May 28, 2019 • 16 mins
Cozy up with me and a warm hearted, country music icon, television (cooking!) show host, and all around great gal... I'm talking about the one and only Trisha Yearwood! Fans (and whoa does she have fans!) may have never heard Trisha like this before. We're dishin' up truths about our lives and her spectacular main course, Let's Be Frank, an album of Frank Sinatra tribute numbers, 20 years in the making, now served. ~ Delilah
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Some Welcome my friend, Welcome back to another edition of
Love Someone With Delai La.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm having so much fun this year doing these.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Podcasts because I love to talk and I love to listen,
and when I'm on the radio, I only get to
talk to somebody for two or three minutes, because you know,
when I'm on the radio, I'm supposed to be playing
a lot of music, relaxing favorites, longer song sets, that
sort of thing, so you can relax and unwind at night.
And I love playing the music, but I really love
(00:47):
having conversations with people that thrill me, people that inspire me,
people that make me want to be a better version
of myself. I love people that are real, that are honest,
that are using their gifts and talents and skills to make.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The world a better place.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And the woman that I'm about to talk to that
we are going to have a conversation with here, I
Love Someone with Delilah does all those things.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
She's as real as a heart attack. She must be.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
She could be like my secret sister, separated at birth.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
She looks we look enough alike to.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Be sisters, and she is bold, she's abroad, she's funny,
She loves food as much as I do. In fact,
you probably know her from her food show, Tricia Yearwood's
Southern The Home Cooking Wonderful NUS that I got to
be on with her, and she is our guest today
(01:53):
on our podcast. I met her when she was performing.
She has an you album out called Let's Be Frank
and it's all Frank Sinatra tunes that she has covered
that are beautiful. But she is just a hot ticket.
She is sassy, she is funny, she is kind, she
is beautiful, and we are going to get to know
(02:15):
her a little bit more today on Love Someone with Delilah. First, though,
I want to talk about our sponsor, because without our sponsors,
we wouldn't have a podcast. So we're gonna talk about
our sponsor here for a second, and then we are
going to talk with Trisha Yearwood. This year, we have
been working very hard on our podcast series.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I love being on the radio with you. I have
loved being on the radio with you for years. But
I have a lot to say.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I want to get to know people on a deeper,
more intimate level. I want I want to get to
know people in a very real way. However much time
I have left on this planet. I want to use it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We're good.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I've always wanted to do that, but since losing my
son Zach, so much more so now I want to
use my gifts and my talents and my skills for good,
to encourage you to be the best you that you
can possibly be, to encourage you to live deeply, to
(03:18):
love completely. And that has been my motivation this year
with my podcast series loves Someone with Delilah, and today
we're going to get to know a beautiful woman a.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Little bit better, a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We're going to talk with and listen to the versatile,
the talented Tricia yearwould right here.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I have to tell you that when anyone hears your voice,
you have to know the one of the most famous
voices in the world, and everybody it's so it's just
so it's like you just take a deep breath and go, oh,
it's Delilah. I can just listen to you talk forever,
and they're stories you tell and the way you make
everybody feel. There are not many people that can do that. So,
(04:06):
I mean, I'm just honored to be here sitting with you.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Seriously, thank you, and I am so honored because I
have played your music and followed your career since you
were really young.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, ninetyone was my first year. I was twenty six
years old. I hear those first records and I like them,
but I just feel like I sound like a child.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When I go back and listen, I'm like, oh, you're
such a little girl. Yeah, I was a child when
I started in radio.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I was fourteen, And I remember the first time I
had to say Martina Navratalova. I was reading the copy
mar Martina nat stumbling all over the place. But I
have loved watching your career and all the different things
(04:54):
that you have touched that are just so wonderful and
so real.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Thank you. I have fun.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, I enjoy what I do, and I'm I'm
at an age in my I'm fifty four years old.
I'm at a place where I'm like, I don't really
want to do anything that I don't enjoy. Yeah, and
I feel very lucky and I and I never wanted
to do stuff I didn't want to do, but I
had to, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So it's it's nice.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
To be in a place where you get to pick
the things that bring you joy.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And so what was what were some of the things
that you did that you really didn't want to do,
but you did, and you did well.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But now you're so glad you don't have to do anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Mostly it was just real jobs, you know. I just
didn't want to work for a living.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What's some of the real jobs you've I've only had
two real jobs, So what's some of the real jobs
you've had?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I worked for an ager sales company, selling like feeding
troughs for uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I grew up on a farm, so I mean I
knew what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
But still, I mean that was mainly like bulk mailing
and filing. I wasn't I didn't, you know. I wasn't
a salesperson to the No, I would have loved that.
That would have been fun. I was a tour guide
at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, so
if you came through, I could lead you through, and
that was not a bit. I liked that job because
I would spend most of my time in the and
they had movies that had an Elvis movie and a
(06:15):
Patsy Klein movie for like two or three minutes. And
I was not a great tour guide because you were
watching the pasty line.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You were singing along. Yeah, when there's only three or
four people a guest and the tour, you were singing
better than probably than Patsy No I was.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I was a receptionist at a record label, So that
was kind of torturous because no one knew I sang.
I wanted to keep my job and I watched people
coming in every day doing what I wanted to do.
And I was really a shy person and not bold
about myself. So I think that was a great job
for me because it's it was what lit the fire
under me to say, if you don't let people know
(06:53):
this is what you want to do, then you're going
to get to answer the phones in order liquid paper
for the rest of your life, you know. So it
was the job that changed everything for me, honestly.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Talking today with Tricia Yearwood and her life and her
love and her hubby Garth Brooks, and her music and
her TV show, And we are going to continue this
conversation with Trisha Yearwood in just a moment. But first though,
I want to talk to you about our sponsors that make.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
This podcast a possibility.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You want to smile, put yourself smack dab in the
center of the garden department.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
At the Home Depot.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
This time of year, there are so many beautiful flowers
to take home and plant in your flower beds and
your gardens. You can always find room for a flat
full of fresh flowers. Every flower bed does better when
you use the right products from earth Grow, Vigoro and Scott.
(07:49):
The very helpful people working in the garden department will
guide you on what's best the Home Depot, more saving,
more doing. I've been talking today with Trisha Yearwood. Oh
my gosh, I fell in love with this lady. She's
just a hot ticket. She's fun and she's funny, beautiful, talented,
(08:10):
so talented and not afraid to be true to herself.
We got to talk about last night because I told
my sister and my group that last night was such
a huge blessing to my heart that I would not
have been surprised if an angel appeared on stage after you,
because from beginning to end, the whole night was like
(08:32):
this blessed gift to my heart.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Thank you for saying that, you know I was so
This has been such a build up for me because
I wanted to do this record. For twenty years, I've
wanted to sing these songs forever. Let me just interject
your new record. Let's be Frank Frank Sinatra. Some of
his big hits, some of his lesser known songs he recorded,
but so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Everything just was right. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's really funny. I have rituals before I go on stage.
I do a little power with my band, and I
did one with the three guys that played the Tricia
songs at the front of the show that the bass
player and the guitar playing the panel player. We always
do like a little Powell and a little like break
on three or whatever, and then we go out. And
that's what I do. I don't really have. I mean,
I don't do I don't vocal warm ups, I don't
(09:22):
have like you know, I don't do anything special. But
last night, after the power and they went out, I
was just I just need to take a breath, and
I actually said a prayer, which I never I never.
I mean, I pray, but I don't pray before I
go on stage. I feel like God's got other things
to worry about, whether than whether or not I hit
the notes.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You are a force to be reckoned with not in
a bad way, not in a pushy way. But when
you set your mind to do something, you do it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I don't know. I don't know if it's you know.
I guess I'm stubborn, I'm competitive, and I am not
I'm not confident in everything in my life. But the
things that I'm confident in, the things that I know
I can do, I just I believe. And I was
raised by parents who were very nurturing in that way
(10:10):
and made us believe, my sister and I both that
we could do anything we wanted. They just and it
wasn't about we want you to do this, It was
about we want you to be happy, and we want
you to be in charge of your life.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And that was that was a great message, a great
gift they gave us. Well, you've certainly done it well.
And you said on stage last night that this album
you've wanted to do for twenty years. These are the
songs that you've wanted to do for twenty years. And
I loved you telling the story of how you chose
the ones that are on the album. And I wanted
(10:42):
to share that with our listeners because that was a
huge process. I mean, you have hundreds of songs to
choose from, and you said you had eighty six more
that you wanted to record, which tells me there's going
to be you know, we got enough material here for
a couple of more of these.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But tell the story of how you chose the.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Ones that are on the album, and then we're going
to talk about the one that you wrote with your husband,
and and I'm going to talk about what that means
to me.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
So go ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, I did have a list of literally I think
it was ninety nine songs and it's still on my
laptop because it's still I still want to record the
rest of them. And I really was having a tough
time and Don was who produced the record. He kept saying, well,
which ones you think.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
We're going to do?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
And I kept going, I don't know, I'll get I'll
get to a list and then I just know what
And he finally said, look, we have to you know,
we have to do this. We have to. You got
to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Right right, and you have to.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, and you have to decide, Tricia, because this is
your album, it's not mine. I'm You're not going to
see my favorite Frank songs, you know. So we were
having a meeting and he sat me down with a
pen and paper and said, right now, off the top
of your head, what twelve would you cut? And I
wrote down twelve songs, and eleven of them made the record.
And so I guess it was good because I just
(11:58):
wasn't allowed to think about it. Now, I go back
right now and give you another list of twelve that
I would do tomorrow, you know. So I think that
I do hope I get to do more of this
because I've had a lot of fun in my career.
I've had a lot of fun in the studio. That's
where that's my happy place is in the studio, creating,
making a song mine. But I don't know if I've
ever had more fun than this. It was just it
(12:18):
was just incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Not to harp on how special last night was, but
we were in the Rainbow Room, which I could almost
feel the presence of Frank and his gang, you know,
the rat Pack. That's where they debuted so many of
their songs, and that was their happy place, you know.
(12:43):
And I've seen so many fabulous pictures of them in
the Rainbow Room. And then you walked out on stage,
the orchestra came out, and then you walked out in
that beautiful gown, looking like a vision. And every song
they just got I thought, how is she going to
top that?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How are you gonna top that one? You just nailed it?
How is she going to top that one? And each
one was.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Just so lush and so and brought back for me
because those are the songs my mom used to listen to.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
She had a little record player, and.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Those are the songs my grandparents used to play. And
each one brought back so many memories and they were
just all just touching my heart. It was the same
for me.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
My mother loved this music, you know, so for me,
I think I mentioned last night. She was born in
thirty seven, so we watched a lot of old movies
and musicals and played these songs. My mom and dad
were madly in love. They were there for forty five years,
and they would, you know, music would come on the radio.
There was a kitchen radio and that was always playing
(13:46):
and something would come up that reminded them. They met
at a square dance, so they were dancers, and they
weren't square dancing at this point, but they would dance
in the kitchen together, you know, and I'm a kid
watching my parents and they're kind of like oh, and
then you're like, oh, it's so sweet. And they were
always that way together. So it brings back so many
memories for me as well. And I gotta tell you
a funny story about the dress. I was very stressed
(14:06):
out about. You know, I'm gonna remember all these lyrics,
and I'm in the rainbow room. I've been waiting and
now I'm freaked out. And I don't really freak out.
I'm pretty zim, but I was nervous last night and
I had tried on the dress, this silver dress that
looked like a throwback old Hollywood dress.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It looks so like like I could have pictured Frank
Sinatra with a lady on his arm wearing that dress.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, that's how it felt.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And then I was like, well, I don't know, maybe
I should wear And I had a pants suited option
and I have this It was beautiful and I had
it on and I'm like, it's the Rainbow room, and
I'm thinking about what a woman would wear to the
Rainbow room in nineteen fifty five or sixty, and I'm like,
it's the dress. It's gotta be the dress, and the
dress made you feel like a diva. You're like, Okay,
I'm gonna go out there. And you know, when you're
(14:50):
wearing the outfit, you know how it is. If you
are dressing to go to church on Sunday, you carry
yourself straighter, and if you wear heels, you walk differently.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The dress.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, inhabiting the dress, this helped me inhabit the
songs better. I think, I really do think it did.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh well, it worked. You nailed it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I have a question for you. I met you and
your husband Paul last night. I met him last night
and you said he was your for the last time.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yes, he is.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So when you sang that song, I was bawling. First
you told the story of how you wrote it, and
when you said the line you came home with and
said to Garth for.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
The first time, I'm in love for the last time.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I was like, that's that's how I felt about my Paul.
Because my girlfriend's made me a T shirt years ago
that says, no, it's for real this.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Time, it is for real this time. Two weeks later,
I thought I was for.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Real, and you know, I got the I got the
collection of divorce. But people call me and say, how
dare you give people love advice when you have been
divorced more than once, Michael.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Really, I think that is also.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You learn what you want, and you learn what you
don't want, and what's good for you and what's not
good for you, and sometimes you have to go through
a couple.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Of husbands to get there sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
But this time I'm in love for the first time,
for the last time. Yeah, Tricia Yearwood, thank you for
being our featured guest, for spending all this time with us,
and blessings to you and your new music project, Let's
Be Frank, And I look forward to getting to know
you better and spending more time with you in the future.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Good lo
Some Welcome my friend, Welcome back to another edition of
Love Someone With Delai La.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
I'm having so much fun this year doing these.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Podcasts because I love to talk and I love to listen,
and when I'm on the radio, I only get to
talk to somebody for two or three minutes, because you know,
when I'm on the radio, I'm supposed to be playing
a lot of music, relaxing favorites, longer song sets, that
sort of thing, so you can relax and unwind at night.
And I love playing the music, but I really love
(00:47):
having conversations with people that thrill me, people that inspire me,
people that make me want to be a better version
of myself. I love people that are real, that are honest,
that are using their gifts and talents and skills to make.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The world a better place.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And the woman that I'm about to talk to that
we are going to have a conversation with here, I
Love Someone with Delilah does all those things.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
She's as real as a heart attack. She must be.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
She could be like my secret sister, separated at birth.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
She looks we look enough alike to.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Be sisters, and she is bold, she's abroad, she's funny,
She loves food as much as I do. In fact,
you probably know her from her food show, Tricia Yearwood's
Southern The Home Cooking Wonderful NUS that I got to
be on with her, and she is our guest today
(01:53):
on our podcast. I met her when she was performing.
She has an you album out called Let's Be Frank
and it's all Frank Sinatra tunes that she has covered
that are beautiful. But she is just a hot ticket.
She is sassy, she is funny, she is kind, she
is beautiful, and we are going to get to know
(02:15):
her a little bit more today on Love Someone with Delilah. First, though,
I want to talk about our sponsor, because without our sponsors,
we wouldn't have a podcast. So we're gonna talk about
our sponsor here for a second, and then we are
going to talk with Trisha Yearwood. This year, we have
been working very hard on our podcast series.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
I love being on the radio with you. I have
loved being on the radio with you for years. But
I have a lot to say.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
And I want to get to know people on a deeper,
more intimate level. I want I want to get to
know people in a very real way. However much time
I have left on this planet. I want to use it.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
We're good.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
I've always wanted to do that, but since losing my
son Zach, so much more so now I want to
use my gifts and my talents and my skills for good,
to encourage you to be the best you that you
can possibly be, to encourage you to live deeply, to
(03:18):
love completely. And that has been my motivation this year
with my podcast series loves Someone with Delilah, and today
we're going to get to know a beautiful woman a.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Little bit better, a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
We're going to talk with and listen to the versatile,
the talented Tricia yearwould right here.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
I have to tell you that when anyone hears your voice,
you have to know the one of the most famous
voices in the world, and everybody it's so it's just
so it's like you just take a deep breath and go, oh,
it's Delilah. I can just listen to you talk forever,
and they're stories you tell and the way you make
everybody feel. There are not many people that can do that. So,
(04:06):
I mean, I'm just honored to be here sitting with you.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Seriously, thank you, and I am so honored because I
have played your music and followed your career since you
were really young.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, ninetyone was my first year. I was twenty six
years old. I hear those first records and I like them,
but I just feel like I sound like a child.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
When I go back and listen, I'm like, oh, you're
such a little girl. Yeah, I was a child when
I started in radio.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I was fourteen, And I remember the first time I
had to say Martina Navratalova. I was reading the copy
mar Martina nat stumbling all over the place. But I
have loved watching your career and all the different things
(04:54):
that you have touched that are just so wonderful and
so real.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
Thank you. I have fun.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, I enjoy what I do, and I'm I'm
at an age in my I'm fifty four years old.
I'm at a place where I'm like, I don't really
want to do anything that I don't enjoy. Yeah, and
I feel very lucky and I and I never wanted
to do stuff I didn't want to do, but I
had to, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So it's it's nice.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
To be in a place where you get to pick
the things that bring you joy.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
And so what was what were some of the things
that you did that you really didn't want to do,
but you did, and you did well.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But now you're so glad you don't have to do anymore.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Well.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Mostly it was just real jobs, you know. I just
didn't want to work for a living.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
What's some of the real jobs you've I've only had
two real jobs, So what's some of the real jobs
you've had?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
I was.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I worked for an ager sales company, selling like feeding
troughs for uh yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean I was.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I grew up on a farm, so I mean I
knew what I was talking about.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
But still, I mean that was mainly like bulk mailing
and filing. I wasn't I didn't, you know. I wasn't
a salesperson to the No, I would have loved that.
That would have been fun. I was a tour guide
at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, so
if you came through, I could lead you through, and
that was not a bit. I liked that job because
I would spend most of my time in the and
they had movies that had an Elvis movie and a
(06:15):
Patsy Klein movie for like two or three minutes. And
I was not a great tour guide because you were
watching the pasty line.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
You were singing along. Yeah, when there's only three or
four people a guest and the tour, you were singing
better than probably than Patsy No I was.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I was a receptionist at a record label, So that
was kind of torturous because no one knew I sang.
I wanted to keep my job and I watched people
coming in every day doing what I wanted to do.
And I was really a shy person and not bold
about myself. So I think that was a great job
for me because it's it was what lit the fire
under me to say, if you don't let people know
(06:53):
this is what you want to do, then you're going
to get to answer the phones in order liquid paper
for the rest of your life, you know. So it
was the job that changed everything for me, honestly.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Talking today with Tricia Yearwood and her life and her
love and her hubby Garth Brooks, and her music and
her TV show, And we are going to continue this
conversation with Trisha Yearwood in just a moment. But first though,
I want to talk to you about our sponsors that make.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
This podcast a possibility.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
You want to smile, put yourself smack dab in the
center of the garden department.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
At the Home Depot.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
This time of year, there are so many beautiful flowers
to take home and plant in your flower beds and
your gardens. You can always find room for a flat
full of fresh flowers. Every flower bed does better when
you use the right products from earth Grow, Vigoro and Scott.
(07:49):
The very helpful people working in the garden department will
guide you on what's best the Home Depot, more saving,
more doing. I've been talking today with Trisha Yearwood. Oh
my gosh, I fell in love with this lady. She's
just a hot ticket. She's fun and she's funny, beautiful, talented,
(08:10):
so talented and not afraid to be true to herself.
We got to talk about last night because I told
my sister and my group that last night was such
a huge blessing to my heart that I would not
have been surprised if an angel appeared on stage after you,
because from beginning to end, the whole night was like
(08:32):
this blessed gift to my heart.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Thank you for saying that, you know I was so
This has been such a build up for me because
I wanted to do this record. For twenty years, I've
wanted to sing these songs forever. Let me just interject
your new record. Let's be Frank Frank Sinatra. Some of
his big hits, some of his lesser known songs he recorded,
but so beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Everything just was right. You know.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
It's really funny. I have rituals before I go on stage.
I do a little power with my band, and I
did one with the three guys that played the Tricia
songs at the front of the show that the bass
player and the guitar playing the panel player. We always
do like a little Powell and a little like break
on three or whatever, and then we go out. And
that's what I do. I don't really have. I mean,
I don't do I don't vocal warm ups, I don't
(09:22):
have like you know, I don't do anything special. But
last night, after the power and they went out, I
was just I just need to take a breath, and
I actually said a prayer, which I never I never.
I mean, I pray, but I don't pray before I
go on stage. I feel like God's got other things
to worry about, whether than whether or not I hit
the notes.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
You are a force to be reckoned with not in
a bad way, not in a pushy way. But when
you set your mind to do something, you do it.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I don't know. I don't know if it's you know.
I guess I'm stubborn, I'm competitive, and I am not
I'm not confident in everything in my life. But the
things that I'm confident in, the things that I know
I can do, I just I believe. And I was
raised by parents who were very nurturing in that way
(10:10):
and made us believe, my sister and I both that
we could do anything we wanted. They just and it
wasn't about we want you to do this, It was
about we want you to be happy, and we want
you to be in charge of your life.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
And that was that was a great message, a great
gift they gave us. Well, you've certainly done it well.
And you said on stage last night that this album
you've wanted to do for twenty years. These are the
songs that you've wanted to do for twenty years. And
I loved you telling the story of how you chose
the ones that are on the album. And I wanted
(10:42):
to share that with our listeners because that was a
huge process. I mean, you have hundreds of songs to
choose from, and you said you had eighty six more
that you wanted to record, which tells me there's going
to be you know, we got enough material here for
a couple of more of these.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
But tell the story of how you chose the.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Ones that are on the album, and then we're going
to talk about the one that you wrote with your husband,
and and I'm going to talk about what that means
to me.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
So go ahead.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Well, I did have a list of literally I think
it was ninety nine songs and it's still on my
laptop because it's still I still want to record the
rest of them. And I really was having a tough
time and Don was who produced the record. He kept saying, well,
which ones you think.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
We're going to do?
Speaker 3 (11:27):
And I kept going, I don't know, I'll get I'll
get to a list and then I just know what
And he finally said, look, we have to you know,
we have to do this. We have to. You got
to figure this out.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
Right right, and you have to.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, and you have to decide, Tricia, because this is
your album, it's not mine. I'm You're not going to
see my favorite Frank songs, you know. So we were
having a meeting and he sat me down with a
pen and paper and said, right now, off the top
of your head, what twelve would you cut? And I
wrote down twelve songs, and eleven of them made the record.
And so I guess it was good because I just
(11:58):
wasn't allowed to think about it. Now, I go back
right now and give you another list of twelve that
I would do tomorrow, you know. So I think that
I do hope I get to do more of this
because I've had a lot of fun in my career.
I've had a lot of fun in the studio. That's
where that's my happy place is in the studio, creating,
making a song mine. But I don't know if I've
ever had more fun than this. It was just it
(12:18):
was just incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Not to harp on how special last night was, but
we were in the Rainbow Room, which I could almost
feel the presence of Frank and his gang, you know,
the rat Pack. That's where they debuted so many of
their songs, and that was their happy place, you know.
(12:43):
And I've seen so many fabulous pictures of them in
the Rainbow Room. And then you walked out on stage,
the orchestra came out, and then you walked out in
that beautiful gown, looking like a vision. And every song
they just got I thought, how is she going to
top that?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
How are you gonna top that one? You just nailed it?
How is she going to top that one? And each
one was.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
Just so lush and so and brought back for me
because those are the songs my mom used to listen to.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
She had a little record player, and.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Those are the songs my grandparents used to play. And
each one brought back so many memories and they were
just all just touching my heart. It was the same
for me.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
My mother loved this music, you know, so for me,
I think I mentioned last night. She was born in
thirty seven, so we watched a lot of old movies
and musicals and played these songs. My mom and dad
were madly in love. They were there for forty five years,
and they would, you know, music would come on the radio.
There was a kitchen radio and that was always playing
(13:46):
and something would come up that reminded them. They met
at a square dance, so they were dancers, and they
weren't square dancing at this point, but they would dance
in the kitchen together, you know, and I'm a kid
watching my parents and they're kind of like oh, and
then you're like, oh, it's so sweet. And they were
always that way together. So it brings back so many
memories for me as well. And I gotta tell you
a funny story about the dress. I was very stressed
(14:06):
out about. You know, I'm gonna remember all these lyrics,
and I'm in the rainbow room. I've been waiting and
now I'm freaked out. And I don't really freak out.
I'm pretty zim, but I was nervous last night and
I had tried on the dress, this silver dress that
looked like a throwback old Hollywood dress.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
It looks so like like I could have pictured Frank
Sinatra with a lady on his arm wearing that dress.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, that's how it felt.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
And then I was like, well, I don't know, maybe
I should wear And I had a pants suited option
and I have this It was beautiful and I had
it on and I'm like, it's the Rainbow room, and
I'm thinking about what a woman would wear to the
Rainbow room in nineteen fifty five or sixty, and I'm like,
it's the dress. It's gotta be the dress, and the
dress made you feel like a diva. You're like, Okay,
I'm gonna go out there. And you know, when you're
(14:50):
wearing the outfit, you know how it is. If you
are dressing to go to church on Sunday, you carry
yourself straighter, and if you wear heels, you walk differently.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
The dress.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
You know, inhabiting the dress, this helped me inhabit the
songs better. I think, I really do think it did.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Oh well, it worked. You nailed it.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
I have a question for you. I met you and
your husband Paul last night. I met him last night
and you said he was your for the last time.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yes, he is.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
So when you sang that song, I was bawling. First
you told the story of how you wrote it, and
when you said the line you came home with and
said to Garth for.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
The first time, I'm in love for the last time.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I was like, that's that's how I felt about my Paul.
Because my girlfriend's made me a T shirt years ago
that says, no, it's for real this.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Time, it is for real this time. Two weeks later,
I thought I was for.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
Real, and you know, I got the I got the
collection of divorce. But people call me and say, how
dare you give people love advice when you have been
divorced more than once, Michael.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Really, I think that is also.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
You learn what you want, and you learn what you
don't want, and what's good for you and what's not
good for you, and sometimes you have to go through
a couple.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
Of husbands to get there sometimes.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
But this time I'm in love for the first time,
for the last time. Yeah, Tricia Yearwood, thank you for
being our featured guest, for spending all this time with us,
and blessings to you and your new music project, Let's
Be Frank, And I look forward to getting to know
you better and spending more time with you in the future.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
God bless you.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Good lo
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