Tanya tucker biography youtube

ByDB Kelly

Was she a superstar who proved more difficult to deal with ...

or a country music powerhouse who was every bit the outlaw as her contemporaries, who were viewed quite differently because they were men?

Tanya tucker biography youtube

That's the question posed by The New York Times amid Tanya Tucker's 2019 release of her first original album in 17 years, and when they talked to her and her songwriting partner, Brandi Carlile, they found that it was also at the heart of their work.

Carlile explained: "Can we uphold this person's art and legacy in the same way that we do to the men that we love so much?"

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By the 1970s, her lifestyle — addiction, all-day-and-all-night parties, and sometimes violent relationships — had overshadowed her music.

While she was fond of saying that it didn't really bother her, she was also the first to point out that not even Johnny Cash made headlines quite like she did. And it was something her