Tucker Livingston

Tucker Livingston is an award-winning Austin-based singer-songwriter and guitarist whose music fuses raw poetry, rich melodies, and global influence. 

A featured performer at the Austin City Limits Music Festival, SXSW, Kerrville Folk Festival, and Voice of America, Livingston emerged as a standout voice in Americana and folk.

In 2003, he was awarded Best Singer-Songwriter for the Austin Music Foundation’s Incubator Grant Competition, supporting the creation of his critically acclaimed debut album. Produced by Mitch Watkins and engineered by Jim Vollentine at Viewpoint Studio, the album climbed to #6 on the iTunes Folk Chart and received widespread radio and television exposure. 

The album's success led to an interdisciplinary collaboration with Ballet Austin: choreographer Gina Patterson created “No Defense,” set entirely to Tucker’s music, which premiered at the Paramount Theatre to four sold-out performances.

Livingston's songs have also reached the screen, featured in the film Maturing Youth, directed by award-winner Michael Polanski. Beyond the studio, he has worked with Texas music educator Neal Kasinov and performed with the Groundwork Music Orchestra, a non-profit ensemble described by The Austin American Statesman as “the Wilco of children’s music groups.”

Tucker spent over a decade touring internationally with his father, Texas music legend Bob Livingston, as U.S. cultural ambassadors supported by State Department grants. Together, they brought American roots music to Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. He is also a core member of the Texas Commission on the Arts’ celebrated educational group Cowboys & Indians, blending Native American, East Indian, and Western musical traditions.

In 2006, Livingston paused his career to immerse himself in South Indian Carnatic music, living and studying in India for 15 years. Now based back in Texas with his wife and son, he is returning to the stage and studio, crafting a new body of work and continuing to share his music across Texas and the world.

“A true original, in a musical world all his own.”

  -  Jerry Jeff Walker

“Tucker is the real deal.”

- Shake Russell

“Tucker Livingston is a poet who aims at the Heart, not the Chart. When you reach the Heart, the Chart will follow. People will want to acquire the music because it fills a space in the soul. A natural poet-minstrel chooses his words and instrumental arrangements in such a way that the phrases become emotional truth. 

Tucker’s music is simply Free Expression and Flowing Melody that makes sense where it matters most- in the elusive, mysterious place Humankind calls the Heart. Tucker Livingston knows the Heart is hard to reach, but he understands that when you get there, you are most certainly Home. “​

- Michael Martin Murphy

“I just had a chance to listen to a couple of songs by Tucker Livingston, and it has to be said that they are incredible by any standard ! To state that they capture the essence of a line finely and purposely drawn is only to comment on the line itself and not the context or the space around it, the nuance of decisions made, purpose defined, and course precisely determined. Tucker’s voice so perfectly and achingly compliments matters well considered and put to rest, although not without some regret, second thoughts, and more than a trace of melancholy. Likewise, his ability to address, through hope and consideration, the subject of his affection, buoying and hopeful in the most tender of ways.”

- Willis Alan Ramsay 

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