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A collaboration with labelmate, Big Thief (who produced and performed on the album), this is Tucker Zimmerman's first album for 4AD.
I Wonder If I’ll Ever Come True
  1. It All Depends On The Pleasure Man
  2. Watching Heroes Come and Go
  3. Slide On
  4. So It Goes
  5. Let’s Start Over Again
  6. Taoist Tale
  7. Welcome To Mass Media
  8. Song
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Tucker Zimmerman

I Wonder If I’ll Ever Come True

Big Potato Records
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    Expected Release: 4th Oct 2024

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Recorded between 1973-76 this is the first ever release for a stunningly beautiful, homegrown collection featuring Ian A Anderson & Maggie Holland.

“Zimmerman conjures up a kind of Arcadian folk surrealism that is utterly his own” - MOJO. "Startling collection of intimate, home-recorded songs from the cult singer-songwriter adored by David Bowie and Big Thief alike. I eulogised the “Arcadian folk surrealism” of his 1974 ‘Over Here In Europe’ but, if anything, this informal collection of intimate home-studiorecordings is even better.

Recorded between 1973 and 76 whilst living in Belgium, this is the kind of assured, organic freewheeling folk music that has the mellow, introspective rough-edged feel of some lost private-press LP, the kind rightly revered by Endless Boogie’s Paul Majors as “real people” music. A true find.” Andrew Male, MOJO magazine.

Free-ranging, Playful, Intimate - his Songpoet imagination unbound and in full bloom. Recorded between 1973-76 this is the first ever release for ‘I Wonder If I’ll Ever Come True’ a stunningly beautiful, homegrown collection by Songpoet Tucker Zimmerman and friends. The range and depth is astonishing. From the heady surreal journey of ‘It All Depends’ Upon the Pleasure Man’, to the uplifting Gene Clark-esque 'So It Goes’, to some of his most beautiful & touching love songs in ‘Let’s Start Over Again’ & ‘Song’. Only one song has seen the the light of day before now - ‘Taoist Tale’ from his 1984 album ‘Word Games’.

This recording from a decade earlier loses no power in its folkier stripped down style driven by Tucker’s strong narrative. While living in bucolic seclusion in Belgium with Marie-Claire, Tucker invited visiting musicians (Derroll Adams, Wizz Jones, Maggie Holland, Dave Evans, Ian Anderson) into his home studio to play and live tape whatever songs he had at hand. Maggie Holland and Ian A Anderson feature, while Tucker found a freeing simplicity in just guitar, ’70s organ, bass and piano. We are so grateful to Ian A Anderson, who carefully kept and curated these recordings from 50 years ago. “Every time I would leave, Tucker would hand me another tape full of songs”. Ian worked with Tucker and ourselves to present this wonderful album.

The collection is among Tucker’s finest - free-ranging, playful, intimate - his Songpoet imagination unbound and in full bloom. The ethos, the playing, the freedom, feels like Ronnie Lane’s time in the Welsh Borders. Unhurried, liberated, down-home and cosmic. Extraordinary music made among friends