''Strong Enough to Bend'' is the seventeenth studio album by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a genre of popular music that originated in the Southern and Southwestern United States in the early 1920s. It primarily derives from blues, church music such as Southern gospel and spirituals, ...

artist

Tanya Tucker Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, "Delta Dawn", in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature int ...

, released in 1988. The album contains three singles that made the

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Top Ten Country singles charts: "Strong Enough to Bend" at number one, "Highway Robbery" at number two, and "Call on Me" at number four. The single "Daddy and Home" rose to number 27, while the album itself peaked at number nine on the country albums chart.

Track listing

Production

*Produced By

Jerry Crutchfield Jerry Crutchfield (August 10, 1934 – January 11, 2022) was an American country and pop record producer, songwriter, and musician. He was a publishing and record label executive. He recorded for RCA Victor Records with vocal group The Country Gen ...

*Engineered By Scott Hendricks

Personnel

*Tanya Tucker - lead vocals *

James Stroud James Stroud is an American musician and record producer who works in pop, rock, R&B, soul, disco, and country music. He played with the Malaco Rhythm Section for Malaco Records. In the 1990s, he was the president of Giant Records (a subsidiar ...

- drums, percussion *Bob Wray - bass guitar *Mitch Humphries, Dave Innis - keyboards, synthesizer *Steve Gibson, Kenny Mims,

Don Potter Donald Steele Potter (21 April 1902 – 7 June 2004) was an English sculptor, wood carver, potter and teacher. Don Potter was born in Newington, near Sittingbourne, Kent, the son of a school teacher, and attended a private school. He joined t ...

- guitar * Paul Franklin - steel guitar *

Mark O'Connor Mark O'Connor (born August 5, 1961) is an American fiddle player and composer whose music combines bluegrass, country, jazz and classical. A three-time Grammy Award winner, he has won six Country Music Association Musician Of The Year awards ...

- fiddle *Paul Franklin, Steve Gibson - dobro *Steve Gibson - mandolin *

Jim Horn James Ronald Horn (born November 20, 1940) is an American saxophonist, woodwind player, and session musician. Biography Horn was born in Los Angeles, and after replacing saxophonist Steve Douglas in 1959, he toured with member Duane Eddy for f ...

- saxophone *Michael Black, Jessica Boucher,

Beth Nielsen Chapman Beth Nielsen Chapman (born September 14, 1958) is an American singer and songwriter who has written hits for Country music, country and pop music performers. She was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2016. Nielsen Chapman ...

, Carol Chase, Greg Gordon, Katerina Kitridge, Diane Vanette, Hurshel Wiginton, Dennis Wilson, Curtis Young - background vocals

Chart performance

References

''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Country Hits'' by

Joel Whitburn Joel Carver Whitburn (November 29, 1939 – June 14, 2022) was an American author and music historian, responsible for setting up the Record Research, Inc. series of books on record chart placings. Early life Joel Carver Whitburn was born in Wau ...

006 *Liner Notes; Tanya Tucker "Strong Enough To Bend" CD; 1988 Liberty/Capitol Records. {{Authority control 1988 albums Tanya Tucker albums Capitol Records albums Albums produced by Jerry Crutchfield