Can't You See

Toy Caldwell wrote it, Hornsby produced, and Eubanks plays the flute at the start and the finish. Caldwell sings lead, unusually, since Gray sang most leads. Gray told American Songwriter that Toy gave it to him to sing, that he said he couldn't, that the band left it for a couple of weeks and that when Toy tried it himself it just blew the audience away. Ultimate Classic Rock reads it as a man fleeing to heal from heartbreak, and American Songwriter notes Caldwell had not lived the heartbreak, having been married to Abbie since 1969. The 1973 single ran 3:21 with "See You Later, I'm Gone" on the B-side and did not make the Hot 100; the 1977 re-release, with a live "Fly Like an Eagle" on the B-side, reached 75 on the Hot 100, 57 in Canada and 39 on Canadian Adult Contemporary.

The famous live version, recorded at the Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee in July 1974 (July 11 on one Wikipedia page, July 31 on another), closes Searchin' for a Rainbow at 6:25. We cannot tell which our upload is. Waylon Jennings recorded it on March 22, 1976 at Sound Labs in Los Angeles for Are You Ready for the Country, and his single reached 4 on country, 97 on the Hot 100 and 1 on Canadian country. Others include Hank Williams Jr. (1975), Alabama live in 1988, Zac Brown Band with Kid Rock (2010) and Black Stone Cherry (2011); Zac Brown Band plays it so often that setlist.fm credits them with 126 performances, against 473 for the Marshall Tucker Band, first played on June 2, 1973 at the Omni in Atlanta. Ultimate Classic Rock ranked it 85th among classic rock songs in 2012. It is in Blow, Swing Vote and I, Tonya.