Tucker Zimmerman

An underrated American folk singer Tucker Zimmerman's songs are poetic, philosophical, and often playful, mixing folk, rock, and blues into his own eccentric style. He began his career in late-'60s London where he recorded his Tony Visconti-produced debut, Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman, then bounced around Europe before settling down in Belgium. He never achieved mainstream success, but maintained a career as a solo performer and released a string of albums for small European labels until the mid-'80s when he reinvented himself as a fiction writer and composer of film scores and classical music. Zimmerman returned to songwriting, first in the late '90s with his Nighshift Trio, then as a solo artist with 2005's Chautauqua. Over the years, his early catalog in particular has grown in cult status as younger generations have discovered him. In 2024, he signed with 4AD, which released Dance of Love, a collaboration with Big Thief.