“The voice of lore at the campfire and the sharp laughter of modern myth… S. J. Tucker is songs and stories, community and wit.”-Phil Putnam
S. J. Tucker concert schedule
Latest Release: “Strangelic” remix single & video!
S. J. has produced and narrated an audiobook of Denise Parkinson’s Daughter of the White River, Depression Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta! Click here to start listening.
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IN THE WORKS: S. J. is keeping her tour schedule light for the coming year in hopes of getting at least one new record release completed and out the door, but she already has events scheduled for spring & summer in Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee! More info on concerts & cancellations. S. J. also gives online concerts on a regular basis which can be viewed at home or wherever you happen to be, as long as you have an internet connection available. Catch all her online shows at our indie musician-run platform Online Concert Thing!
photo by Ryan Loyd
“Tucker is not only fantastic; she’s like a character out of a fantasy novel. She weaves myth and magic into her lyrics as easily as a strain of cello, a lick of something electric, the chuffing of a train engine…Tucker has a knack – no, a genius – for weaving old ways with new.”
–C. S. E. Cooney, blackgate.com
“S. J. Tucker sounds like no one else out there. I’m not sure if she is fairy, shape-shifter, otherworldly, or just a super intelligent, super perceptive young woman…Critics have compared her voice to Joni Mitchell and Tori Amos, her guitar style to Emily Saliers. I believe she is a complete original coming straight from Neverland where Magick is real.”
—Phil King, Audiofuzz.com
Latest From S. J.
August 2024 Update!
Hi, everyone! ICYMI, I got to be a guest on Alexian’s relatively new YouTube interview show this past Sunday, and we had a ball: click here to check it out. Alexian’s a long-time friend of mine; please consider subscribing to his channel while you’re there!
Have I mentioned before that I have a fabulous nineteen-year-old godchild who’s also a musician? Not only that, but she’s been chosen as an at-large delegate for the DNC this year, and that happened before recent roller-coastery events went down, too! Thing is, she needs a little bit of a financial boost to get there from Missouri. Please consider donating to Béla if you’re able. She’s the reason I know about Hazbin Hotel (yes, since nobody asked, of course I’m obsessed) after all, as if she wasn’t awesome enough already.
As of a few weeks ago, I have new merch available on my Bandcamp store!
Offering these USB drives for the first time ever has been super affirming! The first 100 are nearly gone, and so I have already restocked! They’ve been so well received, beyond all my expectations, and I’m so grateful!
I’ll sign each one that finds a home whether it’s at a show or an online order. Anybody who’d like to have their digital media and hug it too, this is for you! 2.5gb of music spanning 20+ years or songwriting: over 10 albums, over 20 singles, stuff only previously available at live shows that I’ve never released digitally before, and some unreleased goodies too, because I can! Get one here.
Portrait art by Cora Ocean – please look her up on Instagram and follow her! She’s brilliant! I got to design these myself, and I love how they turned out. Cora’s art absolutely makes the whole thing work.
^As far as I know, you can plug them into any standard USB port and access the various mp3 files- that includes a USB port in the console of your car, if your car is equipped with one of those! Let me know?
Last thing for now is a health update (it’s all positive) plus an online show announcement. I’m ten out of sixteen days through followup treatment for my recent oncology adventure, and I’m feeling strong. (1 in 8 of us deal with breast cancer nowadays, according to the statistics I have seen. Please take care of yourselves as much as possible, everyone. This will not be the last time I mention it. I’m still here and still healthy because a loved one noticed a change, told me, and asked me to please get myself checked. Also, my med team have all been amazing throughout this whole experience- yes, it is possible.)
I look forward to celebrating completion of treatment in just a little while, on August 15th. One month from that date, I’ll give my next Online Concert Thing show, a matinée with my beloved poet sister Kat Heatherington! We’ll be making tickets available for that very soon, and I hope you’ll be able to join us. We’ve named the show Haunted by Honeysuckle, which is a line from a poem in her new collection, A Map Without Your Shadow! We’re concocting a shared setlist of completely new and unreleased works from both of us, so please mark your calendars and join us if you can. If you do miss it, not to worry. We will make the video available for purchase afterwards, and all paid Patrons of all tiers on my Patreon will get access to the video of the whole show in October. Join anytime over there if you like, and you’ll be helping me continue to fund and create new music.
“Haunted by honeysuckle” also ties in pretty nicely with my new tattoo, don’t you think? My tattoo artist is lunarbodyart on Instagram; please consider following her. She’s absolutely lovely.