George McCorkle

George McCorkle was a founding member and guitarist for the Marshall Tucker Band. He wrote Fire on the Mountain, the bands first tophit, though had hoped that Charlie Daniels would record the song. He left the band in 1984 and later worked as a songwriter. He released a solo album, American Street, in 1999. McCorkle was diagnosed with cancer in early June 2007 and died soon afterward, in Lebanon, Tennessee.

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