SANTA MONICA, CA, Dec 17 (MARKET WIRE) --
One of the most popular female singers in country music, three-time Grammy
Award winner Trisha Yearwood has epitomized the balance of assertiveness and
vulnerability in the genre's modern woman. Nowhere is that more evident than in
her greatest love songs, collected for the first time on "Trisha Yearwood -
Love Songs" (MCA Nashville/UMe), released January 15, 2008.
Including tracks from each of her nine non-holiday MCA albums, spanning
hercareer from 1991-2005, "Trisha Yearwood - Love Songs" features five Top 10
country hits among 14 selections from the woman who was ranked #10 on
CMT's"40 Greatest Women Of Country Music" in 2002.
Back in 1991, longtime friend Garth Brooks landed a major tour and invited
Yearwood to open all of his shows. That exposure helped springboard her
"She's In Love With The Boy" to #1. That song and the Top 10 country "That's
What I Like About You" catapulted her self-titled debut album to platinum,
marking her as the first female country singer ever to sell one million
copies of a debut album. When it sold two million copies, she was the first
to reach that milestone as well. All of her MCA albums have been certified at
least gold or platinum, and eight more chart-topping singles followed too.
"Trisha Yearwood - Love Songs" continues with the country Top 20 "Down On My
Knees," penned by Beth Neilsen Chapman, from 1992's "Hearts In Armor,"
considered
by many critics to be one of the best heartbreak records of its day. The
beautiful Rodney Crowell composition "I Don't Fall In Love So Easy," "If I
Ain't Got You" and "The Nightingale" originally appeared on 1993's "The Song
Remembers When."
Two years later, the title track for "Thinkin' About You" went #1. 1996's
"Everybody Knows" yielded "Maybe It's Love," co-written by Chapman.
Havingmoved from rockin' country to ballads, Yearwood flowed into contemporary
pop with
1998's "Where Your Road Leads," which featured the #6 country charter "Powerful
Thing" and the #10 Diane Warren-penned "I'll Still Love You More." By this
point, Yearwood had been named Best Female Performer once by the Academy of
Country
Music and twice by the Country Music Association.
After being inducted into the famed Grand Ole Opry, she continued to walk
the
line between country and pop with 2000's "Real Live Woman" and its "One Love"
track. "Trisha Yearwood - Love Songs" culls "Love Alone" from her
romance-heavy 2001 album "Inside Out." Her final album on the label, 2005's
"Jasper County," offers "Baby Don't You Let Go" and the country-soul "Sweet
Love."
That same year, Yearwood married superstar Garth Brooks, and a woman who had
performed some of modern country's greatest love songs became part of one of
its greatest love stories.
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Shannon Herber
UMe
310-865-9804
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UMe
310-865-9852
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