{"id":1533,"date":"2012-08-15T13:30:23","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=1533"},"modified":"2012-08-13T22:09:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T02:09:46","slug":"august-video-challenge-tanya-tucker-delta-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2012\/08\/15\/august-video-challenge-tanya-tucker-delta-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"August Video Challenge, Tanya Tucker, Delta Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of me and country radio, I can remember exactly where I was when I heard <i>Delta Dawn<\/i> the first time: just past the lake and headed down the narrow road through the trees that would eventually take me up to the main road and the 7-11. It was a journey I took frequently, so I was practically on auto-pilot. <\/p>\n<p>And then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tanyatucker.com\/home\/\">Tanya Tucker<\/a>&#8216;s voice and the eerie slow drone under it hit me like a cold bucket of water to the face. I think I turned it up mainly to make sure I was hearing correctly, because it didn&#8217;t sound like anything I had ever heard before. I don&#8217;t remember <i>when<\/i> this happened, but I&#8217;m guessing it was somewhere around 1992, when <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IUsyHVjacJ0\">Two Sparrows in a Hurricane<\/a><\/i> came out. The DJ probably even played them back to back. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I ever heard <i>Delta Dawn<\/i> on the radio again after that, or at least not for a while, but it stuck with me just the same.<\/p>\n<p>Here she is singing it on Hee-Haw; she was 14 when this performance was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zxRYMiitmho?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zxRYMiitmho?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of me and country radio, I can remember exactly where I was when I heard Delta Dawn the first time: just past the lake and headed down the narrow road through the trees that would eventually take me up to the main road and the 7-11. 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