Swamp Jam

The lineup for the Southern Fried Swamp Jam Festival includes:

• The Marshall Tucker Band: The Marshall Tucker Band came together as a young, hungry, and quite driven six-piece outfit in Spartanburg, S.C. 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. 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.

• Molly Hatchet: Molly Hatchet firmly cemented their place in music history in the late 1970s. They stood alongside other iconic Southern rock bands out of Jacksonville, Fla., such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers. A perfect mixture of English invasion rock, blues, country, and gospel remains the unique sound of Molly Hatchet. They were the hardest hitting of the Southern rock bands at the time when, in 1978, Epic Records released Molly Hatchet’s self-titled debut album. It reached multi-platinum status and in 1979, Molly Hatchet’s second album “Flirtin’ with Disaster” also quickly achieved multi-platinum sales. More classic albums followed, including “Beatin’ the Odds” (1980), “Take No Prisoners” (1981), “No Guts… No Glory” (1983) “The Deed Is Done” (1984) and “Double Trouble Live” (1985). To this day, Molly Hatchet continues to tour worldwide, performing classic hits such as “Flirtin’ with Disaster,” “Devil’s Canyon,” “Gator Country,” “Whiskey Man,” and “Dreams I’ll Never See.”

• Bellamy Brothers: Howard and David Bellamy continue to prove that the trail they’ve ridden to fame has been as unique as their music itself. The Bellamys officially lifted off the launch pad in 1976 when their single, “Let Your Love Flow,” became an instant smash in both the U.S. and Europe. By the late ‘70’s The Bellamys were emerging on the country charts with the smash hit “If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me).” It proved to be the first of a string of fourteen #1 singles in the U.S. alone. Success followed success with such hits as “Dancing Cowboys,” “Sugar Daddy,” “You Ain’t Just Whistlin’ Dixie,” “Lovers Live Longer,” “Do You Love As Good As You Look,” “Redneck Girl,” “For All The Wrong Reasons,” “I Love Her Mind,” “I Need More Of You,” “Old Hippie,” “Too Much Is Not Enough,” “Kids Of The Baby Boom,” and “Reggae Cowboy” and “Crazy From The Heart.”

• Pure Prairie League: From their beginnings in mid-1960s Ohio to the present-day, Pure Prairie League continues to embellish the rich 50-plus year history of one of Country-Rock’s pioneering forces. Their eponymous first album has been hailed as a “major early influence in the emerging popularity of Country-Rock music.” Their second effort, the multi-platinum “Bustin’ Out” brought fans the Craig Fuller-penned classic “Amie,” along with other gems of the genre. With “Two Lane Highway,” nine more albums and countless shows, a legacy has been forged and enriched that continues to this day.