Where We All Belong

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 from each album.[1]

Where We All Belong
Studio album /live album by
The Marshall Tucker Band
ReleasedNovember 1974
RecordedLive at Uhlein Hall, Performing Arts Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
July 31, 1974
Capricorn Studios, Macon, Georgia, 1974
Genre
Length74:09
LabelCapricorn Records
ProducerPaul Hornsby
The Marshall Tucker Band chronology
A New Life
(1974)		 Where We All Belong
(1974)		 Searchin' for a Rainbow
(1975)

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
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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
  1. "This Ol' Cowboy" - 6:42
  2. "Low Down Ways" - 3:00
  3. "In My Own Way" - 7:17

Side two
  1. "How Can I Slow Down" - 3:19
  2. "Where a Country Boy Belongs" - 4:32
  3. "Now She's Gone" (Toy and Tommy Caldwell) - 4:20
  4. "Try One More Time" - 4:46

Side three
  1. "Ramblin'" - 6:13
  2. "24 Hours at a Time" - 13:57

Side four
  1. "Everyday (I Have the Blues)" (Peter Chatman) - 11:48
  2. "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

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
  1. Staff (January 24, 2022). "Marshall Tucker Band: Where We All Belong - Album Of The Week Club review". Classic Rock. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
  2. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Where We All Belong Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 2023-07-22.
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