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''While I'm Livin is the twenty-fifth studio album by American country music singer
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. It was released on August 23, 2019, by
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. The album was produced by
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and
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. It is Tucker's first album in a decade, since 2009's '' My Turn'', and her first album of original material since her 2002 album, ''
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''. The album earned Tucker the
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at the
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in addition to winning
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for "
Bring My Flowers Now "Bring My Flowers Now" is a song by American country music singer Tanya Tucker. The song was written by Tucker with Brandi Carlile, Tim Hanseroth and Phil Hanseroth. It was released on August 16, 2019, as the fourth single from Tucker's twenty-fif ...
" which was also nominated for
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, and the all-genre Grammy Award for Song of the Year. ''
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'' placed the album at number one on the publication's list of the 40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2019 and number 24 on their list of the top 50 Albums of 2019. Tucker promoted the album throughout 2019 with the While I'm Livin' Tour and continued to support the album in the first quarter of 2020 on the Bring My Flowers Now Tour, a partnership with CMT's Next Women of Country. The
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caused the remainder of the tour to be postponed until July 2021.


Background

After Tucker's 2002 album, ''
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'', barely broke the top 40 of the country albums chart, she began to retreat from the spotlight. Since 2002, Tucker has only released one studio album, 2009's '' My Turn'', an album of covers of songs by male country stars she listened to growing up, which was a disaster by Tucker's standards. She later recalled to ''
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'' that "It should have been called ''My Sh—y Turn''. They didn't use the final vocals I made. I had no control." After the release of ''My Turn'', Tucker had more personal and pressing issues to deal with. She began to experience health problems from the chronic fatigue disease Epstein-barr. Both of her parents died, her father in 2006 and mother in 2012, leaving her emotionally drained and without management. Tucker's father had been her manager since the beginning of her career. Tucker recalled this time in her life, saying, "I quit touring. I didn't have a band. I went out to Malibu and sat in the sun and spent a lot of money." Once Tucker decided to come back to the spotlight, she went to various labels only to find that there was little interest. For a while,
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(son of
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) had been casually speaking with her about the possibility of him producing her new album. Plans for a new album really began to speed up once Jennings mentioned to friend and avid Tucker fan
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that he would like for her to write a new song for the album. Carlile and her long-time collaborators, Phil and Tim Hanseroth, wrote nearly an entire album's worth of material. Jennings told Carlile that since she was such a big Tanya fan, she should co-produce the album with him. Tucker recalled that she was hesitant about recording the album at first, saying, "I didn’t know if the songs were strong enough." The album was recorded over three weeks in January 2019, at Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. Tucker stated in an interview on Acoustic Café that "High Ridin' Heroes" was the first song recorded for the album. Tucker recorded a cover of
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and the Sharks' "On My Way to Heaven" for the album, featuring Quaid and
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on backing vocals, but it was not included on the album's final track listing.


Release and promotion

On April 1, 2019, Tucker and Carlile performed "Bring My Flowers Now" at
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's All-Star Birthday Celebration Concert at the
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in Nashville. The album was officially announced on June 5, 2019. The album's first single, "The Wheels of Laredo" was released with the album's preorder the same day, as well as its music video. Also on June 5, Tucker and Carlile performed "
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" at the 2019
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, where they were joined by
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,
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,
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,
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,
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and Carly Pearce. The album's second single, "Hard Luck", was released on June 28, along with its accompanying music video which features guest appearances from the album's producers, Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings. The third single, a cover of
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's "
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", was released on August 2 and its music video was released on August 26. The album's fourth single, "Bring My Flowers Now", was released on August 16. The song's music video premiered on October 22. "The Winner's Game" was released as the fifth single from the album on November 25. It had previously only been available with the album through Tucker's online store on a bonus lathe cut vinyl featuring the song and a personalized message, which was limited to 50 copies. A live version of "Bring My Flowers Now" was released on December 13. It was recorded during a sold-out show at the Troubadour in Los Angeles on October 16. It was followed by the release ''
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'' on October 16, 2020, a live album consisting of Tucker's full set from the show. "Pack Your Lies and Go" was released as the album's sixth single on November 6, 2020. It had previously been released as a bonus track on the Target exclusive version of the album.


Content

The majority of the album was written by
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and twin brothers Tim and Phil Hanseroth. The trio wrote seven of the album's ten tracks. The remaining three songs are covers. The album opens with "Mustang Ridge", described by ''
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'' as the album's "sing-a-long mission statement," it contains references to locations in Tucker's native Texas: Mustang Ridge and San Antonio's Hays Street Bridge. The second track, "The Wheels of Laredo", is described by Taste of Country as a "throbbing ballad that appears to acutely point at the contradictions inherent in the illegal immigration debate." "I Don’t Owe You Anything", the third track, is a "sassy kiss-off from a middle-aged mother who’s had enough," sung over a down-home acoustic arrangement. The album's fourth track, "The Day My Heart Goes Still", is a tribute to Tucker's father and manager, Beau, who died in 2006. Track five, "High Ridin’ Heroes", is a cover of a song written by
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in 1987 and originally recorded by Jones as a duet with
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. The sixth track is a cover of
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’s 2010 hit, "
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", which was written by Tom Douglas and
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. Tucker’s version transforms the song into a "deeply moving account of a parent who is searching for meaning in their life after the children have left behind a house whose emptiness becomes too much to bear." The seventh track on the album, "Hard Luck", is another cover. It was written by John C. Bailey, David Lee Mitchell, Raymond L. Turner, and Jerry Ontiberoz, and originally recorded in 1979 by Texas proto-metal band Josefus. In Tucker's hands the song becomes "an outlaw anthem of survival." The track features group background vocals from a number of people; including actor
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; Tucker's son, Grayson; and his father, Ben Reed. On the album's eighth track, "Rich", Tucker recalls the lean years spent traveling with her dad, which plays like her own version of
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’s "
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". ''Rolling Stone'' compared "Seminole Wind Calling", the album's ninth track, to Tucker's 1972 debut single, "
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", saying that it "conjures the country-gospel of her breakthrough debut." The album closes with "Bring My Flowers Now", which was written by Tucker with Carlile and the Hanseroth brothers. The tender ballad is a reminder "to show appreciation for those we cherish while we still have that opportunity."


Critical reception

The album received universal acclaim from music critics. At
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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received a weighted average score of 83 based on 7 reviews. Thierry Côté from ''
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'' gave the album a score of nine out of ten and said that the album "is perhaps the finest full-length in Tucker's storied five-decade career." In a positive review for ''
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'', A.D. Amorosi praised Carlile and the Hanseroth's "intuitive songwriting" and said that Tucker "proudly inhabits their biographical approximation of her nine lives with earnestness and ease." Jonathan Bernstein from ''
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'' gave the album four out of five stars, praising the album's song selection and said that Tucker "never succumbs to old-age weariness." In a review for
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, Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four out of five stars. He felt that Tucker's covers of "Hard Luck" and "The House That Built Me" "add texture and deepen the emotional undercurrents flowing through the record." He went on to say that when the covers are combined with the original songs "these tunes paint a portrait of a mighty artist who has been through a lot but is fearless about the future." In a mixed review for ''
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'', Fred Dellar said, "Tucker has created an album that should endear her to those who still raise the outlaw flag while also appealing to hard-edged pop-tinged rock believers."


Accolades


Awards

Tucker received four nominations at the
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, the most of any country performer. The album won
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and "Bring My Flowers Now" won
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while also being nominated for
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and the all genre award for Song of the Year. The album was also nominated for Album of the Year at the 2020
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and "Bring My Flowers Now" was nominated for Song of the Year. "Bring My Flowers Now" was also nominated for Video of the Year at the
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Year-end lists

The album also appeared on numerous year-end lists. ''
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'' placed the album at number one on their 40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2019 list and number 24 on their 50 Best Albums of 2019 list. ''Rolling Stone'' also placed "Bring My Flowers Now" at number three on their list of the 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019. The Boot ranked the album at number two on their Top 10 County and Americana Albums list. The album appeared at number eight on ''
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s 10 Best Folk and Country Albums of 2019 list.
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placed the album at number 24 on their list of the Best Albums of 2019 and placed Tucker's cover of "
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Decade-end lists

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Commercial performance

The album debuted at number eight on the ''
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chart, selling 10,000 units in its first week of release, almost all in traditional album sales. The album also debuted at number two on the ''Billboard'' Folk Albums chart and number 68 on the ''Billboard'' 200. The album saw success internationally as well, peaking at number two on the UK Country Albums chart and number 60 on the Scottish Albums chart. The album has sold 44,200 copies in the United States as of March 9, 2020.


Track listing


Personnel

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Brandi Carlile Brandi Marie Carlile ( ; born June 1, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and producer whose music spans many genres, including folk rock, alternative country, Americana, and classic rock. , Carlile has released seven studio albums. She has ...
– producer, background vocals, acoustic guitar, group vocals on "Hard Luck", piano *Danny Clinch – back cover photo, interior photos *James Garner – A&R, group vocals on "Hard Luck" *Nate Haessly – assistant engineer *Phil Hanseroth – background vocals, bass, banjo, claps *Tim Hanseroth – acoustic guitar, background vocals, banjo, claps *Rich Hinman – pedal steel *Norm Howell – group vocals on "Hard Luck" *Tricia Howell – group vocals on "Hard Luck" *
Shooter Jennings Waylon Albright "Shooter" Jennings (born May 19, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He is the only son of country singers Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter. In a career spanning over two decades, Shooter Jenni ...
– producer, engineer, piano, organ, Wurlitzer, synthesizers *
Ted Russell Kamp Ted Russell Kamp is an American singer-songwriter. He is the bassist for Shooter Jennings' backing band. As a solo artist, Kamp has released 11 albums. Biography Born in New York, Kamp grew up in the Northeast U.S. before moving to Seattle where ...
– bass, standup bass *Pete Lyman – mastering *Steven Lyon – cover photo *Chris Masterson – acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, tambo, mando guitar, 12 string guitar, claps *Josh Neumann – cello *Chris Powell – drums, claps *
Dennis Quaid Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for a wide variety of dramatic and comedic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the late 1970s, some of his notable credits include ''Breaking Away'' (1979), '' The ...
– group vocals on "Hard Luck" *Mark Rains – engineer *Ben Reed – group vocals on "Hard Luck" *Jerilyn Sawyer – A&R, group vocals on "Hard Luck" *Trina Shoemaker – mixing, shaker(s) *Carrie Smith – art direction, design *David Spreng – additional mix editing *Grayson Tucker – group vocals on "Hard Luck" *
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 ...
– vocals *Eleanor Whitmore – mandolin, tenor guitar *Nathan Yaccino – additional engineering *Jim Zumwait – group vocals on "Hard Luck"


Charts

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References

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