│Biography │
One of country music’s greatest legends, Tanya Tucker, has just released her much anticipated new CD, My Turn, on Saguaro Road Records. On this new album Tucker takes classic country songs originally recorded by the all time great male legends of the time and turns the tables, giving classics such as “You Don’t Know Me” and “Oh, Lonesome Me” a powerful reconstruction from a woman’s point of view.
Only 13 when her provocative “Delta Dawn” caused a nationwide stir and became a Top 10 country hit, Tucker has built one of the most successful and compelling careers in music. Considered one of the very few females of the “outlaw” country movement, she holds a Grammy award, two Country Music Association awards, Two Academy of Country Music awards, and three CMT Awards. 23 of her albums have landed in the country Top 40 chart since her 1972 debut, and she has amassed 10 #1 country singles, 33 that have reached the Top 5, and 41 in the Top 10.
Always reinventing herself, Tanya again became a media darling in 2005 as the star of her own television reality series, Tuckerville. The primetime series was a huge hit for TLC, generating the cable network’s highest Neilsen ratings ever, and guaranteed the show’s return in 2006. Having sold over 50 million records over the last three decades, country music icon Tanya Tucker is among the all-time best selling female vocalists in country music.
“Surprisingly mature at a very young age, Tanya Tucker continues to grow today, taming and conquering tunes long assumed to be a man’s territory. As the great George Jones said...‘she does it her way and makes it her own.’”—Emore Magazine, Annie Dinerman
Awards & Honors
Y Award Program Award ear Academy of Country Music 1972 Top New Female Vocalist Awards 1973 Music City News Country Most Promising Female Artist of the Year Best Recording for Children: In Harmony A Sesame Street Record 1981 Grammy Awards (with various artists) Country Music Association 1991 Female Vocalist of the Year Awards Academy of Country Music 1993 Video of the Year; “Two Sparrows In a Hurricane” Awards Country Music Association Album of the Year; Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles 1994 Awards (with various artists) Country Weekly’s Golden 1995 Tomorrow’s Legend Pick
Singles & Chart Position
Y US CAN Song Album ear Country Country Delta Dawn 6 3 1972 Delta Dawn Love’s the Answer 5 1 What’s Your Mama’s Name 1 1 1973 What’s Your Mama’s Name Blood Red and Goin’ Down 1 1 Would You Lay with Me (In a Field 1 7 1974 of Stone) Would You Lay with Me (In a Field The Man That Turned Mama On 4 10 of Stone) I Believe the South Is Gonna Rise 18 10 Again Lizzie and the Rainman 1 1 Tanya Tucker Spring 18 23 You Are So Beautiful 1975 San Antonio Stroll 1 2 Tanya Tucker Greener Than the Grass We Laid On 23 20 Tanya Tucker’s Greatest Hits Don’t Believe My Heart Can’t Stand 4 4 Another You Lovin’ and Learnin’ You’ve Got Me to Hold On To 3 3 1976 Here’s Some Love 1 2 Here’s Some Love Ridin’ Rainbows 12 7 Ridin’ Rainbows It’s a Cowboy-Lovin’ Night 7 2 1977 You Are So Beautiful 40 29 You Are So Beautiful Dancing the Night Away 16 19 Ridin’ Rainbows Save Me 86 -- The Best of Tanya Tucker 1978 Texas (When I Die) 5 3 TNT 1979 I’m the Singer, You’re the Song 18 6 Better Late Than Never -- 60 Tear Me Apart Smokey and the Bandit II Pecos Promendade 10 7 1980 (soundtrack) Dream Lover (w/ Glen Campbell) 59 48 Can I See You Tonight 4 4 Dream Lovers Love Knows We Tried 40 40 1981 Should I Do It 50 16 Should I Do It Rodeo Girls 83 - 1982 Feel Right 10 - Changes 41 - Changes 1983 Baby, I’m Yours 22 - One Love at a Time 3 1 1986 Just Another Love 1 1 Girls Like Me I’ll Come Back as Another Woman 2 1 It’s Only Over for You 8 12 1987 Love Me Like You Used To 2 3 Love Me Like You Used To I Won’t Take Less Than Your Love (w/ Paul Davis and Paul 1 10 Overstreet)
If It Don’t Come Easy 1 - 1988 Strong Enough to Bend 1 - Highway Robbery 2 - Strong Enough To Bend Call on Me 4 5 1989 Daddy and Home 27 25 Greatest Hits My Arms Stay Open All Night 2 2 Walking Shoes 3 2 1990 Don’t Go Out (w/ T. Grahm Brown) 6 11 Tennessee Woman It Won’t Be Me 6 6 Oh What It Did to Me 12 21 1991 Down To My Last Teardrop 2 1 (Without You) What Do I Do with Me 2 2 What Do I Do with Me Some Kind of Trouble 3 15 1992 If Your Heart Ain’t Busy Tonight 4 5 Two Sparrows in a Hurricane 2 2 It’s a Little Too Late 2 3 Can’t Run From Yourself 1993 Tell Me About It (w/Delbert McClinton) 4 3 Soon 2 15 We Don’t Have to Do This 11 16 Soon 1994 Hangin’ In 4 17 You Just Watch Me 20 14 Between the Two of Them 27 26 1995 Fire to Fire Findin’ Out What’s Happenin’ 40 45 Little Things 9 - 1997 Complicated Ridin’ Out the Heartache 45 - 2002 A Memory Like I’m Gonna Be 34 - Tanya 2003 Old Weakness (Coming On Strong) 49 - 2009 Love’s Gonna Live Here (w/ Jim Lauderdale)