The Marshall Tucker Band - The Marshall Tucker Band [Expanded Edition]

The Marshall Tucker Band's self-titled 1973 debut is the quintessential sound of Southern rock: country twang, blues muscle, jazz looseness and road-tested jam-band confidence, all locked into one easy groove.

Anchored by "Can't You See" and "Take the Highway," the album introduced the Spartanburg, South Carolina band with a warmer, more wide-open feel than much of the hard-charging Southern rock of the era. Toy Caldwell's thumb-picked guitar and Doug Gray's voice give it a character all its own, and flute and sax lines push it somewhere closer to jazz than their peers ever went.

It reached No. 29 on the Billboard 200 and later went gold, a front-to-back debut that still feels loose, lived-in and built to play loud.

This 3LP expanded edition adds demos and rare live performances from Way Out West: Live from San Francisco 1973 and Live in the UK 1976, both on vinyl for the first time. It is pressed on 140-gram blue, orange and yellow vinyl.