{"id":15734,"date":"2019-06-06T11:36:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1807511"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T17:36:54","slug":"female-elvis-tanya-tucker-brings-country-diva-choir-for-delta-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/female-elvis-tanya-tucker-brings-country-diva-choir-for-delta-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Elvis Tanya Tucker Brings Country Diva Choir for \u201cDelta Dawn\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:675433?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/tinglel\/\" title=\"Posts by Lauren Tingle\" rel=\"author\">Lauren Tingle<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">1m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:d1b20c36-2b59-4b8f-9f89-af195c709c06\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/tanya-tucker\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Tucker<\/a> has been considered the female Elvis Presley ever since she broke out with her 1972 hit, \u201cDelta Dawn,\u201d a song she\u2019s been performing since she was 13 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker once met Presley at one of his Las Vegas concerts, and during the iHeartCountry radio remotes leading up to Wednesday\u2019s (June 5) 2019 CMT Music Awards, she said that night, she diverted his attempt to kiss her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t have a crush on him,\u201d she told CMT.com. \u201cI just wanted to hang out with him. I never wanted to kiss him or anything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to see him for the first time in Vegas, and after we talked a little while, I was 17, and he went to kiss me, and I gave him the little side cheek. And that beautiful smile that he had just come out, and I think he was a little shocked. But it was a moment I\u2019ll never forget. And he was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tucker gave Presley a nod when she swiveled her hips during her dynamic \u201cDelta Dawn\u201d performance at the CMT Awards. Tucker made her awards show return with Shooter Jennings, Brandi Carlile and twins Phil and Tim Hanseroth backed by an iconic country diva choir that included Deana Carter, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, Carly Pearce, Lauren Alaina and RaeLynn.<\/p>\n<p>Tucker\u2019s first album in 17 years, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/while-im-livin\/1464795759\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">While I\u2019m Livin\u2019<\/a><\/em>, produced by Carlile and Jennings, arrives Aug. 23.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Lauren Tingle is a Tennessean and storyteller who eats music for breakfast, lunch and dinner. When she\u2019s not writing or rocking out, she enjoys yoga and getting lost in the great outdoors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1807511\/female-elvis-tanya-tucker-brings-country-diva-choir-for-delta-dawn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 1m ago Embedded from media.mtvnservices.com. Tanya Tucker has been considered the female Elvis Presley ever since she broke out with her 1972 hit, \u201cDelta Dawn,\u201d a song she\u2019s been performing since she was 13 years old. Tucker once met Presley at one of his Las Vegas concerts, and during the iHeartCountry radio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 01:40:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}