When you wake up and want to put a smile on your face, you think of the songs that always manage to reach down and touch your soul the moment you hear the first note. The Marshall Tucker Band is one such group that continues to have a profound level of impact on successive generations of listeners who've been "Searchin' for a Rainbow" and found it perfectly represented by this tried-and-true Southern institution over the decades. The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, South Carolina in 1972, having duly baptized themselves with the name of a blind piano tuner after they found it inscribed on a key to their original rehearsal space — and they've been in tune with tearing it up on live stages both big and small all across the globe ever since. Plus, the band's mighty music catalog, consisting of more than 20 studio albums and a score of live releases, has racked up multi-platinum album sales many times over. A typically rich MTB setlist is bubbling over with a healthy dose of hits like the heartfelt singalong “Heard It in a Love Song,” the insistent pleading of “Can't You See” (the signature tune of MTB's late co-founding lead guitarist and then-principal songwriter Toy Caldwell), the testifying “Fire on the Mountain,” the wanderlust gallop of “Long Hard Ride,” and the explosive testimony of “Ramblin,'” to name but a few. Special Guest: Hunter Flynn Some folks sing like they're trying to impress you. Others sing like they've got something on their heart they have to get out. Hunter Flynn falls in that second camp—and it's exactly why he stops people in their tracks. Flynn's from Pulaski County, Kentucky. But more than that—he's from somewhere deeper. Somewhere between grit and grace, sorrow and soul. He calls what he does Appalachian Soul, and I'm not sure there's a better name for it. His voice has the weight of someone who's lived through something—and he has. He walked away from a near-fatal wreck with a second chance, and since then, he's poured his entire being into music and art. He's not afraid to sing about grief, longing, or hope that comes in small doses. You'll hear that in songs like “Granny's Song” or “East Kentucky Dream.” But what really sets Hunter apart isn't just what he sings—it's how he carries it. There's no pretending. No polish for the sake of polish. Just real stories, told the way they're meant to be. He's also one of the most talented visual artists I've seen—his charcoal portraits look like they could breathe. And in a way, they do. Just like his songs, they come from a place most people never let you see. Hunter Flynn doesn't sound like anyone else. He sounds like a holler remembering. Like pain being worked through. Like a promise that the light will come, even if it's slow. If you're from here, you'll feel it like a memory. If [...]