Trisha Yearwood joins Sony; New Album coming this fall!

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OMG I can't wait to have new music from Trisha. <3 <3

From Billboard.com

Trisha Yearwood Signs With Sony, Announces New Album

Trisha Yearwood is back and gearing up for a very busy fall. On Tuesday evening (Aug. 19) at a press event in Nashville, the Grammy-winning vocalist announced she's signing with Sony Music Nashville, launching her own imprint, Gwendolyn Records, and releasing her 12th studio album, PrizeFighter.



Yearwood, who is joining husband Garth Brooks on a string of sold-out dates this fall, is returning Aug. 23 for five season of Trisha's Southern Kitchen, her Emmy-winning cooking show on the Food Network. She's also set to launch a new cookware line and a line of cutlery as well as publish her third cookbook next April.

Though her culinary career has been a successful sideline, Yearwood fans have been clamoring for new music for several years. The Georgia native's last studio album was 2007's Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love. "It's been a wonderful few years," Yearwood told Billboard. "I haven't released records, but I've been so busy and I've loved the whole second career. The cookbooks and the TV show and everything is doing just great, but it's kind of forced [music] to take a backseat. It just makes sense now that we have this tour in place and we're getting ready to go back out on the road that there is new music, so I'm excited."

Full article: www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/6221919/trisha-yearwood-signs-with-sony-announces-new-album

[liza]

Sounds like half new album, half greatest hits. I wonder why.

[onebuffalo]

Jul 12, 2014 14:06:16 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Jul 12, 2014 9:06:32 GMT -5 StrongerThanTheTruth said:

I don't know the numbers of albums sold or tickets sold but he is one of the biggest acts of all time. When you go away from regular touring for 13 years and your that big nothing you do is behind the scenes. This was gonna be out in the public whether he wanted it or not because someones gonna say something and its gonna slip.

Garth knows how to play the game and he does it very well, More Than A Memory just doesn't debut at #1 on Billboard for nothing. With these shows they've been talked about in the US, UK, and Europe. Which is now further sparking the fire of a World Tour, and its getting it out there that he's getting ready to return. Free press in a way.

I wonder if RCA will give Garth Brooks a #1 debuting single. It would be nice for RCA to sign Trisha Yearwood so we can get a duets CD.

Dream came true. I wonder if the duets CD will come out next year.

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Aug 20, 2014 16:34:08 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

Jul 12, 2014 14:06:16 GMT -5 onebuffalo said:

I wonder if RCA will give Garth Brooks a #1 debuting single. It would be nice for RCA to sign Trisha Yearwood so we can get a duets CD.

Dream came true. I wonder if the duets CD will come out next year.

I wouldn't be shocked if the duet CD came out next year. Hopefully, Faith and Tim follow with their long promised duet CD too. 

[onebuffalo]

They want to do it:

tasteofcountry.com/garth-brooks-trisha-yearwood-duets-album/

[someguy]

Trisha Yearwood ‘Excited, Nervous … Scared to Death’ About Releasing ‘PrizeFighter’

The last time Trisha Yearwood released new music, President George W. Bush was in office and people were still trying to guess how ABC’s ‘Lost’ would end. A lot — like a whole lot — has changed in the industry since, and the star is admittedly nervous about where she’ll fit. In many ways, Yearwood sees herself as the fighter in her new single ‘PrizeFighter.’
"I’m excited, I’m nervous, optimistic, scared to death. All those things. But as an artist, what I feel I have to do is make music."
The song — a collaboration with Kelly Clarkson — is the title track from an album of hits and new music scheduled for later this year or 2015. Given the landscape for women in country music, and her age, Yearwood recognizes the challenge of getting radio airplay. Still, she’s undaunted.

“Logic would say … the odds are kind of against me,” she said in a recent interview. “But there’s something in the air, and I think this song has a lot to do with the energy I’m feeling around me.”

“I’m excited, I’m nervous, optimistic, scared to death. All those things. But as an artist, what I feel I have to do is make music,” adds Yearwood. From a nuts and bolts standpoint, everything about recording music has changed since the 49-year-old put out ‘Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love’ in 2007. She says music today is drier, meaning there’s less reverb.

“In the ‘90s everything was covered up in reverb,” Yearwood recalls. “I call it confidence. So if I’m in the studio, I’m like, ‘Can you turn my confidence button up a little bit?’”

Promoting and releasing music in a digital world is something she has not figured out entirely, but she doesn’t seem to be too worried about it. Finding the right songs and doing them justice is her focus. When she first heard ‘PrizeFighter,’ Yearwood says she thought of her mother, Gwen, who died in 2011 after a battle with breast cancer. The addition of Clarkson happened naturally. The two are friends and share a mutual admiration for one another.

“When I heard this song, it was a challenge enough for me to sing, and I thought ‘It needs a harmony above,’” Yearwood says, adding that since they laid down vocals, she’s been fielding a swarm of excited phone calls and texts from the original ‘American Idol’ winner.

When the ‘PrizeFighter’ album is released, it will include six new songs and eight hits from previous albums, plus ‘In Another’s Eyes,’ Yearwood’s duet with Garth Brooks. There’s no firm set list or timetable yet. The star will join her husband on tour beginning next week in Chicago. She’ll also release her new cookbook, ‘Trisha’s Table,’ in April 2015.

tasteofcountry.com/trisha-yearwood-prizefighter-scared-to-death/