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Toy Coldwell is dead??
I first heard "Can't You See" in the early 70's when the Marshall Tucker Band was opening for Greg Allman at the Georgia Jam. Atlanta Stadium (now gone) was packed and there was so much smoke (pot, I'm guessing) that it looked like the open statium had a foggy lid sitting on it . . . Well, Greg was the worst - he was so messed up he was incoherent, and after a song or two he was carried from the stage, and while I had come to the Georgia Jam to see him, I didn't care that he wasn't any good that day . . . I had fallen in love with Toy Caldwell, and the Marshall Tucker Band. (They named themselves Marshall Tucker because they didn't have any other name picked out, and while they were talking about needing a name, one of them read the name Marshall Tucker on the fob of the key to the warehouse they were practicing in. They found out later that the other Marshall Tucker was a blind piano tuner who had used the warehouse before them.) With the opening, hearing that flute, "Can't You See" became my alltime favorite song. The lyrics are melancholy, the music haunting, the effect: perfect. For some reason I was on YouTube - don't ask, it isn't something I do much - one of my children wanted to show me something funny I guess, and I searched for Marshall Tucker. I found, to my delight, VERY early films (1972 concert footage - unbelievable). And there they were: the Marshall Tucker that has lived in my mind for (horrors!) 35 years. You can keep clicking, and watch them grow up - there they are in 1997 and they still look great, and sound great; and then oooh, there's Toy Caldwell, and he has blimped up to an unbelievable size. Disappointing, I'll admit - you just don't see a lot of fat musicians, and it is disturbing to see gorgeous people grow up to be overweight. Mostly musicians' bad habits are drugs and alcohol and they stay thin - don't ya think? Something on one of the films led me to the Marshall Tucker Band Official Website, where I found a link to the original band members . . . Tommy Caldwell died from injuries sustained in an auto accident in 1980. Toy Caldwell died 1993 due to heart problems. George McCorkle died in 2006. Toy Caldwell Dead? Airplane crashes and drug overdoses make big news and everyone hears about them. Death from heart disease evidenly isn't big news. It was a dreadful reminder that I'm not 17 anymore (even though most of the time it still feels that way), and those memories I have, which could have happened just yesterday, didn't, . . . and they are all I have of "Mr. Toy Caldwell!" |
Marshall Tucker in the beginning, circa 1972
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This intel was contributed by Traci
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May, 2012
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