Together Forever (The Marshall Tucker Band album)

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Together Forever
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Studio album by
Released 1978
Genre Southern rock
Length38:12
Label Capricorn
Producer Stewart Levine
The Marshall Tucker Band chronology
Carolina Dreams
(1977)
Together Forever
(1978)
Running Like the Wind
(1979)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Together Forever is the Marshall Tucker Band's seventh studio album. It was produced by Stewart Levine. It was the band's last studio album for Capricorn Records. It has sold more than 500,000 copies. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Toy Caldwell, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "I'll Be Loving You" - 5:31
  2. "Love is a Mystery" - 7:11
  3. "Singing Rhymes" - 3:16

Side two

  1. "Dream Lover" (Jerry Eubanks, George McCorkle) - 4:38
  2. "Everybody Needs Somebody" (Doug Gray, Jerry Eubanks, George McCorkle) - 4:41
  3. "Change is Gonna Come" (Tommy Caldwell) - 6:29
  4. "Asking Too Much of You" - 6:31
2004 CD reissue bonus track

Bound and Determined (recorded live November 2, 1975, Armadillo World HQ - Austin TX)

Charts

Album

YearChartPosition
1978 Billboard 200 22
1978Billboard Top Country Albums26

Singles

YearSingleChartPosition
1978"Dream Lover" Billboard Hot 100 75

Personnel

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References

  1. "Together Forever Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine". AllMusic. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
  2. Hayhurst, Leonard (25 May 2017). "The Marshall Tucker Band playing Midland Theatre". The Advocate. Newark. p. C3.