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TUTTFS Runs Wild in '08
Last update 9-20-08
TUTTFS in Carthage, Texas at the Texas Hall of Fame - August 2008
Pics by Kathy Goss
Kathy Goss traveled over to Carthage Texas to check out the Texas Hall of Fame and specifically the Tanya Tucker exhibit.
As you can see from her star, Tanya was inducted in 2002.
Kathy also photographed the Johnny Rodriguiez and Billy Joe Shaver exhibits.
TUTTFS in Osceola, Iowa at Terrible's Casino - July 2008
Pics by Bebop and Bob
Bob and Dorin, TUTTFS paparazzi! |
Dorin, Bob and Bebop after the show hanging out by Tanya's bus! They stayed til the bus pulled out, waving goodbye to Tanya and her entourage! |
 Although the TUTTFS gang was not able to participate in a meet n greet, they were able to get some items signed. Cora, a new fan, was able to get her purse signed and since has retired it from use! |
Bebop was able to get her Parking Sign autographed. Tanya's assistant, Jody, very graciously shuttled items back and forth between fans and Miss T.
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Mindy got her new Official TT shirt signed. Good job Mindy getting your mom to the concert with her sanity intact! |
Jody brought Tanya's 7 month old yellow lab, Coda out of the bus. Coda is a very sweet pup and thoroughly enjoys attention and being petted. |
Cute name... Coda; You know, that funky little symbol on sheet music that tells you to go to the tail end of the song and play/sing the 'coda' or the end? |
Thanks to Jody for taking such good care of Tanya's fans and being so accommodating. You're the best! |
 Bob and Cora ran into Presley and had a chance to talk to her. She is currently working on acting jobs. Presley very graciously signed some items for TUTTFS members and said she was honored to be asked for an autograph. Mother Tucker should be proud -- Presley is a lovely and polite young lady. |
TUTTFS in Nashville for CMA Music Fest - June 2008
Pics by Fla. Dee
It is a must, when in Nashville eat at Jacks BBQ - lower part of Broadway. |
This was not the only time we cooled off in the fountain. Way too hot in Nashville in '08. |
Wildhorse is the place for great drinks and good food! |
Pyro every night after the show at the stadium. |
Lots of shopping and freebies! |
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Marcia Ramirez singing bgv for Rick Huckaby at the Riverfront! Both were recently in Tanya's band. |
Jack Gavin playing for a new artist at the Riverfront. |
It was hot, hot, hot and didn't rain a lick. Definitely needed plenty of pool time. |
Plenty of craziness and fan frenzy at the Exhibit Hall. (Photo of some of the 'Can You Duet' contestants on CMT at the CMT booth). |
We got to talking to Lonzo and Oscar... they insisted on a pic with Casey -- fun guys! |
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More fun in the sun! |
 New
favorites! Sunny Sweeney
from Texas performed at the Riverfront. She lists Merle Haggard
and Tanya Tucker (among others) as influences. Check out
"If I Could". |
Jay Weaver, (former bass player for Tanya) playing for Raul Malo at the Riverfront. |
Fly over every night before the start of the show at LP Field. |
D-wight, in his skin tight jeans, closes down 2008 CMA Music Fest! |
TUTTFS in Fort Worth for the Billy Bob's Concert - May 2008
Story by Alabama Dee
Sorry for takin' so long to write this up, but I'm
findin' it harder and harder to recover from our little escapes the older I get!
LMAO (That's my story and I'm stick....in too it!!!)
Okay, I knew our trip was doomed when Fl.Dee and her hubby picked me up at my
house at 6am, Thursday morning headed to the Orlando airport for our flight to
Ft. Worth. First of all, I don't do NOTHIN' at 6 am unless I haven't gone to bed
yet (which is usually the scenario!) and second, as we headed out I told Fl.Dee
to put my 'good luck Tanya Tucker concert trip song' (Ridin' Out The Heartache)
in the cd player, and she didn't freakin' HAVE IT!!!!!! So I'm blamin' HER for
us not getting to talk to Miss 'T' and not having a Meet-N-Greet!!!! You must
always start out your trip with that song.....or something will go wrong!!
Well, at least our plane didn't crash or nothin' drastic like that (God forbid).
So we all do the automatic check-in thing, and Fl.Dee and Billy proceed to go
through the security screening and I proceed back out the front door of the
airport to find out exactly how many cigarettes I can smoke in an hour! (No,
I'm not telling ya how many, but I must have been the only person in the entire
Orlando airport that had a lighter, cause 50 different people asked me for a
light, and I was afraid it would run out of fuel before I was finished smoking
all of mine!)
So I'm sittin' there smokin' and watching my watch
to make sure I allow myself enough time to go thru security and find out where
the hell our gate is located cause you have to take a tram to the boarding gates
after you clear security.....an idea I'm sure they got from Disney World. How
the heeeellllllll was I suppose to know that if you have a freakin' cast on they
act like you're a freakin' terrorist or something?????? Lord have mercy, I'm
dying if I'm lying.....Osma Bin Ladden would have had an easier time getting
thru security than I did!!!! As soon as they saw my cast they took me out of the
line and put me in a separate little room and called out over the loud speaker
for a female security person to do a body search!!!! I am NOT freakin' kidding
you.....I don't know what the hell they thought I had hidden in my freakin'
cast, but it's only on my hand, so good lord, how freakin' many pipe bombs could
somebody possibly fit in there besides my hand??????? (Our tax dollars hard at
work!) So after lord knows how long, a female security person comes and
x-rays me and then decides to go thru all my luggage and confiscated a tube of
toothpaste (you are only allowed 3.5 ounces and mine was 3.8 ounces) my suntan
lotion, hair spray, and mouse, all of which you are NOT allowed in your carry on
luggage, but you can put in your checked baggage. Which got me thinking...if
somebody were going to blow up the plane, why would it matter if it blew up from
the baggage compartment or from the cabin....we'd all still be dead!!!! Trust
me, those security officers found absolutely NOOOOOOO humor in my logic AT
ALL!!!!! LMFAO
Well, too late to make a long story short, but I did make it to the boarding
gate in time and we got on the plane (Fl.Dee and her hubby refused to sit with
me, don't know why?) and we made it safely to Fort Worth where my first priority
was to find a lighter, and then we had to figure out how to get to our hotel. I
let Fl.Dee and Billy argue about that while I smoked. Got to the hotel, went and
checked in my room, which was awesome. Fl.Dee and Billy "claimed" their key
didn't work, so they upgraded their room and gave them the "honeymoon"
suite.......yeah right......I'm gonna try that tactic next time! They got an
awesome room with two tvs, a sitting room and a king size bed.
No kiddin'....if anybody ever goes to Ft. Worth, stay at the Hilton Garden
Inn. It's out in the middle of "BFE"....but ya can't beat it for the money! They
had an indoor and outdoor pool and a jaccuzzi and a bar!!!! What else do ya
need?????
Okey Dokey, I just got a phone call from my editor ( Fl.Dee) who has given me a deadline to complete this latest episode before tomorrow so she can post it and the pics before we leave for Nashville around 3:30 am Tuesday morning! Damn, I hate deadlines! So here goes the short version of the rest of our trip…….
After we got settled in at the hotel we caught the city bus and headed to downtown Ft. Worth to see the Stockyards, shopping area etc. The cute little maintenance guy at our hotel told me the best place to eat a steak was a place called “Cattleman’s”, so we stopped in there to eat. Holy shit, we didn’t want to buy the whole freakin’ cow, just a steak! The prices were way up there, for me anyhow!. The steak was good, but nothin'' special. Fl.Dee makes the BEST steak I’ve ever eaten!!!!She could put that place out of business in a heartbeat!
Anyway, after we ate we moseyed around town, Fl..Dee and her hubby decided to go to the “White Elephant” for drinks, but I saw a Walgreen’s about six blocks away and had to go replenish my toiletries that they took from me at the airport. So on my way back to the bar, I’m walking past “Billy Bob’s” and right across the street from it is a place called “TANYA’S TEXAS”! Wow, how cool was that? I tried to see in the window, but the place was closed. When I got back to the bar, I told them about it, and we decided to go check it out the next day when Kathy and Kristin got there.
After a couple drinks we headed back to the hotel. Billy and I had to take a little walk to the closest liqueur store, he needed beer and I needed tequila. As we’re walking he finds a sign laying on the ground that says “Just Married”....LMAO…I told him to take it back and put it on their door! Then I asked him what he got for Fl.Dee to drink, and he said “nothing”, but for me to make her a margarita and bring it down to her. So we get back, I go straight up to my room, make up a batch of margaritas, head down to their room with Dee’s drink. I knock on their door…..NO ANSWER!! I knocked a little louder!…still no answer! Damn, we couldn’t have been back more than 15 minutes…where the hell did they go.? I go check the pool, the hot tub, the lobby,…no Billy and Dee! Now remember I had been given STRICT instructions not to pound on their walls or pull any pranks! So I’m thinking…. damn, they didn’t waste any time! LMFAO So I took my pitcher of margaritas to the hot tub and drank ‘em all by myself.
Never did see Billy and Dee till the next night after Kristin and Kathy got there and she called me to see what we were gonna do Friday night. They “claim” they went sightseeing Friday, but I never did get a direct answer on what the hell they were doing Thursday night…but they were both smiling, holding hands, and cuddling while waiting for us down in the lobby!!!! Gag, gag, barf, barf! LMAO You would have thought they were newly wed teenagers or something!
Kathy and Kristen got there Friday afternoon and we decided to go check out “Tanya’s Texas” which turned out to be a little boutique.
Then we went to a BBQ place to eat, I think the name was H2, but not sure about that. They had THE BEST MARGARITTA’S Fl.Dee and I have ever had. Fl.Dee tried to get the recipe from our waiter, but he said the bartender wouldn’t give it out.
The BBQ wasn’t that good.. I wouldn’t go back to either place. When the waiter brought our checks, I laid out my room key with my check. You know now all the hotel room keys look kinda like a credit card? So I wanted to see what he would do. He came back and picked up all our checks and credit cards and took them to ring them up. As soon as he left, we all fell out laughing! Then he comes back to our table laughing and told me “my credit card had been declined”…..LMFAO!!!! Oh well, I tried! After that we went back to the hotel and a little later, when Fl.Dee and Billy got done doing “whatever it was they were doing” we all decided to go check out “The Cadillac”, a bar Tanya has supposedly been known to frequent.
But no luck, she wasn’t there! But we did have a good time. The drinks were cheap, the music lousy (IMO), but the place was packed and Kristen and I both danced with Billy.
Then I just grabbed whatever guy was closest to me and danced with him. He was young enough to be my son, but he was cute and quite inebriated. After a couple dances, his girlfriend came and saved him from my clutches! LOL Not sure what time it was when we left, but we shut the place down, then headed back to the hotel and the hot tub!
I don’t remember anything after that till the next day, I woke up about 3:30 in the afternoon and remembered we needed to go find a dozen Yellow Roses to give to Tanya when she came onstage for the concert that night. We had no trouble finding them, got a dozen and wrote on the card….”To Our Yellow Rose Of Texas” from “All Your Fans at TTUTTFS”.
Then we met up with Delena who lives in Ft. Worth, her daughter Pricilla and her boyfriend Matt, and we all met up at a local Mexican Food hot spot called Joe T.Garcia’s. Wow, it was awesome all of us meeting up. There was Fl.Dee, her hubby Billy, me, Kathy Goss (La), Kristen (Ok), Delena, her daughter Pricilla and her boyfriend Matt! Y’all just don’t know how cool it really is to meet up with other fans from this site and finally get together in person. We were absolutely elated and everybody was sooo excited to finally meet each other.
When we got to the restaurant, the line to get in was almost a mile long! And “no”, I’m not exaggerating!!!! But Delena said it moved fast and was well worth the wait! So I went to the bar, got us a pitcher of Margaritas and a beer for Billy and we were well on our way to “Margaritaville" by the time we got seated.
I found a “stogie” someone had discarded and did my “Willie Nelson” impersonation, as you can see in the picture! LMAO
Then I noticed they had a cop posted at the entrance to the resturant. He motioned for me to come to him and I’m thinking “Oh Shit!”, I’m fixing to get busted for the stogie! So I walked over to him and asked what was the problem? He told me to put my hands behind my back and took out his handcuffs! I asked him why I was getting busted, and he smiled and said….”You’re having too much fun”!!!! Damn, my heart was beating so fast and I had a knot in my stomach, then he cracks us all up with that!!!! It was hilarious!!!!
We all got seated and had another round or two of margarita’s and some of the best Mexican food I’ve had since I left Texas.
Now Billy has been dealing with all of us girls pretty good up to this point, but on the way to the restaurant, we finally broke him: we played and sang Tanya songs from the hotel all the way to Joe T. Garcias. He was on Tucker-over-load and cracked!
From there, we headed to Billy Bob’s, all liquered up and ready to party! Since fl. Dee already did a concert I review, I won’t bore you with my version. However, she did fail to mention several things. As soon as Tanya came prancing out on stage to “Some Kind Of Trouble” I walked up and gave her the dozen yellow roses! I think she genuinely was pleased to get them, cause when one of the stage hands came to take them she grabbed them to smell them one more time!
As you can see from the pictures, we found Tanya’s handprints and her dog’s paw prints on the “Wall of Fame” and posed under her neon sign of her signature which they had on the wall behind one of the many bars in Billy Bob’s, along with all the great legends of country music!!! We absolutely had a blast!!!
It was a night to remember for sure and Delena, her daughter and Kristen and all of us had a blast!
I don’t remember much after we left Billy Bob’s, so if I’ve left out anything else, somebody else will have to fill us in!
We’re looking forward to leaving tomorrow morning for a week in Nashville. So I’m quite sure the “TTUTTFS Runs Wild” episodes will continue. Stay tuned for the next episode!!!
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