Tucker Zimmerman’s Final Album Set for Posthumous Release

The final studio album of Tucker Zimmerman, the storied singer-songwriter who died in January at the age of 84, will receive a posthumous release. Dream Me a Dream was due to be announced the week of Zimmerman’s death; his label, Big Potato, postponed it, but has decided to go ahead with the release on June 19. “Sun in Scorpio” precedes the LP. Listen to that below, and scroll down for the tracklist, which includes a cover of Big Thief’s “Wanted You to Stay.”

In October last year, Zimmerman gave Big Potato a dreamlike summary of the album:

The Little Prince by way of the pen of Antoine de Saint Exupéry said ‘Draw me a sheep’ and I said to the the Little Prince ‘Dream me a dream’ overheard by Nick HOO (Big Potato Nick) who said ‘Record me a song’ so I recorded a song and then one or two more and just like that whip crack away and snap dragon fingers we had an album and just like that pump up the jambalaya and kick the chandelier Nick’s got the tracks mixed and mastered and pressed into 12” discs that say hallelujah and great balls of fire on the cover and that’s all I’m going to say about the outer wheels of this wagon as it rolls into your life the inner clockworks too intricate and deep to make language suffer so if you want more go to the Little Prince ask him to draw you a Dream of Now and Memory…

Dream Me a Dream has contributions from folk artist Jackie Oates, producer Nick Holton, and Marie-Claire, Zimmerman’s late wife, who died in the same house fire as her husband. Houlton added in a press release, “Tucker told me ‘Rose of Sharon’ was about the dark side of the hippie movement in California. Young girls being swept away with various cults. We really flew with this track. Recorded it with both of us on the synths. It edges towards the psychedelic, almost Krautyrock style. Jackie Oates does a wonderful job with her beautiful voice and violin. We recorded this in 2024 and then Tucker re-sung the vocals in 2025 when he was pretty frail. But the energy came through when the tape was rolling! It rocks. Tucker and I had long chats during the recording. And we went very deep on occasions focusing on love, fear, and the future. He mentioned he’d never recorded a cover version, but that his dear friend Annie (Adrianne Lenker) had written this wonderful song. It’s called ‘Stay (Wanted You to Stay)’ and this version was for/to his love Marie-Claire.”