Shonna Tucker

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Shonna Tucker

| image = Shonna Tucker.jpg

| caption = Tucker in 2013

| origin = Killen, Alabama, United States February 27, 1978 (age 46)

| instrument = Bass guitar
Vocals
Guitar

| genre = {{Flatlist|

}}

| occupation = Singer-songwriter
bassist

| years_active = 2003–present

| label = Sweet Nectar Records

| associated_acts = Drive-By Truckers
Jason Isbell

| spouse = {{marriage|Jason Isbell|2002|2007|end=divorce}}

| website = {{URL|shonnatucker.com/|Official website}}

}}

Shonna Tucker is an American bassist and songwriter from Killen, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals.{{cite web|last=Dauphin |first=Michael |url=http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/rftmusic/2013/10/former_drive-by_trucker_shonna.php |title=Former Drive-By Trucker Shonna Tucker Returns to Off Broadway Tonight with Eye Candy | Riverfront Times |publisher=The Riverfront Times|website=Blogs.riverfronttimes.com |date=October 8, 2013 |accessdate=2015-07-17}}

Background

Tucker grew up in Killen, Alabama, receiving her first bass at age 12, a gift from her father. She describes her musical education as "mostly playing along with Creedence Clearwater Revival tapes".{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/buckets/music/women/artist.php?artistId=61 |title=Shonna Tucker, The Drive-By Truckers |publisher=Npr.org |date= |accessdate=2015-07-17}}

With the Drive-by Truckers

Tucker joined the Athens, Georgia-based Drive-By Truckers in 2003, replacing original bassist Earl Hicks. Tucker had previously played upright bass on the Truckers' album Decoration Day. She played bass on their next two records, The Dirty South and A Blessing and a Curse, before contributing her first songs on 2008's Brighter Than Creation's Dark.{{cite web|url=http://drivebytruckers.com/records.html#brighter_commentary |title=Records |publisher=Drive-By Truckers |date= |accessdate=2015-07-17}} She wrote three songs on that record: "I'm Sorry, Huston", "Home Field Advantage", and "The Purgatory Line". She also joined the band backing up Booker T. Jones on his record Potato Hole and Bettye LaVette on her record The Scene of the Crime.{{cite web|url=http://georgiamusicmag.com/shonna-tucker-eye-candy-cookin-up-some-country-soul-2/ |title=Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy | Georgia Music |publisher=Georgiamusicmag.com |date= |accessdate=2015-07-17}} For most of her career in the band, she was married to guitarist Jason Isbell, though the two eventually divorced.{{cite web|author= |url=http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-7618-jason-isbell:-estranged-trucker.html |title=Jason Isbell: Estranged Trucker |publisher=Expressmilwaukee.com |date=August 13, 2009 |accessdate=2015-07-17}} She also performed on Isbell's first solo album Sirens of the Ditch.

Solo career

Patterson Hood announced Tucker's departure from the band in December 2011 via a post on the band's Facebook page.{{cite web|url= https://grantland.com/features/drive-by-truckers-carry-on/ |title= Drive-By Truckers Carry On |publisher=Grantland |date= |accessdate=2020-07-17}}{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/drivebytruckers/posts/10150452135646726 |title=Patterson Hood's Statement About Shonna... – Drive-By Truckers |publisher=Facebook |date= |accessdate=2015-07-17}} Hood stated that "Her charm and spark will be irreplaceable and her part in our last decade of this band's history is indisputable."

Tucker released a series of instructional cooking videos on YouTube, entitled "Sweet Soul Cookin' with Shonna Tucker".{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNJ1g18fmwg |title=Sweet Soul Cookin' With Shonna Tucker |publisher=YouTube |date= January 19, 2010|accessdate=2015-07-17}}

Tucker's next musical project started taking shape when she, John Neff, and Bo Bedingfield worked up a version of Deana Carter's "Strawberry Wine", thus forming the band Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy. The band released their first album A Tell All in October 2013, a record that features songs "about love and jealousy, nights spent on the road and nights spent in the kitchen, the things men do to women and women do for men."{{cite web|url=http://shonnatucker.11spot.com/shonna-tucker-eye-candy-a-tell-all.html|access-date=2016-01-10|title=Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy – A Tell All|publisher=11spot}}{{better source needed|date=January 2016|reason=If this is a notable release, a source for this quote that is not from a commercial website should be available.}} Tucker contributed a cover of "Roll On (Eighteen Wheeler)" to the Alabama tribute record High Cotton.{{cite web|url=http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/07/alabama_tribute_record_high_co.html |title=Alabama tribute, 'High Cotton,' features Jason Isbell, Old Crow Medicine Show, Blind Boys of Alabama (video) |publisher=AL.com |date= July 27, 2013|accessdate=2015-07-17}}

Eye Candy

Tucker's current{{when|date=January 2016}} band, Eye Candy, is made up of primarily Athens-based musicians. The lineup is currently:{{when|date=January 2016}}