My Turn

Prime Cuts: Big Big Love, Walk Through This World With Me , You Don't Know Me

Label mate Patty Loveless has done it, now it's Tanya Tucker's turn to show how to breathe new life into the chestnuts of country music. However, this isn't just a disc of karaoke Tanya Tucker-style. Rather, this former CMA female artist of the year has turned the gender table around in recording songs associated with the men of country music. Instead of choosing songs often associated with feminine victimization, Tucker has handpicked songs that vim with muscular assertiveness. Yet she gives each one of them her signature reading encasing each with her feminine vulnerability and seductive charms. Further, Tucker is judicious in her selection of covers. On one hand, she has selected the cornerstones of the country genre such as the oft covered Don Gibson's "Oh Lonesome Me," Eddy Arnold's "You Don't Know Me," and Merle Haggard's "Rambling Fever." On the other hand, she re-introduces a few more...Read more

Having been seven years since the release of her "Tanya" CD, I was anxioulsy awaiting the release of this album. Admittingly, I was somewhat dissapointed to hear this was going to be another cover album of country classics, but since it was Tanya, I knew I wouldn't be dissapointed---and I wasn't ---and you are not likely to be either. Every song is sung in Tanya's trademark fashion. She took these male-driven country songs and added her own personal spin on them. I hope this album is just the beginning of new things to come from Tanya. Seven years is too long to have to wait.

Tanya's best album ever. Not a bad song on the album. Old songs and new producer (Pete Anderson) seem to be a winning concept. Tanya sounds like she used to some 30 plus years ago, and the way we europeans want her to sound. We never accepted the new Nashville sound. Welcome back to country Tanya. Can't wait for your next CD, hopefully in same style.