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He is Co-Owner of Mill Street Recording Studio in Inman, SC. In 1984 Rusty was asked to join the Marshall Tucker Band as lead guitarist. For the next 18 years, he played well over 3000 shows bringing the unique sound of the Marshall Tucker Band to fans worldwide.
These days, Tim and fellow MTB alumnus Rusty Milner operate a recording studio called Mill Street Studio in Inman in Spartanburg County. “Rusty an I are business partners in the studio. We had our studio at 151 Kennedy Street in Spartanburg for ten years.
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The "Marshall Tucker" in the band's name does not refer to a band member, rather to a blind piano tuner from Spartanburg. While the band was discussing possible band names one evening in an old warehouse they had rented for rehearsal space, someone noticed that the warehouse's door key had the name "Marshall Tucker" inscribed on it, and suggested t...
Early history
The original members (and some later members) of the Marshall Tucker Band had been playing in various line-ups under different band names around the Spartanburg area since the early 1960s. In 1966 members of several such bands merged to form the Toy Factory, named after guitarist Toy Caldwell. The Toy Factory's constantly shifting line-up included, at various times, Caldwell, his younger brother Tommy, Doug Gray, Jerry Eubanks, George McCorkle and Franklin Wilkie. In the late 1960s, four of t...
1970s
The Marshall Tucker Band's self-titled debut, produced by Paul Hornsby, was released in 1973 and certified gold in 1975. All of the tracks were written by Toy Caldwell, including "Can't You See" which was released as a popular single in 1973 and re-released in 1977, generating much FM airplay and becoming the group's best known song. After the album's release, the band began touring, playing upwards of 300 shows per year throughout the decade. Southern rock fiddler Charlie Danielslater recall...
1980s
On April 22, 1980, following the completion of the band's tenth album Tenth, bassist and co-founder Tommy Caldwell suffered massive head trauma in a car wreck and died six days later. Former Toy Factory bassist Franklin Wilkie replaced Caldwell for their next album, Dedicated(1981), but the band was never able to recapture its commercial success of the 1970s. On 1982's Tuckerized, which featured Ronnie Godfrey, who joined them as an additional keyboardist, only two songs were written by band...
Tommy Caldwell described the Marshall Tucker Band's music as progressive country, explaining that the band played country music structures and riffs combined with jazz improvisation upon which more complex structures were built from the country music foundation. In 1977, Billboard identified the Marshall Tucker Band as major performers of the genre...
The Marshall Tucker Band at AllMusicRusty Milner. Rusty Milner served as a guitarist for The Marshall Tucker Band during the late 1980s and early 1990s. His tenure included contributions to the band’s recordings and live performances, maintaining its signature Southern rock sound during a period of change. Tim Lawter
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It wouldn’t be easy.The first thing they did was to hire some of Nashville’s finest studio musicians, and one hometown boy who was one of Carolina’s best guitarists, Rusty Milner. "It all started in the winter of '83,” recalls Milner.
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Boogie Rock, Country-Rock, Southern Rock. Group Members. Doug Gray, George McCorkle, Jerry Eubanks, Paul Riddle, Toy Caldwell, Rusty Milner, Stuart Swanlund, Tim Lawter, David "Ace" Allen, Tommy Caldwell, Barry "B.B. Queen" Borden, David "Frankie" Toler, Franklin Wilkie, Marcus James Henderson, Pat Ellwood, Ronnie Godfrey, David Muse, Chris Hicks.
