Shonna Tucker & Eye Candy

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Shonna Tucker grew up in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, listening to the same salty-sweet mix of soul and country that made up the Arthur Alexander and James Carr singles recorded there decades before. She played bass in the Shoals scene from her high-school years until starting an eight-year stint as bassist and singer for the Drive-By Truckers. The music she makes today in Athens, Georgia, flows from the same vein as the music she grew up with: songs that haunt and float like Dolly’s “Down from Dover” and ones that pulse and move like Otis’ “Hard to Handle,” rockers that are right at home on the stage of the 40 Watt downtown and folk songs that are at home among the donkeys and hens on her farm outside town.  Shonna’s band, Eye Candy, includes four of the most prolific players in the Athens music scene: John Neff on guitar and pedal steel, Bo Bedingfield on guitar, Neil Golden on keyboards, and Clay Leverett on drums. For nearly twenty years, John has been one of the town’s most sought-after collaborators in the studio and on the road. Bo is singer/songwriter and leader of the Wydelles, and has backed up several other local songwriters on drums and guitar. Clay led the Athens rock band Lona for eight years before starting honky-tonk band the Chasers, and has played drums and toured with Bright Eyes and Now It’s Overhead. Neil, former member of the Glands and Elf Power, also writes and sings for Golden Brown.  Shonna Tucker and Eye Candy’s debut album, A Tell All, was recor

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A Tell All

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Athfest 2013

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SXSW 2013 Showcasing Artists

Uncut: You Really Got It

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MASTERED

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Uncut You Really Got It

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2012-11-09 Caledonia Lounge - Athens, GA

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Uncut 2014.02 - You Really Got It

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2013-08-22 Hendershot's - Athens, GA

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2013-10-19 40 Watt Club - Athens, GA

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High Cotton: A Tribute to Alabama

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You Really Got It - Uncut Sampler Jan 2014

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