Tanya Tucker concert rescheduled for Dec. 19 at Renaissance Center
Release Date: 12/13/2006. Expired: 12/19/2006
Country superstar Tanya Tucker has rescheduled her concert at The Renaissance Center in Dickson for Tuesday, Dec. 19.
Tickets for the 7:30 p.m. concert are $22 and are on sale now. A limited number of VIP tickets are available for $40 and include premium seating and a private reception with Tucker following the show.
Tucker originally was scheduled to perform in a concert last June, but was forced to postpone the show due to illness.
The Renaissance Center’s award-winning Multimedia Department will videotape the concert for release on DVD and VHS. The department has worked on similar projects with Three Dog Night, John Kay of Steppenwolf, Eddie Money, Crystal Gayle, Pam Tillis, B.J. Thomas and others.
Tucker, who briefly lived in Dickson County during her relationship with Glen Campbell, released her first album, Delta Dawn, at the age of 14 and the title cut has become her signature song. Other hits include Love’s the Answer, What’s Your Mama’s Name, The Man That Turned My Mama On, Would You Lay With Me (in a Field of Stone), San Antonio Stroll, Lizzie and the Rainman, Don’t Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You, It’s a Cowboy Lovin’ Night, Texas (When I Die), Pecos Promenade, Can I See You Tonight, One Love at a Time, If It Don’t Come Easy, Strong Enough to Bend, If Your Heart Ain’t Busy Tonight, Two Sparrows in a Hurricane and Little Things, among many others.
By the time she released her first Greatest Hits collection in 1974, the 16-year-old Tucker had scored seven top 10 hits, three number-one songs, a Grammy nomination, won Top New Female Artist from the Academy of Country Music and been named Most Promising Female Artist of the Year by Music City News.
Tucker went on to score top 10 hits through the 1970s, ‘80s and ‘90s, cracking the chart the latest time in 1997 with Little Things from the album Complicated.
Along the way she picked up a Female Vocalist of the Year award from the Country Music Association (1991), ACM Video of the Year awards (’92 and ’93), Female Video Artist of the Year from Country Music Television (’93) and two more Grammy nominations (’94 for Best Female Vocalist and Vocal Collaboration).
Tucker published her autobiography, Nickel Dreams, in 1996 and 100 Ways to Beat the Blues in 2005, a collection of essays from Tucker and friends ranging from Garth Brooks to Barbara Bush on how they deal with depression and anxiety.
Through her career, Tucker has made guest appearances on numerous television series and TV movies, including The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, Masquerade, The Smothers Brothers Special, The Georgia Peaches, The Rebels, Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill, Delta and performed on the very first episode of The Nashville Palace.
In addition to a childhood appearance in Jeremiah Johnson, Tucker had a part in the 1981 movie Hard Country, starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Kim Basinger and Daryl Hannah. She appeared briefly on Broadway with Floyd Cramer, The Crickets, Waylon Jennings and others in Broadway Opry ’79, an attempt to bring country music to New York that closed after two shows.
In 1994, Tucker performed during halftime of Super Bowl XXVIII along with Clint Black, Travis Tritt and the Judds, and at the opening ceremonies for the World Cup soccer tournament.
She has recorded cuts for several tribute albums, including Something for Come Together – America Salutes The Beatles, Already Gone for Common Thread – The Songs of The Eagles, and Goin’ Nowhere and Getting’ There Fast for NASCAR: Hotter Than Asphalt, while also performing Let’s Go Racin’, the theme song for CBS’s NASCAR broadcasts in 1996.
Tucker and her children – Presley, 16, Beau Grayson, 14, and Layla, 7 – are the stars of Tuckerville, a primetime reality show on The Learning Channel. The show follows the Tucker family as single mom Tanya raises three kids on the road and on their 500-acre home outside Nashville. Tuckerville airs Saturdays at 9 p.m.
Tucker is an avid horsewoman, competing in cutting horse contests and counts among her trophies the National Cutting Horse Association’s 1990 and ’96 Celebrity Championships and the 1994 KSCS Celebrity Cutting Championship.
For more information on the Dec. 19 concert, call (615) 740-5600 or visit The Renaissance Center’s Web site at www.rcenter.org. To purchase tickets, call (615) 740-5570.
The Renaissance Center is a fine arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.
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