Tanya Tucker is my all time favorite singer

Nobody, huh?

http://imagesource.allposters.com/images/pic/RSPOD/RS170~Tanya-Tucker-Rolling-Stone-no-170-September-1974-Posters.jpg

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yeah, i've noticed that jennifer herrema's singing style is a lot like hers.

some of those songs - "delta dawn," "what's your mama's name" - are pretty powerful.

I saw her a few years ago at some outdoors country festival and she was awesome. About a year later I saw her in a soft seat theatre and she was pretty meh. Overall, though, I love her.

through assorted youtube detours -- i don't actually remember what i started looking for -- i just spent a little while digging up whatever tanya i could find.

delta dawn on yee-haw (the clip says she's 13, but i think she was actually 14 by then. still.) same song last year from an audience video; still sounds good.

what's your mama's name (this song is shameless but it gets me every time)

crossfire (from the heart of the coke years i guess. anyway it rocks.)

couldn't find any good performance clips of would you lay with me, but what a song.

i need to get more tanya, i only have a compilation. she's gonna be 50 this year, seems due for some revisiting.

and her and glen campbell doing dream lover. oh the irony etc.

(just discovered emusic has a good live set by her from 2005. there's one from last year too, but i liked the '05 setlist better. she sounds great.

tipsy, thanks SO much for those, especially that "Crossfire" clip!! I wish I could find the whole performance of that on DVD. Tanya looks absolutely gorgeous in that clip, too.

the live album reminds me that her name is TAN-ya, even though i always say TAHN-ya.

Yes, as illustrated in the Grethen Wilson song "Redneck Woman"

speaking of, funny little q&a with the two of them from a few years back. gretchen should produce an album for tanya or something.

Just getting into her via her first two albums over the past couple days. What's Your Mama's Name IS shameless, but totally wonderful.

Oh, I just read the third one was with Billy Sherrill too. Gotta hear it.

Heard a bit of the new album, sounded really good!

caught this the other night thought it was really great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es3OV1oQNBM

I saw her last night, she sounded great but she was in rough shape physically. She had recent neck surgery and she'd canceled shows because of pain over the past two weeks, last night was her first time back on stage since that. She was obviously in a lot of pain, and said so several times — she even turned around and pulled down the neck of her shirt to show the scar — and fantasized more than once about the "big old pain pill" waiting for her back on the tour bus. She kept the (sold out) crowd waiting about an hour before she finally came out, and the first thing she said was that she had almost canceled but was ready to give it a shot.

But boy did those showbiz instincts kick in whenever the music started. She'd be up on her feet sauntering around the stage, pulling little moves that were at least gestures at her younger stage-savvy self. The set list was heavily focused on '80s and '90s material, less of the '70s stuff that I love (with the obvious exception of the show-closing "Delta Dawn." Her daughter Presley was her backup singer, and when Tanya did "Bring My Flowers Now" — the song she wrote with Brandi Carlile about celebrating people while they're alive instead of after death — Presley was just visibly bawling her eyes out, wiping away tears every couple of seconds. Definite lump-in-the-throat moment.

Anyway, she made it to about 70 minutes and that was all she had in her, but the crowd was loving and supportive throughout. I'm glad I went, not least because I wonder how much more of this she has in her. She's only 64, but the years have taken some tolls for sure.

(only 64 but as she noted, marking 51 years in the music business. astounding.)

And the new album's good.

It is! I think both of those Brandi Carlile albums are good, and the songs from them fit right in with her classics.