Tennessee Woman

1. Take Another Run

2. Shotgun

3. As Long as There's a Heartbeat

4. Don't Go Out - Graham Brown, Tanya Tucker

5. There's a Tennessee Woman/Ben's Song

6. Goodbye Baby

7. It Won't Be Me

8. Your Old Magic

9. Walking Shoes

10. Oh What It Did to Me

Tracks:

Tennessee Woman
Blue Feeling Today
A Nice Day For Something
Everybody Needs Somebody
I Don't Play, I'll Be Your Man Some Day
Christo Redemptor
Little By Little
I'm A Stranger

Customer Reviews:

Have owned this CD for almost thirty-five years........2003-03-09

I saw Charlie Musselwhite for the first time in 1969. I bought this album soon after and have never stopped listening to it. This is a phenomenal blues band at the top of their game. Besides Musselwhite playing beautiful harp and singing beautifully, the band features Skip Rose on piano, Tim Kaihatsu and Larry Welker sharing the guitar duties, Carl Severied on the bass, Lance Dickerson on the drums, Fred Roulette on the pedal steel guitar and Rod Piazza sits in with a chromatic harmonica on "Blue Feeling Today"
One of the things that is great about the blues bands back in the sixties and seventies is that there seemed to be more emphasis on everybody in the group playing instead on just one or two featured players. "A Nice Day For Something" and "Christo Redemptor" feature solos by at least four people each. Musselwhite also gave room on each of the albums in this period for Rose to feature one of his own songs. The rest of the material includes songs by the likes of Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Duke Pearson, Fenton Robinson as well as a couple of songs by Musselwhite.
This was a time period that was a golden age for the blues. Magic Sam, Muddy Waters, Butterfield, Buddy Guy, Otis Spann, Junior Wells and many others were in their prime. It was still possible to hear some of the great country blues players like Son House or Mississippi John Hurt or Fred McDowell. Many of the players from the generation inbetween like Sam Hopkins were still around. It was possible to hear the whole history of the genre being performed live and to hear the extensions of the genre that people like Butterfield were making. Musselwhite is as good as anybody from that period. And this album is one of his best.

Wonderful.......2000-10-16

If I had to choose a favorite Charlie Musselwhite album, Tennessee Woman might be it. I've been listening to it for almost 20 years and expect to continue listening to it for at least another 20. But really, Musselwhite's other two Vanguard albums from the 1960s, Stand Back! and Stone Blues, and his two early 70s Arhoolie albums, Takin' My Time and Goin' Back Down South, claim about equal affection.

The thing I love about Tennessee Woman is its moodiness. Classic Chicago blues featuring Musselwhite's wonderfully expressive, mournful harp playing and soulful, world-weary vocals, laced with great jazzy piano from Skip Rose. The other sidemen are equally inspired, forming a perfect cohesive unit as harp, vocals, and piano, and Larry Welker's liquid steel guitar, weave around and through one another. A little over halfway through an ethereal, 12-minute version of "Christo Redemptor," after a lengthy piano solo, Musselwhite's harp comes back in like a giant slowly awakening. Magic.

"I'm still a stranger in a strange land / baby, until the day I die," Musselwhite sings in "Blue Feeling Today," the sentiment reiterated in the album's dreamy final track, "I'm a Stranger." Musselwhite manifests his, and America's, perennial theme of loneliness and alienation with an authority available to only a few musicians. Tennessee Woman is a lasting brilliant gem.

Average customer rating:

Before her time. One of her more pop albums!

One of Tanya's best

Tennessee Woman
Tanya Tucker
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002UUV
Release Date: 1990-03-27

Tracks:

Take Another Run
Shotgun
As Long as There's a Heartbeat
Don't Go Out - Graham Brown, Tanya Tucker
There's a Tennessee Woman/Ben's Song
Goodbye Baby
It Won't Be Me
Your Old Magic
Walking Shoes
Oh What It Did to Me

Customer Reviews:

Before her time. One of her more pop albums!.......2005-10-19

This is the Tanya I love. It's catchy and temp. country, and so before its time (meaning if they would have been released now most of the songs would have been #1s).

1. Up-beat, catchy and fun about not quitting love, but trying. 5/5
2. A song about love, but with different lyrics. Catchy, mid-tempo. 4/5
3. Ok song, but not one you'll remember. Ballad. 2/5
4. Beautiful midtempo ballad about getting the one you want. 5/5
5. Favourite track on CD dedicated to her previous Beau. Mid-tempo. Very catchy. 5/5
6. Another albumfiller. 2/5
7. Ironic and catchy mid-tempo song. 4/5
8. Telling him she's through. Ballad. 2/5
9. Another favourite. Up-tempo, catchy and fun! 5/5
10. Deep ballad. Great way to end CD. 5/5

One of Tanya's best.......2004-03-09

This album, recorded during Tanya's best years, yielded three top ten country hits and a further top twenty hit, but there are many other tracks that could have been issued as singles. Tanya was particularly disappointed that the title track was not selected for single release, but it is difficult to argue with the choices made.

The four hits were Don't go out (a song written by Foster and Lloyd, which Tanya sings as a duet with T Graham Brown), It won't be me, Walking shoes and the aching ballad, Oh what it did to me - the standout song but the only single not to make the country top ten. These tracks have been re-issued on various Tanya hits compilations. Most of the other tracks have not been re-issued but it is worth buying this album to hear them.

The set opens with Take another run, a brilliant upbeat song. Then comes Shotgun, a superb song that evokes images of the old west. This is followed by an outstanding ballad, As long as there's a heartbeat. All three must have been candidates for single release but we finally get to one of the singles, Don't go out, on track four.

Next comes the title track that Tanya is so proud of and rightly so - a superb ballad, but perhaps the record company didn't think it suitable material for a single. Nevertheless, it is well worth a listen. Another great song, Goodbye baby, is followed by It won't be me, one of the singles, then comes Your old magic, a wonderful ballad. Two more singles complete the album - Walking shoes and Oh what it did to me.

This is a truly outstanding album from, though it is often overlooked because it was followed by the album that (belatedly) gave her the CMA female vocalist of the year award, What do I do with me. By all means buy that album first, but don't ignore this one.

When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman / Hangin' up My Heart
Average customer rating:
When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman / Hangin' up My Heart

Manufacturer: Curb
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000FDNKLI

Product Description

2 track cd single.

Music Album:

Music Album