10/30/2026
ROLLING STONE | DECEMBER 1976
THE TUCKER JONES STORY
Bad Habits. Good Taste.
By the time Rolling Stone caught up with Tucker Jones, she’d missed two interviews, argued with her manager, and accumulated one very expensive hotel bill.
The rumors were everywhere.
The Six were falling apart. Tucker was impossible to work with. There had been an incident involving a convertible and a hotel room that would never be quite the same.
Jones denied almost everything.
“I don’t remember it that way,” she said.
She was barefoot, wearing yesterday’s eyeliner, and visibly irritated by the room’s overhead lighting.
This was Tucker’s particular gift. She could turn an entire evening upside down and still recognize bad lighting.
She had an eye for beautiful things, a weakness for questionable decisions, and absolutely no intention of apologizing for either.
The band wanted another album.
The label wanted answers.
Tucker wanted someone to explain who had chosen the drapes.
The rest, as they say, is rock & roll.
