Doug Gray
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people".
Page Template:Plainlist/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
Doug Gray | |
|---|---|
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Gray in 2014 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Script error: No such module "person date". |
| Died | Script error: No such module "person date". |
| Genres | Progressive country, Southern Rock, Country Rock |
| OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from text | Singer, songwriter |
| InstrumentTemplate:Pluralize from text | Vocals, keyboards, tambourine |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
Script error: No such module "Check for deprecated parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Douglas Gray (born May 22, 1948) is an American singer who is a founding member and lead vocalist of The Marshall Tucker Band.[1][2]
Biography
Doug Gray was born on May 22, 1948 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. While high school mates, Gray and bassist Tommy Caldwell joined a band called The New Generation. The band consisted of Gray on vocals, Tommy Caldwell on bass, Randy Foster on rhythm guitar, Keith Wood on lead guitar, Dan Powell on organ;, and Ross Hanna on drums. In 1968, they co-wrote a single, "Because of Love (It's All Over)" and released it on a 45 rpm record.[3] After high school, The New Generation merged with another local band, The Rants, which included: guitarist, Toy Caldwell (brother of Tommy); saxophonist, keyboardist and flutist, Jerry Eubanks; and drummer, Ross Hanna (1951-2019),[4] to form a new band called the Toy Factory.[5] As the Vietnam War dragged on, many of the members joined various military branches with Gray joining the Army and serving in the Vietnam War.[6][7]
After his duty in the military, Gray rejoined the Caldwell brothers and Eubanks of the Toy Factory. They recruited guitarist George McCorkle along with drummer Paul Riddle. By 1972, they had changed their band name to The Marshall Tucker Band, after the name of a man who was a piano tuner in the cotton-mill city of Spartanburg. Gray remained with the band for its entire career and he is the only original member who still performs with the band today.[8]
Gray sang lead on most of the band's songs. There are several exceptions to this in the band's catalogue, including "Can't You See," "Every Day I Have The Blues", and "This Ol' Cowboy", which all featured founder and guitarist Toy Caldwell as the lead singer. In addition to singing, Gray also sometimes plays tambourine and in the band's early days he played keyboards.
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tennis, Joe (2018-04-22). "Leader of The Marshall Tucker Band says he's not in the market for 'A New Life'". Bristol Herald Courier. Bristol Virginia. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Tennis, Joe (2018-05-17). "Doug Gray: Marshall Tucker Band's last original band member". Bristol Herald Courier. Bristol Virginia. Retrieved 2019-07-19.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."popsike.com - NEW GENERATION:{Early Marshall Tucker Band)Because Of Love-That's The Sun-7" 68 - auction details". www.popsike.com. Retrieved 2026-04-03.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ross Carlisle Hanna Obituary (2019) Spartanburg Herald-Journal". Legacy.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Swampland:The Legends of Southern Rock Photo Scrapbook, Part Two".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Smith, Michael B. "Toy Caldwell's Carolina Dreams". Tuckerhead.com. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Young, Julius (11 November 2019). "Marshall Tucker Band's Doug Gray recalls woman giving him her plane seat during return home from Vietnam war". Fox News. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Doug Gray Interview: Marshall Tucker Band Leader Finds Musical Kinship Everywhere — Even on 'American Idol'". The Boot. 2019. Retrieved 11 November 2019.
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Authority control/config' not found.
