Year In Review: Razor X’s Top 10 singles of 2009

The general consensus is that 2009 has been a less than stellar year for mainstream country music. Most of the artists that I like have fallen out of favor with radio, so it’s little surprise that most of the songs on my list were not huge radio hits.
10. Consider Me Gone – Reba [...]

Album Review: Patty Loveless – ‘When Fallen Angels Fly’

Hot on the heels of the success of 1993’s Only What I Feel,  Patty Loveless and Emory Gordy Jr.  headed back to the studio to record her sophomore album for Epic Records.    A lot was riding on this follow-up album; Patty’s album sales had been inconsistent throughout her career up to that point [...]

The year of the tribute

Several of my favorite artists have chosen 2009 as the year to pay tribute to the songs and artists that built country music as a commercial genre, and made it the American art form it is today.  Collections from Wynonna and Tanya Tucker released earlier this year have both contained songs from the Great American [...]

Classic Rewind: Tanya Tucker – ‘Blood Red and Going Down’

CD Giveaway: Tanya Tucker – ‘My Turn’

We have our winners!  The following individuals will be receiving a copy of Tanya’s latest CD My Turn:
Patrice, Chad, Karlie, Plain_Jo,  and Dale Schmucker.
We’ll be in touch shortly to get your mailing addresses.  Thanks to all who participated.

We hope that you’re enjoying our coverage of this month’s spotlight artist, Tanya Tucker. Now that [...]

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘Complicated’

Rainy walks, a midnight talk, dance me on your feet
Hold me close, don’t let go, all I’ll ever need
Is a single rose, a kiss hello, that smile upon your face
The tender way, you say my name takes my breath away
Little things
The first single released from Tanya Tucker’s 1997 album, Complicated, was the romantic ‘Little Things’ [...]

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘Soon’

Continuing with our Tanya Tucker coverage, this review was written by a guest contributor, Michael, who is also a frequent commenter here at My Kind of Country.
When I was a boy, my mom and I scored front row seats to a Tanya Tucker concert but she cancelled the show.  My mother never forgave her, and [...]

Download ‘Love’s Gonna Live Here’ for free

Amazon MP3 is offering Tanya Tucker’s latest single “Love’s Gonna Live Here” as a free digital download.
The song is the first single from Tanya’s upcoming My Turn CD and features Jim Lauderdale as a guest vocalist on this remake of the Buck Owens classic.  Read our review of the song.

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘What Do I Do With Me’

Had she chosen to retire from the music business around 1990, Tanya Tucker could have done so knowing that she’d secured her musical legacy. By then she had been a presence on the country charts for nearly two decades, had released 20 studio albums, and secured 30 top 10 hits, including ten #1’s. [...]

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘My Turn’

After seven long years, Tanya Tucker is finally back with My Turn , a collection of covers of classic country songs, recorded as a tribute to her late father and mentor, Beau Tucker. This album is different from anything Tanya has done in the past. We’ve never heard her sound so “retro” [...]

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘Tennessee Woman’

Released in March 1990, Tennessee Woman was another consistent album which sustained Tanya’s run at the top, marrying together commercial radio-friendly appeal with artistic merit. Jerry Crutchfield was at the helm once more for another good selection of sassy pop-country and sensitive ballads.
The energetic mid-tempo first single, ‘Walkin’ Shoes’, written by Emmylou Harris’s ex-husband [...]

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘Strong Enough To Bend’

Tanya’s third release for Capitol, in 1988, showed no signs of a creative or commercial slowdown, even though she finally admitted that year that she had alcohol and cocaine addictions, and went into rehab.
Strong Enough To Bend is one of my favorite Tanya Tucker albums. Produced as before by Jerry Crutchfield, it features some very [...]

Terrific tributes

Here’s a recommendation that’s a little different.  I’ve recently stumbled on two fan sites for two of my favorite artists that are amazingly good.  Remember back in the pioneer days of the internet (the mid 1990s) when everybody had their own geocities page?  Long before MySpace, Facebook, or Twitter were even words in the English [...]

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘Love Me Like You Used To’

Following the success of 1986’s Girls Like Me comeback album, Tanya Tucker released Love Me Like You Used To on Capitol Records in 1987.  The release produced three hits.  The title track, which served as the album’s lead-single, soared to #2 on the country charts.  The two follow-up singles, ‘I Won’t Take Less Than Your [...]

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘Girls Like Me’

In 1982, Tanya Tucker left MCA Records and signed as the new flagship artist for Arista Records, which was trying to break into the country market. There were no other country artists on the label at the time, and Arista had no infrastructure in Nashville, so it was poorly equipped to market country music. [...]

Classic Rewind: Tanya Tucker – ‘Texas (When I Die)’

Album Review: Tanya Tucker – ‘TNT’

In her 1997 autobiography Nickel Dreams , Tanya Tucker referred to TNT as her first million-selling album and the one that nearly killed her career. In 1977, in need of professional management, she was referred to a Los Angeles firm called Far Out Management, who had managed a number of pop [...]

Classic Rewind: Tanya Tucker – ‘(Without You) What Do I Do With Me’

Classic #2’s

As was noted in some of the recent discussions here, chart position is not necessarily indicative of a song’s quality. A lot of #1 hits are forgotten as soon as they drop off the charts, while other songs that didn’t reach the top have more staying power. In fact, we’re often surprised, years [...]

Classic Rewind: Tanya Tucker & Delbert McClinton – ‘Tell Me About It’