A few nights ago, Tanya Tucker was listening to Apple Music at her Texas ranch. She heard songs by her favorite singers including Nina Simone, Gordon Lightfoot, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson — and then she heard herself. The song was “Mustang Ridge,” from her 2019 album While I’m Livin’, produced …
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Tanya Tucker remains the “female Elvis,” a moniker she earned from the King himself more than 40 years ago. For nearly two hours during her “Tanya Tucker & Friends” show on Sunday night, the charismatic entertainer karate-chopped, high-kicked, and hip-thrusted her way across the stage at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, delivering …
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Tanya Tucker has spent much of the last half of 2019 populating year-end best-of lists with her While I’m Livin’ album, and next year she’s set to take the LP on the road as the headlining artist for the CMT Next Women of Country: Bring My Flowers Now Tour. Just …
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“I ain’t going to be caught loitering around that song,” Tanya Tucker said when Brandi Carlile suggested she record a version of Miranda Lambert‘s Grammy-winning “The House That Built Me” for her upcoming album While I’m Livin‘. “There is nothing I can bring to that table.” But Carlile proved too …
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On Wednesday, Tanya Tucker released the new song “The Wheels of Laredo,” the first taste of her upcoming album While I’m Livin’, which was produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings. Later the same day at the 2019 CMT Music Awards, Tucker was joined by Carlile, Jennings and an all-star …
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