Long Hard Ride

{{Infobox album

| name = Long Hard Ride

| type = Album

| artist = Marshall Tucker Band

| cover = 1976LongHardRide 20101001.jpg

| alt =

| released = June 1976{{cite news |title=The Marshall Tucker Band: Long Hard Ride to Glory |author=Steve Rosen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ziMEAAAAMBAJ |newspaper=Billboard |date=May 7, 1977 |page=83 |accessdate=April 24, 2011}}

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| genre = *Southern rock

• country rock

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| label = Capricorn

| producer = Paul Hornsby

| prev_title = Searchin' for a Rainbow

| prev_year = 1975

| next_title = Carolina Dreams

| next_year = 1977

}}

Long Hard Ride is the fifth studio album by The Marshall Tucker Band, released in 1976 and produced by Paul Hornsby. Guest performers included Charlie Daniels, John McEuen and Jerome Joseph. The title track was made into a short film that was played as a sort of movie trailer. It depicts the members of the band as a gang of cowboys. The album's cover features Frank C. McCarthy's painting "The Last Crossing" (1972). Cover design and art direction John Kosh.

{{Album reviews

|rev1 = Allmusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|2.5|5}} [http://www.allmusic.com/album/long-hard-ride-r12471 link]

}}