New Tanya Tucker album “While I’m Livin” produced by Shooter Jennings & Brandi Carlile (08/23/2019)*

Exciting news in this article:

Shooter Jennings Premieres 'D.R.U.N.K.,' Talks Hank Williams Jr. Influence

One of his next projects will keep him in the country lane, as he and Carlile are slated to produce Tanya Tucker's next record this fall. Working with an artist of the magnitude of Tucker is something that excites them both, says Jennings.

"When I worked with Tanya earlier this year, the thought came up to do an album with her, and it just struck me that I should involve Brandi because she grew up on Tanya."

 

Just take my money.

 

Here's a song that Tanya appears on with Leroy Virgil (aka, Hellbound Glory), which was produced by Shooter. It sounds promising!

 

Still plans to record and release this in 2019!

Tanya Tucker is country music royalty, and don't you forget it

 

This sounds exciting and like it's really going to happen!

A Tanya Tucker Comeback Record & Film Are Coming

 

WATCH: Tanya Tucker Performs New Song at Loretta Lynn's Birthday Bash

 

Here's a direct link to the performance of the new song:

 

It sounds like Brandi is very excited about this album and working with Tanya. Props to her for speaking her mind!

Brandi Carlile Producing Comeback Album, Documentary Film for Tanya Tucker (EXCLUSIVE)

It seems like there are lots of great labels around that could promote a heritage artist like Tanya: New West, Brandi's former label ATO, Brandi and Shooter's current label, Elektra, etc.

 

Here's Brandi singing "Delta Dawn" with Tanya in Nashville on Tuesday:

 

Tanya just posted on Facebook:

For all it’s ups and downs I believe I’ve lived a blessed life. I am so touched and thankful to announce that dreams can still come true for an outlaw like me. I’m officially signed with Fantasy Records and we’re all excited to hit the ground running on my first album since 2002 produced by Brandi Carlile + Shooter Jennings Official. I couldn’t ask for a better team!

 

Love this picture posted on Tanya's Facebook page:

 

Tanya Tucker Signs to Fantasy, Readies First Original Album in 17 Years

 

Brad, this is very exciting news! If there's any justice in the world today, Tanya will experience a well-deserved career resurgence at a time when country music needs her most. Tanya works so hard touring and I suspect that could be a reason why she hasn't had the time to make an album of new material in so many years. Looking forward to hearing her new recordings with Shooter Jennings and Brandi Carlile.

This is a recent performance of a new song written by Tanya and Brandi entitled 'While I'm Living'


Tanya Tucker with longtime friend and collaborator Dennis Quaid

 

Brad, I started a thread about this upcoming album last year, which I’ve been updating! I’m happy to hear this now has a label home! (I asked a Gort to combine the two threads —I’ll have it updated again when there’s an official title and release date.)

New Tanya Tucker album to be produced by Shooter Jennings & Brandi Carlile (??2019)

 

Excellent news indeed.

 

This is where I saw the news first. It's my second favorite music site... after this one, of course!

 

I am happy that Brandi is using both her commercial clout and "hipness" to bring Tanya back to the public consciousness!

 

'bout damn time. I've been championing her and her sister for eons. Now let's get Tanya's Arista and MCA records released on CD and LaCosta entire catalog on CD.

 

The first single!

 

From the album pre-order page:

Tanya Tucker

“Bring my flowers now while I’m livin’!” Tanya Tucker growls whilst manspreading and smoking a cigarette on a bench outside Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles. It’s not the first time she’s used the phrase, but this time she continues: “I won’t need your love when I’m gone, don’t spend your time, tears or money on my old breathless body. If your heart is in them flowers bring ‘em on”, she laughs like Sling Blade. “I wrote that one for Loretta,” she says self-consciously.

Tanya Tucker is 60. She is the original female outlaw. She’s a legend... a young one, but a legend, nevertheless.

We forget sometimes that Tanya Tucker is a legend because she was only 13 years old when she scored a massive hit with “Delta Dawn” followed by so many number one country music standards it’ll make your head spin. “Delta Dawn” came out in 1972. For perspective, the great Dolly Parton scored her first hit only 5 years earlier in 1967 with “Dumb Blonde”. Dolly wouldn’t land a number one hit until “Joshua” in 1971. 
This is to say that Tanya is such an omnipresent voice in country music that even at 13 she could be heard over the great American airwaves as commonly as Dolly Parton and her contemporaries. She’s as much a part of our musical landscape as any other country matriarch you can think of. 

So where did she go? Where has she been for 17 years?

I’m working up the courage to ask her as she twists her cigarette butt out into the sole of her cowboy boot. She looks at me with clear eyes and says something about the last time she saw her father, she eludes to her darker days and a sadness comes over her face that I’ve only seen a couple of times. There is a past struggle with drugs that we all know exists, but somehow only makes her seem deeper. Before either of us can burst into tears, I tell her that I like her hair pink. “Aw you know baby,” she says in that unmistakable voice “if I ain’t strutting my stuff I ain’t Tanya mother Tucker... but don’t worry, I don’t wear my mini-skirts anymore since my balls started showing”. 

I would argue she’s had even more of a potent influence on women in country music than we originally believed. Tanya is TOUGH. Tanya sings tough, she talks tough; she’s been through hard living and she ****ing rodeos. There would be no Miranda, no Brandi, no Gretchen, no Maren without Tanya Tucker, that’s where we found our piss and vinegar... even balls, I guess.

But if you tell her that she won’t believe you. Even if you stand in front of her and sing “San Antonio Stroll”, “What’s Your Mama’s Name”, “Delta Dawn”, “Lay With Me In A Field Of Stone”, “Last Teardrop”, “Strong Enough To Bend”, “Love Me Like You Used To”, or even “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane”.... and the rest! Believe me I did it.

She’ll give all the credit to a long list of special men in her life and career that she believes to be the source of her “luck”, she’s not as comfortable with women. She’s an accidental feminist, even unwilling at times. She’s chaos and human. She’s learning and she still wants to. Shooter Jennings and I believe in Tanya Tucker more than she believes in herself. This is true. But she is worth believing in! She’s not Santa Clause, she’s REAL and she’s very ****ing good. 

“While I’m Livin’” is an album of mostly original music written by myself, the twins and Tanya Tucker about her real life and the places she’s seen. This album is a musical biography of sorts narrated by the greatest country and western singer this side of Johnny Cash. When the kids heard Cash stripped down on “American Recordings” they knew where their outlaw country music came from. When they hear Tanya stripped down on “While I’m Livin’”, they’ll know it again. 

Why am I so invested in Tanya? Joni Mitchell said, “I’m frightened by the devil, but I’m drawn to those ones who ain’t afraid”. I’m drawn to Tanya Tucker because she’s been to hell and to heaven, not to mention every square inch of Texas. She’s lived, she’s livin’, she’s got something to say and I’m listening.

Tanya hates the word “comeback”, she says she prefers “re-launch” Ha. But it’s not often that we are given the opportunity to tell a legend that we have always loved and appreciated them while they’re still with us.

Let’s call it a comeback. Let’s give her one while she’s livin’.

- Brandi Carlile

RELEASE DATE:
Aug 23rd, 2019

TRACK LISTING:
Side A
Mustang Ridge (3:37)
The Wheels Of Laredo (3:49)
I Don't Owe You Anything (2:34)
They Day My Heart Goes Still (3:19)
High Ridin' Heroes (3:27)

Side B
The House That Built Me (4:12)
Hard Luck (4:12)
Rich (2:33)
The Bridges (3:35)
Bring My Flowers Now (4:20)

 

Tanya was a victim of Garth Brooks along with the rest of Capitol/Nashvilles roster.

 

I don't know what that means -- I thought Tanya was pretty successful during her tenure at Capitol Records.

 

The new album cover:

 

Here's the deal. Garth went over the head of Capitol/Nashville's Jimmy Bowen and went directly to the head of EMI and got him to give him a new contract at a stupendous amount of money(He had just gotten a new contract less than a year before). He ended up throwing everybody else off the label including Tanya. She never had another deal until now.
The kicker is they didn't even get to keep Garth as his catalog went with him as per the terms of his greed contract. Deena Carter had just come off off Strawberry Wine when she was let go, and Tanya was still rockin' Sparrows and Some Kind Of Trouble.
See Rough Mix by Jimmy Bowen for more details.

 

A new, fairly in-depth interview with Tanya courtesy of Vinyl Me Please:

Don’t Call It A Comeback: Tanya Tucker In Her Own Words — Vinyl Me, Please