MARSHALL TUCKER BAND HELPS HURRICANE SANDY VICTIMS
We love a great story and bands using their unique positions to do good in this world, so our hats go off to The Marshall Tucker Band. The band had asked for donations to help victims of Superstorm Sandy, and Thursday’s response in South Carolina overwhelmed the legendary Southern rock group’s front man.
Marshall Tucker lead singer Doug Gray said watching television coverage of the devastation impacted him emotionally. Then, Gray said a fan contacted him through Facebook and told him she had nothing. So he decided to do something about it!
“People in that part of the country have supported the Marshall Tucker Band for over 40 years. We’ve made a lot of friends up there, have watched people’s families grow and have grown with them. So, on a personal level, I know a lot of their pain,” Gray told a SC newspaper, The Herald-Journal.
Crew members, stage hands and volunteers steadily worked to fill the band’s tour truck Thursday afternoon with clothes, blankets and other items. People carried bag upon bag, box upon box, as vehicles lined up outside the Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium.
People began arriving with donations around 3 p.m. Gray said a Florida couple drove all the way with 3,000 blankets for the collection effort and that one woman donated $200 worth of toothbrushes. They were so overwhelmed with donations that Gray had two rental trucks on standby if the band’s tour bus and other trucks were filled. Meanwhile, additional trucks were being loaded with donated items in other parts of SC in Anderson County and Chesnee. Way to go Marshall Tucker Band!
Donated items will be dropped off in New Jersey and New York.
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