My Turn (Tanya Tucker album)

My Turn consists of 12 cover versions of country music standards that were originally recorded entirely by male artists.[2] 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.[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]
The Boston Globe	(favorable)[4]
Country Weekly	(average)[5]
No Depression	(average)[6]
PopMatters	[7]
Robert Christgau	[8]
Engine 145	[9]

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."[2]

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."[3]

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