This track is from the album Leftovers and is available for purchase on CD Baby here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/timtucker3

Never Ever

If I Fall Down

She Spends All Her Time in My Mind

Looking for a Reason

Ashtray

Go Easy On Me

Never Walk Away

Change

Static

This song is a tribute to the redemptive power of the blues and its very unique role in the African-American experience from slavery, Jim Crow, Civil Rights Movement, to Black Lives Matter.

Recorded in Decatur, Alabama with Lamont Landers and Wade Brown.

Blood of the Blues

Blood Of The Blues

Alabama. King Cotton. Slavery. Civil War. The Cradle of the Confederacy. The "Heart of Dixie." Jim Crow. Scottsboro Boys. Bible Belt. Ku Klux Klan. Bus boycott. Freedom Rides. Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Fire Hoses. Church bombing. Montgomery. Birmingham. Selma. Voting Rights. Rosa Parks. George Wallace. Martin Luther King. Bull Connor. Ten Commandments. Cities and Farms. Poverty and Wealth. Black and White. Sin and Salvation. Good and Bad. Pride and Shame. This is Alabama. This is where I come from. This is who I am.

I was born in Birmingham in 1971 on the same day that celebrates the birth of the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Born to a Baptist church music director father and a high school Spanish teacher mother, they gave me the gift of music and are responsible for anything positive I accomplish in this life.

Some time in high school my mind was kicked open by the music of Bob Dylan. It was through him that I became aware of the power of song. Since that moment my mind has been saturated with music and songwriting. It is something I must do regardless of financial security or insecurity.

Other than Dylan the greatest inspiration in my music has been the life and example of Martin Luther King, Jr. I know...he's not a musician. But, he was as artistic as any musician ever born. His speaking voice was as moving and musically vigorous and emotionally stimulating as anything by anyone from Mozart to Miles Davis, from Shakespeare to Paul Simon, from the Old Testament prophets to the bluesmen and women of the Mississippi Delta.

The seeds of every song I write were sown from all of these sources and I owe it to them and to myself to never give up on the greatest talent I possess. My influences have given me a voice. And I will do all I can to let my voice be heard. I hope you will listen.


New album coming in April 2022! About 30 songs are on hold right not for TV/Film. 

Tim Tucker

Tim Tucker.

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