Brandi Carlile On Why Tanya Tucker Is A Legend

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Tanya Tucker’s new album “While I’m Livin’” drops today, and the record’s co-producer Brandi Carlile has penned a piece for “Rolling Stone” in which she argues why Tanya deserves to be known as a legend. 

“Tanya hasn’t been given the respect she deserves because she was a child star. But at 13 and then on into her late teens and early 20s, she was making some of the best classic country & western music that I’d ever heard,” Brandi shares. “As she grew up and fell on hard times, I don’t think she was given the same grace an artist like Waylon and Willie and Cash were given for the times that they maybe didn’t live up to their own standards of healthfulness.” 

She notes, “She should be lauded in the same way that so many of these amazing outlaw men are.”

Brandi adds that since Tanya isn’t quite as old as Dolly Parton or Loretta Lynn she has yet to achieve that “legend status” to some, noting, “she’s in an in-between space, and I feel like we tend to give men that badge of honor a little earlier than we give women.”

Source: Rolling Stone