My Turn (Tanya Tucker album)

My Turn

Studio album by Tanya Tucker

Released

June 30, 2009

Saguaro Road

Pete Anderson
Jerry Laseter

Tanya Tucker chronology

Singles from My Turn
Tanya (2003)	My Turn (2009)
"Love's Gonna Live Here" Released: April 2009

My Turn is the 24th studio album by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. The album was released June 30, 2009. It is her first studio album since Tanya in 2003. My Turn consists of cover versions of country music standards, including the lead single, "Love's Gonna Live Here", "Lovesick Blues", and "Crazy Arms".^[1]

Content

My Turn consists of 12 cover versions of country music standards that were originally recorded entirely by male artists.^[2] Tucker stated that she recorded the album to dedicate to her father, Beau Tucker, stating:

“

I picked the songs my daddy (Beau Tucker) always wanted me to sing," explained Tucker of the My Turn project. "This is really a tribute to him, because he was with me throughout my entire career. He's now with God above but I know he's watching over me still and loving these songs and this record.^[3]

”

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
The Boston Globe	(favorable)^[4]
Country Weekly	(average)^[5]
No Depression	(average)^[6]
PopMatters	^[7]
Robert Christgau	^[8]
Engine 145	^[9]

Allmusic critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine gave the album four and a half out of five stars. Erlewine critiqued Tucker's way of blending each song, stating, "Tucker isn't quite gender-bending the way Lyle Lovett did when he sang "Stand by Your Man," but rather taking these songs directly, sounding as tough as any guy as she saunters her way through "Crazy Arms" and "Lovesick Blues." Erlewine also said that, "Pete Anderson's dry, unadorned production gives this muscle and grit, perhaps the most sympathetic setting Tucker has had in decades, the triumph is all Tanya's, as she digs deep into these songs, finding new meaning within them and proving that a great covers album need not reinterpret the sound of a song in order to reinvent it."^[2]

Blake Boldt of Roughstock.com also reviewed the release, and praised the album, stating how Tucker was not just remaking Country music songs like other artists had previously done before, but instead renewing each of them. Boldt also gave positive comments to Tucker's voice, saying, "Now 50, Tucker's vocal stylings remain as provocative as her well-documented wild-child past; her instantly-recognizable drawl is one of country's greatest voices ever, and every knotty note is chock full of hearty twang."^[3]

Track listing

^[2]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Original artist	Length
1.	"Wine Me Up"	Bill Deaton, Faron Young	Faron Young	2:38
2.	"Lovesick Blues"	Cliff Friend, Irving Mills	Emmett Miller	2:49
3.	"Love's Gonna Live Here" (with Jim Lauderdale)	Buck Owens	Buck Owens	2:26
4.	"Crazy Arms"	Ralph Mooney, Chuck Seals	Ray Price	2:49
5.	"After the Fire Is Gone"	L.E. White	Loretta Lynn and Conway Twitty	2:38
6.	"Is Anybody Goin' to San Antone"	Dave Kirby, Glenn Martin	Charley Pride	2:37
7.	"I Loved You a Thousand Ways"	Jim Beck, Lefty Frizzell	Lefty Frizzell	2:38
8.	"Big, Big Love"	Ray Carroll, Wynn Stewart	Wynn Stewart	2:58
9.	"Walk Through This World with Me"	Sandy Seamons, Katy Savage	George Jones	2:38
10.	"Oh Lonesome Me"	Don Gibson	Don Gibson	2:41
11.	"You Don't Know Me"	Cindy Walker	Eddy Arnold	2:38
12.	"Ramblin' Fever"	Merle Haggard	Merle Haggard	4:20

Personnel

Musicians

Pete Anderson - bass guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica, mandola, percussion, string arrangements
Bob "Boo" Bernstein - steel guitar
Tim Godwin - acoustic guitar
Flaco Jiménez - accordion
Jerry Laseter - electric guitar
Jim Lauderdale - duet vocals on "Love's Gonna Live Here"
Mike Murphy - string arrangements, strings
Don Reed - fiddle, strings
Kevin Sepriano - acoustic guitar
Jo-El Sonnier - accordion
Tanya Tucker - lead vocals
Darrin Vincent - background vocals
Rhonda Vincent - background vocals
Peter Gayle Williams - drums

Technical

Pete Anderson – producer
Sally Brodwer – engineer
Doug Deveraux – engineer
Kevin Hare – engineer
Mike Jason – executive producer
Keith Krouse – engineer
Jerry Laseter – producer
Mike Lattrell – engineer
Tony Rambo – engineer

Chart performance

Chart (2009)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	27
U.S. Billboard 200	183

References

↑ "Tanya Tucker Plans Album of Country Classics in June". CMT.com. March 9, 2009. Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
1 2 3 4 Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "My Turn - Tanya Tucker". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
1 2 Boldt, Blake. "Tanya Tucker - My Turn". Roughstock.com. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
↑ The Boston Globe review
↑ Country Weekly review
↑ No Depression review
↑ PopMatters review
↑ Robert Christgau Consumer Guide
↑ Engine 145 review

Tanya Tucker

Studio albums	Delta Dawn What's Your Mama's Name Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone) Tanya Tucker Lovin' and Learnin' Here's Some Love Ridin' Rainbows You Are So Beautiful TNT Tear Me Apart Dreamlovers Should I Do It Changes Girls Like Me Love Me Like You Used To Strong Enough to Bend Tennessee Woman What Do I Do with Me Can't Run from Yourself Soon Fire to Fire Complicated Tanya My Turn

Compilation and live albums	Tanya Tucker's Greatest Hits The Best of Tanya Tucker Live Greatest Hits Greatest Hits Encore Greatest Hits 1990–1992 Love Songs 20 Greatest Hits 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection Live at Billy Bob's Texas 16 Biggest Hits The Definitive Collection

Notable singles	"Delta Dawn" "Love's the Answer" "What's Your Mama's Name" "Blood Red and Goin' Down" "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)" "The Man That Turned My Mama On" "Lizzie and the Rainman" "San Antonio Stroll" "Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You" "You've Got Me to Hold On To" "Here's Some Love" "It's a Cowboy Lovin' Night" "You Are So Beautiful" "Texas (When I Die)" "Pecos Promenade" "Dream Lover" "Can I See You Tonight" "Feel Right" "Baby I'm Yours" "One Love at a Time" "Just Another Love" "I'll Come Back as Another Woman" "It's Only Over for You" "Love Me Like You Used To" "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" (with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet) "If It Don't Come Easy" "Strong Enough to Bend" "Highway Robbery" "Call on Me" "My Arms Stay Open All Night" "Walking Shoes" "Don't Go Out" (with T. Graham Brown) "It Won't Be Me" "Oh What It Did to Me" "Down to My Last Teardrop" "(Without You) What Do I Do with Me" "Some Kind of Trouble" "If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight" "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane" "It's a Little Too Late" "Tell Me About It" "Soon" "We Don't Have to Do This" "Hangin' In" "You Just Watch Me" "Between the Two of Them" "Find Out What's Happenin'" "Little Things" "A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be"

Related articles	Albums discography Singles discography Columbia Records MCA Records Capitol Records Liberty Records LaCosta "Leave Them Boys Alone"

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