The Return of Tanya Tucker

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Winner! Audience Award, SXSW Film Festival

Trailblazing, hell-raising country music legend Tanya Tucker defied the standards of how a woman in country music was supposed to behave, living hard and generating hits like Delta Dawn and What’s Your Mama’s Name. Decades after Tanya slipped from the spotlight, Grammy-winning Americana music star Brandi Carlile takes it upon herself to write an entire album for her hero based on Tanya’s extraordinary life, spurring the greatest comeback in country music history. Taking stock of the past while remaining vitally alive in the present and keeping an eye on the future, The Return of Tanya Tucker is a rousing exploration of an unexpected, complex, intergenerational friendship between two talented women built on the joy of a perfectly timed creative collaboration. (Dir. by Kathlyn Horan, 2022, USA, 108 mins., Rated R)

Other festivals: SXSW, Toronto International Film Festival