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  In The 1970s, Tucker Zimmerman made some low-key acoustic guitar records in England. He was raised
  in Caifornia, and sang like it. And between those two circumstances, Zimmerman happens to have sat in
  with a whole lotta famous people; The Spiders From Mars, guys from Yes & Traffic & T Rex, Mary Hopkin,
  Paul Butterfield, Aynsley Dunbar, Ricky Fataar, and plenty more.
  
  The seriously famous are always moving along to whatever's new. But Zimmerman has kept his hand in. There
  were a couple records in the 80s, an interest in novels and words, one in the 90s, an 00s collaboration
  with another American expat who works on the Belgian version of The Voice, etc.
  
  Now he has a new record for the teens. Of himself reading poetry no less. And that is exactly the sort of
  project that could easily degenerate into the underground dude's answer to a Stan Lee cameo. The reason it
  doesn't is less about the words chosen(though they're fine) and more about the obvious lived grit in the
  mucinex-wracked glottis that is Zimmerman's voice these days. The sensitive folk rocker has given way to a
  grizzled gentleman. Zimmerman is more confident as his 77 years and sounds like a paisley Sam Elliott who
  spends days wandering outside dispensing advice to clouds & dogs.
  
  Zimmerman has also found a precise complement in accompanist Josh Burkett, whose life reads like an indie
  update to the performer Zimmerman was in the 70s. Burkett runs a record store in Western Mass, and has been
  a heavy in interesting underground projects of one sort or another for roughly 30 years (Vermonster, Bimbo
  Shrineheads, Tarp, playing with Ed Askew, & his array of solo records).
  
  The seams are allowed to show on these recordings. You can hear Zimmerman stop and go back to correct himself,
  and the sound levels vary. That puts things firmly in the contemporary camp, ensuring that this ain't no
  greatest hits that never were. In fact, Josh nips in with his acoustic guitar so subtly, and gets the rhythm
  of each talking point so just right so that the two performers dovetail again and again. And so the record
  can exist between them both, a new thing all it's own.
  
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  Thanks much,
  Angela Sawyer
  
  2022
  
  Tunnelvisions was recorded by
  Tucker Zimmerman & Josh Burkett
  both 'at home' in 2017-19
  
  with the help of
  Anthony Pasquarosa-guitar on tracks 5, 12, 13
  Samara Lubelski-violin on track 10
  Mary Lattimore-harp on track 10
  John Moloney on track 10
  
  Mastered by Jim Hemmingway, shutesbury, mass
  
  thanks:Troy & Heather, Charles, C Meadows,
  Angela, Jon, Frank, shannon& Bev, Byron, FC,
  Arkm, pbj, lp, Burkett family, s/t & many more
  Cover Painting: Josh Burkett
  Design: Tom Recchion
  Jacket Photograph: Keith Lublow for @fredriknilsenstudio
  © @fredriknilsenstudio
  
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