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Albumism’s 50 Best Albums of 2019 | #13: Tanya Tucker's 'While I'm Livin''

November 29, 2019 Albumism Staff

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#13 | Tanya Tucker | While I’m Livin’
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According to Mark J. Marraccini: “Tucker sounds simultaneously alive with purpose while also steeling herself for eventual defeat (and death), “I leave you now with a heart of stone,” she confesses in the opening song’s final lyrics, ‘Sometimes the past is hard to outrun.’ Only an artist and vocal stylist who has really lived can successfully breathe both of those emotions into one song. And Tucker nails it….Tucker has emerged on While I’m Livin’ with equal parts grit and grace. As lovers, searchers and consumers of good music, we are the better for it.”

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