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Post by erik on Aug 20, 2014 14:42:03 GMT -5
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Post by rick on Aug 21, 2014 13:26:47 GMT -5
Erik, thank you very much for this news! I am really looking forward to this album. I wonder if Trisha will have a "deluxe" edition of the album with bonus tracks at Target or Walmart (she's done this before). Thanks again for the heads-up, Erik. |
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Post by erik on Aug 21, 2014 18:07:33 GMT -5
I always felt that Heaven, Heartache, And The Power Of Love, which was released on the Republic label in late 2007, was under-promoted by them because the label's founder, Scott Borchetta, who had helped bring Trisha to MCA back in 1990, was putting a lot more money into promoting a still-untested Taylor Swift. The album still did well as an album on both the pop and country album charts, but none of the singles released were all that big on country radio.
In recent years, Trisha has had her cooking gig, which has proven to be quite lucrative. But she also lost her mother to breast cancer in 2011; and of course, earlier this year, she went on a brief tour (which she called Just Because) that included her covering some of Linda's hits, out of her love for Linda and out of how heartbroken she was over Linda's Parkinson's diagnosis. I guess she felt that now was the right time to get back into the studio. I'm glad that she made that decision, on her own terms.
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Post by erik on Sept 4, 2014 9:44:53 GMT -5
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Post by Richard W on Sept 4, 2014 12:06:17 GMT -5
Yearwood and Brooks open tonight in Chicago to begin an unprecedented 11-show sold-out gig.
I wouldn't mind seeing Yearwood, but Brooks I could do without.
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Post by erik on Sept 4, 2014 14:57:56 GMT -5
Quote by Richard W:
I'd have to agree there. Seeing Trisha wouldn't hurt, even if it was only for the sheer pleasure of her paying tribute to Linda as she has done at her shows as of late. But I never thought much of the Garthmeister, because what he encouraged with his stage spectacles has had such a detrimental effect on country music over the last twenty years (IMHO).
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Post by rick on Sept 5, 2014 1:12:55 GMT -5
Quote by Richard W: I'd have to agree there. Seeing Trisha wouldn't hurt, even if it was only for the sheer pleasure of her paying tribute to Linda as she has done at her shows as of late. But I never thought much of the Garthmeister, because what he encouraged with his stage spectacles has had such a detrimental effect on country music over the last twenty years (IMHO). Erik, thank you very much for posting the link to the SoundCloud for "Prizefighter." IMHO, Trisha's voice is in great shape. I am hoping, as usual, there will be some nice ballads on the upcoming album, too. As for seeing her with Garth Brooks.... my gut tells me her set might be something like 30 to 45 minutes given how long Garth's show usually are and how late arenas usually allow shows to go. I think the shows where Trisha did a few Linda songs those were solo Trisha Yearwood shows. I could be wrong. But I could see in a 90-minute-plus Trisha Yearwood-as-headliner show where she would/could devote three songs to Linda. But given the opening act route, she is likely to need to sing songs to promote her new album, "How Do I Live?" and perhaps "X's and O's," "Wrong Side of Memphis," "She's in Love With the Boy," "The Song Remembers When," etc. Just edited this post... Checked the web and USA Today says this in its review USA Today review of Garth (and Trisha) outside Chicago " Wife Trisha Yearwood joined Brooks about 45 minutes into his set to sing their duet In Another's Eyes. Then Yearwood took her turn in the solo spotlight for a short set that included her hits Wrong Side of Memphis, How Do I Live and She's in Love With the Boy, which she said she sang for an audience the first time when she opened for Brooks in 1991. Brooks returned to the stage to sing harmonies with Yearwood on her new single, PrizeFighter." <snip> " After encoring with his Aerosmith cover, Fever, Brooks re-emerged with an acoustic guitar. Yearwood joined him, but before they could sing, Illinois governor Pat Quinn came onstage and gave them a plaque declaring "Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood Day." Brooks then requested that Yearwood sing his favorite song of hers — "just for me, not for these people. Would you sing Walkaway Joe?" " So, it sounds like Trisha and Garth duet on "In Another's Eyes," and then he sings harmony for her on "Prizefighter" and perhaps "Walkaway Joe," and she solos on "How Do I Live?" and "She's in Love With the Boy" and "Wrong Side of Memphis." It is a shame that Trisha wasn't able to do more solo dates. |
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 5, 2014 7:08:57 GMT -5
I really like Trisha's voice, her song on the Tammy Wynette tribute album is lovely. Generally I find some of her songs weak and let her down. The Jasper County album is very good though.
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Post by Auntie on Sept 5, 2014 10:04:22 GMT -5
I can't see holding Garth Brooks responsible for the sorry state of modern country music. He is only responsible for his own work. More blame should go to radio programmers, or it could just be the general dumbing down of American music. There is great country music out there but I rarely hear any of it on the radio.
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Post by sliderocker on Sept 5, 2014 10:26:52 GMT -5
I really like Trisha's voice, her song on the Tammy Wynette tribute album is lovely. Generally I find some of her songs weak and let her down. The Jasper County album is very good though. The problem is that not all songs can be good songs or a good song can have bad arrangement. And in Nashville, the songwriter's market is a very competitive market and in that kind of market, there's always going to be a few clinkers and stinkers. An artist like Trisha can only work with what she has to work with, especially if there is pressure to get the album finished as soon as possible. But, in all honesty, I prefer albums by artists in which not every song is a superperfect work of art. That puts the pressure on artist to keep doing it, over and over again. That's an unneeded pressure, regardless of whether the artist in question writes their own songs or has to go through hundreds, if not thousands of demos trying to find the good songs. Not every song Trisha does may measure up to her talent but that's okay with me. |
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Post by Dianna on Sept 8, 2014 18:55:21 GMT -5
Trisha & Kelly Live performance
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Post by erik on Sept 8, 2014 21:59:47 GMT -5
I really hope Trisha is given a chance at radio with this song, be it country or pop, though it is the kind of "message" song that, I think, Linda herself would probably have steered away from, because it is so on the nose.
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Post by rick as guest on Oct 1, 2014 4:56:29 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Oct 1, 2014 8:44:01 GMT -5
Quote by rick as guest re. Prizefighter:
I'm not sure how this will be handled yet, but we'll find out. But just speaking for myself, I don't know that it's such a hot idea for her to re-record her older hits, if that's what she's doing, for a country audience that now really knows her for her cookbooks, cooking shows, and for being married to "that Garth Brooks character" more than "She's In Love With The Boy."
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Post by rick on Oct 1, 2014 13:29:48 GMT -5
Quote by rick as guest re. Prizefighter: I'm not sure how this will be handled yet, but we'll find out. But just speaking for myself, I don't know that it's such a hot idea for her to re-record her older hits, if that's what she's doing, for a country audience that now really knows her for her cookbooks, cooking shows, and for being married to "that Garth Brooks character" more than "She's In Love With The Boy." Erik, I am wondering with everything that Trisha has going on -- her Food Network series -- if she only found the time to record six new tracks. And perhaps they felt that when she and her husband are on this tour, the merchandising tables can sell / market this as a combo "Greatest Hits" package with Six Brand New Tracks. It is an interesting ploy. I have seen artists put out greatest hits packages with one or two new tracks to entice the fans but this seems like a strange hybrid. From the looks of it, it is what it is. |
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Post by erik on Oct 1, 2014 17:09:47 GMT -5
Quote by rick:
It's something that's worth pondering over, I have to admit. And I agree that it is a strange hybrid to have six new tracks and the rest be re-releases of her previous stuff, all of which (with the exception of "Heaven, Heartache, And The Power Of Love", released on Republic) was on MCA-Nashville. Truth be told, I am not at all sure that this is the way Trisha should really be making her "comeback." If she was going to do such an album, in my opinion, it should be all-new material.
Then again, in the seven-plus years between releases, besides the cooking shows and stuff like that, a number of things happened to her in her life that might have motivated her back to the recording studio in even this most tenuous of ways. First of all, she lost her mom in 2011 to breast cancer, which was obviously quite devastating. Secondly, even if it took her a while (in our minds) for her to say anything about it, the announcement of Linda having come down with Parkinson's broke her heart in another way (one of the reasons she undertook her own short tour earlier this year, which she called Just Because, was to pay homage to Linda). So at some point in that period, she must have felt not only a desire but even a need to get back to doing what she was put into this world to do.
I have no idea how this new album will do once it's released, since the country music industry is a radically different one from the last time she put out an album of new material; it's now a massive wreck of beer-swiggin', booty-ogglin' "bro-country"; and if your first name isn't Carrie, Taylor, or Miranda (and maybe not even Taylor anymore), good luck if you're a woman. But I hope I'm wrong.
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Post by MokyWI on Oct 2, 2014 13:45:06 GMT -5
Yearwood had mentioned she had begun recording for a new album before her mother passed. Afterward for a good year she did not feel like continuing at that point as she was still mourning the loss of her mother and being busy with the cooking show/book obligations. Once she was ready to begin recording again she mentioned how some of the tunes that she had completed might not fit into her new vision of the album. Brooks and Yearwood are building a new home in Nashville. With the big Brooks tour, her show being picked up for a fifth year and her new cookbook due in April. all this coupled with the fact its been seven years since her last studio release she may be using this half new/old material to test the waters. To put her heart soul and time into a real complete new release waiting for her current obligations to be behind her might in her mind and the new record deal's best interest.
I thought her last album Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love was one of her best. But IMO It was bogged down with too many songs and the cover of the CD resembled a holiday album. I know more than a couple of possible buyers skipping it thinking it was a holiday release. A real fan would check out the song titles on the back and realize it was not a holiday release, but those who might not know of her or her music might well think it a holiday release given the artwork on the cover and it being released in the late fall of 2007. "The Dreaming Fields" always brings tears to my eyes.
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Post by rick on Oct 4, 2014 18:49:13 GMT -5
Just did a search on Amazon. Shows a Release date of November 17.
The full title is: "Prizefighter: Hit After Hit," which seems that Sony (distributor) is going after the "hits" theme coupled with some new material.
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Post by erik on Oct 4, 2014 23:25:28 GMT -5
Quote by Rick:
The only thing I can say is that I hope this promotional plot works in putting Trisha back into the spotlight, and not merely as décor for the proverbial 800-pound gorilla she's married to.
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Post by erik on Oct 15, 2014 18:50:58 GMT -5
The cover of Prizefighter:  |
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Post by davidmusiclover on Oct 17, 2014 17:46:28 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Nov 18, 2014 10:26:37 GMT -5
Update on PrizeFighter, the album: Six songs on this album are new ones, including the title track duet with Kelly Clarkson. The other ten on here are all re-recordings of her previous hits, because (Trisha says) she doesn't own the masters of the originals. I don't know quite how to say this, because I do think she is one of the better female country singers of the last 25 years, but to me this is one hell of a lazy way to approach the making of an album, especially the first album release of any kind from her in seven years. It's an opinion that is being shared by a lot of others as well: www.countryuniverse.net/2014/11/17/album-review-trisha-yearwood-prizefighter-hit-after-hit/#comment-1845705It does kind of knock her down a few pegs in my book, because this is just the sort of thing that Linda, her spiritual role model, avoided doing like the plague (the only instance being the 1973 redo of "Silver Threads And Golden Needles", on which she improved [greatly] on her 1969 original). |
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Post by fabtastique on Nov 18, 2014 10:51:32 GMT -5
wow, a lot of negative comments under the album review on www.countryuniverse.net - quite harsh, but are they fair? |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2014 10:59:03 GMT -5
I have not heard the album, or followed her career that closely, but if half the album is re-recording (as Erik notes above) then negative criticism would not be that surprising...
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Post by erik on Nov 18, 2014 12:26:31 GMT -5
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It is painful for all these criticisms to be lobbed Trisha's way, but when you put out a new album on which a mere six out of sixteen songs are actual brand-new songs, and the others are redo's, then I think you are severely cheating your audience. Had the other ten been previously unreleased songs, then I don't think the negativity would have been so great. But I fear that she's being too influenced by that proverbial 800-pound country music gorilla she's married to, as opposed to following Linda's lead.
In the end, depending on what the record-buying audience thinks, this could go one of two ways: Either it will be a hit, and revitalize her career; or the negative reaction to having only six new songs and ten re-do's may result in a career-killing disaster. That's just my opinion; and I hope I'm dead wrong about the latter.
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