RADIO.COM's Katie Neal welcomed singer, TV chef, best-selling author, proud wife, and stepmom Trisha Yearwood to our airwaves as this week’s co-host for the Superstar Power Hour on all your favorite RADIO.COM Country stations nationwide as we shine the spotlight on the Leading Ladies Of Country.
Trisha, one of our featured Leading Ladies throughout the month of March, is a woman who has been named over and over again during our chats with female Country artists as one of those outstanding females who not only creates astounding music but has also been there when they needed a guide in their own travels through the music industry.
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Now fully recovered from her bout with COVID, Trisha is extremely grateful for the love and support she received not only from her husband, Nurse Garth, but also the prayers and kind words from fans all over the world. With a full year of social-distancing and life on pause behind her, she's now preparing for a new book release in September perfectly titled for these days, Trisha's Kitchen: Easy Comfort Food for Friends and Family.
"I think, when we all got put home in March of last year, everybody handled it differently," Trisha says. "I got my office cleaned, I got my closets organized... and then after that, I was like, 'I've gotta do something.' I think it's been about five years since I've released a cookbook. They take time to put together, but I thought, 'I'm home, I cook anyway, I have all this Food Network, Trisha's Southern Cooking experience under my belt.' I think the confidence I've gained through doing that show and developing recipes, I thought, 'I've got enough stuff here to put another book together.'"
"I'm excited about it because it really does come from things that I've been working on for several years, testing on my family" Trisha adds. "It's kind of what people, I think, expect from a Trisha cookbook." Although there are some curveballs thrown in from her husband Garth, like the incredible breakfast lasagna that we just can't wait to sink our teeth into. "So, I went to work," on that idea and others, she says. "That's one of the recipes in the book that's one of our favorites. It's incredible, whether it's for breakfast or dinner."
Aside from keeping all of the kitchen appliances in tip-top shape, Trisha has been blessed to be able to spend plenty of time with her rescue dogs hiking the trails on her farm. "They have been so happy," she says. "You know how everybody says their dogs are real happy since we've been home? One is older and one is young; and they like to get out and run. We've been luck because we haven't been cooped up in the house. Garth... his therapy is getting on a tractor and knocking a tree down. Mine is taking the dogs out for a hike."
In keeping with our theme of empowering women and shining a big, bright light on those female voices and personalities who have impacted our Leading Ladies throughout their careers, Katie picked Trisha's brain about some of the up-and-coming singers that she has gotten to know over the years and how she sees her role as a resident advisor to anyone who reaches out for advice.
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"I've finally kind of embraced the role of, 'hey, I have been around for 30 years, so I'm not the new kid on the block anymore,' and I've really enjoyed becoming friends with some of these young girls. I've gotten a chance to sing with Lauren Alaina. She's a hoot and I call her 'Junior,' because she's from Georgia, her story is very similar to mine growing up. Caylee Hammack who opened some shows for me, she grows loofah... I didn't even know you could grow loofah... and she sent me some in the mail. I got homegrown loofah from Caylee Hammack."
"Just getting to know these girls and remembering how it's an exciting time for new women in Country music right now. It reminds me a lot of how it was in the early nineties when all of us kind of came on the scene at once," Trisha says. "I just got to sing with Hailey Whitters on what she calls kind of a tribute to 'She's In Love With the Boy.' I'm happy. I think Country music for women is in really good hands and I'm happy to be the old chick that they like."
Looking back on the success of her very first hit, "She's In Love With the Boy" which was released 30-years-ago in 1991, Trisha vividly recalls being behind the wheel of her used Honda Accord in Nashville when she first heard the single on the radio. "I was so excited about the sunroof and electric windows, which was new for me," she admits. "What I remember is that I rolled all the windows down and opened the sunroof, I think because I thought people driving by me need to know that I'm on the radio. I was clapping, I didn't have both hands on the wheel... I was so excited."
"I remember thinking, because my hero was Reba [McEntire], and I had watched Reba have several albums out before she really became this huge star. So, I thought, 'if my first single could just get in the top 40 I would be so happy...' and it got into the top 40 and I was happy," says Trisha. "Then it kept moving, and I was like, 'if we could just have a top 20 I would be so happy!' I think, no matter what the history books say, anybody who says 'we knew this was gonna be a number 1,' you just don't know. You find songs that you love and you hope that it resonates with somebody else... and it did and it still does."
Watch the full interview with Trisha and Katie above, and tune in to the Superstar Power Hour with Katie & Company on your favorite RADIO.COM Country stations every weekday. Plus be sure to get your votes in for the RADIO.COM Country Top 20 right now!
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