Trisha Yearwood‘s Christmastime is here, just months after July’s self-penned The Mirror.
She did a similar thing in 2018, putting out her Sinatra covers record, Let’s Be Frank, in December, followed by Every Girl in August 2019.
So does the two-time CMA female vocalist of the year prefer to put out her albums in pairs?
“I had planned to make the Christmas album. I had not planned to make The Mirror,” Trisha reveals. “You know, I was writing songs and never thought I would make an album. I never thought people would hear these songs. So that kind of took on a life of its own.”
“Once I realized, ‘I think I’m gonna make this record and I think I’m gonna release it to the public and I’m think I’m OK with that.’ Then it’s like, ‘OK, well we’ve still got Christmas here,’ and we had plans and we’d booked the tour. So the album had to be made. … So it wasn’t on purpose,” she explains.
Trisha duets with husband Garth Brooks on “Merry Christmas, Valentine,” a tune they co-wrote together.
She kicks off her symphony tour Dec. 2 in Nashville, and she’s “already working on the next record” – just one, she points out.
“I’ve been doing a lot of writing, but I don’t think there’ll be two again in the same year,” she tells ABC Audio. “It’s a lot, it’s a lot to do. And because you have to make a Christmas album in the summer, it just fell right in the middle of promoting a new album. So it’s been a crazy summer.”
Christmastime includes Trisha’s orchestral takes on Elvis Presley‘s “Blue Christmas,” Barry Manilow‘s “It’s Just Another New Year’s Eve,” Beth Nielsen Chapman‘s “Years” and Willa Wonka’s “Pure Imagination.”
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