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Maybe is bringing its famous, unique blend of blues, country and jazz PEST, TERMITE AND you were buckled into a car seat in the backseat right here to Richmond Hill as the headlining act of this year’s Mof your parents’ car. Wherever you may have been, it’s like- Great Ogeechee Seafood Festival. MOSQUITO CONTROL ly you’ve heard—and tapped your feet along to—a Marshall “It’s going to be fun, I’m looking forward to being there,” LOW RISK ALL-NATURAL PRODUCTS Tucker Band song. says Doug Gray, the lead vocalist and the only still-remaining Deedie Love Davis & Katherine Davis Collins WHEN PESTS ARE SEEN Whether it’s “Can’t You See” or “Heard it in a Love Song,” original member of the band. 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Gonna climb me a mountain, the highest mountain, the road in Spartanburg, South Carolina. “When I was seven years old, I snuck away from the house Jump off, nobody gonna know. and went up the street a couple buildings over to the Spar- tanburg Memorial Auditorium. I ran over there. Nobody was DOUG GRAY © Can’t you see, oh, can’t you see, paying attention—nobody had to pay attention then, it was so What that woman, she been doin’ to me? long ago,” says Doug. “I snuck in to see James Brown. At the time, I had no idea who I was going to see. But the energy that Can’t you see, can’t you see, was coming off of that stage, it did something to me. It created What that woman, Lord, been doin’ to me?” the same energy you will see when we play down there.” PHOTO CAL BRYANT, ROANOKE-CHOWAN NEWS-HERALD, AHOSKIE, NC NEWS-HERALD, ROANOKE-CHOWAN CAL BRYANT, PHOTO © In 1972, after years of playing in separate bands and serv- { ing time in Vietnam, the original Marshall Tucker Band was born. 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