Toy Caldwell: Biography

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• Charlie Daniels
• Gregg Allman
• Dickey Betts
• George Thorogood

• John Bettis

• The Marshall Tucker Band

• Doug Gray
• Paul Riddle
• George McCorkle
• Tommy Caldwell
• Jerry Eubanks
• Paul Hornsby

Born:

Nov 13, 1947 in Spartanburg, SC

Died:

Feb 25, 1993 in Spartanburg, SC

Genres:

Classical Music, Rock 'N' Roll Oldies Music, Rock Music

Decades Active:

1990's

Toy Caldwell was best known as the lead guitarist and main songwriter in the Marshall Tucker Band. A unique personality as well as a formidable musician, he was a peer of both Dickey Betts and Charlie Daniels, and his best work crossed effortlessly between country, blues, and rock roll. A few years after the breakup of the Marshall Tucker Band in the late '80s, he reemerged as leader of the Toy Caldwell Band, which played smallscale shows of the kind that the Marshall Tucker Band couldn't do. He also recorded one solo album before his death in early 1993. Although most of his fame inevitably rests with the Marshall Tucker Band, Caldwell left behind a small but glorious body of solo material.

- Bruce Eder, All Music Guide