NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Once intent on scaling back her career to focus on family, country singer Trisha Yearwood now finds herself with two – platinum-selling musician with a new album on the way and emerging kitchen mogul.
“I kind of feel like Rocky in the first movie,” Yearwood said.
An apt description: Yearwood announced Tuesday she’s releasing a new album titled “PrizeFighter,” the title taken from a new track she found inspiring as she contemplated relaunching her music career at 49. It coincides with the looming comeback tour with her husband, Garth Brooks. She’s also launching cookware and cutlery lines, begins a new season of “Trisha’s Southern Kitchen” next week and has her third cookbook out next spring.
“I kind of feel like the odds are not in my favor, so the song is really motivating in that way because it’s just kind of like you’ve got to fight, you’ve got to fight for what you want,” Yearwood said.
She and Brooks begin their tour Sept. 4 in Chicago, where they’ll play 11 concerts – “We call it the freak show right now” – and she’ll be taping new episodes of her show’s fifth season between sets while on the road.