Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’ (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:48 minutes | 709 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Fantasy
A country star since 1972, when she was just 13, Tanya Tucker shines bright on her 25th studio album — produced with great reverence by Shooter Jennings and Brandi Carlile, and featuring an abundance of songs written by the latter. Indeed, the most apt description is that “While I’m Livin’” sounds like a Tanya Tucker record in the hands of Brandi Carlile: at turns tough and tender, moody and simple, and rocking and deep in its country roots. Tucker’s voice wears years of hard living, but it’s beautiful: sassy and strutting on the honkytonk “I Don’t Owe You Anything,” strong and independent on the hymn-like “Seminole Wind Calling.” She even evokes Tom Waits on the spare “High Ridin’ Heroes,” utterly convincing as she reminunates on going from “Ridin’ that hot streak” to “fallin’ off the wagon and under the wheels.” When she turns that voice to a cover of “The House That Built Me,” made famous by Miranda Lambert but told here from the mother’s point of view rather than the child’s, it’s nothing less than stunning.
Tracklist:
1. Mustang Ridge
2. The Wheels Of Laredo
3. I Don’t Owe You Anything
4. The Day My Heart Goes Still
5. High Ridin’ Heroes
6. The House That Built Me
7. Hard Luck
8. Rich
9. Seminole Wind Calling
10. Bring My Flowers Now
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