{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Running Like the Wind | type = studio | artist = the Marshall Tucker Band | cover = 1979RunningLiketheWind 20101001.jpg | alt = | released = 1979 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = *Pop rock<ref name=glorydaze>{{cite web | url=http://www.glorydazemusic.com/articles.php?article_id=4146 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101223181934/http://glorydazemusic.com/articles.php?article_id=4146 | url-status=usurped | archive-date=December 23, 2010 | title=Recent Discussions on GDM &#124; music reviews }}</ref> *jazz fusion<ref name=glorydaze/> | length = 38:42 | label = Warner Bros. | producer = Stewart Levine | prev_title = Together Forever | prev_year = 1978 | next_title = Tenth | next_year = 1980 }}

'''''Running Like the Wind''''' is the Marshall Tucker Band's ninth studio album (including the band's 1978 compilation, ''Greatest Hits'') with its title track, "Running Like the Wind," being one of the band's most popular songs. The more jazzy "Last of the Singing Cowboys" was the single from the album, reaching No. 42 on the US Billboard Hot 100. It is their first album recorded for Warner Bros. after the collapse of Capricorn Records.

==Musical style== In contrast to the band's earlier albums, the sound of ''Running Like the Wind'' draws from pop rock.<ref name=glorydaze/> Jazz fusion also plays a part of the album's sound.<ref name=glorydaze/>

{{Music ratings |rev1 = Allmusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}} [https://www.allmusic.com/album/running-like-the-wind-mw0000254528 link] }}

==Track listing== All songs written by Toy Caldwell except where noted.

#"Running Like the Wind" 9:11 #"Last of the Singing Cowboys" (George McCorkle) 4:16 #"Answer to Love" 3:43 #"Unto These Hills" 7:02 #"Melody Ann" (Tommy Caldwell) 5:27 #"My Best Friend" (McCorkle) 4:58 #"Pass It On" 3:46

==Charts== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (1979) !Position |- |Australia (Kent Music Report)<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=193}}</ref> |align="center"|99 |}

==Personnel== *Doug Gray - Lead vocals and percussion *Toy Caldwell - Electric and acoustic guitars, steel guitar *Tommy Caldwell - Bass guitar and background vocals, lead vocal on "Melody Ann" *George McCorkle - Electric and acoustic guitars, banjo *Jerry Eubanks - Flute, alto, baritone and tenor saxophone, background vocals *Paul Riddle - Drums

'''Credits''' *Horns: Steve Madaio, Gary Grant, David Leull, Gary Herbig, Bill Reichenbach Jr. (horns arranged by Steve Madaio). *Keyboards: Chuck Leavell *Recorded: Bayshore Recording Studios, Coconut Grove, Florida *Engineer: David Growther *Assistant engineer: David Growther *Mastered: Bernie Grundman, at A&M *Cover and inner spread photography: David Alexander *Back cover photography: Steve Smith *Cover concept: The Marshall Tucker Band

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==External links== *Levine, Stewart. ''[http://www.marshalltucker.com/tuck/images/mtcd108_mthm.jpg Running Like the Wind].'' Ramblin' Records 15095-9705, 1979 (some lyrics included).

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