Wynonna Judd is releasing her first solo studio album in a decade. And it sounds like she has a lot on her mind.
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The artist's upcoming album is titled The Hard Truth. And well that is the theme of what Judd wants to convey to her fans.
"I've spent a lifetime singing about heartbreak, healing, faith, and survival, but I've never made a record like this one. These songs tell the truth about where I've been, what I've lost, what I've overcome, and who I've become," Judd, 62, wrote on Instagram.
"This album asked me to be brave enough to tell the truth—even when my voice shook. It challenged me to let go of perfectionism and embrace the beauty of honest emotion," she continued.
Judd has experienced a lot over the past 10 years, including the death of her mom, Naomi Judd.
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"My hope is that when you hear these songs, you feel what I was feeling while writing and recording them," Judd concluded in her Instagram post. "If they help someone feel seen, understood, or a little less alone, then every hard truth was worth telling."
While it may be her first studio album since 2016, Judd has been busy performing. This year, she'll perform with Melissa Etheridge. In 2022, she went on The Judds: The Final Tour after her mom's death.
"Here's the deal, y'all. We have to celebrate the past because it's where we come from but not be defined by it," she previously said. "So I'm trying to go back and stop the car, read the map and see where I'm going because I'm making a record right now. But I'm also living in the past, I'm in the present, and singing in the future."
That tour represented her taking back control of her life.
"I think you have to get to a place in your life where you realize you're not a victim. And all this crap has happened to me with mom committing suicide last year I had a choice to make," she said. "I could either let that define me or give me permission to show everybody and myself that I could do it even in spite of the hellish time period that I went through, that I could still sing. And so I went on tour because those fans bought the tickets and they were there for me."
