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Concert Review:  Cypress Gardens, FL - Feb 2005

Tanya breezed into Central Florida this weekend and left some happy country music fans in her wake. 

Tanya's band performed a few songs without her after announcing we were on "Tuckertime".  I knew what the lead guitarist was talking about and so did my 10 yr old Casey, but I don't think most of the audience did.   All was  forgiven when Tanya hit the stage.

Tanya started the concert off with "Some Kind of Trouble" and sang hit after hit to a large and knowledgeable country music audience for over an hour and a half. 

This is the first time I have heard Tanya perform "San Antonio Stroll" in concert - and she nailed it - the dancing and the singing.  Tanya's lead guitarist and fiddle player sounded great. 

Other songs that I haven't heard live before:  "Lizzie and the Rainman", one of my personal favorites: "Love Me Like You Used To", "Blood Red and Goin' Down" and "Down to My Last Teardrop".  Tanya said she has been told "Down To My Last Teardrop" has helped more than one person through a divorce and then proceeded to sing and dance the heck out of the song.  Very easily one of her best concert songs.

Tanya gave her typical personable, high-energy, dancing and chatting performance.  She told stories about her parents 50th wedding anniversary, hoeing weeds late into the night, singing your guts out while trying to suck them in at the same time after having three kids, her parents being together for 62 years and disbelief that she could put up with the same guy for 62 years and on and on.  Tanya really connected with her audience with the singing, joking and storytelling.

Tanya also told us her teenaged daughter Presley has been in the studio recording and is working on a record deal.  Tanya is apparently overseeing Presley's career.  She laughed and said everybody thought her dad was a tough manager and a hard worker.

Tanya performed an acoustic bar stool blast-from-the-past medley that got quite a reaction from the audience.  She said a big problem with having a big break out hit like "Delta Dawn" is how do you follow it up?  Tanya said this is how and sang some of her early hits:  "Jamestown Ferry", "Lizzie", "Blood Red and Goin' Down" "What's Your Mama's Name" and "Would You Lay with Me." 

Other songs on the set list: "I'll Come Back As Another Woman", "It Won't Be Me", "Two Sparrows In A Hurricane", "Strong Enough To Bend" (one of Tanya's favorites), and "Oh What It Did To Me".  The boys went with us to this concert and they tell me their favorite was "It's A Little Too Late" -- I can't imagine why.

Tanya closed the concert with Delta Dawn.  You haven't heard this song, 'til you have heard Tanya pull out all the stops and sing it live.  I was sitting around some people that heard it for the first time and witnessed their amazement.  Tanya got a standing ovation after singing her best song of the afternoon.

D Miranda

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