Blood Red and Goin' Down
1973 single by Tanya Tucker
"Blood Red and Goin' Down" | ||||
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Single by Tanya Tucker | ||||
from the album What's Your Mama's Name | ||||
B-side | "The Missing Piece of Puzzle" | |||
Released | June 29, 1973 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 3:02 | |||
Label | Columbia | |||
Songwriter(s) | Curly Putman | |||
Producer(s) | Billy Sherrill | |||
Tanya Tucker singles chronology | ||||
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"Blood Red and Goin' Down" is a song written by Curly Putman, and recorded by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. It was released in June 1973 as the second single from Tucker's album What's Your Mama's Name. The single was Tucker's second number one on the country chart and would stay at number one for a single week and spend a total of twelve weeks on the chart.[1]
Content
The song is about an adolescent girl, who accompanies her father to a barroom where her mother and her mother's lover are drinking, and witnesses as her father murders the pair.
Chart performance
Chart (1973) | Peak position |
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US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[2] | 1 |
US Billboard Hot 100[3] | 74 |
Canadian RPM Country Tracks | 1 |
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Tanya Tucker singles
- "Delta Dawn"
- "Love's the Answer"/"The Jamestown Ferry"
- "What's Your Mama's Name"
- "Blood Red and Goin' Down"
- "Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)"
- "The Man That Turned My Mama On"
- "I Believe the South Is Gonna Rise Again"
- "Lizzie and the Rainman"
- "Spring"
- "San Antonio Stroll"
- "Greener Than the Grass (We Laid On)"
- "Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You"
- "You've Got Me to Hold On To"
- "Here's Some Love"
- "Ridin' Rainbows"
- "It's a Cowboy Lovin' Night"
- "You Are So Beautiful"
- "Dancing the Night Away"
- "Not Fade Away"/"Texas (When I Die)"
- "I'm the Singer, You're the Song"
- "Lay Back in the Arms of Someone"
- "Pecos Promenade"
- "Dream Lover" (with Glen Campbell)
- "Can I See You Tonight"
- "Love Knows We Tried"
- "Should I Do It"
- "Feel Right"
- "Baby I'm Yours"
- "One Love at a Time"
- "Just Another Love"
- "I'll Come Back as Another Woman"
- "It's Only Over for You"
- "Love Me Like You Used To"
- "I Won't Take Less Than Your Love" (with Paul Davis and Paul Overstreet)
- "If It Don't Come Easy"
- "Strong Enough to Bend"
- "Highway Robbery"
- "Call on Me"
- "Daddy and Home"
- "My Arms Stay Open All Night"
- "Walking Shoes"
- "Don't Go Out" (with T. Graham Brown)
- "It Won't Be Me"
- "Oh What It Did to Me"
- "Down to My Last Teardrop"
- "(Without You) What Do I Do with Me"
- "Some Kind of Trouble"
- "If Your Heart Ain't Busy Tonight"
- "Two Sparrows in a Hurricane"
- "It's a Little Too Late"
- "Tell Me About It" (with Delbert McClinton)
- "Soon"
- "We Don't Have to Do This"
- "Hangin' In"
- "You Just Watch Me"
- "Between the Two of Them"
- "Find Out What's Happenin'"
- "Little Things"
- "A Memory Like I'm Gonna Be"
- "Love's Gonna Live Here" (with Jim Lauderdale)
- "Bring My Flowers Now"
- "The House That Built Me"
- "Ready as I'll Never Be"
- "Romeo" (credited as Dolly Parton and Friends)
- "You Ain't Woman Enough" (with Loretta Lynn)
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