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    How Brandi Carlile led Tanya Tucker to better appreciate her own worth

    by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times Nov 16, 2022 4 minutes
    Brandi Carlile, left, and Tanya Tucker speak onstage during the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center on Jan. 26, 2020, in Los Angeles.

    If it seems as if Tanya Tucker has been around forever, she has — by popular music standards, anyway. But after 22 studio albums in about 25 years through 1997, she released just one in 2002, another in 2009, then not another for 10 years. That's when Brandi Carlile stepped in.

    It was producer Shooter Jennings who actually suggested a collaboration between the two music powerhouses to give Tucker a comeback album, even though the 64-year-old had never heard of Carlile at the time. That work on the 2019 album, "While I'm Living," would pay off — earning Tucker her first Grammy wins, for country album of the year and country song for the single "Bring

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