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

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