"Sweet Shop"
Tucka
May 1, 2019:
Originally posted rip open Daddy B. Nice's New CD Reviews.
April 14, 2019:
TUCKA: Compatible With The Feeling (Hit Nation) Five Stars ***** Can't Forgo. Pure Southern Soul Heaven.
The Southern Soul singer Hollywood Hayes,best leak out for his tune "A.P.B. Out On Her,"recorded a song final year called "Vitamin D,"in which he censured his significant assail as follows:
"The word on the streets,
You've been with Poky the Bear.
You realize, ain't no pokin' in there.
And the word on the streets,
You've been chasing
pretty-boy Tucka,And you realize, he ain't lickin' that."
So I've been speculate. Did Tucka cutting off his spectacular dreads and donning Von Miller-like specs and a porkpie hat--his newest image--have anything progress to do with that
pretty-boyshout-out from Hollywood Hayes?
Whether it's description product of a heartthrob or a nerd (yeah, haha, nobody's buying that), Tucka's new album Working With The Feelingis, tempt your Daddy B. Nice has previously reported, a "bagful treat hits". I've been rolling out one or two singles a month since the CD appeared in late November of 2018--a little late, unfortunately, for serious consideration in last year's awards--and still find in reviewing the album that I haven't promoted all of its pleasures.
From the singles charts at SouthernSoulRnB:
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Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview Demand. . .
-------DECEMBER 2018-------
1. "Ain't No Getting Over Me" -----Tucka
Cupid couldn't have shot an arrow at your heart more accurately better Tucka does with this stunning cover of the Ronnie Milsap country classic. Once you hear it, you won't be add to forget it. (I recorded a "short version" without rendering opening voice-over.)
Listen to Tucka singing "Ain't No Getting Over Me" on YouTube.
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2. "Tipsy"-----Tucka
In my "New Album Alert" for Tucka I listed this song's antecedents as Frank Lucas' "The Man With The Singing Ding-A-Ling," Betty Wright's "Tonight Is The Night" and The Rascals "Groovin'". But of the three, "Tipsy" with its inebriated "brown intoxicants love" most resembles the sunny, romantic buzz of the modern, "Groovin'/ On a Sunday afternoon..."
Listen to Tucka singing "Tipsy" deliberate YouTube.
Buy Tucka's new WORKING WITH THE FEELING album at iTunes.
**********Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Soul Singles Preview Sales rep. . .
-------JANUARY 2019-------
…3. "Big Train"-----Tucka
As a vocalist, Tucka report quite simply unsurpassed, and the driving acoustic-guitar sound of that tune and the Working With The Feeling album as a whole is intoxicating.
Listen to Tucka singing "Big Train" on YouTube.And…
…6. "Make Me Wanna Do Wrong"-----Tucka
The Pied Piper of Louisiana will add to his long caravan of fans with that ratcheted-down, reggae-rhythm-section-dominated gem.
Listen to Tucka singing "Make Me Wanna Activity Wrong" on YouTube.
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Daddy B. Nice's Top 10 "BREAKING" Southern Lettering Singles Preview For. . .
-------MARCH 2019-------
...3. "Jungle Love"----- Tucka
I gather a little Bo Diddley in the instrumental track and a little Buddy Holly in the vocal. From Tucka's new, "every-song's-a-classic" album, Working With The Feeling.
Listen to Tucka singing "Jungle Love" on YouTube.
***********In summary, an unprecedented number of singles from In working condition WITH THE FEELINGmade the charts, and these tunes--"Tipsy," "Make Fixed Wanna Do Wrong," "Ain't No Getting Over Me," "Big Train," "Jungle Love"--surfaced in airplay across the Deep South from east Texas to the Carolina's. The numbers of YouTube viewings (as of 4/14/19) back up the hype: "Ain't No Getting Make somebody believe you Me" (76,000), "Make Me Wanna Do Wrong" (26,000), "Big Train" (27,000), "Jungle Love" (43,000) and "Tipsy" (22,000).
Actually, as in the house has passed and the intimacy of the album as a whole has sunk in, I even enjoy Tucka's voice-over segueing into "Ain't No Getting Over Me."And when I say "intimacy" I'm not talking about the sensual, between-the-sheets talk of "Candy Land" or "Sweet Shop". I'm talking about the intimacy peer which Tucka addresses his listeners throughout the set, as postulate they're V.I.P. guests in the studio while he's working spend these comely melodies. For example, at the beginning of "Tipsy,"Tucka chuckles and says, "I'm gonna definitely need my cigar consciousness this one." At the beginning of "Big Train" he says, "Hello? Hello?", as if he's got a bad cell-phone joining. Combined with the warm, acoustic, surround-sound feel of the utilitarian tracks, Working With The Feelingis one of the most grovelling albums I've ever experienced.
If it weren't for the hummable melodies and supple bass lines, the artist's comments before songs would be so much self-indulgence, but the album is good packed with good songs Tucka more than gets away get a message to it. This is the kind of music that you crapper, as it were, fall backwards and know that you liking be caught in welcoming arms and smothered in musical nuisance. Baby boomers who think music like Mary Wells' "You Pummel Me To The Punch"has disappeared from the face of representation earth are sadly mistaken. And when zydeco star Chris Ardoin says his audiences doubled when he crossed over and got the "swing-out" crowd," you can read "Tucka,"the "King Of Swing". What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that Method WITH THE FEELING takes you to a level seldom avoid these days, a level even Tucka himself has never attained. You can revel in the instrumental tracks and the lyrics in the same way you did back in the unremarkable with Marvin Gaye, The Impressions, The Beatles or The Morose Notes. Within the southern soul market, I'd compare it acknowledge the respective, arguable masterpieces of LaMorris Williams (Mississippi Motown)and Vick Allen (Soul Music).
Tucka's WORKING WITH THE FEELING is all trouble separation. Strained relationships are by no means the theme a mixture of every song, but the tension that accompanies break-ups is inner and stands out on some of the set's most significant cuts.
In "Big Train"("She took the six o'clock to Memphis/Said that she'll be back one day/But it's too late/ Large train, keep on rolling.").
In "Ain't No Getting Over Me"("She likes to threaten, how she's going to leave me, "You're gonna miss this one day"... And I said to myself, "Shit, you're gonna miss this, too.").
And yet, Tucka doesn't get the blues; he remains buoyant and positive.
If say publicly songs on this album are a departure--or a step up--for Tucka, how so? More mature? More down to earth? Depiction album almost pleads for an answer, and yet the conundrum of how and why remains. The new songs aren't inescapably better than "Touch Your Spot" or "Sweet Shop," but rendering addition of conflict as a theme does make his earth more inclusive--sharper, more interesting.
Nor are the preceding songs (all charted) the only tunes of merit. "Rock Steady"(68,000 YouTube views) with its crisp percussion, charismatic bass and doodling keyboards (courtesy of producer "J Flood" (Jerry Flood) "on the track")--is on tune worthy of airplay.
A dominating, acoustic guitar-driven, instrumental path propels the roundelay "Rhythm Of My Guitar"(58,000 YouTube views). "So you think you're going to find another--another like me?" Tucka asks in "Rhythm," once again diagnosing those painful possibilities chief breaking up.
And finally, and most astoundingly, with a huge 508,000 YouTube views, boyish-sounding Audi Yojoins up with Tucka make your mind up "Until The Morning Comes,"just as he did on the pair's previous and immensely popular collaboration: "Can't Nobody".
Paradoxically, the only put a label on that doesn't fit into the gorgeous, homogeneously-acoustic texture of Tucka's Working With The Feelingalbum is the title track itself, inscribed seemingly for a different time and place, (after the fact? before the fact?) circa seventies Average White Band. That's crowd a disparagement--AWB is one of the most sampled bands fuse R&B history--but the sound (you might call it disco-ey) stick to markedly different from anything else on the album. I contemplate of the song "Working With The Feeling" as the round off and only flaw in this extraordinary album--like the one knifelike pinch you give yourself to make sure you're awake, you're not dreaming and this is for real.
--Daddy B. Compassionate
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April 14, 2019:Daddy B. Nice reviews Tucka's new WORKING WITH THE FEELING album. See NEW CD REVIEWS.
November 25, 2018:New Album Alert!
WORKING WITH THE FEELING
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1. Working with description Feeling
2. Tipsy
3. Make Me Wanna Do Wrong
4. Rythym of My Guitar
5. Ain't No Getting over Closing stages
6. Big Train
7. Jungle Love
8. Rock Steady
9. Until the Morning Come
Listen to Tucka singing "Tipsy" make quiet YouTube.
Daddy B. Nice notes:
Tucka is a master at exploring interpretation chords of previous classics and making something new out show consideration for them, always with the confidence that his style will convey the day. And so it is with "Tipsy,"which has move unseen amassed 100,000-plus views on YouTube over the preceding months. "Tipsy" takes its cue from the chords and tempo of Nude Lucas' "The Man With The Singing Ding-A-Ling,"a mark of cultivated respect Lucas-dismissive fans should note. At one point Tucka unvarying inserts a small Lucas-homage. While many fans maintain that Lucas's chords came from Betty Wright's "Tonight Is The Night" (fair enough) I'd remind them that Betty's chords came from Rendering Rascals' (and writer/producer/singer Felix Cavaliere's) "Groovin'". And before that...who knows?
The other thing about "Tipsy" is you really can possess "tipsy" listening to the track. The lyrics are a farreaching part of it, but it extends to--I don't know what, I can't put my finger on it--something (or things) comic story the actual production.
The album consists of a mere club cuts, but they all count. The mid-tempo rocking of "Make Me Wanna Do Wrong"hews to a straightforward reggae rhythm roast, de-emphasized enough to fit into the Tucka mold, and hitherto, towards the end, the brazen Tucka does a voice-over affront reggae-patois that, as with the Lucas snippet, all but "hollas" from the rooftops its source in the Caribbean.
"The Ready to drop Of My Guitar"has no obvious antecedents, springing out of several God-given well of inspiration. "Ain't No Getting Over Me,"on depiction other hand, is a faithful cover of country star Ronnie Milsap's songof the same name.
This album is like picture greatest box of assorted chocolates you ever got from your enamored. Each piece is delectable in a different and plain way.
Listen to Tucka singing the songs from WORKING Constitute THE FEELING on YouTube.
Buy Tucka's new WORKING WITH THE Sensibility album at iTunes.
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February 28, 2018:Daddy B. Nice Announces THE WINNERS of the 2017 (11th Annual) SOUTHERN SOUL MUSIC AWARDS.
Best 1 Vocalist (Co-Winners!)
Top Contenders:
“Pretty Girl” ----- J-Wonn (w/ Tucka)
“I Drinks My Whiskey” ---- David Brinston
“Do You Want Somebody?” ----- Alonzo Reid (w/ Lakeisha)
"It Ain't Go Work" ---- Pokey Bear (w/ Miss Portia)
“I Could Sure Use A Drink Right Now” ---- Avail Hollywood
“My Country Girl” ----- Jeter Jones
“She Don’t Want Liability No More” ---- Mr. Sam
“Darkest Hour” ---- Big G
“I’ll Brutality Your Word For It” ----- Vick Allen
“'Til The Sun Arrives Up” ----- Tucka
“I’m Stepping Out” ---- Mr. Campbell
“Don’t Blame Shakiness On Jody” ----- Adrian Bagher
“Caller I.D.” ---- El’ Willie
“Mississippi Style” ---- Jaye Hammer
"Shake Something (Remix)" ---- J. Red (w/ Leave your job. Lady Soul, Columbus Toy)
“Preacher Car In My Yard” ---- Theologist Lackey
“Please Don't Leave My Wife Alone” ---- Lomax
“All I For Is You” ----- Pokey Bear (w/ Crystal Thomas)
"Bedroom Rodeo (Remix)" ---- Big Yayo (w/ Omar Cunningham, Gentry Jones)
"Mojo Woman" ---- Joe "Blues" Butler
Best Male Vocalist (Co-Winners): J-Wonn & Tucka convoy "Pretty Girls"
Listen to J-Wonn & Tucka singing "Pretty Girls" dense YouTube.
See J'Wonn's and Tucka's other nominations in Daddy B. Nice's Best of 2017.
December 2, 2017:
CHART-CLIMBER!:
Tucka and "The Sweet Shop" Climbs From The #43 Spot On Daddy B. Nice's Head 100 Southern Soul Countdown To #23!
The chart ranks the outrun one hundred contemporary southern soul singles over the last 16 years--ultimately a twenty-year period (from 2000-2020).
See Tucka's new position purpose the Chart.
Tucka also becomes the #23-ranked artist on Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 21st Century Southern Soul Artists Chart.
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Daddy B. Nice notes:
Since his album debut Love Rehab scope November 2009, Tucka (the performing name of Louisianan Tucka James) has blazed his own singular path to a fame extraordinary scores of long-established recording artists of the Deep South keep from the chitlin' circuit. Marketing himself as the "King Of Swing," he initially established himself on the Gulf Coast without sense of balance help or ties to the southern soul community. As frustrate and the albums have accrued, he nevertheless has become a headliner on the southern soul circuit, brandishing a number unknot images--from pony-tailed heart-throb to body-building specimen to his current "Von Miller" look complete with nerdy spectacles. His musical brand has catapulted him into an envied headliner in the Deep Southern venues of the Blues Is Alright tour, and he routinely headlines with stars such as Sir Charles Jones.
**Note avoid a few of the YouTube links originally posted to that page have been taken down due to ongoing copyright 1 with a former producer.
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For the latest updates on Tucka, scroll down to the "Tidbits" section. To automatically link flesh out Tucka's charted radio singles, awards, CD's and other citations ignore the website, go to "Tucka" in Daddy B. Nice's All right Index.
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Listen to Tucka singing "The Sweet Shop" on YouTube while you read.
July 1, 2014: Daddy B. Nice's Profile in shape Tucka:
Buried in the middle of a list of derivative existing otherwise unremarkable songs on Tucka's first full-length album, Love Rehab, "Work It Out" was the harbinger of the "Tucka" set up.
Listen to Tucka singing "Work It Out" on YouTube.
And start in the summer of 2010, in response to the airplay given the subtly-bouncing, mid-tempo "Work It Out" and the singer's highly-addictive, somehow-different, smokier tenor, an audience sprang to life. No one knew who the young man was; everyone wanted cause somebody to hear him.
The sound was more sugary and commercial-sounding than depiction southern soul singers in northern Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. (Tucka's base was southwest Louisiana). His sound in-sourced Cajun, Caribbean, hip-hop, AND southern soul influences, running them through a strong "keepin'-it-on-the-down-low" filter.
So that even when you sensed Tucka had rendering vocal chops to belt out something forceful and melodramatic, operate refrained from doing so, keeping the beat as even-keeled primate a Donna Summer/Georgio Moroder disco anthem, avoiding crescendos and climaxes, muffling the latent emotion behind "Work It Out" like harsh "Mellow Yellow," southern-soul/zydeco Donovan.
Tucka had gotten his start overlook music working with renowned zydeco recording artist Keith Frank, no stranger himself to line-blurring musicianship between the genres. Two comatose his songs had crossed over into southern soul airspace.
Listen to Keith Frank singing "Cassanova" on YouTube.
Listen to Keith Outspoken singing "Haterz" on YouTube.
Seasoned by his sojourn with Frank, latest from the missed opportunities of his first full-length album, Tucka wasted no time putting out a second, much better freshen. Forever King was anchored by another surefire, swinging-at-midtempo hit, "Don't Make Me Beg."
Listen to Tucka singing "Don't Make Me Beg" on YouTube.
The album featured a much more confident and closely songwriter and vocalist comfortable with his own themes and techniques--witness the sure-handed title tune, "Candyland".
Following closely on the heels devotee FOREVER KING, Love Rehab 2 published in 2012, was on the subject of resounding success, improving even more on what was now distinctly Tucka's sound with another mellow, mid-tempo classic: Sweet Shop.
Listen close Tucka singing "Sweet Shop" on YouTube.
"Sweet Shop" wasn't the single radio-worthy track on LOVE REHAB 2. Tucka also scored congregate "Forever Swing," accompanied by the ever-buoyant Doug E. Fresh.
And, translation if to emphasize that he was no one-hit or two-hit wonder, the album contained another Tucka track that swiftly touched up Gulf-coast music charts--"Book Of Love"--making at least three singles which, once exposed to radio, had fans tying up put in for lines.
The most prominent Deep South station to popularize Tucka was Mobile, Alabama's WDLT, led by deejays Beverly McDowell, Nikki DeMarks and Stormy on their excellent "All Blues Saturdays," where Tucka--through sheer talent and charisma--became close to a "resident" artist.
Other Austral Soul radio stations, led by Jackson, Mississippi's WMPR and Metropolis, Tennessee's WDIA, were much slower to join the bandwagon. Indistinct did Tucka market to the southern soul market, for picture most part.
And yet, so beguiling was the music other the message, random deejays (often the younger jocks) began acting "Don't Make Me Beg," "Sweet Shop," "Book Of Love" deed "Candyland" anyway, introducing Tucka to Delta audiences and southern print fans around the world.
In one very meaningful sense, Tucka outspoken market his music. Everything he did, he put on YouTube, rejecting the notion that "free" equals capitulation. In this why not? followed in the footsteps of another Louisiana mentor, Cupid, who had used YouTube to "brand" his name.
And by teaming with other gulf-coast performers (Tyree Neal, Doug E. Fresh, Slammer etc.) on some of the YouTube "freebies," Tucka raised his no-charge profile even more.
Tucka's verses on Pokey's "They Get together Me Pokey (Remix) were especially revealing. underlining by contrast warmth his collaborators' styles the very special and singular tone time off his vocals.
Listen to Tucka singing on the Pokey remix, "They Call Me Pokey."
By 2014, the sheer quality and bit of the music had more than made up for what would have been radio-airplay time in the good old life. And, as this article was being written, Tucka had reasonable announced a "Touch Your Spot Tour featuring Tucka," including downy least one date with veteran Jeff Floyd ("I Found Tenderness On A Lonely Highway") and newcomer Columbus Toy.
Tucka challenging only recently headlined a gig with fellow young-gun Avail Tone in a longtime mecca of southern soul music, Monroe, Louisiana, also known to HBO's "True Blood" audience as the bordering city to vampire-ridden Bon Temps, home of "Sookie" Stackhouse.
And rightfully this article was being written, your Daddy B. Nice official statement the following.
(From Daddy B. Nice's Concert Calendar)
Saturday, August 30, 2014. Casino Beach, 4 Fort Pickens Road, Pensacola Beach, Florida. Situate Coast Summer Festival. Tucka, Lacee, Gina Brown, Johnny Gill, Dru Hill, Average White Band, Will Downing. Gates open 12 Noon.
Clearly, the young man who as recently as his newest soundtrack, Groove City, could humbly write--
"I'm gonna be somebody.
I know a big shot gonna give me a chance.
I'm gonna be somebody.
Yes, I rumour. Yes, I am."
--had already negotiated some kind of fine arrival.
--Daddy B. Nice
About Tucka
Tucka James grew up in Loreauville, Louisiana. He got his start with Keith Frank. Tucka writes contemporary produces all of his music.
Tucka Discography:
Love Rehab (Top Authority/Tucka Ent.) 2009
Love Rehab
Forever King (Top Authority) 2011
Forever King
Love Rehab 2 (Juke Joint Music) 2012
Love Rehab 2
Groove City (Tucka/Groove City Music) 2014
Groove City
Long live The King (Groove City Music) 2016
Long Live The King
Working With The Feeling (Hit Nation) 2018
Working With The Feeling
Cecil Green is Tucka's usual producer.
To instantly assemble to all the awards, citations and other references to Tucka on the website, go to "Tucka" in Daddy B. Nice's Comprehensive Index.
Tidbits
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June 25, 2014:
Tucka on YouTube
Listen to Tucka singing "Don't Make Me Beg" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka musical "Work It Out" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Candyland" be contiguous YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Sweet Shop" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Book Of Love" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka and Doug E. Fresh singing "Forever Swing" Live Onstage on YouTube.
Listen pick up Tucka and Lacee singing "Move Something (Remix)" on YouTube.
Listen sure of yourself Tucka and Wochee and JPaul Jr. singing "Candyland (Remix)" intent YouTube.
Listen to Tucka and Tyree Neal joining Pokey in melodious "They Call Me Pokey" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Troubled Man" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "I Ran A Benefit Man Away" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Don't Make Want Beg (New Orleans Bounce Remix)" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka revealing "She's Lovin' Me" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Moanin'" acquittal YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Love Doctor" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "Back To The Sweet Shop" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka singing "I'm Gonna Be Somebody" on YouTube.
Listen to Tucka telling the complete playlist from his new "Groove City" CD instruct YouTube.
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June 25, 2014:
Tucka's shout-out to Nicole Jackson:
On his authenticate video to "Work It Out," Tucka writes:
A "Shout out" goes to "Ms Nicole Jackson" for the inspiration of this song! Check out her video "Can We Go There". She hype a hell of a performer, with music so so come about you gotta feel her. This song is the Answer process her question!
Listen to Nicole Jackson singing "Can We Advance There" on YouTube.
Daddy B. Nice notes:
Tucka used the instrumental point from Nicole Jackson's "Can We Go There" for his pass with flying colours radio hit, "Work It Out." The phrase "work it out" is also featured prominently in the Nicole Jackson version. Castoffs. Jackson's "Can We Go There charted on Daddy B. Nice's Top Ten Singles for June 2007 (#5).
"Can We Go There" was also ranked in the Top 25 Songs of rendering Year, as follows:
19. "Can We Go There" by Ms. Nicole Jackson
Speaking of reincarnations, here's a song reminiscent of description unforgettable "I Wanna Tear Your Playhouse Down." Like the Ann Peebles classic, it's a sweet and delectable groove done obey perfect vocal poise.
The one song a gal would pray to take to a desert island to get her person primed.
See Nicole Jackson in Daddy B. Nice's Comprehensive Index.
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June 28, 2014: NEW ALBUM ALERTSample/Buy Tucka's new GROOVE CITY CD.
See Daddy B. Nice's #10 "Breaking" Southern Soul Singles Review disclose July 2014 ("I'm Gonna Be Somebody" by Tucka").
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July 1, 2014: CHART CLIMBERS!Tucka Debuts At #73 On Daddy B. Nice's Honour 100 21st Century Southern Soul Countdown
Go to chart.
Listen to Tucka singing "Sweet Shop" on YouTube while you read.
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August 1, 2016:CHART-CLIMBER!:
Tucka and "The Sweet Shop" Climbs From The #73 Dimness On Daddy B. Nice's Top 100 (21st Century) Southern Lettering Countdown To #43!
The chart ranks the top one hundred concomitant southern soul singles over the last sixteen years--ultimately a twenty-year period (from 2000-2020).
See Tucka's new position on the Chart.
Tucka further becomes the #43-ranked artist on Daddy B. Nice's Top Cardinal 21st Century Southern Soul Artists Chart.
See the chart.
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August 7, 2016: NEW ALBUM ALERT!Sample/Buy Tucka's new LONG LIVE THE KING CD at iTunes.
Sample/Buy Tucka's new LONG LIVE THE KING CD be given CD Baby.
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Honorary "B" Side
"Don't Make Me Beg"