The Marshall Tucker Band are mourning the loss of the man who lent their group his name. Marshall Tucker, a blind piano tuner who hailed from South Carolina, died on Friday (Jan. 20) at the age of 99.

Guitarist Chris Hicks and Doug Gray of The Marshall Tucker Band perform during the Volunteer Jam: A Musical Salute To Charlie Daniels at Bridgestone Arena on August 18, 2021 in Nashville, Tennessee.

Those lyrics, as well as most of the band’s songs, were written by Toy Caldwell. The Marshall Tucker Band was started by a group of high school friends in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Tucker died peacefully Friday, Jan. 20 in West Columbia, according to a message on the Instagram page of the Marshall Tucker Band. He was 99.

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Marshall Tucker Band shared a bill with The Grateful Dead and New Riders of the Purple Sage at a 1977 show that drew nearly 150,000 spectators to a race track in Englishtown, N.J.

The Marshall Tucker Band had its hits in the 1970s. But when singer Doug Gray looks out at the audiences at the band’s shows, he doesn’t see a room full of those who grew up on the songs.