I knew them all so well, and I knew her arrangements so well that I was afraid that I would just copy Linda. I kind of stayed away from the things that Linda had covered, because I’m such a Linda fan. Interestingly, I did not cover the same songs that Linda did.

Let’s Be Frank includes 11 standards such as “Over the Rainbow” and “The Man That Got Away,” all of which were previously recorded by Sinatra, along with one original love song Yearwood co-wrote with husband Garth Brooks.Īnd then when Linda Ronstadt did her Nelson Riddle albums in the Eighties, I totally fell in love. Yearwood and Was teamed up at Capitol Studios in Hollywood to record the album - her first full-length solo release since 2007 - and tapped Sinatra’s engineer Al Schmitt as well as string arranger Vincent Mendoza to bring it to life. So while Let’s Be Frank, Yearwood’s new collection of songs from the Great American Songbook, may seem like a sudden left turn, it’s actually been a long time coming. She told him, “Yes, every day.”Īs far back as the mid-Nineties, the singer had been mixing orchestral versions of her country hits with standards at full-fledged symphony shows, along with delivering the occasional knockout rendition of “Somewhere” from West Side Story at special events. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week of September 19, 1998.In 2015, Trisha Yearwood was one of the artists selected for the Recording Academy’s all-star tribute to Frank Sinatra, during which she performed “I’ll Be Seeing You.” The event’s musical director, producer Don Was, asked her backstage if she’d ever considered doing a full album of standards. 'Where Your Road Leads' debuted at number 58 on the U.S. Shaw previously recorded the song on her 1995 album In Full View.ĭeborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably, calling it a 'gorgeous lyric.' She goes on to say that Yearwood's 'strong, supple voice beautifully conveys the passionate commitment in the words, and Brooks' warm demeanor provides affecting support.' On the production, she say that it at times, 'comes perilously close to bombast.' Chart performance The song reached #18 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart. It was released in September 1998 as the second single and title track from Yearwood's album Where Your Road Leads. ' Where Your Road Leads' is a song written by Victoria Shaw and Desmond Child, and recorded by American country music artists Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks.

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