Nashville, TN. (Top40 Charts/ By Tiffany Shipp/ Sunshine, Sachs & Associates/ Big Machine Records) - As three-time Grammy Award winner
Trisha Yearwood celebrates the release of her first independent album, Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love (Big Machine Records), she has confirmed a limited number of tour dates beginning February 9th 2008 in Austin, TX.
Amidst appearances in November on The Today Show, The View, Fox & Friends, Emeril's Thanksgiving Special and more, one of the most enduring female names in country music is again earning accolades. USA TODAY claims Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love "delivers everything its title promises and then some." PEOPLE MAGAZINE says Yearwood "infuses each tale with her pitch-perfect delivery," and The BOSTON GLOBE writes, "her powerful, throaty voice, still singing primarily about matters of the heart, has never sounded better than on this strong batch of modern country." The FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM states, "Yearwood's 13th studio album glows with an easy charm...Trisha, like other first-name-only Nashville icons, is simply one of the best at what she does."
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 vulnerable 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."
Tour Dates include:
Feb. 9 - Austin, TX - Palmer Event Center
Feb. 13 - Ft. Myers, FL - Barbara Mann Performance Hall
Feb. 14 - Jacksonville, FL - Florida Theatre
Feb. 15 - Clearwater, FL - Ruth Eckerd Hall
Feb. 16 - Orlando, FL - Bayside Stadium
Feb. 28 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Theatre
Feb. 29 - Easton, PA - State Theatre
Mar. 1 - Atlantic City, NJ - Atlantic City Hilton
Mar. 6 - Verona, NY - Turning Stone Resort
Mar. 7 - Torrington, CT - The Warner Theatre
Mar. 8 - West Point, NY - Eisenhower Hall Theatre
Mar. 9 - Lowell, MA - Lowell Memorial Aud.
Mar. 13 - Niagara Falls, ON - Niagara Fallsview Casino
Mar. 14 - Niagara Falls, ON - Niagara Fallsview Casino
Mar. 16 - Jackson, MI - Jackson Community College
Trisha Yearwood is one of the highest-selling female artists in Country music history. Entertainment Weekly has called her "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 No 1 hits and twenty Top Ten hits, including "She's in Love With the Boy," "Walkaway Joe," and "How Do I Live."
Now her fiery new single, "Heaven, Heartache & the Power of Love," is on its way to the top In addition to three Grammy Awards, the Grand Ole Opry member is a three-time Country Music Award winner and a two-time Academy of Country Music Award winner. She has been honored with an American Music Award, a Pollstar Concert Industry Award and was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2000. She has performed at the Olympic Summer Games, the White House, Clinton's inauguration, dueted with Pavarotti in Italy, and was named one of Redbook Magazine's Women of the Year in 2005.
Big Machine Records was founded on September 1st, 2005, by music industry veteran Scott Borchetta, who serves as its President & CEO. The company is headquartered in Nashville, and its artist roster includes Taylor Swift, Trisha Yearwood, Jack Ingram, Danielle Peck, Sunny Sweeney and Dusty Drake. Big Machine is also the exclusive radio promoter for Garth Brooks. Big Machine celebrated its first No 1 single in May 2006 with Jack Ingram's "Wherever You Are". At the end of that year the label's three new artist releases-Jack Ingram, Danielle Peck and Taylor Swift-all made the Top 10 Most-Played New Artists of 2006 as monitored by Mediabase and reported by Country Aircheck Magazine. Jack Ingram was named the Most-Played New Artist of the Year by Country Aircheck Magazine. In its 39th Week, Taylor Swift's Platinum self-titled debut album began an 8-week consecutive No 1 streak on the Country Charts. In March 2007, Big Machine Records shipped its one-millionth CD. Taylor Swift won the prestigious CMA Horizon Award in November 2007. Big Machine and Garth Brooks recently made history with his new single, "More Than a Memory," when Brooks became the first artist in history to debut at No 1 on the Billboard Country Singles Chart, making him the highest Country debut leader of all time. The label is exclusively distributed by Universal Music Group Distribution.
Trisha Yearwood Contacts:
Publicity: Tiffany Shipp - Sunshine, Sachs & Associates, 212-691-2800, [email protected]
Label: Natalie A. Kilgore - Big Machine Records, 615-324-7769, [email protected]
