TOGETHER AGAIN, LIVE IN CONCERT
Celebrating the music of
The Guess Who, Bachman-Turner Overdrive and Burton Cummings
With special guest The Marshall Tucker Band
MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 7 p.m.
RESCH CENTER THEATRE – GREEN BAY
Tickets start at $44.75 and go on sale to the public Monday, June 7 at 10 a.m. at ReschCenter.com, by phone 800.895.0071 or at the Ticket Star Box Office in the Resch Center.
Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings have written some of the greatest songs of the last 50 years. Together theirs is undoubtedly the Great Canadian Songbook.
“These Eyes,” “Laughing,” “Undun,” “No Time,” “American Woman,” “No Sugar Tonight,” “Hand Me Down World,” “Share The Land,” “Albert Flasher,” “Follow Your Daughter Home,” “Glamour Boy,” “Star Baby,” “Clap For The Wolfman,” “Let It Ride,” “Takin’ Care Of Business,” “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet,” “Hey You,” “Lookin’ Out For #1,” “Stand Tall,” “I’m Scared,” “My Own Way To Rock,” “Break It To Them Gently,” “Fine State Of Affairs,” “You Saved My Soul”—and that’s only some of the dozens of gold and platinum hits between them.
Stateside, The Guess Who amassed three Billboard 200 Top 20 albums, five Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 singles, and six RIAA Gold records. In 1970, “American Woman” became a rock anthem, claiming the #1 spot on Billboard for three consecutive weeks and landing at #3 on Billboard’s Year-End Hot 100.
Bachman-Turner Overdrive’s brand of stripped-down meat ‘n’ potatoes hard rock earned them legions of fans worldwide, and dozens of gold and platinum records. “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet” topped the charts in the US and Canada and gave Randy Bachman that rarest of accomplishments: two #1 records with two different bands. ASCAP would later award Randy with the Global Impact Award for his music’s enduring international popularity. In the US, Bachman-Turner Overdrive was awarded eight RIAA gold/platinum records, and made several Billboard chart appearances, including four albums on the Billboard 200 and three singles on the Billboard Hot 100.
Disbanding The Guess Who in 1975, Burton Cummings launched a dazzling solo career the following year with the million-selling single “Stand Tall” from his highly anticipated debut solo album produced by the one and only Richard Perry. As Canada’s #1 recording artist of the late ‘70s, Burton enjoyed unprecedented success with a dozen hit singles—including three that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 Top 30—as well as multiple Juno Awards, and several highly rated television specials.
The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they have been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small across the globe ever since. Plus, the band’s mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over.
With a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can’t You See” (the signature tune of MTB’s late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,’” to name but a few.
Indeed, the secret ingredient to the ongoing success of The Marshall Tucker Band’s influence can be seen and felt far and wide throughout many mainstream digital outlets (Netflix, Amazon, etc.). In essence, it’s this inimitable down-home sonic style that helped make the MTB the first truly progressive Southern band to grace this nation’s airwaves — the proof of which can be found within the grooves and ever-shifting gears of “Take the Highway,” the first song on their self-titled April 1973 debut album on Capricorn Records, The Marshall Tucker Band. “We had the commonality of having all grown up together in Spartanburg,” explains Gray about his original MTB bandmates, guitar wizard Toy Caldwell and his brother, bassist Tommy Caldwell, alongside rhythm guitarist George McCorkle, drummer Paul T. Riddle, and flautist/saxophonist Jerry Eubanks. “The framework for Marshall Tucker’s music is more like a spaceship than a house,” Gray continues, “because you can look out of a lot of windows and see a variety of things that show where we’ve been and what we’ve done, and how we’ve travelled through time to bring those experiences out in all of our songs.”
