Three-time Grammy Award winner Trisha Yearwood re-emerges with her first studio album in two years, Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love, on November 13th. The album is also her first for Big Machine Records and will arrive amidst appearances on The Today Show, Late Night with David Letterman, The View and more, as well as programming on CMT: Country Music Television and Great American Country, where Yearwood will be December's "Artist of the Month."
One of the most enduring female names in country music, Entertainment Weekly has called Yearwood "one of the finest interpretive singers ever." Since her 1991 debut, each of Yearwood's eleven albums have achieved gold or platinum status with over 10 million albums sold. She has had nine #1 hits and twenty Top Ten hits, including "She's in Love With the Boy," "Walkaway Joe," and "How Do I Live." Her fiery new single, "Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love," is on its way to the top as well.
Yearwood's soaring vocals have been reenergized with a new passion. Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love celebrates the elation that radiates when head, heart, and home are happy...and as Yearwood's songs are known to do...beautifully laments the heartbreak when it all slips away.
On the album's uptempo title-track, Trisha practically shouts out for an AMEN! when she sasses, "The preacher says when your time is up you take a chariot to the Lord...well I'm hopin' my chariot is a torch-red Thunderbird Ford." There are riveting ballads as well, such as "Nothin' Bout Memphis," and "Let The Wind Chase You" (with Keith Urban), and even a nod to the traditional, with "Cowboys Are My Weakness."
Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love is Trisha's Big Machine Records debut -- her first since leaving her long-time major label. Under her own direction, she went into the studio with noted producer Garth Fundis, Trisha's friend and frequent producer since 1991. Another long-time friend, Scott Borchetta, soon joined the party, signing Trisha to Big Machine -- the indie powerhouse that has had breakthrough success with Taylor Swift and Jack Ingram.
"Sometimes you just need to change the ground underneath your feet," says Yearwood. "There's a real buzz in the air...the biggest difference I feel with this new music is 'energy.'"
Trisha Yearwood has come full circle. Arriving in Nashville from Monticello, GA in the late eighties, she worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame -- over 10 million albums later, she now sits on the board. Her earliest friends in Nashville are now her long-time team on a journey that has been all about family, friends, and music -- and it's taken her to the very top.
