Ten Favorite Hills and Mountains Songs: Fire on the Mountain (#6)

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Five down, five to go. I'm hiking up my list of favorite songs with "hill" or "mountain" in the title. We're going south for today's song, and here's it is. #6: Fire on the Mountain - Marshall Tucker Band If I had to pick a favorite southern rock band it would be the Marshall Tucker Band. Splendidly blending rock, blues, country, and even jazz, the Tucker boys were cookin' down in Caroline, as Charlie Daniels once sang. That's South Carolina, where the band took their name from a blind piano tuner who worked at their rehearsal hall. At least they didn't have to change the spelling the way another southern rock band did after they named themselves after their gym teacher.... This is a terrific story song about a man who decides to get in on the gold rush, so he and his family leave for the west. After six months they arrive, and he begins work on a "no good worthless claim" in a town where "sin was the big thing...sin was the star." There's no happy ending: the man is murdered for his gold claim, and it turns out to have no gold. What a great song from one of the great bands in southern rock history. Fire on the Mountain Written by George McCorkie Recorded by the Marshall Tucker Band From Searchin' for a Rainbow, 1975 Like the whiskey in the bars: