While I'm Livin' CD

“Bring my flowers now while I’m livin’!” Tanya Tucker growls whilst manspreading and smoking a cigarette on a bench outside Sunset Sound Studios in Los Angeles. It’s not the first time she’s used the phrase, but this time she continues: “I won’t need your love when I’m gone, don’t spend your time, tears or money on my old breathless body. If your heart is in them flowers bring ‘em on”, she laughs like Sling Blade. “I wrote that one for Loretta,” she says self-consciously. Tanya Tucker is 60. She is the original female outlaw. She’s a legend... a young one, but a legend, nevertheless. We forget sometimes that Tanya Tucker is a legend because she was only 13 years old when she scored a massive hit with “Delta Dawn” followed by so many number one country music standards it’ll make your head spin. “Delta Dawn” came out in 1972. For perspective, the great Dolly Parton scored her first hit only 5 years earlier in 1967 with “Dumb Blonde”. Dolly wouldn’t land a number one hit until “Joshua”