Blood Red and Goin' Down
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"Blood Red and Goin' Down" is a 1973 single written by Curly Putman
and performed by Tanya Tucker
. "Blood Red and Goin' Down" was the second release from Tucker's 1973 album, What's Your Mama's Name
. The single was Tucker's second number one on the country chart and would stay at number one for a single week and spend a total of twelve weeks on the chart. In the song, the narrator, an adolescent girl, accompanies her father to a barroom where her mother and her mother's lover are drinking, and witnesses as her father murders the pair.
Curly Putman
Claude "Curly" Putman, Jr. is an American songwriter, based in Nashville. His biggest success was "Green, Green Grass of Home" , which was covered by Elvis Presley, Johnny Darrell, Gram Parsons, Joan Baez, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Roberto Leal, Merle Haggard, Bobby Bare, Joe Tex, Nana...
and performed by Tanya Tucker
Tanya Tucker
Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13...
. "Blood Red and Goin' Down" was the second release from Tucker's 1973 album, What's Your Mama's Name
What's Your Mama's Name
What's Your Mama's Name is the second album by Tanya Tucker. It provided her with her first two #1 hit country singles on the Billboard charts: "What's Your Mama's Name" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down"...
. The single was Tucker's second number one on the country chart and would stay at number one for a single week and spend a total of twelve weeks on the chart. In the song, the narrator, an adolescent girl, accompanies her father to a barroom where her mother and her mother's lover are drinking, and witnesses as her father murders the pair.
Chart performance
| Chart (1973) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100 | 74 |
| Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |