August 2008

We've just installed a new message board system in the Tracy Nelson Fan Forum!! This is the place to communicate with Tracy and other fans! And now its spam-free!!!

May 2008

Tracy recently recorded an interview with the radio program American Routes. Listen for it in coming months!!

December 2007

Tracy has recently recorded with her long-time buddy, guitar-legend Scotty Moore, who has been working on a Sister Rosetta Tharpe collection. Look for it 2008!

Additionally, Tracy, Vickie Carrico, and Terry Tucker just recorded a beautiful background vocal for "Where Will You Go", a song Tracy and Marcia Ball co-wrote and will be available on Marcia's new release sometime next year!

Summer 2007

Announcing the release of Tracy Nelson's "You'll Never Be A Stranger At My Door"!!

• Tracy's 1st solo release since 2003's "Live From Cell Block D"!

• Tracy's 1st studio recording since 2001's "Ebony & Irony"!!

• Tracy's 1st all country recording since 1969!!!

   

"Twenty some years ago, during the musical drought of the eighties, I drove into Nashville to see Jimmy Bowen, then head of MCA. He had produced one of my favorite records, Time Is On My Side, and I liked and respected him a lot. I told him I was thinking about making a country record. He said" I'll tell you what I told Delbert McClinton when he, Delbert, suggested doing the same thing. "Listen to country radio for two weeks and come back to me with a list of songs you heard on the radio that you would like to have done." I did and I couldn't.

Flash forward twenty years. I opened a folder in my computer titled "Songs I would like to do." Lo and behold, a great many of them were country tunes, some even from the eighties. Either I didn't try hard enough then or it took several decades to compile an appropriate list.

Well, here it is." - Tracy Nelson         

Find the lyrics HERE!

"(You'll Never Be A) Stranger At My Door", Tracy's latest recording, is titled from a song that has been a staple of Tracy's live show for decades, and until now has always been referred to as "Screen Door". Fortunately, the recording of the song turned out to be a lot easier than finding the publishing information for a mis-remembered title and songwriter! There are 11 new tracks on this collection of country genre gems, recorded on December 13th and 14th, 2006, at Tone Chapparel Studio in Nashville (Madison, actually), the former home of singer Jim Reeves in the 1950's. As an homage, Tracy recorded Reeve's Country-politan hit "Four Walls" within his own!

The band for this record was based around a familiar cast of characters from records past ("Move On", "Ebony & Irony" ) including drummer John Gardner, bassist Byron House, and guitarist Bob Britt, as well as piano / accordianist (& jokester!) Steve Conn (guest accordian on "Ebony & Irony"), and multi-instrument wizard, 'Fats' Kaplin (who's skinny as a rail, btw!). Anchoring everything and making sure it all gets to disc (tape is a thing of the past...) was Tone Chap owner / engineer / brilliant-musician-in-his-own-right, George Bradfute (guest guitar on "Ebony & Irony").

Also making return visits to the studio with Tracy this time out were singers Vickie Carrico, Becky Russell, Alice Newman Vestal, (all wonderful recording artists in their own right!) and singer/songwriter Terry Tucker, who's also Tracy's long-time hair-dresser.

Finally, there's the storied legend, Guy Clark, whom Tracy asked to help (along with Alice) on her touching ode, "Salt Of the Earth", to the departed old-timers, & genuine characters, that once lived near her rural Tennessee home of 35 years. You can read more about the "Salt..." story HERE!

Autumn 2006

The complete Mother Earth collection now available in the Tracy Nelson Store!!

Just added:

Mother Earth - "Satisfied" and "Bring Me Home", & Tracy Nelson - "Mother Earth"

We have recently partenered with the largest digital music distibutor in the world, Apple iTunes. Click the iTunes button to go directly to Tracy's page and crank up your iPods!!

In addition to $0.99 music downloads, iTunes offers TV shows, movies, audiobooks, and 'podcasts' of an endless variety.

January 2005

NEW DVD RELEASE!!

Now available for the first time anywhere, "So Fine" - Tracy Nelson & Mother Earth (1973). This gem of a documentary was directed by Michael Dee, a fan and then film-school student at Yale. Perhaps as much as two-thirds of the film is beautifully filmed live concert footage, intercut with interviews with Tracy, Andy McMahon, and Travis Rivers, the band's pistol-packin' manager, as well as scenes of vintage Nashville, Tracy's farm, dogs, cats, and the glorious Tennessee countryside.

Featured songs include "Temptation Took Control Of Me...", "I Want To Lay Down Beside You", "Mother Earth", "The Sky's About To Cry", "Going Back To Tennessee", "I'll Be Long Gone", "Whatever I Am", "I Need You So Bad", "Same Old Thing", and yes, a short snippet of "Down So Low".

Now available in the Tracy Nelson Store!

December 2004

They're here at last!!

The Tracy Nelson / Mother Earth re-issues you've been waiting for!!!

Get your personalized copies now in the

Tracy Nelson Store!

After many years, we're pleased to finally announce the CD re-issue of Mother Earth's Living With the Animals and Make a Joyful Noise, as well as Tracy's 1974 release, Tracy Nelson!!

Read Old News Here....