Those songs are just a small sampling of the many times Tucker pushed notoriously conservative country music’s envelope just a hair – a task that’s almost always much more challenging for women than men.
The uptempo, honkytonk-ready “My Arms Stay Open All Night” – about what happens after hours – had a similar run, spending two weeks at no. First, she was featured on the star-studded Smokey and the Bandit II (1980) soundtrack with the dancehall-ready “Pecos Promenade,” which reached the top 10 of the country charts – likely thanks in large part to that movie’s massive box-office draw.ĭuring what was billed as her “comeback” more than a decade later, seduction had become a bigger part of mainstream country thanks to the success of artists like Conway Twitty, and Tucker fit right in: “Love Me Like You Used To,” a grown and sexy song about love gone stale, spent 25 weeks on the country charts.
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Tanya Tucker had some on-screen aspirations, mostly exercised in various ‘80s TV movies – but her songs also helped soundtrack some of the many country and western-oriented films that were so in vogue during that period. The Soundtrack Smashes (“Pecos Promenade,” “Texas (When I Die),” “Somebody Must Have Loved You Right Last Night,” “Rodeo Girl”) Though she sang fewer and fewer of the Southern Gothic-tinged tales that had jumpstarted her career as she became more established, Tucker didn’t abandon the non-love-songs completely: “Bidding America Goodbye (The Auction),” from her platinum 1991 album What Do I Do With Me (the most successful of her post-’70s releases), tells the simple, familiar and nevertheless potent story of a farmer losing his land to the bank because of falling crop prices. But the song stuck with the narrative structure that had already served Tucker so well, this time cribbing its slightly lighter storyline from the 1956 film The Rainmaker. 1, was stylistically much closer to the gaudy excesses of 70s pop – and fittingly, marked the most successful crossover song of Tanya Tucker’s career, ultimately reaching no.37 on the Hot 100 in 1975 (it remains her sole Top 40 hit). “Lizzie And The Rainman,” yet another country no. A year later, a 16-year-old Tanya movingly sang about a woman whose first sexual experience is a brutal rape on “No Man’s Land,” continuing to make her signature the kind of brutal honesty that would soon become associated with country’s outlaw movement. “Blood Red And Goin’ Down” (1973), her second country no.1, is a vividly told tale about a child witnessing her mother’s murder by her father that splits the difference between unthinkably tragic and inappropriately cheery thanks to its midtempo Western feel and Tucker’s eerily precise vibrato. Tanya Tucker’s 70s breakthrough was fueled by memorable, idiosyncratic songs that drew out the rough edges and emotional contour of her already distinctive voice.
The Story Songs (“Blood Red And Goin’ Down,” “Lizzie And The Rainman,” “Bidding America Goodbye (The Auction)”) Listen to the best Tanya Tucker songs on Apple Music and Spotify, and scroll down for our list. Think we’ve missed one of the best Tanya Tucker songs? Let us know in the comments section, below. Nonetheless, below are 20 of Tanya Tucker’s best tracks, ranging from the songs most associated with her to lesser-known gems. Given the nearly half-century in the biz under her rhinestone belt, Tucker’s catalog can be daunting to explore. Tucker was rewarded with two more decades of country hits, and Grammy-winning “comeback” album While I’m Livin’, which she made alongside one of her creative descendants, singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile. As that lush 70s sound receded in popularity, Tucker adapted, experimenting with rock and pop but ultimately never straying too far from her country roots.
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