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Review: Tanya Tucker, making the most of her comeback (Inquirer)
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Review: Tanya Tucker, making the most of her comeback (Inquirer)

February 7, 2020
by Dan DeLuca for The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Tanya Tucker took 10 years off before recording While I’m Livin’, her 2019 album that won the veteran country singer two Grammy Awards last month.

And to hear Tucker tell it during her terrifically loose, thoroughly entertaining show at the World Cafe Live on Thursday, she had no plans for a comeback.

Those two songs were at the show’s subdued center, but the rest of the night was raucous. Tucker carried herself with the swagger of a lifelong star who recorded her first Top 10 hit in 1972, when she was 13, and remained a relevant, consistent country hit-maker for two decades.”

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