Brandi Carlile is producing Tanya Tucker's new album

Brandi Carlile has revealed that she is co-producing country music legend Tanya Tucker's new album, While I'm Living. The project is Tucker's first studio album since 2009's My Turn, and her 25th studio album overall.

Carlile, who is the most nominated woman at this year's Grammy Awards, expressed her excitement about the upcoming album to Variety this week. Describing 60-year-old Tucker as "the most fascinating person in country music right now", Carlile insisted that the new project will have the world asking: "how did we forget about Tanya Tucker?"

Her preparation for working on Tucker's album included speaking to legendary record producer Rick Rubin. Carlile revealed that Rubin "mentored me prior to making this record about how he approached [Johnny] Cash to do something like this.”

Tucker, one of the most prominent recording artists in country music in the '70s and '80s, burst onto the scene with her debut album Delta Dawn when she was only 13 years old. The title track from the album has since become a country classic.

Carlile told Variety that While I'm Living will "remind the world that [Tucker's] influenced a whole corner of country music that no one else has even touched." Carlile lists Miranda Lambert, Kacey Musgraves, Maren Morris, Gretchen Wilson, and herself, as the among the many country and folk artists who have been deeply impacted by Tucker's legacy.

Carlile, who has also recently produced albums by folk duo the Secret Sisters, is nominated across six categories in the upcoming Grammy Awards. Her critically acclaimed album, By The Way, I Forgive You, is up against projects by Kacey Musgraves, Janelle Monae, Post Malone, Cardi B, Drake, H.E.R., and the Black Panther soundtrack for Album of the Year.

Variety also revealed that Carlile is serving as an executive producer, alongside Shooter Jennings, on a documentary about Tucker's life and career, currently titled, Delta Dawn Then and Now: The Return of Tanya Tucker.