Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love
Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | November 13, 2007 | |||
Recorded | Sound Emporium, The Rukkus Room and Compass Sound Studio[1] (Nashville, Tennessee). | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Length | 50:40 | |||
Label | Big Machine | |||
Producer | Garth Fundis, Matraca Berg, Jim Collins | |||
Trisha Yearwood chronology | ||||
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Singles from Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love | ||||
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Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love is the eleventh studio album by American country music artist Trisha Yearwood. The album was released on November 13, 2007 on Big Machine Records and was produced by Garth Fundis.
Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love was Yearwood's first studio album released since 2005's Jasper County and the first for the Big Machine record label. (In 2007, she exited MCA Nashville Records, her label of the previous 17 years, where she'd recorded ten studio albums between 1991 and 2005.) The album contains three singles that were spawned between 2007 and 2008.
Background
Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love was recorded in
Heaven Heartache and the Power of Love's title track was said to resemble that of a Rockabilly song that "cuts right out of the gate" according to AllMusic. The album's second track "This Is Me You're Talking To" shifts into a ballad, a song that Jurek called a "non-stereotypical ballad/love song". Other songs on the album [2] mix from uptempo to slow tempo. The sixth track "Let the Wind Chase You" featured background vocals from Australian country artist Keith Urban. The album's tenth track "Not a Bad Thing" was originally recorded by Canadian country artist Terri Clark on her 2003 release Pain to Kill and the closing track "Sing You Back to Me" was dedicated to Yearwood's father who had recently died.[1]
In an interview with
"I think there's a comfort level. I used to worry so much about it being pitch-perfect and over-thinking things. As a demo singer, you would go into a studio and you'd have a limited amount of time to sing your songs. You were getting paid $40 a song, you did your own harmonies, and you got work because you knew the song when you got there and you worked fast and cheap. And then when you go to make your album, and you've been waiting your entire life to make that first album, you think, "Oh, my gosh. This is an album and it has to be perfect." As time passes, you learn how to do a better job, just like anything."[5]
Critical reception
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Source | Rating |
About.com | [6] |
AllMusic | [2] |
Paste | (average)[7] |
People | [8] |
Slant Magazine | [3] |
The 9513 | [4] |
Jonathan Keefe of Slant Magazine gave Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love four and a half out of five stars, noticing that she has "never sounded better" with the release of the album. Keefe also mentioned that the album should receive recognition from country radio because "more than half" of the album's songs could be used as radio singles: "Hopefully, Big Machine will make better choices in that regard than MCA did, because if country radio has any sense left at all, Heaven, Heartache, and the Power of Love should allow Yearwood to return to the top of the charts. It's a career-best effort from one of the genre's all-time greatest vocalists and a testament to the vitality, intelligence, and soulfulness of modern country's best music."[3] The 9513's Jim Malec gave the release five out of five stars, calling the album in general "breathtaking". Malec noted that the difference between a "good album" and a "great" comes because the choice of material, saying that Yearwood recorded a "great album": "The difference between a good album and a great album always–always–comes down to songs and song selection. And while Yearwood has long since proven herself a superb vocalist, her albums have, on occasion, tapped into a fair bit of par-for-the-coursematerial. That is not a problem here."[4]
Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love received four and a half out of five stars from Thom Jurek at
Release and singles
Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love's
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love" | Clay Mills, Tia Sillers | 3:48 |
2. | "This Is Me You're Talking To" | Tommy Lee James, Karyn Rochelle | 4:00 |
3. | "They Call It Falling for a Reason" | Matraca Berg, Jim Collins | 4:11 |
4. | "Nothin' 'Bout Memphis" | Jessi Alexander, James | 3:45 |
5. | "We Tried" | Morgane Hayes, Liz Rose, Chris Stapleton | 3:19 |
6. | "Let the Wind Chase You" (featuring Keith Urban) | Sally Barris, Rochelle | 4:08 |
7. | "The Dreaming Fields" | M. Berg, Gary Harrison | 4:16 |
8. | "Cowboys Are My Weakness" | Hillary Lindsey, Jim McCormick, Rochelle | 3:43 |
9. | "Help Me" | Leslie Satcher, Billy Joe Walker Jr. | 3:33 |
10. | "Not a Bad Thing" | Dave Berg, Deanna Bryant, Sunny Russ | 3:26 |
11. | "Nothin' About You Is Good for Me" | Rochelle | 3:26 |
12. | "Drown Me" | Alexander, Pat McLaughlin | 3:02 |
13. | "Sing You Back to Me" | Tony Arata, Gene Nelson | 5:51 |
Personnel
- Trisha Yearwood – lead vocals, harmony vocals (10)
- Hammond B3 organ(1, 4, 5, 10, 12), acoustic piano (4, 6, 9, 10, 12)
- Steve Cox – acoustic piano (2, 11), Hammond B3 organ (8)
- Gary "Bud" Smith – Hammond B3 organ (3)
- Steve Nathan – acoustic piano (7)
- Steven Sheehan – acoustic guitar (1, 4, 6), National guitar(1)
- Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar (2, 8, 11, 13)
- Kurt Riles – acoustic guitar (3)
- Billy Joe Walker, Jr.– acoustic guitar (5, 9, 10, 12)
- Nathan Chapman – acoustic guitar (10)
- Johnny Garcia – electric guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8-12)
- Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar (3-6, 10, 11, 12)
- Troy Lancaster – electric guitar (3)
- Sam Bush – mandolin (1)
- Dan Dugmore – lap steel guitar (1), steel guitar (2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12)
- Scotty Sanders – steel guitar (3)
- Paul Franklin – steel guitar (9)
- Steve Mackey – bass (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8-12)
- Steve Bryant – bass (3)
- Chad Cromwell – drums (1, 3, 4, 6)
- Greg Morrow – drums (2, 5, 8-12)
- Eric Darken – percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12), vibraphone (8)
- Jim Horn – baritone saxophone (4), tenor saxophone (4), horn arrangements (4)
- Chris Dunn – trombone (4)
- Steve Herman – trumpet (4)
- Stuart Duncan – fiddle (5), mandolin (10)
- Rob Hajacos – fiddle (8, 11)
- Jonathan Yudkin – strings (7), string arrangements and composer (7)
- Jessi Alexander – harmony vocals (1, 3)
- Jon Randall – harmony vocals (1)
- Bob Bailey – harmony vocals (4)
- Vicki Hampton – harmony vocals (4)
- Wes Hightower – harmony vocals (5, 9)
- Sonya Isaacs – harmony vocals (5, 9)
- Keith Urban – harmony vocals (6)
- Karyn Rochelle – harmony vocals (8, 11)
- Garth Fundis – harmony vocals (10)
- Jim Lauderdale – harmony vocals (12)
- David Campbell – string arrangements and conductor (2, 6)
- Kristin Wilkinson – string arrangements and conductor (9)
- Anthony LaMarchina and Carole Rabinowitz – cello
- Monisa Angell and Gary Vanosdale – viola
- David Angell, Carl Gorodetzky, Cate Myer, Betty Small, Pamela Sixfin, Alan Umstead, Cathy Umstead and Mary Kathryn Vanosdale – violin
Production
- Garth Fundis – producer
- Matraca Berg – producer (3)
- Jim Collins – producer (3)
- Chad Carlson – recording
- A.J. Derrick – recording
- Chuck Ainlay – additional recording, mixing
- Matt Andrews – additional recording
- Kyle Ford – second engineer, additional recording
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) – mastering location
- Juanita Copeland – production coordinator
- Tommy Colorigh – digital imaging
- Virginia Team – digital imaging
- Ron Roark – graphic design, art direction
- Bonnie Richardson – graphic design
- Sandi Spika Borchetta – art direction, wardrobe stylist
- Mark Tucker – photography
- Debbie Dover – hair stylist
- Lori Turk – make-up
Sales chart positions
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Singles
Year | Song | Chart positions[13] | ||
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US Country | US | |||
2007 | "Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love" | 19 | 107 | |
2008 | "This Is Me You're Talking To" | 25 | — | |
"They Call It Falling for a Reason" | 54 | — | ||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
References
- ^ a b c "Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love Liner Notes". Big Machine Records.
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