Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love

Trisha Yearwood | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 13, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Big Machine Records
• ASIN: B000UMQDLI
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,847 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

People Magazine, November 9,2007

3 out of 4 stars, reviewed by Randy Vest

Trisha Yearwood offers up some memorable story songs on this follow-up to 2005's "Jasper County," infusing each tale with her pitch-perfect delivery. "Nothin' 'Bout Memphis" finds a guilt-ridden woman hiding a past romance from her current lover, while "Dreaming Fields" is an achingly beautiful reminiscence of a 1940's couple who lose the family farm. But the mood here is not all downbeat. "Nothin' About You Is Good For Me" is a boisterous rebuke of a low-down lothario, and "Cowboys Are My Weakness" is a loping two-stepper that playfully nods to hubby Garth Brooks.

Yearwood Explores Power of Love on New Studio Album BY DEBORAH EVANS PRICE Billboard

Street week is always a busy time for an artist,but this week will be especially crazy for Trisha Yearwood. In addition to promoting the arrival of her Big Machine Records debut on Nov.13,Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love, Yearwood is currently opening nine sold-out shows for her husband Garth Brooks in Kansas City, Mo. Yearwood admits she was initially hesitant about pulling double duty."I'd been saying I couldn't open the show because I have my album coming out the 13th,"she says."Then I started thinking,`I just don't want to miss it. He's retired and doesn't do shows. I'd love to be a part of it. 'But all the things I'm doing for street week,I'm still doing." During the Kansas City shows,Yearwood will perform for more than 150,000 fans, but even that pales in comparison to the millions of impressions she'll garner appearing on Late Show With David Letterman(Nov.15), Today(Nov.16)and The View(Nov.20), not to mention the radio promotions and online initiatives Big Machine has lined up. The activity is complemented by the strong performance of the single/titletrack, which is No.22 onBillboard's Hot Country Songs. Beginning Oct. 15,stations were able to offer a free download of the single for 30 days. "People are thrilled to have something new from her,and there's been a very warm welcome at radio,"Big Machine president/CEO Scott Borchetta says. The new album is a diverse collection that runs the gamut from the playful Western yarn "Cowboys Are My Weakness," which she admits reminds her of Brooks,to the poignant"This Is Me You'reT alking To,"a strong contender for the second single. "I love songs that tell stories, but when you do those songs,you become the narrator," the Monticello,Ga.,native says. "When you start singing,`This happened to me,'instead of, `This happened to her,'you in- stantly become a lot more vulnerable." That emotion is best felt on "Sing You Back to Me,"which deeply affected Yearwood. "The song says,`If I could write a song that would bring you back to me,it would be the only song I'd ever sing,'"says the artist,who lost her father in September 2005. "Listening to the demo,I would just cry and cry. It's so personal to me." The new album will join Yearwood's recently issued MCA greatest-hits package in the marketplace. But Borchet- ta says that rather than cannibalizing sales, the latter CD will "bring awareness to the fact that Trisha is alive and well and in play. We're going to make it clear that Trisha has a new studio album." Retailers are counting on Yearwood's loyal fan base to snap up Heaven."Given that the first single has been received well at radio and the fact that we are getting regular requests at store level,I think it is a perfect time for the new album," says Brian Smith,VP of store operations for Marietta,Ga.-based Value Music Concepts. During street week,Yearwood will fly back and forth between the Kansas City shows and events in New York and Nashville. Yearwood will play alive acoustic concert the night of Nov.13, which is being offered for simulcast on radio station Websites. A Lon Helton-hosted radio special will also be serviced in conjunction with Westwood One. As for touring, Yearwood says she'll perform the ater dates in February and March,then take time in April to pro- mote a cookbook she has coming out through Random House that she wrote with her mom, Gwen, and her sister,Beth Bernard. Fair dates are in the works for next summer. "Somewhere in the back of my mind,I felt like this album as a whole had to be undeniable," Yearwoods ays."After 15 years,you've got to find a way to make people say,`I know you've heard her sing for 15 years, but you need to hear this.' And that's a hard thing to do." ©2007, Nielsen Entertainment NewsWire THE BEAT

3 1/2 stars out of 5 by Brian Mansfield If Trisha Yearwood's first album in two years gets overshadowed by Garth Brooks' ultimate hits hoopla, then that's a real shame. Her album may not arrive with the fanfare of her husband's, but what an album it is. It delivers everything its title promises and then some: a couple of blues-rocking barnburners, a little Memphis soul, some cooing cowboy swing and perfectly wrought ballads that Yearwood sings with emotional precision of a latter-day Tammy Wynette.

Product Description

The NEW studio album from one of country music's most treasured voices.

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29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Power of Her Voice is Sublime, November 13, 2007

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Judith Agee (SmallTown, Indiana USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love (Audio CD)

This CD bodes very well for Trisha's continuing collaboration with Big Machine Records. I don't know how it will do commercially, what with the vagaries of country radio,but, artistically it is, for this listener, an unqualified success.
The CD starts out with the powerhouse vocal performance of the title track.
Trisha lets it rip. Big sound, bold emotion and the power of her voice.
Next she tones it down for a beautiful gentle ballad, "This is me you're talking to".
Just Trisha, not even any harmony vocals and a gentle arrangement of strings and piano to accompany her. BEEYOUTEEFUL.
Another up-tempo tune follows. "They Call It Falling For A Reason". Written by one of Trisha's favorite tunesmiths, the ultra-talented and prolific Matraca Berg. All about falling in love. (Its a tumbling rush, its a helpless kind of feeling). It is a great song!
"Nothing 'Bout Memphis" is about a woman who doesn't want to reveal to her current love, a great passion she shared with someone else.( All he sees is that big muddy river and the ghost of Elvis). Kinda bluesy.
Written by Jessi Alexander who sings harmony vocals on they Call it Falling, but not on the song she penned.
"We Tried" is close to acoustic. Lovely background vocals by Sonya Issacs and
the ubiquitous Wes Hightower. He must have worked with everyone in Nashville:}
Up-tempo tune about giving love and life your best shot. Nice guitar work by Billy Joe Walker, Jr. Trisha's band member Johnny Garcia is studio musician for most of the tracks.
Yet another gorgeous story song is "Let The Wind Chase You" with Keith Urban.
Just the opposite of "We Tried". (I don't want to work for your love, I don't want to try to be something that your looking for).
Another solid track. Trisha's vocals and the musical arrangements on this are just
so perfect. Not overproduced at all. You hear Trisha's voice equally with everything. She is hitting some gorgeous notes. Exquisite phrasing as always.
A stunning song, "The Dreaming Fields", again by Matraca Berg about America's Farmers. (Oh the sun rolls down, big as a miracle, and fades from the midwest sky). Wonderful piano work by Steve Nathan.
I guess my favorite out of all these wonderful tracks would be
"Cowboys Are My Weakness" GREAT VOCAL FUN. Delightful lyrics.
(I love to hear my name inside a southern drawl, a man who takes his time, you know what I mean, y'all). I have no idea what country radio is all about anymore, but THIS song should/would be a smash hit as far as this listener is concerned.
A Leslie Satcher/Billy Joe Walker, Jr tune "Help Me" My take on it is the give and take in relationships, how sometimes you can find your strength in your partners love.
"Not A Bad Thing" is about possibilities in love and life after you have lost someone significant in your life. Very breezy delivery for a serious subject but it works.
"Nothing About You Is Good For Me" by Karyn Rochelle who sings background on several tracks. Some good guitar going on here, and some sassy vocals.
(Don't call my Mama, don't call my sister, don't nobody cares whats on your mind). Great driving down the road song to sing along with.
A song with the unlikely title of "Drown Me" written by Jessi Alexander
is just a damn fine country song. I won't tell you about it. I'll let Trisha reveal it all for you:}.
They just don't write them better than this.
That is something Trisha and her team have always done, choose songs with memorable lyric content. This CD is 13 tracks of stellar songwriting.
Trisha ends with a song to her Daddy. "Sing You Back To Me"
(A miracle of page and pen, you'd hear it and be here again).
Just beautiful. Trisha-classy. Just Trisha on vocals, accompanied with acoustic guitar.
I bought it this afternoon and have listened non-stop since.
I admit to being a tiny bit disappointed in Jasper County, so I was really
anxious to see what Big Machine was going to let Trisha do.
I saw Trisha in concert in Sept and she indicated it was a really good experience
working with Big Machine. I think the results sing for themselves.
Awesome recording.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Improvement for an already wonderful artist, December 8, 2007

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Kimberlie (Arlington, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love (Audio CD)

Throughout the years I've owned a couple of Trisha's CD's, but I can't really say I'm a huge fan. Just an average fan. I bought this CD to freshen up my music library, and because of the high reviews. It was money well spent! Other reviewers have said better what the album is all about, song by song. I'm just truly amazed to be so enthralled by the smoothness and clarity of her vocals, the soft and flowing ballads, and the lyrics that weave stories I can relate to. I have a ton of CDs from other artists that do one or two of those things well, but HURRAY to Trisha for finding the perfect blend of all three. She continues to top her previous albums with this one, showing amazing improvement for an artist who had already achieved great success.

If I don't buy another CD for a while, it's because I'm still listening to this one! Highly recommended!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece!, March 28, 2008

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Razor X (New Jersey, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love (Audio CD)

I can best be described as casual Trisha Yearwood fan. When she arrived on the scene back in 1991, I was much more focused on her contemporaries -- Reba, Patty Loveless, Lorrie Morgan, Tanya Tucker, and Martina McBride, who arrived about a year later. I purchased every CD these ladies released and there's only so much music one can buy. I held out until Trisha released a greatest hits package and purchased "Songbook" in 1997. Then in 2001, she had a big hit with "I Would've Loved You Anyway". I went out and bought her "Inside Out" CD just to get that one track. It turned out to be one of only three or four decent tracks on the entire CD, which was a bit of a disappointment. I haven't bought any of her music since then, with the exception of the single "The Georgia Rain" which I downloaded from iTunes.

With the release of "Heaven, Heartache And The Power Of Love", Trisha has redeemed herself for the lackluster "Inside Out". I just got it today and there is not a bad track on the entire disk. I really liked the title track, which was also the lead single. I thought it would be a huge hit when it came out, but it stalled at #19 on the charts. The second and current single "This Is Me You're Talking To" is a beautiful ballad and vintage Yearwood. There are even a few pleasant surprises -- the unusual (for Yearwood) "Cowboys Are My Weakness", and there's lot more steel guitar on many of these tracks than we've heard from Trisha in a long, long time.

I can't find a single negative thing to say about this CD. I really like that Trisha selected 13 of the best songs she could find -- seemingly without regard to whether or not they are "radio friendly". Unfortunately, that may prove to be the album's undoing; it's simply too good for today's country radio. Trisha's chart success seems to be in decline, but hopefully her fans will generate some decent sales for this latest effort even if it doesn't get a lot of radio airplay. I will go so far as to say that if you only buy one CD this year, make it this one.