biography
On Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love, three-time Grammy Award winner Trisha Yearwood delivers spirited, emotionally-driven songs that are all about…well…heaven, heartache, and the power of love. The album celebrates the elation that radiates when head, heart, and home are happy…and as Yearwood songs are known to do…beautifully laments the heartbreak when it all slips away.
On her first studio album in two years – and her Big Machine Records debut – Yearwood brings her trademark, soaring vocals and powerful song selection. To it, she has added a new passion and energy with the strength, sincerity, and purpose of a prize fighter ready for the ring of
the bell.
“Signing with Big Machine Records gave everything new life,” says Yearwood. “Sometimes you just need to change the ground underneath your feet to feel new momentum. There’s a real buzz in the air...I think the biggest difference I feel with this new music is “energy”
Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love is Trisha’s first independent release since leaving her long-time major-label record company. On her own dime, under her own direction, she went into the studio with friend and noted producer, Garth Fundis – a close friend since 1991 when he produced Trisha’s debut album which has since been certified double-platinum Another long-time friend soon joined the party. Trisha’s former go-to guy at her previous label had since opened Big Machine Records and made headlines with artists such as Taylor Swift and Jack Ingram. Borchetta signed Trisha Yearwood to his independent powerhouse and everyone got to work.
The album’s fiery, first single “Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love,” shouts out for an AMEN! with Trisha sassing, “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.” The album also features vulnerable and riveting ballads like “Nothin’ Bout Memphis,” and “Let The Wind Chase You” (with an appearance by Keith Urban), as well as a song with all the traditional flavor of a campfire favorite, “Cowboys Are My Weakness,” which she’ll admit is about her husband.
“There is something magic in the studio when you record,” she says. “I felt it back when we recorded ‘Walkaway Joe,’ for instance. I felt it making this entire record.”
Entertainment Weekly called Trisha Yearwood “one of the finest interpretive singers ever.” On her Big Machine Records debut, she has come full circle, proving that when one door closes another opens. When Yearwood arrived in Nashville from Macon, GA, she worked as a tour guide at the Country Music Hall of Fame – nine #1 hits; twenty Top Ten hits, eleven Gold and Platinum, and over 10 million albums later - she now sits on the board. Her first friends in Nashville are now her long-time team. Her journey has been all about family, friends, and music – and it’s taken her to the very top.