![]() ![]() We’re a short drive away from Earl Crow Park and McCullough Park. Music & Arts is honored to be Lubbock’s neighborhood music store, and we’re here to connect you with everything you need to succeed in music! Our store is conveniently located on University Ave and 109th Street west of I-87. We’re proud to carry on that store’s important legacy through instrument sales, rentals, repairs, and music lessons. We’re proud to serve everyone from professional musicians and music educators to the parents of young kids learning an instrument for the first time, so no matter where you find yourself in the world of music, you’re always welcome here at Music & Arts.įor years, Jent’s House of Music enriched our local music community. From name brand instrument and music accessory sales to rentals, repairs, a huge assortment of books and sheet music and phenomenal private and group music instruction, we’re America’s favorite one-stop music shop. ![]() We’re on a mission to connect people of all walks of life with everything they need to thrive in music. Folk & Traditional Wind & Keyboard Instrumentsįor over six decades, Music & Arts has been sharing the magic of music with America. ![]() Folk & Traditional Stringed Instruments.Marshall Tucker and the life he lived! Sending blessings to his wife and family. He tuned pianos in South Carolina for decades. He always said his talent was simply God-given. “Marshall was blind since birth but amazingly could play the heck out of the piano. “Though he was never a member of our band, we wouldn’t be here today without his historic name,” the band said in a statement. The band is who informed the public that Marshall Tucker died on Friday, January 20th at the age of 99. The members of The Marshall Tucker Band have changed quite a bit over the years, but as a collective, they always kept up with Marshall Tucker through the years. The same year Marshall Tucker became the namesake of the Marshall Tucker Band, he also married his sweetheart Lois who was born legally blind as well. Both the band and the man eventually put two and two together, and Marshall Tucker has been sort of a Marshall Tucker Band mascot ever since. Marshall Tucker didn’t figure out he was named after a band either until one of his friends remarked to him that they saw he would be playing music in town. Thinking that the name was cool and catchy, the band decided to name themselves The Marshall Tucker Band right then and there.Īt the time, The Marshall Tucker Band didn’t even know the name referred to an actual person. One of the band members noticed that the key to the warehouse had the name “Marshall Tucker” inscribed on it, since Marshall Tucker had rented the space previously for his piano tuning business. This was in the band’s nascent stages before they had an official name. In 1972, original Marshall Tucker band members Toy Caldwell, Tommy Caldwell, Gray, Jerry Eubanks, George McCorkle and Paul Riddle rented an old warehouse as a rehearsal space. So how did a Southern rock band from Spartanburg name itself after him? This led to Marshall Tucker being trained to tune pianos for a living. When a piano tuner came to the school, he discovered young Marshall Tucker could name off any note he heard, and tell if it was on pitch or not. But through a twist of fate, his name became known worldwide, and synonymous with Southern Rock.īorn blind but with perfect pitch, Marshall Tucker learned how to tune pianos when attending a boarding school for the blind and deaf. He tuned pianos for some of the most famous piano players ever, including Lawrence Welk and Liberace. For almost 50 years, Marshall Tucker was one of South Carolina’s most trusted piano tuners. In fact, he wasn’t known for performing at all. Marshall Tucker never played a lick of music in the Marshall Tucker Band. ![]()
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