{{short description|American singer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2015}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Tucker Rountree | image = Tucker Rountree of Total Slacker.jpg | alias = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1981}} | birth_place = Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S | death_date = | genre = | occupation = Musician, songwriter, artist, videographer | instrument = Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Drums, Bass | years_active = | label = Marshall Tellar Records-London | associated_acts = Total Slacker | website = }}
'''Tucker Rountree''' (born 1981 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American songwriter,<ref>{{cite web|last=Klimchak |first=Amre |url=http://www.nypress.com/article-21241-dazed-and-amused.html |title=Tucker Rountree, THE lanky lead singer and guitarist of Brooklyn trio Total Slacker |publisher=Nypress.com |date=May 19, 2010 |accessdate=2012-01-14|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912232841/http://nypress.com/dazed-and-amused/|archivedate=September 12, 2012}}</ref> artist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.impose-records.com/releases/crystal-necklace-7-inch |title=Impose Records |publisher=Impose Records |date=March 12, 2010 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> and videographer.<ref>{{cite web|last=Gazin |first=Nick |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/total-slacker-secret-vhs-collection/ |title=Total Slacker's "Secret VHS Collection" |publisher=Vice |date= |access-date=2012-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.einsteinmusicjournal.co.nz/2011/09/16/total-slacker-2-new-songs-video/ |title=Einstein Music Journal |publisher=Einstein Music Journal |date=September 16, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref>
Rountree is known mainly through his involvement in Total Slacker. He's been featured and interviewed on VH1,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/video/interview/717568/o-music-awards-wtf-wednesday-with-total-slacker.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140112115903/http://www.vh1.com/video/interview/717568/o-music-awards-wtf-wednesday-with-total-slacker.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 12, 2014 |title="O Music Awards: WTF Wednesday With Total Slacker" | Interview |publisher=VH1.com |date=December 8, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> NBC<ref>{{cite web|last=Eisinger |first=Dale W. |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/blogs/nonstop-sound/Total-Slacker-on-Aliens-Smashed-Guitars-and-Thrashin-133542858.html |title=Total Slacker on Aliens, Smashed Guitars, and Thrashin' |publisher=NBC New York |date=November 9, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> and given cameos on MTV<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mtvhive.com/artist/weird_vibes/videos/705118/weird_vibes_episode_3_fathers_sons_amp_holy_ghost_?fb_ref=fblike_web&fb_source=profile_multiline |title=Weird Vibes – 'Weird Vibes Episode 3: Fathers, Sons & Holy Ghost! ' | Video |publisher=MTV Hive |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> in regards to his works. He's also known by recording various Modern Jazz projects with grammy winning producer for Leonard Cohen, the bassist Roscoe Beck.<ref>{{cite web|first=Jay|last=Trachtenberg |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/AMDB/Profile?oid=oid:271256 |title=Austin Music Database |publisher=The Austin Chronicle |date=February 18, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref>
An only child who was raised by his father Philip Rountree in Utah who is a songwriter and painter, Tucker attributes much of his creativity from him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.psychkicks.com/front-page/total-slacker-interview/ |title=Psych: London's guide to alternative Rock and Roll. Gig Guide, Interviews, Style |publisher=Psychkicks.com |date=September 21, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> Rountree grew up in a Pentecostal, semi-communal group where he lived in many different homes throughout his childhood and is said to have learned music by ear in that environment playing in church.<ref>{{cite web|last=Beusman |first=Mikaila |url=http://www.imposemagazine.com/features/chatting-with-total-slacker |title=Chatting With Total Slacker | Bothering |publisher=Impose Magazine |date=October 3, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> A chance meeting with Grammy award-winning artist Eric Johnson, eventually lead to a mentorship where Rountree learned and played with him on stage for 2 years touring the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://alteredzones.com/posts/1691/total-slacker-psychic-mesa/ |title=Total Slacker: "Psychic Mesa" |publisher=Altered Zones |date=July 25, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Ted Alvarez |url=http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20070924/AE/70924015 |title=Guitar hero Eric Johnson plays in Beaver Creek |publisher=VailDaily.com |date=September 24, 2007 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.houseofblues.com/tickets/eventdetail.asp?eventid=40345 |title=Eric Johnson Electric Band plus Tucker Roundtree at House of Blues New Orleans Tickets | Fri, September 01 |publisher=Houseofblues.com |date=July 29, 2006 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ericjohnson.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25&Itemid=9 |title=Setlists |publisher=Ericjohnson.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> Moving to New York in 2008, he started Total Slacker with Emily Oppenheimer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://microphonememoryemotion.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/a-sit-down-with-total-slacker/ |title=A Sit Down with Total Slacker " Microphone Memory Emotion |publisher=Microphonememoryemotion.wordpress.com |date=July 23, 2010 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> Since then, ''Rolling Stone'' declared Rountree as: "hype of the underground with praise to the skies.." Describing Rountree's voice as: "hovering vocals...Listless and languid phrasing".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rollingstone.fr/Total-Slacker-pop-hallucinogene_1940.html |title=Total Slacker : pop hallucinogène pour fins de soirées enfumées – Rolling Stone ® |publisher=Rollingstone.fr |date= |access-date=2012-01-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313211900/http://www.rollingstone.fr/Total-Slacker-pop-hallucinogene_1940.html |archive-date=March 13, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> ''The Village Voice'' said: "Front man Tucker Rountree manages to echo Lou Reed with languid, fuzzed-out jams."<ref>{{cite web|last=Peck |first=Jamie |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/07/dinowalrus_the_suzan_total_slacker_waste_of_paint.php |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708021836/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/07/dinowalrus_the_suzan_total_slacker_waste_of_paint.php |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 8, 2011 |title=Highlights From The Holiday Weekend: Good Hair, Better Sightlines At Monster Island And Bruar Falls – New York Music – Sound of the City |publisher=Blogs.villagevoice.com |date=July 5, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> With an album released in London and Japan in 2011, Pitchfork Media described Rountree as: "...An adept guitarist...Giving mood-setting one-note solos that act as complete earworms."<ref>{{cite web|last=Minsker |first=Evan |url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/15853-total-slacker-thrashin/ |title=Total Slacker: Thrashin' | Album Reviews |publisher=Pitchfork |date=September 27, 2011 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> "
Keyboardist Phil Davis, who played on Paul McCartney's 1971 solo album ''Ram'', is Rountree's maternal uncle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://philipmichaeldavis.com/bio.htm |title=philip michael davis bio |publisher=Philipmichaeldavis.com |date=November 27, 1950 |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/archive/index.php/t-115373-p-4.html |title=Musicians on McCartney recordings- Song by song * [Archive] – Page 4 – SH Forums |publisher=Stevehoffman.tv |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.albumlinernotes.com/Ram.html |title=Ram |publisher=Albumlinernotes.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jpgr.co.uk/pas10003.html |title=Ram |publisher=Jpgr.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref> He is first cousins with actress Kylee Cochran.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.enotes.com/topic/Kylee_Cochran |title=Kylee Cochran – eNotes.com Reference |publisher=Enotes.com |date= |accessdate=2012-01-14}}</ref>
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