Collin County Living Well Magazine Winter 2014 | Page 9

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I’m always holding out hope
till the last second.
TRISHA YEARWOOD

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It’s only Tuesday and Trisha Yearwood already feels like she’s been climbing a neverending hill all week––because she has.
“The dogs and I have been hiking up this same hill by the house for a couple months
and I mean, it literally goes straight up,” the blonde singer with the newly-found muscles
declares. “But yeah, I’m really proud of myself because I am just rocking that hill.”
That old hill on her sprawling Tennessee property isn’t the only battle Yearwood admits to
finding herself battling at the moment. A well-loved icon in the country music industry for
over 20 years, Yearwood currently finds herself as a recently turned 50-year-old female
artist trying to get played on currently male-dominated country radio.
Talk about a challenge.
Because in case you haven’t turned on country radio in awhile, much has changed
since Yearwood first broke onto the scene with the release of her multiplatinum debut
album in 1991. Songs of true love and devotion has been replaced with songs about
trucks and whiskey, creating quite a test for a platinum-selling, multiple GRAMMY, CMA,
and ACM award-winning recording artist known best for country music hits such as “She’s
In Love With The Boy,” “Walkaway Joe,” and “How Do I Live.” Yet, with the release of her
12th album appropriately titled “PrizeFighter,” Yearwood is showing that she is up to the
challenge.
“I don’t always win, but I always think I will,” she says. “I’m always holding out hope till the
last second. I’m the one playing poker and needing that one card and always believing
that I am going to get it. That’s how I live. I mean, I put 110 percent in Ѽ