NASHVILLE, Tenn. – This morning
Tanya Tucker received four
GRAMMY® Award nominations including
Song Of The Year: “
Bring My Flowers Now,”
Best Country Album: While I'm Livin’,
Best Country Solo Performance: “
Bring My Flowers Now,” and
Best Country Song: “
Bring My Flowers Now.” The four nominations lead all 2020 Country
GRAMMY® nominees. Produced by
Brandi Carlile and
Shooter Jennings,
While I’m Livin’, Tucker’s first new album in 17 years was released in August. The
62nd Annual GRAMMY® Awards will take place on January 26, 2020 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
“I wish I had a trampoline to jump on right now! This is just unbelievable,” says Tucker. “I couldn’t have done this without the fans, Brandi and Shooter, and the whole Tanya Tucker Team. What’s different now more than ever is the fans on social media and streaming made this record an instant success. What just happened, I’d never, ever fathom.”
The four nominations mark a career high for the original country outlaw. Nominated for 10 GRAMMY® Awards over her illustrious five-decade career, Tucker landed her first nomination with “Delta Dawn” in 1972 for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Female.
The critically acclaimed album, which
The New Yorker declares, “captures one of America’s great vocalists at her peak,” and
Rolling Stone calls “a stunning exuberant album that ranks among the year’s best,” is produced by
Brandi Carlile and
Shooter Jennings and marks Tucker’s first for
Fantasy Records and
Sawyer & Garner Management. The record is her first
Top Ten debut and
tenth Top 10 album.
While I’m Livin’ is largely comprised of songs written by Carlile, the twins
Tim and
Phil Hanseroth and Tucker. “It’s a musical biography of sorts,” said Carlile, “about Tanya’s real life and the places she’s seen, and it’s narrated by the greatest country and western singer this side of Johnny Cash.”
Watch the videos for album tracks: “
The Wheels of Laredo” (directed by Myriam Santos), “
Hard Luck” (directed by Chris Phelps), “
The House That Built Me” which features Tucker’s personal collection of family photos, and for the album’s cornerstone, “
Bring My Flowers Now,” featuring Brandi Carlile and directed by acclaimed video director Trey Fanjoy (Miranda Lambert’s “It All Comes Out in the Wash,” Steven Tyler’s “Love Is Your Name,” Sheryl Crow’s “Easy”).
Tucker is currently touring the U.S. with performances slated at
The Birchmere in
Alexandria,
VA and
Ryman Auditorium in
Nashville (
see full list below).
Variety says of Tucker’s recent sold-out performances at The Troubadour,
“How many of us took Cash or Haggard for granted enough to pass up easy opportunities to see them on their last tours, but would pay thousands of dollars for the opportunity now? These are mistakes we have a chance to atone up for by seeing Tucker while she’s living. And strutting.” Tickets and VIP packages are available
HERE.
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