My Turn (Tanya Tucker album)

My Turn is the 25th 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 2002. My Turn consists of cover versions of country music standards, including the lead single, "Love's Gonna Live Here", "Lovesick Blues", and "Crazy Arms".

My Turn
Studio album by Tanya Tucker
Released	June 30, 2009 (2009-06-30)
Genre	Country
Length	33:50
Label	Saguaro Road
Producer	Pete Anderson Jerry Laseter
Tanya Tucker chronology
Tanya (2002) My Turn (2009) While I'm Livin' (2019)
Singles from My Turn
"Love's Gonna Live Here" Released: April 28, 2009

Content

My Turn consists of 12 cover versions of country music standards that were originally recorded entirely by male artists. 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.

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
The Boston Globe	(favorable)
Country Weekly	(average)
No Depression	(average)
PopMatters
Robert Christgau
Engine 145

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."

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."

Track listing

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, Charles "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 Love 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

• Tanya Tucker – lead vocals
• 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
• Darrin Vincent – backing vocals
• Rhonda Vincent – backing 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