Follow Billboard. All rights reserved. Tucker with her dog, Stella, photographed Dec. Styling by Double D Ranch. Nearly 50 years after her first Grammy nomination, country renegade Tanya Tucker is enjoying a career renaissance — and a chance at the icon status her admirers say she has been denied too long.
According to her year-old son, Grayson, who also drifts in and out on this rainy December afternoon, hanging out around the counter like this is her favorite thing to do. Well, next to singing and watching horse racing.
Full of swing and steel guitar, the track is classic country music, pure and simple. She always has and always will. It all served as an easy way for risk-averse Nashville to steer clear of her, and it made her a juicy target for the press. If not, how come? That gig is just one notch in a career of many sweeping achievements. Since she began performing at age 9, she has released 25 studio albums, enjoyed 40 top 10 hits on Hot Country Songs, starred in her own reality show Tuckerville , which ran on TLC from to and been nominated for 14 Grammy Awards.
One thing that has evaded her, though, is an actual Grammy. A second later, that tenderness turns to toughness. It could have been when she posed for the cover of TNT with a microphone cord between her legs.
She slithered like Mick Jagger , swiveled like her hero Elvis Presley and did splits onstage. She still does, actually. But while the Merles and Waylons became heroes through jail time, addiction and redemption, country music often chastises — sometimes permanently — women who transgress or express themselves sexually: consider LeAnn Rimes , the Dixie Chicks , Gretchen Wilson.
My mama loves Tanya. So there is a natural connection there. And bringing Brandi in was the perfect ingredient to add to that cauldron. Once they got to work, it was an instant connection. I kind of just let go. The yeehaw agenda is in full swing: Look no further than the new song from Tanya Tucker and drag superstar RuPaul.
It's a country-rap ode to self-empowerment appropriately titled "This Is Our Country. The song, which references classic hits by Patsy Cline and Johnny Cash, features Tucker and RuPaul trading boasts over a skittering beat, overlaid with plenty of twang.
The top four queens of the season were tasked with writing and performing an original verse to the song after receiving some words of encouragement from Tucker herself. The country legend dropped into the show's famous Werk Room via video chat to share wisdom from her nearly five-decade-long career in country music.
That song — which Tucker co-wrote with Brandi Carlile and her longtime collaborators Tim and Phil Hanseroth — gave the icon her first Grammy win after 12 nominations dating back to , when "Delta Dawn" was up for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
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