Tanya Tucker Saturday, November 14, 2009 9 pm In 1972, Tanya Tucker first reached the Top 10 with “Delta Dawn,” followed by the double-sided “Jamestown Ferry”/”Love’s the Answer” and the No. 1 hits, “What’s Your Mama’s Name?”, “Blood Red and Goin’ Down”, and “Would You Lay With Me (In a Field of Stone)”. The young Tucker quickly became a country star, was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone and through 200 appearances a year, developed a powerful, if precocious, stage presence. Moving to MCA on her 16th birthday, she was determined to make records that were in keeping with the sophisticated country rock of the Eagles, and she topped the country charts with “Lizzie and the Rainman,” “San Antonio Stroll” and “Here’s Some Love.” Tucker later found herself in gossip columns as a result of her stormy relationship with Glen Campbell. Their duets included a low-charting revival of Bobby Darin’s “Dream Lover”. Tucker’s career was revitalized with 1986’s Girls Like Me, an album that spawned four Top 10 country singles. In 1988, she had three No. 1 country singles: “I Won’t Take Less Than Your Love” (with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet), “If It Don’t Come Easy” and “Strong Enough to Bend.” After many years in country music, her contributions were finally rewarded when the Country Music Association voted her the Female Vocalist of the Year in 1991. Eight consecutive singles reached the Top 10 in the early 1990s, including “Down to My Last Teardrop,” “(Without You) What Do I Do With Me” and “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane.” She published the autobiography Nickel Dreams in 1996, released the album Complicated in 1997, and after parting with Capitol Records, she issued the album Tanya on her own label in 2002. URL: www.tanyatucker.com