“Tracy Nelson proves that the human voice is the most expressive instrument in creation”- John Swenson/Rolling Stone
“A Bad White Girl” – Etta James

Founding Americana Singer/Songwriter Returns with Masterful “Life Don’t Miss Nobody”
 

Tracy Nelson, one of the most powerful voices in American music, has emerged from a lengthy recording hiatus with the album of a lifetime, a musical self-portrait spanning her entire career. “Life Don’t Miss Nobody” (BMG; release date June 9th) is a 13 track collection that stretches back to her start as a guitar-picking Wisconsin teen playing coffeehouses through an unparalleled career, now in it’s sixth decade, singing blues, country, New Orleans R&B and gospel, and performing in such storied music meccas as 1960s San Francisco and 1970s Austin in her epic, genre busting musical
journey.

But this is no nostalgia trip. The title song is a brand-new composition from the woman whose “Down So Low” hasbecome a modern standard. She’s kept busy performing and recording with long-time musical friends in projects like Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues and with the freewheeling all-star Blues Broads – Angela Strehli, Annie Sampson and
Dorothy Morrison. Even so, roots lovers have waited a long time for a new Tracy Nelson album, and no one’s more excited than Tracy. “I haven’t made a record in over 10 years,” she says. “I’ve been wanting to do every one of thesesongs for a really long time. I wanted to get a little bit of everything, all the kinds of music that I love.” Life Don’t Miss Nobody” is Tracy Nelson’s own Great American Songbook, featuring iconic composers like Hank Williams, Ma Rainey, Willie Dixon, Allen Toussaint, Chuck Berry, Doc Pomus, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and the Founding Father of American Song, Stephen Foster. Foster’s “Hard Times” in here in two settings, both featuring Tracy on 12 string, the first
time she’s recorded on guitar since her 1964 debut, Deep Are The Roots.