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I wanted While I’m Livin’ to be a full circle moment for Tanya Tucker. I wanted songs on par with “Delta Dawn” and “What’s Your Mama’s Name,” and I also wanted to bring in an Americana element. The thing that comes to mind when I think of Tanya vocally is …

Tanya Tucker, unmistakable with her neon pink hairdo, is sitting at the bar — “my office,” she calls it — of an old-school Italian eatery in Nashville’s midtown neighborhood. The 60-year-old country singer who shot to fame with “Delta Dawn” in 1972 at 13 and appeared on the cover of …