | Capricorn Records | |||
Producer | Paul Hornsby | |||
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Where We All Belong is the third album by the Marshall Tucker Band. Released in 1974, the double album consists of a studio album and a live album; the former focuses on progressive country songs, while the latter focuses on jazz rock and Southern rock jamming. Musician Charlie Daniels guests on two songs, one from each album.[1]
Composition
Where We All Belong is a double album, consisting of a studio album and a live album.[1] The staff writers of Classic Rock had differing opinions on where the style of the studio disc placed, with one writer opinining that, despite the band's status as a Southern rock group, the studio recordings were not Southern rock at all, but somewhat jazzy, commercial rock music, comparable to the band Chicago.[1] Another staff writer within the same piece said that the studio recordings were progressive country.[1] The live recording fits the categorization of Southern rock more definitively, as well as falling into the genre of jazz rock.[1]
Reception
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Allmusic | [2] |
Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote for AllMusic, "Although it runs a little long, Where We All Belong captures the sound of The Marshall Tucker Band coming into its own".[2] The staff of Classic Rock magazine gave the album a score of 6.88 out of 10 from 59 votes, with one writer opinining that the album was at its strongest in its rock and blues-oriented material, and at its weakest in its country songs.[1]
Track listing
All songs written by Toy Caldwell, except where noted.
Side one
- "This Ol' Cowboy" - 6:42
- "Low Down Ways" - 3:00
- "In My Own Way" - 7:17
Side two
- "How Can I Slow Down" - 3:19
- "Where a Country Boy Belongs" - 4:32
- "Now She's Gone" (Toy and Tommy Caldwell) - 4:20
- "Try One More Time" - 4:46
Side three
- "Ramblin'" - 6:13
- "24 Hours at a Time" - 13:57
Side four
- "Everyday (I Have the Blues)" (Peter Chatman) - 11:48
- "Take the Highway" - 7:26
- CD reissue bonus track
"See You Later, I'm Gone" (Live at Winterland Auditorium in San Francisco, CA, September 1973) - 3:13
Personnel
- Doug Gray – lead vocals, percussion
- Toy Caldwell – electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitar, lead vocals on "This Ol' Cowboy" and "Everyday (I Have the Blues)"
- Tommy Caldwell – bass guitar, backing vocals
- George McCorkle – electric and acoustic guitars, banjo
- Jerry Eubanks – flute, alto, baritone and tenor saxophone, backing vocals
- Paul Riddle – drums
Additional musicians
- Charlie Daniels – fiddle on “24 Hours At a Time” and "This Ol' Cowboy"
- Elvin Bishop – slide guitar on "Where a Country Boy Belongs"
- Johnny Vernazza – slide guitar on "Where a Country Boy Belongs"
- Billy Sanders – harmonica, rhythm guitar
- Paul Hornsby – piano, organ, clavinet
- Earl Ford – trombone
- Jerry Joseph – conga
- Steve Madaio – trumpet
- Sam McPhearson – harp
- Andy Stein – fiddle
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Staff (January 24, 2022). "Marshall Tucker Band: Where We All Belong - Album Of The Week Club review". Classic Rock. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
- ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Where We All Belong Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
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- Doug Gray
- Marcus James Henderson
- Rick Willis
- Pat Ellwood
- B.B. Borden
- Jerry Eubanks
- Toy Caldwell
- George McCorkle
- Paul Riddle
- Tommy Caldwell
- Franklin Wilkie
- Stuart Swanlund
- Rusty Milner
- Tim Lawter
- Ronnie Godfrey
- Bobby Ogdin
- Bob Wray
- James Stroud
- Tom Robb
- Ace Allen
- Don Cameron
- Frank Toler
- Mark Pettey
- Ronald Radford
- Paul Thompson
- Garry Guzzardo
- David Muse
- Chris Hicks
- Clay Cook
- Tony Heatherly
- The Marshall Tucker Band (1973)
- A New Life (1974)
- Where We All Belong (1974)
- Searchin' for a Rainbow (1975)
- Long Hard Ride (1976)
- Carolina Dreams (1977)
- Together Forever (1978)
- Running Like the Wind (1979)
- Tenth (1980)
- Dedicated (1981)
- Stompin' Room Only: Greatest Hits Live 1974-76 (2003)
- Live on Long Island (2006)
- "Can't You See" (1973)
- "Fire on the Mountain" (1975)
- "Heard It in a Love Song" (1977)