Tanya Tucker
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Tanya Denise Tucker is a female American
country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn
", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits.
She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association
award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?
" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down
," 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman
," and 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend
".
, where the only radio station in town played country music. The Tuckers attended concerts of country stars such as Ernest Tubb
and Mel Tillis
, and Tanya's sister LaCosta
was praised in the family for her vocal abilities. At the age of eight, Tanya told her father that she also wanted to be a country singer when she grew up.
When the Tuckers moved to St. George, Utah
, Juanita took Tanya to audition for the film Jeremiah Johnson
. Tanya did not win the bigger role she tried out for, but she was hired as a bit player. At about this time she also got one of her first musical breaks, when her father drove the family to Phoenix
for the Arizona State Fair
, on the chance that the featured performer, country singer Judy Lynn
, could use Tanya in her show. Tanya sang for the fair's entertainment managers, and she was engaged to sing at the fair itself.
, who was so impressed by her talent that he invited her onstage to perform. In 1969 the family moved to Las Vegas
, where she regularly performed. Eventually, she recorded a demo tape that gained the attention of songwriter Dolores Fuller
, who sent it to producer Billy Sherrill
, the head of A&R at CBS Records
. Sherrill was impressed with the demo tape and signed the teenaged vocalist to Columbia Records
.
," but she passed on the tune to Donna Fargo
, choosing "Delta Dawn
" — a song she heard Bette Midler
sing on The Tonight Show
— instead. Released in the spring of 1972, the song became a hit, peaking at number six on the country charts and scraping the bottom of the pop charts. At first, Columbia Records tried to downplay Tucker's age, but soon word leaked out and she became a sensation. A year later, Australian singer Helen Reddy
would score a #1 U.S. pop hit with her version of "Delta Dawn."
"I thank the lucky stars and the Good Lord for that song," Tucker told Nine-O-One Network Magazine
in 1988. "If I cut it now for the first time I think it would be a hit. I was fortunate to have latched onto that one, and that was all Sherrill's doing. If it hadn't been for Sherrill, I probably would have been a rodeo queen or something."
Her second single, "Love's the Answer," also became a Top Ten hit later in 1972. Tucker's third single, "What's Your Mama's Name
," became her first number one hit in the spring of 1973. Two other number ones — "Blood Red and Goin' Down" and "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)
" followed, establishing Tucker as a major star.
At the time, Tucker was one of the youngest stars ever to enter Country music. However, there had been other previous teen Country stars before her, including Brenda Lee
and her contemporary, Marie Osmond
. LeAnn Rimes
, Lila McCann
, Jessica Andrews
, and Taylor Swift
would later have country music success at an early age as well.
In 1975, she signed with MCA Records
, where she had a string of hit singles that ran into the late '70s.
Among these hits was "Lizzie and the Rainman", which became a #1 Country hit and also became Tucker's only Top 40 Pop music hit, peaking at #37. It also peaked among the Top 10 on the Adult Contemporary charts at the time. Tucker has a string of Top 10 Country hits under MCA between 1975 and 1978, including "San Antonio Stroll
", "Here's Some Love
", and "It's a Cowboy-Lovin Night".
In 1978, she decided to radically change her image and cross over to rock with her TNT
album. Despite the controversy over the record and its sexy cover, it went gold the following year.
Two songs from the album became hits, "Texas (When I Die)" and "I'm a Singer, You're the Song." The biggest hit from the album was "Texas (When I Die)" which reached #5 on the Country charts, and also peaking in the bottom of the Pop charts at #70.
, with whom she was romantically linked. In addition to recording, she also made her feature film debut in Hard Country
.
Despite having a Top 10 hit in late 1982 from her first and only Arista album Changes
, she struggled to have her music played on the radio. By mid-1983, her singles were no longer making the Top 40.
She had begun drinking in her late teens, and she explained how it started: "You send your ass out on the road doing two gigs a night and after all that adoration go back to empty hotel rooms. Loneliness got me into it." In 1978 Tucker moved to Los Angeles, California
, to try, unsuccessfully, to broaden her appeal to pop audiences, and was quickly captivated by the city's nightlife. She also said that she "was the wildest thing out there. I could stay up longer, drink more and kick the biggest ass in town. I was on the ragged edge." The young woman also made gossip columns buzz with a series of romantic involvements. Her famous amours included country singer Merle Haggard
(who was 21 years her senior), actor Don Johnson
, the late pop singer Andy Gibb
, and, most notably, country/pop star Glen Campbell
, with whom she had a very stormy relationship and a minor hit duet, "Dream Lover."
Though she moved to Nashville after her breakup with Campbell in 1982 and began to lead a more secluded life, Tucker continued to drink and use cocaine
. Finally, in 1988, her family confronted her and persuaded her to enter the Betty Ford Center
. At first, Tucker rebelled against her treatments, but after private counseling sessions she began to improve.
As Tucker was battling drugs and alcohol in the early 80s, her career suffered. In 1984 and 1985, she had no singles on the country charts.
. In 1986 she returned to the charts with "One Love at a Time," which climbed to number three. Her career was revitalized with 1986's Girls Like Me
, an album that spawned four Top 10 country singles. In 1988 she had three No. 1 country singles: "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love
" (with Paul Davis
and Paul Overstreet
), "If It Don't Come Easy
" and "Strong Enough to Bend."
Her music was now more country pop
-styled and up-tempo, but this material was what made Tucker popular again. Between 1988 and 1989, Tucker enjoyed one of her most popular years on the charts, racking up eight Country Top 10 hits in a row. Her albums around this time were also achieving "Gold" certifications by the RIAA, after selling 500,000 copies. A Greatest Hits album followed in 1989, releasing a Top 5 hit to the country charts that year from the album called "My Arms Stay Open All Night," which peaked at #2.
In 1988 Tucker was nominated by the Country Music Association
for "Female Vocalist of the Year", and was nominated for other major awards during this time.
Her contribution to the country music genre was rewarded when the Country Music Association voted her the "Female vocalist of the Year" in 1991, though she missed the event, having just given birth to her second child. Eight consecutive singles reached the Top 10 in the early 1990s, including "Down to My Last Teardrop
," "(Without You) What Do I Do With Me" and "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane."
In 1990 Tucker was named "Female Video Artist of the Year" by CMT
. Although by the 1990s she no longer had #1 hits, there were many singles that came close peaking in the Country Top 5 as well as the Top 10. Tucker was one of the most successful female Country artists at the time. She became one of the few teen stars to find success in her adult years.
Her 1993 album Greatest Hits
rose to number 15, and also went to number 18 on the Top Country Albums chart. Liberty Records was changed to Capitol Nashville in 1994.
By the 1990s Tucker was a 20-year veteran in country music, even though she was only in her mid-30s. In 1994, "Hangin' On" was her last Top 5 hit, as well as her last Top 10 hit for a while. That year she performed at the half-time
show at Super Bowl XXVIII
. In 1996 she was one of the Top 10 most-played artists of the year, and that time Capitol Records
' biggest signed female artist. In 1997 she returned to the Top 10 on the Country charts for the last time with the hit, "Little Things", which peaked at #9. That year she was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
.
, her first album in five years, which was distributed through Capitol Records. The album was produced by her fiancé, Jerry Laseter, and included a guest vocal by Vince Gill
.
In 2002 Tucker was ranked #20 on CMT
's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music. In 2005 she released an album, Live at Billy Bob's Texas
. In 2005 she also contributed two songs to a tribute album to Bob Wills
, called A Tribute to Bob Wills 100th Anniversary. In 2005 she released a book, 100 Ways to Beat the Blues on Fireside, which included tips on shaking the blues, from some of Tucker's friends such as Willie Nelson
, Brenda Lee
, Little Richard
, and Burt Reynolds
.
Tanya recorded an album, Lonesome Town, which has been put on hold, but a live concert recorded at the Renaissance Center
in December will be released. Tanya sang a duet with country music icon Billy Joe Shaver
, of Shaver's song, "Played the Game Too Long," on his latest album, Everybody's Brother, that was released in September 2007.
In 2009 Tanya signed a one-time deal with Saguaro Road Records from Time-Life
. Tanya's "Lonesome Town" project was put on hold to do the first cover album of her career, My Turn
, which was released 30 June 2009 and placed #27 on the billboard country charts. The first single "Love's Gonna Live Here" was released to radio and was also available as a digital single. It is a remake of the classic hit by Buck Owens
. The album includes classic country hits such as "Wine Me Up", "Lovesick Blues
", "You Don't Know Me", "Ramblin' Fever", "Walk Through This World With Me", "Big Big Love", "Crazy Arms
", "After The Fire Is Gone" and "Oh Lonesome Me
".
One of Tanya Tucker's latest debuts was in a music video by "Santana Maria" called "You Have Won My Heart," which can be found on YouTube
.
movement, which was most popular in the late 70s. As Tucker matured by the end of the 70s, Tucker's outlaw image grew. Like the other Outlaw artists in the business at the time (Willie Nelson
, Waylon Jennings
, David Allan Coe
, Hank Williams Jr.), Tucker was able to combine qualities of Country and Rock music into her voice to make the Outlaw sound that was popular at the time. These qualities could be heard on some of her biggest hits at the time, including 1978's "Texas (When I Die)." Tucker also had a spirit of independence, which was another Outlaw quality. She ranked #9 on CMT's Dozen Greatest Outlaws, the only woman to appear on that list.
As the 80s progressed, Tucker continued to add the Outlaw qualities to her hits. At the beginning of the 90s, Tucker was still identified as an Outlaw. Today, Tucker continues to be recognized as one, regularly attending Outlaw events among regular shows. Gretchen Wilson
made reference to Tucker in her 2004 hit song "Redneck Woman
," and Tucker appears briefly in the video of the song, showing Tucker with other Outlaws.
Tucker starred in her own reality show, Tuckerville
, on The Learning Channel in 2005. It ran for two seasons for a total of 18 episodes. The show covers an in-depth visit with Tucker in her home with her family.
Tucker continues to perform for the military doing benefits with newer country acts such as Eric Agnew and Cole Deggs & the Lonesome
. She has stated in interviews that she is filming new episodes of her reality show "Tuckerville." Since Tucker has moved out of her Nashville
home, the show will take place in Malibu, where she currently resides. It will be called "Tucker Time". She stated that another reason for the name change is because TLC wouldn't let them have the previous name.
, actor Don Johnson
and the late pop singer Andy Gibb
. From 1980 to 1981 she had a relationship with country singer Glen Campbell
.
Tucker later had a relationship with Ben Reed, a Hollywood actor, with whom she had daughter Presley Tanita (5 July 1989) and son Beau "Grayson" (2 October 1991).
Since the mid 1990s, Tucker has had an on-again off-again relationship with Jerry Laseter, a Nashville songwriter, performer and producer. They were engaged for the first time in 1997, and again in 1999. Just days before their 1999 wedding, Tucker canceled the ceremony when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child, Laseter's daughter Layla LaCosta (25 June 1999), saying she didn't want to walk down the aisle pregnant in her wedding dress. Laseter was co-producer of Tucker's albums in 2002 (Tanya
), 2005 (Live at Billy Bob's Texas
) and 2009 (My Turn
).
Tucker also has three siblings: two brothers, Don and Robert (Robert died of pneumonia
) and a sister, fellow country music artist LaCosta
.
Note: Grammy for Best Recording for Children awarded to the producers Dennis Scott and Jim Henson and not to the artists.
United States
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country music artist who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn
Delta Dawn
"Delta Dawn" is a song written by former child rockabilly star Larry Collins and songwriter Alex Harvey , best known as a 1972 top ten C&W hit for Tanya Tucker and a number-one hit for Helen Reddy in 1973.-Lyrical story:The title character is a faded southern...
", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of Top 10 and Top 40 hits.
She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973's "What's Your Mama's Name?
What's Your Mama's Name (song)
"What's Your Mama's Name" is the title track from Tanya Tucker's 1973 album. "What's Your Mama's Name" was written by Dallas Frazier and Earl Montgomery and was Tucker's fourth hit on the country chart and her first number one. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total...
" and "Blood Red and Goin' Down
Blood Red and Goin' Down
"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...
," 1975's "Lizzie and the Rainman
Lizzie and the Rainman
""Lizzie and the Rainman" is as song written by Kenny O'Dell and Larry Henley which was a #1 C&W hit for Tanya Tucker in 1975.A narrative song as was typical for the first phase of Tucker's career, "Lizzie and the Rainman" relates how a...
," and 1988's "Strong Enough to Bend
Strong Enough to Bend (song)
"Strong Enough to Bend" is the title track to a 1988 album by Tanya Tucker. "Strong Enough to Bend" was written by Beth Nielsen Chapman and Don Schlitz and was Tanya Tucker's ninth number one on the country chart as a solo artist. The single went to number one for one week and spent a total of...
".
Childhood before fame
Tucker was the youngest of four children born to Jesse "Beau" and Juanita Tucker. Her father was a heavy equipment operator, and the family moved often as he sought better work. Tanya's early childhood was spent primarily in Willcox, ArizonaWillcox, Arizona
Willcox is a city in Cochise County, Arizona, United States. According to 2006 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 3,769. Professional wrestler Ted Dibiase lived his formative years in Willcox, as did singer Tanya Tucker.-History:...
, where the only radio station in town played country music. The Tuckers attended concerts of country stars such as Ernest Tubb
Ernest Tubb
Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
and Mel Tillis
Mel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....
, and Tanya's sister LaCosta
LaCosta Tucker
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was praised in the family for her vocal abilities. At the age of eight, Tanya told her father that she also wanted to be a country singer when she grew up.
When the Tuckers moved to St. George, Utah
St. George, Utah
St. George is a city located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Utah, and the county seat of Washington County, Utah. It is the principal city of and is included in the St. George, Utah, Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is 119 miles northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada, and 303 miles ...
, Juanita took Tanya to audition for the film Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson
Jeremiah Johnson is a 1972 western film directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford as the title character and Will Geer as "Bear Claw" Chris Lapp...
. Tanya did not win the bigger role she tried out for, but she was hired as a bit player. At about this time she also got one of her first musical breaks, when her father drove the family to Phoenix
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
for the Arizona State Fair
Arizona State Fair
The Arizona State Fair is an annual state fair, held at a permanent fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona. It was first held in 1884, but has had various interruptions due to cotton crop failure, the Great Depression era, and World War II years. Since 1946, the fair has been held regularly each year...
, on the chance that the featured performer, country singer Judy Lynn
Judy Lynn
Judy Lynn Kelly , who performed as Judy Lynn and was born Judy Lynn Voiten, was an American country music singer and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Idaho in 1955....
, could use Tanya in her show. Tanya sang for the fair's entertainment managers, and she was engaged to sing at the fair itself.
Career discovery
Tucker made her debut with Mel TillisMel Tillis
Lonnie Melvin Tillis , known professionally as Mel Tillis, is an American country music singer. Although he recorded songs since the late 1950s, his biggest success occurred in the 1970s, with a long list of Top 10 hits....
, who was so impressed by her talent that he invited her onstage to perform. In 1969 the family moved to Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
, where she regularly performed. Eventually, she recorded a demo tape that gained the attention of songwriter Dolores Fuller
Dolores Fuller
Dolores Agnes Fuller was an American actress and songwriter best known as the one-time girlfriend of the low-budget film director Edward D. Wood, Jr. She played the protagonist's girlfriend in Glen or Glenda, co-starred in Wood's Jail Bait, and had a minor role in Bride of the Monster...
, who sent it to producer Billy Sherrill
Billy Sherrill
Billy Sherrill is a record producer and arranger who is most famous for his association with a number of country artists, most notably Tammy Wynette...
, the head of A&R at CBS Records
CBS Records
CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...
. Sherrill was impressed with the demo tape and signed the teenaged vocalist to Columbia Records
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...
.
1972 – 1979: Teen country star
Sherrill initially planned to have Tucker record "The Happiest Girl In the Whole USAThe Happiest Girl In the Whole USA
"The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA" is a country and pop music song written and recorded by Donna Fargo. It is written in the voice of a newlywed girl, sung to her new husband...
," but she passed on the tune to Donna Fargo
Donna Fargo
Donna Fargo is an American country music singer-songwriter, who is best-known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s...
, choosing "Delta Dawn
Delta Dawn
"Delta Dawn" is a song written by former child rockabilly star Larry Collins and songwriter Alex Harvey , best known as a 1972 top ten C&W hit for Tanya Tucker and a number-one hit for Helen Reddy in 1973.-Lyrical story:The title character is a faded southern...
" — a song she heard Bette Midler
Bette Midler
Bette Midler is an American singer, actress, and comedian, also known by her informal stage name, The Divine Miss M. She became famous as a cabaret and concert headliner, and went on to star in successful and acclaimed films such as The Rose, Ruthless People, Beaches, and For The Boys...
sing on The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. It is the longest currently running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running show on NBC, after Meet the Press and Today.The Tonight Show has been hosted by...
— instead. Released in the spring of 1972, the song became a hit, peaking at number six on the country charts and scraping the bottom of the pop charts. At first, Columbia Records tried to downplay Tucker's age, but soon word leaked out and she became a sensation. A year later, Australian singer Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy
Helen Reddy , often referred to as "The Queen of 70s Pop", is an Australian-American singer and actress. In the 1970s, she enjoyed international success, especially in the United States, where she placed fifteen singles in the Top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100. Six of those 15 songs made the Top 10...
would score a #1 U.S. pop hit with her version of "Delta Dawn."
"I thank the lucky stars and the Good Lord for that song," Tucker told Nine-O-One Network Magazine
Nine-O-One Network Magazine
Nine-O-One Network Magazine was a bi-monthly music magazine published in Memphis, Tennessee, from 1986 to 1989.-Beginnings:The magazine originated during the heralded 1986 “Class of '55” recording session in Memphis with Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Carl Perkins. Producer Chips...
in 1988. "If I cut it now for the first time I think it would be a hit. I was fortunate to have latched onto that one, and that was all Sherrill's doing. If it hadn't been for Sherrill, I probably would have been a rodeo queen or something."
Her second single, "Love's the Answer," also became a Top Ten hit later in 1972. Tucker's third single, "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"...
," became her first number one hit in the spring of 1973. Two other number ones — "Blood Red and Goin' Down" and "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)
Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) (song)
"Would You Lay with Me " is the title track from Tanya Tucker's third album and was written by David Allan Coe. It was released in December 1973 as a single, it topped the U.S. country chart on March 30, 1974, for one week to become Tucker's third number-one song on the chart. On the Billboard Hot...
" followed, establishing Tucker as a major star.
At the time, Tucker was one of the youngest stars ever to enter Country music. However, there had been other previous teen Country stars before her, including Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley , known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis...
and her contemporary, Marie Osmond
Marie Osmond
Olive Marie Osmond is an American singer, actress, doll designer, and a member of the show business family The Osmonds. Although she was never part of her family's singing group, she gained success as a solo country music artist in the 1970s and 1980s...
. LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes
LeAnn Rimes is an American country/pop singer. She is known for her rich vocals and her rise to fame as an eight-year-old champion on the original Ed McMahon version of Star Search, followed by the release of the Patsy Cline-intended single "Blue" when Rimes was only age 13, resulting in her...
, Lila McCann
Lila McCann
Lila Elaine McCann is an American country music singer who made her debut at age sixteen with the single "Down Came a Blackbird." Reaching a peak of #28 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, the song was the first release from her 1997 album Lila, which became the highest-selling...
, Jessica Andrews
Jessica Andrews
Jessica Danielle Andrews is an American country music singer. At age 15 in mid-1999, she made her debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "I Will Be There for You", from her debut album Heart Shaped World, released in 1999 on DreamWorks Records Nashville.Andrews...
, and Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift
Taylor Alison Swift is an American country pop singer-songwriter, musician and actress.In 2006, she released her debut single "Tim McGraw", then her self-titled debut album, which was subsequently certified multi-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America...
would later have country music success at an early age as well.
In 1975, she signed with MCA Records
MCA Records
MCA Records was an American-based record company owned by MCA Inc., which later gave way to the larger MCA Music Entertainment Group , of which MCA Records was still part. MCA Records was absorbed by Geffen Records in 2003...
, where she had a string of hit singles that ran into the late '70s.
Among these hits was "Lizzie and the Rainman", which became a #1 Country hit and also became Tucker's only Top 40 Pop music hit, peaking at #37. It also peaked among the Top 10 on the Adult Contemporary charts at the time. Tucker has a string of Top 10 Country hits under MCA between 1975 and 1978, including "San Antonio Stroll
San Antonio Stroll
"San Antonio Stroll" is a 1975 single written by Peter Noah and recorded by Tanya Tucker. "San Antonio Stroll" was Tanya Tucker's fifth number one on the country chart. The single stayed at number one for a single week and spent a total of eleven weeks on the country chart...
", "Here's Some Love
Here's Some Love
Here's Some Love is Tanya Tucker's sixth album, and would be the only number-one Country Album that she would have on the Billboard charts...
", and "It's a Cowboy-Lovin Night".
In 1978, she decided to radically change her image and cross over to rock with her TNT
TNT (Tanya Tucker album)
TNT is the ninth album by Tanya Tucker. Working with a new producer in Jerry Goldstein, Tucker drifts away from her earlier country style to do a much more rock-based effort. She covers well-known rock songs originally performed by such artists as Buddy Holly , Elvis Presley , and Chuck Berry...
album. Despite the controversy over the record and its sexy cover, it went gold the following year.
Two songs from the album became hits, "Texas (When I Die)" and "I'm a Singer, You're the Song." The biggest hit from the album was "Texas (When I Die)" which reached #5 on the Country charts, and also peaking in the bottom of the Pop charts at #70.
1979 – 1984: Sales decline and personal battles
By the end of the '70s, her sales were declining — in 1980 she only had two hits. Also in 1980, she recorded a few singles with Glen CampbellGlen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
, with whom she was romantically linked. In addition to recording, she also made her feature film debut in Hard Country
Hard Country (1981 film)
Hard Country is a 1981 dramatic movie starring Jan-Michael Vincent and Kim Basinger, and co-starring country music star Tanya Tucker. It was directed by David Greene and is rated PG in the USA.-Main cast:*Jan-Michael Vincent ... Kyle...
.
Despite having a Top 10 hit in late 1982 from her first and only Arista album Changes
Changes (Tanya Tucker album)
Changes is the 14th album by Tanya Tucker, and her only long-play release on the Arista label. The album only rose to the #47 spot on the Billboard Country charts, with four charting singles released: "Feel Right" was at #10, "Changes" at #41, "Baby I'm Yours" at #22, and "Cry" at #89...
, she struggled to have her music played on the radio. By mid-1983, her singles were no longer making the Top 40.
She had begun drinking in her late teens, and she explained how it started: "You send your ass out on the road doing two gigs a night and after all that adoration go back to empty hotel rooms. Loneliness got me into it." In 1978 Tucker moved to Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...
, to try, unsuccessfully, to broaden her appeal to pop audiences, and was quickly captivated by the city's nightlife. She also said that she "was the wildest thing out there. I could stay up longer, drink more and kick the biggest ass in town. I was on the ragged edge." The young woman also made gossip columns buzz with a series of romantic involvements. Her famous amours included country singer Merle Haggard
Merle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
(who was 21 years her senior), actor Don Johnson
Don Johnson
Donnie Wayne "Don" Johnson is an American actor known for his work in television and film. He played the lead role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s TV cop series, Miami Vice, which led him to huge success. He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, Nash Bridges...
, the late pop singer Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb was an English singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of the family whose other male siblings formed the Bee Gees: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.-The early years:...
, and, most notably, country/pop star Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
, with whom she had a very stormy relationship and a minor hit duet, "Dream Lover."
Though she moved to Nashville after her breakup with Campbell in 1982 and began to lead a more secluded life, Tucker continued to drink and use cocaine
Cocaine
Cocaine is a crystalline tropane alkaloid that is obtained from the leaves of the coca plant. The name comes from "coca" in addition to the alkaloid suffix -ine, forming cocaine. It is a stimulant of the central nervous system, an appetite suppressant, and a topical anesthetic...
. Finally, in 1988, her family confronted her and persuaded her to enter the Betty Ford Center
Betty Ford Center
The Betty Ford Center , is a non-profit, separately licensed residential chemical dependency recovery hospital in Rancho Mirage, California, that offers inpatient, outpatient, and day treatment for alcohol and other drug addictions as well as prevention and education programs for family and children...
. At first, Tucker rebelled against her treatments, but after private counseling sessions she began to improve.
As Tucker was battling drugs and alcohol in the early 80s, her career suffered. In 1984 and 1985, she had no singles on the country charts.
1986 - 1997: Comeback
In 1986 Tucker signed with Capitol RecordsCapitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
. In 1986 she returned to the charts with "One Love at a Time," which climbed to number three. Her career was revitalized with 1986's Girls Like Me
Girls Like Me
Girls Like Me is a 1986 album by Tanya Tucker. It included the number one country hit "Just Another Love." "I'll Come Back as Another Woman" and "One Love at a Time" would do almost as well at #2 and #3, respectively...
, an album that spawned four Top 10 country singles. In 1988 she had three No. 1 country singles: "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love
I Won't Take Less Than Your Love
"I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" is a 1987 single by Tanya Tucker with Paul Davis & Paul Overstreet. The single went to number one for one week and spent fifteen weeks on the country chart....
" (with Paul Davis
Paul Davis (singer)
Paul Lavon Davis was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul, country and pop music...
and Paul Overstreet
Paul Overstreet
Paul Lester Overstreet is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two #1 hits...
), "If It Don't Come Easy
If It Don't Come Easy
"If It Don't Come Easy" is a 1988 single written by Dave Gibson and Craig Karp and recorded by Tanya Tucker. "If It Don't Come Easy" was Tanya Tucker's ninth number one on the country chart. The single went to number one for one week and spent fourteen weeks on the country chart.-Chart performance:...
" and "Strong Enough to Bend."
Her music was now more country pop
Country pop
Country pop, with roots in both the countrypolitan sound and in soft rock, is a subgenre of country music that first emerged in the 1970s. Although the term first referred to country music songs and artists that crossed over to Top 40 radio, country pop acts are now more likely to cross over to...
-styled and up-tempo, but this material was what made Tucker popular again. Between 1988 and 1989, Tucker enjoyed one of her most popular years on the charts, racking up eight Country Top 10 hits in a row. Her albums around this time were also achieving "Gold" certifications by the RIAA, after selling 500,000 copies. A Greatest Hits album followed in 1989, releasing a Top 5 hit to the country charts that year from the album called "My Arms Stay Open All Night," which peaked at #2.
In 1988 Tucker was nominated by the Country Music Association
Country Music Association
The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre...
for "Female Vocalist of the Year", and was nominated for other major awards during this time.
Her contribution to the country music genre was rewarded when the Country Music Association voted her the "Female vocalist of the Year" in 1991, though she missed the event, having just given birth to her second child. Eight consecutive singles reached the Top 10 in the early 1990s, including "Down to My Last Teardrop
Down to My Last Teardrop
"Down to My Last Teardrop" is a single by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. Released in 1991, it was the first single from Tucker's album What Do I Do with Me. The song reached #2 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart in September 1991 and #1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart...
," "(Without You) What Do I Do With Me" and "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane."
In 1990 Tucker was named "Female Video Artist of the Year" by CMT
Country Music Television
Country Music Television, or CMT, is an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming includes music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs...
. Although by the 1990s she no longer had #1 hits, there were many singles that came close peaking in the Country Top 5 as well as the Top 10. Tucker was one of the most successful female Country artists at the time. She became one of the few teen stars to find success in her adult years.
Her 1993 album Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits Encore
Greatest Hits Encore was not a compilation of Tanya Tucker's old hits, as might be perceived at first glance, but rather Capitol Records' newly re-recorded versions of Tucker's hits for her former Columbia and MCA labels, which still owned the original versions...
rose to number 15, and also went to number 18 on the Top Country Albums chart. Liberty Records was changed to Capitol Nashville in 1994.
By the 1990s Tucker was a 20-year veteran in country music, even though she was only in her mid-30s. In 1994, "Hangin' On" was her last Top 5 hit, as well as her last Top 10 hit for a while. That year she performed at the half-time
Half-time
In some team sports such as association football and rugby, matches are played in two halves. Half-time is the name given to the interval between the two halves of the match...
show at Super Bowl XXVIII
Super Bowl XXVIII
Super Bowl XXVIII was an American football game played on January 30, 1994, at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia, to decide the National Football League champion following the 1993 regular season. The National Football Conference champion Dallas Cowboys defeated the American Football...
. In 1996 she was one of the Top 10 most-played artists of the year, and that time Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
' biggest signed female artist. In 1997 she returned to the Top 10 on the Country charts for the last time with the hit, "Little Things", which peaked at #9. That year she was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
Texas Country Music Hall of Fame
The Texas Country Music Hall of Fame/Tex Ritter Museum, located in Carthage in Panola County in East Texas honors those who have made outstanding contributions to country music and were born in the state of Texas. This includes singers, songwriters, disc jockeys and others.A museum, a large...
.
2000 – present: Music career today
In 2002 Tucker founded Tuckertime Records, allowing her to retain control of the recording process and release the singles she wished to release. The same year she issued TanyaTanya (album)
Tanya is the title of an album released in 2002 by Tanya Tucker on her own Tuckertime label.The highest charting Billboard Country Single was the #34 "A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be." Other noteworthy songs include "Old Weakness ," and "I Can Live Without You " and "I Can Do That." The album peaked at...
, her first album in five years, which was distributed through Capitol Records. The album was produced by her fiancé, Jerry Laseter, and included a guest vocal by Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
.
In 2002 Tucker was ranked #20 on CMT
CMT
- Medicine :* California mastitis test* Certified Massage Therapist* Cervical motion tenderness, a sign of pelvic inflammatory disease* Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease* Chemically modified tetracyclines* Circus Movement Tachycardia...
's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music. In 2005 she released an album, Live at Billy Bob's Texas
Live at Billy Bob's Texas (Tanya Tucker album)
Tanya Tucker's Live at Billy Bob's Texas is another in the series featuring various country music artists performing at Billy Bob's nightclub in Fort Worth, Texas, the club that promotes itself as "The World's Largest Honky Tonk." In Tucker's long career this is only the second live album that she...
. In 2005 she also contributed two songs to a tribute album to Bob Wills
Bob Wills
James Robert Wills , better known as Bob Wills, was an American Western Swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader, considered by music authorities as the co-founder of Western Swing and universally known as the pioneering King of Western Swing.Bob Wills' name will forever be associated with...
, called A Tribute to Bob Wills 100th Anniversary. In 2005 she released a book, 100 Ways to Beat the Blues on Fireside, which included tips on shaking the blues, from some of Tucker's friends such as Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
, Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee
Brenda Mae Tarpley , known as Brenda Lee, is an American performer who sang rockabilly, pop and country music, and had 37 US chart hits during the 1960s, a number surpassed only by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Ray Charles and Connie Francis...
, Little Richard
Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman , known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, considered key in the transition from rhythm and blues to rock and roll in the 1950s. He was also the first artist to put the funk in the rock and roll beat and...
, and Burt Reynolds
Burt Reynolds
Burton Leon "Burt" Reynolds, Jr. is an American actor. Some of his memorable roles include Bo 'Bandit' Darville in Smokey and the Bandit, Lewis Medlock in Deliverance, Bobby "Gator" McCluskey in White Lightning and sequel Gator, Paul Crewe and Coach Nate Scarborough in The Longest Yard and its...
.
Tanya recorded an album, Lonesome Town, which has been put on hold, but a live concert recorded at the Renaissance Center
Renaissance Center
Renaissance Center is a group of seven interconnected skyscrapers in Downtown Detroit, Michigan, United States. Located on the International Riverfront, the Renaissance Center complex is owned by General Motors as its world headquarters...
in December will be released. Tanya sang a duet with country music icon Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver
Billy Joe Shaver is a Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album Old Five and Dimers Like Me is a classic in the outlaw country genre.-Biography:...
, of Shaver's song, "Played the Game Too Long," on his latest album, Everybody's Brother, that was released in September 2007.
In 2009 Tanya signed a one-time deal with Saguaro Road Records from Time-Life
Time-Life
Time–Life is a creator and direct marketer of books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products. Its products are sold throughout North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia through television, print, retail, the Internet, telemarketing, and direct sales....
. Tanya's "Lonesome Town" project was put on hold to do the first cover album of her career, My Turn
My Turn (Tanya Tucker album)
- Personnel :* Pete Anderson – guitar, electric guitar, acoustic bass guitar, harmonica, percussion arranger, producer, mandola, string arrangements* Bob "Boo" Bernstein – steel guitar* Sally Brodwer – engineer* Doug Deveraux – engineer...
, which was released 30 June 2009 and placed #27 on the billboard country charts. The first single "Love's Gonna Live Here" was released to radio and was also available as a digital single. It is a remake of the classic hit by Buck Owens
Buck Owens
Alvis Edgar Owens, Jr. , better known as Buck Owens, was an American singer and guitarist who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band, the Buckaroos...
. The album includes classic country hits such as "Wine Me Up", "Lovesick Blues
Lovesick Blues
"Lovesick Blues" is a show tune written by composer Cliff Friend and co-lyricist & producer Irving Mills. It has become a pop standard and an even more popular country song since it helped make Hank Williams famous in the 1940s. Published through Tin Pan Alley in 1922, the song was first recorded...
", "You Don't Know Me", "Ramblin' Fever", "Walk Through This World With Me", "Big Big Love", "Crazy Arms
Crazy Arms
"Crazy Arms" is an American country song recorded by Ray Price. The song, released in May 1956, went on to become a hit that year and a honky-tonk standard. It was Price's first number one hit. The song was written by Ralph Mooney and Charles Seals...
", "After The Fire Is Gone" and "Oh Lonesome Me
Oh Lonesome Me
"Oh Lonesome Me" is a popular song written and recorded by Don Gibson with Chet Atkins producing for RCA Victor in Nashville in 1958. The song topped the country chart for eight non consecutive weeks, in addition to reaching #7 on the Billboard Hot 100...
".
One of Tanya Tucker's latest debuts was in a music video by "Santana Maria" called "You Have Won My Heart," which can be found on YouTube
YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....
.
Outlaw image
Tucker is one of the few and best-known female Country singers to be classified as an "Outlaw" in the Outlaw countryOutlaw country
Outlaw country is a subgenre of country music, most popular during the late 1960s and the 1970s , sometimes referred to as the outlaw movement or simply outlaw music...
movement, which was most popular in the late 70s. As Tucker matured by the end of the 70s, Tucker's outlaw image grew. Like the other Outlaw artists in the business at the time (Willie Nelson
Willie Nelson
Willie Hugh Nelson is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie , combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger and Stardust , made Nelson one of the most recognized...
, Waylon Jennings
Waylon Jennings
Waylon Arnold Jennings was an American country music singer, songwriter, and musician. Jennings began playing at eight. He began performing at twelve, on KVOW radio. Jennings formed a band The Texas Longhorns. Jennings worked as a D.J on KVOW, KDAV and KLLL...
, David Allan Coe
David Allan Coe
David Allan Coe is an American outlaw country music singer who achieved popularity in the 1970s and 1980s. He has written and performed over 280 original songs throughout his career...
, Hank Williams Jr.), Tucker was able to combine qualities of Country and Rock music into her voice to make the Outlaw sound that was popular at the time. These qualities could be heard on some of her biggest hits at the time, including 1978's "Texas (When I Die)." Tucker also had a spirit of independence, which was another Outlaw quality. She ranked #9 on CMT's Dozen Greatest Outlaws, the only woman to appear on that list.
As the 80s progressed, Tucker continued to add the Outlaw qualities to her hits. At the beginning of the 90s, Tucker was still identified as an Outlaw. Today, Tucker continues to be recognized as one, regularly attending Outlaw events among regular shows. Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Wilson
Gretchen Frances Wilson is an American country music artist. She made her debut in 2004 with the Grammy Award-winning single "Redneck Woman," a number-one hit on the Billboard country charts. The song served as the lead-off single of her debut album, Here for the Party...
made reference to Tucker in her 2004 hit song "Redneck Woman
Redneck Woman
"Redneck Woman" is the debut single of American country music artist Gretchen Wilson. Released in 2004, the single served as the lead-off to her multi-platinum debut album Here for the Party. The song was also Wilson's only number one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks...
," and Tucker appears briefly in the video of the song, showing Tucker with other Outlaws.
Other works
Tucker published a 1997 autobiography, Nickel Dreams: My Life.Tucker starred in her own reality show, Tuckerville
Tuckerville
Tuckerville is the television series that first aired on The Learning Channel in 2005 about the life of Tanya Tucker and her three children; Presley, Grayson and Layla....
, on The Learning Channel in 2005. It ran for two seasons for a total of 18 episodes. The show covers an in-depth visit with Tucker in her home with her family.
Tucker continues to perform for the military doing benefits with newer country acts such as Eric Agnew and Cole Deggs & the Lonesome
Cole Deggs & the Lonesome
- Track listing :#"Girl Next Door" – 3:38#"I Got More" – 3:29#"Out of Alabama" – 3:03#"Twelve Ounces Deep" – 4:18...
. She has stated in interviews that she is filming new episodes of her reality show "Tuckerville." Since Tucker has moved out of her Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
home, the show will take place in Malibu, where she currently resides. It will be called "Tucker Time". She stated that another reason for the name change is because TLC wouldn't let them have the previous name.
Personal life
Tucker has never been married. Since the late 1970s, she has had relationships with a string of fellow entertainers, including country singer Merle HaggardMerle Haggard
Merle Ronald Haggard is an American country music singer, guitarist, fiddler, instrumentalist, and songwriter. Along with Buck Owens, Haggard and his band The Strangers helped create the Bakersfield sound, which is characterized by the unique twang of Fender Telecaster guitars, vocal harmonies,...
, actor Don Johnson
Don Johnson
Donnie Wayne "Don" Johnson is an American actor known for his work in television and film. He played the lead role of James "Sonny" Crockett in the 1980s TV cop series, Miami Vice, which led him to huge success. He also played the lead role in the 1990s cop series, Nash Bridges...
and the late pop singer Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb
Andy Gibb was an English singer and teen idol, and the youngest brother of the family whose other male siblings formed the Bee Gees: Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb.-The early years:...
. From 1980 to 1981 she had a relationship with country singer Glen Campbell
Glen Campbell
Glen Travis Campbell is an American country music singer, guitarist, television host and occasional actor. He is best known for a series of hits in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as for hosting a variety show called The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS television.During his 50 years in show...
.
Tucker later had a relationship with Ben Reed, a Hollywood actor, with whom she had daughter Presley Tanita (5 July 1989) and son Beau "Grayson" (2 October 1991).
Since the mid 1990s, Tucker has had an on-again off-again relationship with Jerry Laseter, a Nashville songwriter, performer and producer. They were engaged for the first time in 1997, and again in 1999. Just days before their 1999 wedding, Tucker canceled the ceremony when she discovered she was pregnant with her third child, Laseter's daughter Layla LaCosta (25 June 1999), saying she didn't want to walk down the aisle pregnant in her wedding dress. Laseter was co-producer of Tucker's albums in 2002 (Tanya
Tanya (album)
Tanya is the title of an album released in 2002 by Tanya Tucker on her own Tuckertime label.The highest charting Billboard Country Single was the #34 "A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be." Other noteworthy songs include "Old Weakness ," and "I Can Live Without You " and "I Can Do That." The album peaked at...
), 2005 (Live at Billy Bob's Texas
Live at Billy Bob's Texas (Tanya Tucker album)
Tanya Tucker's Live at Billy Bob's Texas is another in the series featuring various country music artists performing at Billy Bob's nightclub in Fort Worth, Texas, the club that promotes itself as "The World's Largest Honky Tonk." In Tucker's long career this is only the second live album that she...
) and 2009 (My Turn
My Turn (Tanya Tucker album)
- Personnel :* Pete Anderson – guitar, electric guitar, acoustic bass guitar, harmonica, percussion arranger, producer, mandola, string arrangements* Bob "Boo" Bernstein – steel guitar* Sally Brodwer – engineer* Doug Deveraux – engineer...
).
Tucker also has three siblings: two brothers, Don and Robert (Robert died of pneumonia
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lung—especially affecting the microscopic air sacs —associated with fever, chest symptoms, and a lack of air space on a chest X-ray. Pneumonia is typically caused by an infection but there are a number of other causes...
) and a sister, fellow country music artist LaCosta
LaCosta Tucker
-In Geography:*La Costa Resort and Spa, a famously expensive spa in California.*La Costa, California, the residential area surrounding it.*La Costa Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina....
.
Awards & honors
| Year | Award Program | Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1972 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Top New Female Vocalist |
| 1973 | Music City News Country | Most Promising Female Artist of the Year |
| 1981 | Grammy Awards | Best Recording for Children; In Harmony A Sesame Street Record (w/ various artists) |
| 1991 | Country Music Association Awards Country Music Association Awards The Country Music Association Awards, also known as the CMA Awards, or the CMAs, and not to be confused with the ACM Awards, are voted on by business members of the Country Music Association. The first CMA awards were presented at an untelevised ceremony in Nashville's Municipal Auditorium in 1967... |
Female Vocalist of the Year |
| 1993 | Academy of Country Music Awards | Video of the Year; "Two Sparrows In a Hurricane" |
| 1994 | CMT Country Music Television Country Music Television, or CMT, is an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming includes music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs... |
June Artist of the Month |
| Country Music Association Awards Country Music Association Awards The Country Music Association Awards, also known as the CMA Awards, or the CMAs, and not to be confused with the ACM Awards, are voted on by business members of the Country Music Association. The first CMA awards were presented at an untelevised ceremony in Nashville's Municipal Auditorium in 1967... |
Album of the Year; Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles Common Thread: The Songs of The Eagles - "Take It Easy" :During the music video shoot for his rendition of "Take It Easy", Travis Tritt requested that the 1980 lineup of the Eagles - "Take It Easy" :During the music video shoot for his rendition of "Take It Easy", Travis Tritt requested that the 1980 lineup of the Eagles - "Take It... (w/ various artists) |
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| 1995 | Country Weekly's Golden Pick | Tomorrows Legend |
| 1997 | CMT Country Music Television Country Music Television, or CMT, is an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming includes music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs... |
March Artist of the Month |
| 2002 | CMT Country Music Television Country Music Television, or CMT, is an American country music-oriented cable television network. Programming includes music videos, taped concerts, movies, biographies of country music stars, game shows, and reality programs... 's 40 Greatest Women of Country Music |
Ranking — #20 |
Note: Grammy for Best Recording for Children awarded to the producers Dennis Scott and Jim Henson and not to the artists.