"Tanya Tucker: Strong Enough to Bend" will open Nov. 14 at the museum and run through May 2015. Along with Brenda Lee before her and, later, LeAnn Rimes and Alison Krauss, Tucker is one of the few singers who made a significant impact on country music at a very young age. In Tucker's case, she was only 13 years old when she first caught the ears of famed Nashville producer Billy Sherrill in 1972. But her rich husky voice, confidence and grown-up attitude turned her version of "Delta Dawn" into a major hit.

Written by Alex Harvey and Larry Collins (a former child star himself with rockabilly duo the Collins Kids), Tucker's version of the song reached the country top 10 and earned Tucker a GRAMMY nomination. It also set the Seminole, Texas, native on a lifelong career on the country charts and in the commercial spotlight.

Tucker followed "Delta Dawn" success with a string of chart hits, many of which centered around mature subject matter that many a parent of a budding country superstar would likely frown on today. Hard to imagine, for instance, a teenage Taylor Swift belting out songs but like "Blood Red and Goin' Down," "What's Your Mama's Name," "The Man That Turned My Mama On" and "Would You Lay with Me (in a Field of Stone)." For Tucker, though, they found a ready audience, despite lyrics about public drunkeness, lust, infidelity and even murder.

"He sent me out to wait, but scared, I looked back through the door," Tucker sang on "Blood Red and Goin' Down," her 1973 No. 1 hit (penned by Curly Putman) about a little girl tagging along on her father's quest for violent revenge against his cheating wife. "And daddy left them both soaking up the sawdust on the floor."