{"id":16611,"date":"2019-07-11T22:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1808753"},"modified":"2019-07-11T22:00:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T04:00:44","slug":"tanya-tucker-the-years-are-paying-off-for-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/tanya-tucker-the-years-are-paying-off-for-me-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Tucker: \u201cThe Years Are Paying Off For Me Now\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:678058?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\">8m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfIGYRKK8GQ?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qfIGYRKK8GQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>One can only dream of being as country cool and badass as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/tanya-tucker\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tanya Tucker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old music legend has her own line of tequila, Cosa Salvaje. She\u2019s getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Available Aug. 23, her new album, <em>While I\u2019m Livin\u2019<\/em>, with producers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/brandi-carlile\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Brandi Carlile<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/shooter-jennings\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Shooter Jennings<\/a> is one of the most highly anticipated country releases this year since.<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/elvis-presley\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Elvis Presley<\/a> once tried to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1807511\/female-elvis-tanya-tucker-brings-country-diva-choir-for-delta-dawn\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">make out<\/a> with her when she was 17. No big deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-song <em>While I\u2019m Livin\u2019<\/em> is her first full-length album in 17 years and features songs mostly written by Brandi Carlile and twins Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth with covers of Miranda Lambert\u2019s \u201cThe House That Built Me,\u201d \u201cHigh Ridin\u2019 Heroes,\u201d a 1987 song Jennings selected that featured David Lynn Jones and his dad, Waylon Jennings, and the latest single, \u201cHard Luck,\u201d an original by country-rockers, Josefus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a musical biography of sorts,\u201d Carlile says in a press release, \u201cabout Tanya\u2019s real life and the places she\u2019s seen, and it\u2019s narrated by the greatest country and western singer this side of Johnny Cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tucker will headline three album release shows at Nashville\u2019s Exit\/In (Aug. 22), New York City\u2019s Bowery Ballroom (Sept. 17) and Los Angeles\u2019 Troubadour (Oct. 16). Tickets go on sale Friday (July 12) at 10 a.m. local time through Tucker\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tanyatucker.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy more from CMT.com\u2019s recent Q&amp;A with Tucker:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT.com: Did you know Shooter when he was growing up?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tucker: Yeah. Everybody knows Shooter, you know. I knew Shooter before he was Shooter. But I didn\u2019t get to spend any concentrated amount of time with him when he was growing up. But we spent three weeks together in the studio, and it was an incredible experience. I look back on it and want to do it again. That\u2019s how come I know it was fun.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What were some of the stories you wanted to tell on your next album?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So many stories that it would take a long time to tell you. I guess one of the things would be that I had sang an idea to Brandi in the studio that I had been carrying around with me forever, and I had the chorus, but I couldn\u2019t find the meat. I had sang it to her, and she\u2019s like, \u201cWe oughta write that.\u201d We went along about our business, and in the last day, I walked into the control room, and she said, \u201cHey, let\u2019s finish that song, that idea you had.\u201d And I went, \u201cThis ain\u2019t my usual gig. I\u2019m a singer, not a songwriter.\u201d Harlan Howard always told me I was a writer trying to get out of a singer\u2019s body. If you just stop and do it awhile, you can do it. Brandi stopped me, and we went into the piano room and finished the song. Now it\u2019s the title song on the album, \u201cBring My Flowers Now While I\u2019m Livin&#8217;\u201d is the title, and I feel very proud of that. I\u2019m very happy. I just realized that right now. It\u2019s pretty cool that that happened.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there anything new that you discovered about yourself in writing with Brandi that surprised you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was just everything. The level of comfort, if I could pick one word that I really like to be the most, it wouldn\u2019t be sexy, pretty, or any of those things. It would be comfortable, and I love the feeling of being comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>There were some things that I\u2019d sing a couple times, but there were things that I would have like to have fixed, but she said, \u201cNo, I want this to be you and what people want to hear is what you react to and how you react singing a song with no sugar-coating it.\u201d So, that\u2019s what it is. That\u2019s a little different for me, and I have an album that I\u2019ve been working on for 10 years, it\u2019s called <em>Messes<\/em>. It\u2019s not out. I haven\u2019t even mastered it yet. I know every little note, and if something\u2019s wrong, I go back and fix it. Everything is fixed, and everything is perfect, and I\u2019m looking forward to releasing that someday, hopefully next. But this album is raw, real and I guess is a little bit of hesitation on my behalf because one never thinks they\u2019re good enough for that. And you\u2019re always wanting people to like you, so my whole business is based on people liking me, and if they don\u2019t, then I\u2019m out business. I want to be liked.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a level of confidence to want to think that what you are is good enough for everybody else, and I think that what Brandi has shown me is that what I am is good enough for anybody.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who is the country celebrity crush who made you a country fan for forever and ever amen?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I just did a song with Kristofferson, and I hadn\u2019t seen him in a long time. I did a song that Dennis Quaid wrote, and Dennis was freaking out because I got Kris on it, and then Dennis sang on it and then now we\u2019ve got Brandi singing on it. It\u2019s called \u201cOn My Way to Heaven.\u201d It\u2019s my favorite song right now. And I just love Kristofferson. His wife Lisa, she knows it, [when] I gotta play with that hair a little while. And so it\u2019s funny because I hadn\u2019t seen him in 20-30 years, and now we\u2019ve gotten closer than ever. We\u2019re like [crosses fingers] they FaceTime me all the time. I love that. It feels like the years are paying off for me now.<\/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\/1808753\/tanya-tucker-hard-luck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Lauren Tingle 8m ago Embedded from www.youtube.com. [embedded content] One can only dream of being as country cool and badass as Tanya Tucker. The 60-year-old music legend has her own line of tequila, Cosa Salvaje. She\u2019s getting a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Available Aug. 23, her new album, While I\u2019m Livin\u2019, [&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-16611","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 12:57:05","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\/16611","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=16611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}