He played with many different groups such as Endless Highway, The Adobe Brothers, The Driftwoods, and Dale Crider to name a few. It was a hard decision for him, but he chose to put his musical career on the back burner to work a traditional day job to support his wife and child in McIntosh, Florida.įor the next 22 years he worked hard to keep his music alive. It wasn’t long after he married his love, Edwoina, that Red and Murphy moved to Winchester, Va., and Tucker decided to stay in Florida. Tucker went on to perform, travel, and record with this group, Red & Murphy & Co. By the end of the second night, the band asked him to join them in Dahlonega, Ga. He asked if he could sit in, and by the end of the evening he had been invited back for the next night. Tucker immediately started looking for another band, and when a band he was acquainted with came to perform in his hometown, he grabbed his dobro and went to their show. In 1980 a record company approach them about a record deal, but after touring for three years straight with no down time for resting, the rigorous schedule took its toll on the band and they disbanded in January 1980. That change doubled their touring dates and destinations to six days a week. At that time Harmony Grits was an all-acoustic Bluegrass band, but, in 1977 they crossed over to Outlaw country.
Tucker was hired to replace the departing dobro player. James “Tuck” Tucker started his musical career in 1975, when he joined the national touring group Harmony Grits Band.
On March 4, musicians gathered at Rum 38 not only to remember Tucker, who had passed away in 2021, but to also raise money to help the widow he left behind. He played on over 150 recordings by various artists and released three albums of his own original music. His talent graced the recordings and stages of many musicians, not only in Florida, but around the country. While he played a variety of stringed instruments, he was known as a dobro player extraordinaire. He toured for over 10 years playing dobro, electric and acoustic guitar with various bands such as Harmony Grits, Dancing Horse, Red & Murphy, and the nationally known Marshall Tucker Band. Rest in power, Tuck Tucker.HIGH SPRINGS ‒ Tuck Tucker was a musical artist of passion and talent. I’m so lucky I got to work with him for so many years. A killer work ethic, passionately into it. I’ll always remember him at his drawing board, arms blackened to the elbows with graphite, eraser shavings everywhere, bringing my characters to life. “A great friend, a master draftsman,” he said, “a tireless practical joker, a brilliant storyteller, the first one I reached out to when I began ‘Hey Arnold!’ because he was the best board guy I had ever met. More recently, Tucker was the storyboard revisionist for the upcoming Bob’s Burgers film, currently in production.Īlong with fans, friends and fellow animators, Craig Bartlett, the creator of Hey Arnold!, paid tribute to Tucker on Instagram this week. Tucker was also well know for his work on Hey Arnold!, storyboard directing 26 episodes, and going on to direct the 2002 film Hey Arnold!, and working as supervising director on 19 episodes of the show from 1999 to 2004. Tucker also wrote six episodes of SpongeBob. Not only was he was a storyboard artist for 2004’s The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, but he was also the supervising storyboard director for 47 episodes of the show from 2007 to 2004.
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He worked on the Filmation movie Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987), which starred The Orville‘s Scott Grimes as Pinocchio and Star Wars‘ James Earl Jones as the Emperor of the Night.Īlong with Hey Arnold!, Tucker was also well-known for his work on SpongeBob SquarePants where he worked as a storyboard artist. As well, he also worked on Disney‘s 1989 film The Little Mermaid, as well as the Rugrats animated series, and was even a character layout artist for The Simpsons.įrom 1987 to 2015, he worked as a storyboard artist, layout artist, character designer, director, and art instructor. His first job was as a breakdown artist on 1987’s Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night. Eventually, Tucker moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the craft and business he loved. He had a strong passion for animation that grew while watching cartoons with his father. Tucker, an award-winning artist, was born William Osborne Tucker III on Augin Lynchburg, Virginia.
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