Trisha Yearwood has been a country music icon for decades. She knows the pleasures, passions, and pitfalls of the business inside and out. With a new song, "Country Music HerStory," out there celebrating the iconic females of the genre, Yearwood has come forward with inspirational advice for other ladies of country music.
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It's been a tough road for women in country. Often, they took a back seat to their male counterparts when it come to radio airplay. They sometimes got treated dismissively by an industry whose upper echelons were largely dominated by men.
But times are significantly changing because women spoke up and spoke out. Lainey Wilson, Miranda Lambert, Ella Langley, Megan Moroney, and many others are now in the forefront of country music. They earned a seat at the table because they fought for it and deserve it.
Yearwood's New Song Honors Legendary Ladies of Country Music
"Country Music HerStory" is a toast to foundational female artists like Tanya Tucker, Patsy Cline, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and many more. They were the pioneers and groundbreakers. Today's women in country proudly stand on their shoulders.
The song was written by Yearwood, Makayla Lynn, and Leslie Satcher. It appears on Yearwood's album, The Mirror.
Yearwood said per People, "What's crazy is, other than Patsy Cline, I have had the honor to meet and know everybody else [that the track name-checks] and call them friends. What their music has brought to me musically is inspiration to keep going, a hand on my shoulder when I was lonely or sad through a song that I related to and those great women paved the way for my personal friends and heroes like Reba [McEntire] and Wynonna [Judd]."
Her Advice Is To Cherish Who You Are
Yearwood says to find your uniqueness and treasure it. It's fine to emulate someone whose style you like, but be triumphantly yourself in the end.
"I think the biggest advice I would have is to take from those artists what they have to teach you, if it's from learning how to hold a note to learning what kind of songs you want to sing yourself, but also realize that every artist, every woman, is unique," the "Walkaway Joe" singer counseled.
She went on, "Don't be afraid to be yourself, even if you've never seen anybody else doing it the way you're doing it...especially if you've never seen anybody do it the way you're doing it!"
