Tanya Tucker is selling '13,000 square feet of memories' at warehouse sale this week

Support a struggling music industry and score a piece of country music memorabilia? 

That's the plan this week for Tanya Tucker, who launched Wednesday a warehouse sale to raise funds for those in entertainment impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

The sale runs Wednesday through Saturday at 2484 Park Plus Drive in Columbia, Tennessee, about 45 miles south of Nashville. A portion of proceeds benefit Music Health Alliance and the Academy of Country Music Lifting Lives, organizations offering services for musicians and industry workers during the ongoing health crisis. 

"We’re all struggling now," Tucker told The Tennessean. "Some more than others. I thought, 'Why shouldn’t I just do this thing and contribute?' Because I know so many people are having a hard time. 

"It’s a perfect scenario to do it, to unload some of these things that are just weighing me down." 

Tucker's putting a price tag on "13,000 square feet of memories," she told The Tennessean. Items include stage outfits, designer fashion, toys, furniture, bedding and home decor. 

It's expensive — literally — to store memories, said Tucker, a 61-year-old Texas native who reignited her career in 2019 with the Grammy Award-winning album "While I'm Livin'," which Brandi Carlile and Shooter Jennings produced.  

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Saying "goodbye" to a few pieces could help peers in the business she's been part of since her teenage years singing "Delta Dawn." 

"It’s like going to a house of memories," Tucker said. "Some good, maybe some not so good. Every time I go in there, I had to prepare myself. I’d see really some great memories. Memories of stuff I wore and when I wore it ... just thrown on the floor." 

Tucker won't be at the sale — she's camped on a Texas ranch this week, breaking in a tour bus once owned by George Strait. Instead, she called on "anybody that I can get" to help her sort through items from her five-decade career. 

She lost some items in the 2010 Nashville flood, but other slices of "trash and treasure" — designer handbags, antiques and jewelry among them — come ready to find a new home. 

"Mainly, I’m hoping that we raise a lot of money for these organizations and somebody can use it somewhere," she said, later adding, "Maybe what's trash for me is treasure for someone else." 

If you go 

What: Tanya Tucker warehouse sale 

Where: 2484 Park Plus Drive, Columbia 

When: 2-6 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday; 12-8 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday