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