Thursday, February 22, 2024 12pm ET: Feature LP: Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles (1993)

Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles is a tribute album to American rock band Eagles. It was released October 12, 1993 on Giant Records to raise funds for the Walden Woods Project. The album features covers of various Eagles songs, as performed by country music acts. It was certified 3× Platinum in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on June 27, 1994, honoring shipments of three million copies in the United States. Several cuts from the album all charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts after the album’s release, the most successful being Travis Tritt’s rendition of “Take It Easy” at number 21. Common Thread won all of its performers a Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year at the 1994 ceremony.

1. “Take It Easy” (Travis Tritt) 3:32
2. “Peaceful Easy Feeling” (Little Texas) 4:19
3. “Desperado” (Clint Black) 3:51
4. “Heartache Tonight” (John Anderson) 4:23
5. “Tequila Sunrise” (Alan Jackson) 2:56
6. “Take It to the Limit” (Suzy Bogguss) 4:32
7. “I Can’t Tell You Why” (Vince Gill) 4:04
8. “Lyin’ Eyes” (Diamond Rio) 6:30
9. “New Kid in Town” (Trisha Yearwood) 5:07
10. “Saturday Night” (Billy Dean) 3:25
11. “Already Gone” (Tanya Tucker) 5:00
12. “Best of My Love” (Brooks & Dunn) 4:38
13. “The Sad Café” (Lorrie Morgan) 4:45

Production The 1994 Country Music Association (CMA) award for Album of the Year was awarded jointly to Suzy Bogguss, Tony Brown, Don Cook, Jerry Crutchfield, Billy Dean, Christy DiNapoli, Garth Fundis, Doug Grau, Scott Hendricks, Richard Landis, Lynn Peterzell, Monty Powell, Keith Stegall, and James Stroud for their contributions in producing the album.

Thursday, December 28, 2023 2pm ET: Feature LP: Tanya Tucker – Sweet Western Sound (2023)

Sweet Western Sound is the twenty-sixth solo studio album by American country music singer Tanya Tucker. It was released on June 2, 2023, by Fantasy Records. The album was produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings and is the follow-up to Tucker’s Grammy-winning 2019 album, While I’m Livin’.

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On October 21, 2022, Tucker released the single “Ready as I’ll Never Be” to promote the documentary The Return of Tanya Tucker. The song won Best Original Song for a Documentary at the 13th Hollywood Music in Media Awards.

Tucker was announced as one of the 2022 inductees into the Country Music Hall of Fame on April 3, 2023.

The album was officially announced on April 5, 2023, along with the release of its lead single, “Kindness”.

Tucker celebrated the album’s release with two shows at Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on June 3 and June 4.

1. “Tanya” 0:49
2. “Kindness” 3:21
3. “Breakfast in Birmingham” 3:30
4. “Waltz Across a Moment” 4:08
5. “Ready as I’ll Never Be” 4:01
6. “The List” 4:02
7. “Letter to Linda” 4:03
8. “City of Gold” 3:17
9. “That Wasn’t Me” 3:51
10. “When the Rodeo Is Over (Where Does the Cowboy Go?)” 4:02

Tanya Tucker – vocals (tracks 2–10)
Billy Joe Shaver – vocals (1)
Brandi Carlile – background vocals (2–6, 9, 10), vocals (3, 7, 8), piano (5)
Ted Russell Kamp – banjo (2, 3), bass guitar (3, 7–10)
Phil Hanseroth – bass guitar (2, 5, 6), acoustic guitar (3), background vocals (5)
Matt Chamberlain – drums, percussion (2, 3, 5–9)
Chris Masterson – electric guitar (2–5, 7, 9, 10), baritone guitar (6), acoustic guitar (8)
Shooter Jennings – piano (2–10), synthesizer (2), Mellotron (9)
John Schreffler – steel guitar (2–6, 8, 9)
Tim Hanseroth – acoustic guitar (3, 7, 9, 10), background vocals (5)
Alabama Jennings – celesta, organ, strings (7)
Paul Franklin – steel guitar (7, 8, 10)
Jamie Douglass – drums, percussion (10)

Monday 10/10/22 9am ET: Feature Artist: Tanya Tucker

Tanya Denise Tucker (born October 10, 1958) is an American country music singer and songwriter who had her first hit, “Delta Dawn”, in 1972 at the age of 13. Over the succeeding decades, Tucker became one of the few child performers to mature into adulthood without losing her audience, and during the course of her career, she notched a streak of top-10 and top-40 hits. She has had several successful albums, several Country Music Association award nominations, and hit songs such as 1973’s “What’s Your Mama’s Name?” and “Blood Red and Goin’ Down”, 1975’s “Lizzie and the Rainman”, 1988’s “Strong Enough to Bend”, and 1992’s “Two Sparrows in a Hurricane”. Tucker’s 2019 album While I’m Livin’ won the Grammy Award for Best Country Album, and “Bring My Flowers Now” from that same album won Tucker a shared songwriting Grammy for Best Country Song.

Sunday 8/14/22 12pm ET: Feature LP: Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’ (2019)

While I’m Livin’ is the twenty-fifth studio album by American country music singer Tanya Tucker. It was released on August 23, 2019, by Fantasy Records. The album was produced by Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings. It is Tucker’s first album in a decade, since 2009’s My Turn, and her first album of original material since her 2002 album, Tanya. The album earned Tucker the Grammy Award for Best Country Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards in addition to winning Best Country Song for “Bring My Flowers Now” which was also nominated for Best Country Solo Performance, and the all-genre Grammy Award for Song of the Year. Rolling Stone placed the album at number one on the publication’s list of the 40 Best Country and Americana Albums of 2019 and number 24 on their list of the top 50 Albums of 2019. Tucker promoted the album throughout 2019 with the While I’m Livin’ Tour and continued to support the album in the first quarter of 2020 on the Bring My Flowers Now Tour, a partnership with CMT’s Next Women of Country. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the remainder of the tour to be postponed until July 2021.

1. “Mustang Ridge” 3:37
2. “The Wheels of Laredo” 3:49
3. “I Don’t Owe You Anything” 2:34
4. “The Day My Heart Goes Still” 3:19
5. “High Ridin’ Heroes” 3:27
6. “The House That Built Me” 4:12
7. “Hard Luck” 3:22
8. “Rich” 2:33
9. “Seminole Wind Calling” 3:35
10. “Bring My Flowers Now” 4:20
11. “Delta Dawn” 3:33
12. “Pack Your Lies and Go” 2:54

Brandi Carlile – producer, background vocals, acoustic guitar, group vocals on “Hard Luck”, piano
Danny Clinch – back cover photo, interior photos
James Garner – A&R, group vocals on “Hard Luck”
Nate Haessly – assistant engineer
Phil Hanseroth – background vocals, bass, banjo, claps
Tim Hanseroth – acoustic guitar, background vocals, banjo, claps
Rich Hinman – pedal steel
Norm Howell – group vocals on “Hard Luck”
Tricia Howell – group vocals on “Hard Luck”
Shooter Jennings – producer, engineer, piano, organ, Wurlitzer, synthesizers
Ted Russell Kamp – bass, standup bass
Pete Lyman – mastering
Steven Lyon – cover photo
Chris Masterson – acoustic guitar, baritone guitar, electric guitar, tambo, mando guitar, 12 string guitar, claps
Josh Neumann – cello
Chris Powell – drums, claps
Dennis Quaid – group vocals on “Hard Luck”
Mark Rains – engineer
Ben Reed – group vocals on “Hard Luck”
Jerilyn Sawyer – A&R, group vocals on “Hard Luck”
Trina Shoemaker – mixing, shaker(s)
Carrie Smith – art direction, design
David Spreng – additional mix editing
Grayson Tucker – group vocals on “Hard Luck”
Tanya Tucker – vocals
Eleanor Whitmore – mandolin, tenor guitar
Nathan Yaccino – additional engineering
Jim Zumwait – group vocals on “Hard Luck”

Thursday 1/6/22 6pm ET: RadioMaxMusic Special: The Music of 1981 (by title) A to Z – Part 3 Extended Edition

This RadioMax special features our Library of music from 1981 A2Z.

We continue with letter B and go the start of Letter C. We feature music from: Eddy Grant, Tanya Tucker, Kim Wilde, Olivia Newton-john, Sammi Smith, Adam Ant, Elvis Costello, April Wine, Kim Carnes, Quarterflash, Ozzy Osbourne, Men At Work, Kiss, Falco, Kinks and many more. . .

6pm to 12am ET

Artist Countdown: Paul Davis Top 20 Hits 12pm ET

Paul Lavon Davis (April 21, 1948 – April 22, 2008) was an American singer and songwriter, best known for his radio hits and solo career which started worldwide in 1970. His career encompassed soul, country and pop music. Typically, the slower the tempo of a Davis record, the longer it took to reach its peak position. Notable songs in his career include 1977’s “I Go Crazy“, a No. 7 pop hit which once held the record for the longest chart run on the Billboard Hot 100, as well as the No. 6 “‘65 Love Affair“, his highest-charting pop hit. In the mid-1980s, he also had two country No. 1 hits as a guest vocalist on songs by Marie Osmond and Tanya Tucker, and wrote singles for other country singers. His appearance in the mid-1970s to early 1980s resembled Leon Russell.

Before his death on April 22, 2008 (one day after his 60th birthday), Davis had returned to singing and songwriting by recording two songs, “You Ain’t Sweet Enough” and “Today.” He died from a heart attack at the Rush Foundation Hospital in Meridian, Mississippi. -Wikipedia

1	Ride ‘Em Cowboy
2	Sweet Life
3	’65 Love Affair
4	I Go Crazy
5	Cool Night
6	Do Right
7	Superstar
8	You’re Still New to Me (with Marie Osmond)
9	I Just Wanna Keep It Together
10	I Won’t Take Less Than Your Love (with Tanya Tucker)
11	A Little Bit of Soap
12	Love or Let Me Be Lonely
13	Thinking of You
14	Darlin (with Susan Collins)
15	Cry Just a Little
16	Boogie Woogie Man
17	Keep Our Love Alive
18	(It Takes) Two To Tango
19	Reggae Kind Of Way
20	Three Little Words