Blood Red and Goin' Down explained

Blood Red and Goin' Down
Cover:bloodredandgoindown.jpg
Caption:German promotional sleeve
Type:single
Artist:Tanya Tucker
Album:What's Your Mama's Name
B-Side:The Missing Piece of Puzzle
Released:June 29, 1973
Genre:Country
Length:3:02
Label:Columbia
Producer:Billy Sherrill
Prev Title:What's Your Mama's Name
Prev Year:1973
Next Title:Would You Lay with Me (In a Field of Stone)
Next Year:1973

"Blood Red and Goin' Down" is a song written by Curly Putman, and recorded by American country music artist Tanya Tucker. It was released in June 1973 as the second single from Tucker's album What's Your Mama's Name. The single was Tucker's second number one on the country chart and would stay at number one for a single week and spend a total of twelve weeks on the chart.[1]

Content

The song is about an adolescent girl, who accompanies her father to a barroom where her mother and her mother's lover are drinking, and witnesses as her father murders the pair.

Notes and References

  1. Book: Whitburn, Joel . The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Joel Whitburn . 2004 . Record Research . 357.