Given the (legitimate) complaints that there doesn't seem to be a whole lot going on here other than pornographic spammers and other miscreants, I though I'd revive a legitimate topic, and it goes to how all of us got around to discovering the subject of this forum, who is after all TRISHA YEARWOOD.

Like probably most of you, I first heard Trisha back in 1991 when she made the big first splash with "She's In Love With The Boy." However, I wasn't exactly floored by her on the basis of this one song or even her first two albums; and there was a lot of talk and a lot of rumors as to how Garth Brooks "discovered" her, so I really didn't pay her much mind.

It was only with her third album, 1993's The Song Remembers When, that I really began taking her seriously as a singer, country or otherwise. What I felt helped her cause with me is her appreciation for and understanding of Linda Ronstadt and her classic 1970s country-rock albums, an understanding that informs Trisha's own unique approach to doing things. I consider Song and Real Live Woman to be my favorite albums from Trisha, with Jasper County coming in close behind.

So, what's everyone else's story with respect to Trisha?

Since I am a country fan, I of course first heard her on SILWTB in '91, but I don't think I was really pulled in until Thinkin About You. I always thought she had a great voice but I distinctly remember when I bought the RLW cd. I loved the single but it never really got much airplay here in LA, so when I put it in my car I listened to 10 to 20 seconds of each song and then jumped to the next song because I just wanted to hear RLW. After listening to RLW about 5 times in a row, I went back to the first track and started over. I discovered that I loved every song on that cd which put a lot of pressure on the next cd she put out(and every one to follow). She has never disappointed.

Great topic ERIK!!!

Well, a friend of mine gave me a copy of Hearts In Armor. He knew I liked female vocalists, Karen Carpenter, Sheena Easton and Olivia Newton-John. He handed me the CD, "She's worth a listen. I know you'll like her."

I had not followed country music for a long while, not since Lynn Anderson became my favorite at age 5. So I really did not know Trisha. I listened to the CD. Right away I loved her voice. I liked the ballads, but the uptempo songs were a bit "twangy" for my tastes. Of course, when I got to HEARTS IN ARMOR, she nabbed me. When a vocalist leaves me breathless, I'm a loyal follower.

Of course, Song Remembers When came out. (More nails in the coffin...) While I've always been drawn by certain voices, with Trisha I became aware of the quality of song selection. While I love Sheena's voice for its dynamic range, Karen's for its pure tone, and Olivia's for its warmth, some of their song selections were blatantly image based. (Well, maybe not the Carpenters stuff. They had a very distinct pop-style.)

Trisha selects the BEST material. None of her albums "sound dated". The songs on TRISHA YEARWOOD resonates just as strongly as those on JASPER COUNTY.

And, that's how I discovered Trisha Yearwood.

JTH

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I think that is true to a good extent. Of course, one should remember that there wasn't quite the same emphasis on image back then as there is now; MTV and Entertainment Tonight didn't have the kind of sway yet that they eventually would have. The fact that Trisha has survived as long as she has, I think, stems in part from what she learned from Linda and Emmylou--just be yourself.

For me Trisha's always been one of my favorites, but I haven't always had the same perspective of her as I do now. I remember absolutely loving SILWTB when it first came out, but I was only like 5 then so I can't really say I knew who Trisha was at that moment. And I mean I've always been obsessed with Garth, so I just kind of associated her with him for a really long time. Everytime I'd hear or see Trisha I'd just be like, "oh yeah, that's Garth's friend" or something like that. Buying Songbook is really what changed it all for me. Just having all of her hits like that in one place gave me the chance to really hear her and finally realize how amazing she really is. From that moment on I've had a whole new respect and admiration for her. I've been hooked ever since

Oh cool! A great topic Erik! I have to admit, I found Trisha and this board later than a lot of the folks here. It was early summer, 2001, and Ted and I had just gone to our very first concert. He saw the add in the newspaper, and asked me if I knew who Trisha Yearwood was. I went and got my one and only cd that I owned at the time. I played it over and over for him, while we waited for the concert date to arrive. (we bought the tickets in the fall of the year before).

Well, we loved the concert and Trisha - even though it was at a casino and I didn't care for the gambling crowd. But the concert itself - oh my goodness! It flew by, and soon it was time for the encore. All around us, people were leaving to go back to gambling. But I just stood there clapping and clapping, and trying to tell people to wait! I knew that she "had" to come back! (ok, so I was hoping like mad!). And she did. She did one upbeat song, and then she did the song that to this day can bring tears to my eyes - "On a Bus to St. Cloud". I stood through the whole song - crying. Ted and I were a bit ways back so to see her up close we had to watch the screen. Both of us were sure that we saw tears in her eyes as she sang the song. I was mesmerized by this woman who could touch us down to our very souls that night!

As we drove home, we wanted to know what the name of that song was. We talked and talked the whole way home about the concert and the song. When we got home, even though it was late, I searched the computer for Trisha. That's how I found the board. I posted questions and asked about the song. I got so many replies and everyone was so friendly and wonderful. My life changed that day. Trisha became a huge part of my life - and I found life-long friends that I have loved dearly. It has been an amazing thing - finding Trisha!

That's my Trisha story. I have loved every concert I have been fortunate enough to go to. And I dearly love my friends!!!

I'm actually really uncertain how i really discovered Trisha, i think it was something Gradual that just eventually sunk in and then she became my absolute favorite. I had grown up on country, everything from Hank Williams to Garth, Alan Jackson and Reba. I think i really became a fan when i was 10 in 1996 when i heard her Everybody Know's CD and From then on it just continued.

It was the video for She's In Love With The Boy. I liked how the video was done, and I listened to the words more and more in subsequent plays of the video and fell in love with the lyrics. And the tune of it just really grew on me. I don't really remember now, :-P but I probably did not buy the album until I heard most if not all of the singles that were released, because I didn't really like buying albums for just one song. (Technically speaking, I still don't like to, but I do it sometimes.) "The Woman Before Me" and "Like We Never Had A Broken Heart" were songs of a certain feeling that I was going through back then, so that made buying the album make even more sense. And of course, "That's What I Like About You" has such a catchy tune. As time passed since that album, I noticed that Trisha just seemed to pick songs to sing that had the words that I would've said if they had come to me at the right moment. Trisha's songs have been there for me to enhance the feelings that I've had for certain people in the past as well as to sympathize when those relationships didn't work out. So, from a certain point-of-view, there is kind of a weird but wonderful connection between singer and listener, and that is amplified when you attend a concert, another fan yells out "I love you, Trisha," and she replies, "Well, I love you, too." I can say that I've always liked her voice and her choice of songs, but I probably have gotten to know her better in the last few years than I ever had before, and I love her more now (in the friendly, non-psycho stalker way) than I ever have in the past.

I discovered Trisha from her first single She's In Love WithThe Boy. My step-mom had written any soldier letters to people of all services (army, airforce, etc) since Desert Shield began. At the time I was in a bad marriage separating from him and filing for divorce which I started the procedures of everything in early '91.

Well during '90 and until Desert Storm ended in 1991, my step-mom and dad continuously sent packages to soldiers - everyone in the armed forces. Well during the pen pal writing back and forth, they found out that he was in a bad marriage too. When the war was going on he buried his wedding ring in Iraq.

When he came back to Ft. Campbell, He first told his wife he wanted a divorce, the flew to Louisiana to see his parents, and then he wanted to meet people that had written him the whole time he was over in Desert Shield/Desert Storm - one of those being my step-mom and dad.

Well, a month later I had to go meet this Mark that they kept going on and on about - they just totally loved him and his two little boys. He was already separated from his wife. I met him and it was, really, love at first site.

So while we were dating, it just happened to be that Trisha's song "She's in Love with the Boy" was my favorite song!

When we married, our dance song was a Garth Brooks song "Two of a kind, working on a full house". After a miscarriage, our full house was completed in September '93!

We were married in October of 1991 and it has been the best 15 1/2 years of my life. We have two sons (my step sons) 22, 19 and then our daughter who's 13.

Great Topic, Erik!

Funny thing is, like jth(?) I've got a Olivia, Sheena and Carpenters past (along with ABBA and several more or less important pop and rock singers/bands).
Olivia was one of the first stars I became a fan of - that must have been around 1978/79 or so. She was also my first real "contact" with country music when I heard some of her old country songs (Banks of the ohio, Let me be there, Please Mr please), but eventually I turned from Olivia to Abba (and I still love their music to this day) with intermissions by other artists (see above).
Then came the early 90's and the end of radio as I'd known it.
My favourite station here in Germany turned "hip". They targeted the teens and everybody seemed to go wild about Techno and Rap and House and I know not what else it was called.
Anyway: The more I had to listen to it, the less I liked it. I always like to think of myself as somebody with a very "universal" music taste and I can usually find something I like in almost anything, but that 90's trend was just too much for me.

... and then my brother recorded a TV-Special about New American Country Music. Up to that point I had only heard of the old (and the very old) stuff. Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash ... those were the names I had in mind when I heard the word "country". It's not that I don't like them at all (I've always liked Kenny Rogers), but they were not exactly what I liked to listen to. But on this TV Show they played some Tanya Tucker and Garth Brooks. They had a short interview with Garth and showed the video for "Thunder rolls" and I liked it immediately. Then I heard "Friends in low places" on the radio (they acutally had 1 hour of country radio on sunday afternoons back then - amidst the House and Techno - guess what happened to that show soon afterwards?) and I loved it. I liked Garth from the spot on. They were trying to bring some of the American "Garth-Hype" to Europe and so there were TV-Specials that showed his Country-Rockstar-Performances and left me longing for more country.
Some time later I discovered a country video programme they aired once a month. That's what finally made me a country fan. They played Garth, Mary Chapin Carpenter and many more of the early-mid 90's artists. And in one show they had Trisha with TSRW. I have to admit that the song didn't get to me the first time I heard it - but it hit me with a vengeance the second time around. That's how and when I became a Trisha fan.
I've been a Trisha fan ever since and I intend to stay one "until they nail-shut my coffin" (which is a quote from an author whose name I can't think of at the moment).

Hoping for lots and lots of new material in the future to keep the "fandom" going
lol
erwin

I first discovered Trisha around about the time of 'How Do I Live' and the huge success she was having at that time. One of my friends parents had the Songbook album and gave it to me to have a listen to. I was converted then and there! It just so happened that not long after in November 1998 Trisha came to the UK and I had my first TY concert experience. Even better, by chance I met her at the stage door of the venue after the show and she signed my ticket!! It was an incredible night! Anyway, I still remember it like yesterday and have been a fan ever since!

I've always LIKED country music, but I had always listened to mostly Rock and Pop...... that is until the radio waves were taken over by the teenie boppers like Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and Nsync. Then I went hard core country. the first Trisha album I bought was Hearts In Armour because I knew Down on my knees and LOVED it. After that I bought everything that was available at the time and just kept on buying! Trisha became my all time favorite after I went to one of her concerts. At most concerts you get to hear how the artist REALLY sings and a lot of the time..... it doesn't sound all that good. When I saw her in concert, it was wonderful!!! She was on pitch, she was funny and she actually TALKED to the crowd during the show. Not just... ok, this is my next song and then nothing. Ever since..... I wear my "I'd rather be listening to Trisha Yearwood" shirt with pride!


Laura

I discovered Trisha when I was an exchangestudent in Pennsylvania in 1990-91. It was a wonderful year and my hostfamilies had CMT. CMT one day featured Trisha Yearwood and the song "She's in love with the boy". From then on I was hooked on Trisha and country music in general. It has been quite difficult explaining to friends and family back here in Norway the love I have for country music, but they are coming around. So thank you Trisha for getting me hooked on Country!

I discoverd Trisha by trying not too. All my friends knew how much I love Linda Ronstadt, and many told me I should get this new album by Trisha Yearwood. They all said she sounded like Linda. Well, all I had heard was "She's In Love With The Boy" and I didn't think that sounded anything like Linda. I also back then thought the song was a bit cheesy, but I think that was because I didn't like someone comparing her to my favorite singer...I had put up a wall in my mind, and I wasn't going to like Trisha no matter what. Then right before HEARTS IN ARMOR came out, Newsweek did an article on Trisha and her bright new career and a wonderful review of H.I.A. After reading that I saw the cover of the CD in the music store and thought that it was a nice photo and an classy looking cover. I thought the CD cover for TRISHA YEARWOOD was bad. The hair and the color pink...anyway I bought HEARTS IN ARMOR and right away I was totally hooked. She did remind me of Linda somewhat vocally, and the songwriting on the CD was top notch. So I feel in love with her and the CD, Then I went and bought the first one. If I would have given it a listen before when others had suggested it to me, I would have heard how wonderful it was too,. I started warming to "She's In Love With The Boy", though its hardly one of her best IMHO... and there was no turning back. I found a great new artist to follow, and after Song Remembers When, I knew that I could count on Trisha to make music I would like. She has yet to fail me, and now she is one of my most favorite aritsts. Once I got to know a bit about her personality I truly feel for her big time. Then I met her, and I saw an artist that really valued her fans. She is an amazing woman, salt of the earth, and that voice and her choice of material iare always top notch. Now I have learned to keep my mind open and not be threatend when someone compares another to Linda...though I have yet to find one that comes as close. In fact, there is no other artist that hit the emotional nerve in me like LINDA, EMMYLOU, AND TRISHA YEARWOOD. Sure I have many other artist I follow and go see and buy every CD. LINDA, EMMY and TRISHA pick songs that are custom made for my emotions...No, I am not "Debbie Depression" all the time, but when I want to go to that place, I know I can count on these three great artists...a sad song can bring you up. Its like processing your feelings, and then after I have listened and sung along, releating it to my own life, I have lifted myself back up. I can't wait for Trisha to release another album, and while I'm at it, give this website a new look. Its time for a change in design, but I guess she will wait to do that when she has a new CD to go along with it. I miss the Totally Trisha website as well. We had a great board over there, not that this one is not, it just doesn't get the amount of posts as Totally did. One thing I don't agree on this site is the rigged rules of not allowing to give your opinion. You should be allowed to do so, if done in good taste. We don't have to agree, and we don't have to always say "OH THATS GREAT"...

Looks like Erik has a fellow Linda Ronstadt fan. Welcome to the board Mike.

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Yes, he posts frequently over at the discussion board at Linda's (unofficial) fan website:

http://ronstadt-linda.com/v-web/bulletin/bb

This may sound wierd but I discovered Trisha through my mom and my sister actually.

My mom and my sister one day decided to try and find a kind of music that I would lidten to since I didn't like any other music. I came home from school one day and my mom said she wanted me to listen to something that she might have found a kind of music I would probably like. The d.j. played Trisha's "She's In Love With the Boy" and my words were she's got a great voice. Since then all I woud listen to is Trisha Yearwood's music.

I got a chance to meet her backstage in 1994. She was amazing then as she is now. I could tell though that she might have been a little upset because my ticket said no cameras. She was a kind as could be about it. She didn't yell or nothing but she did seem how would I put it disappointed. She did say tat the next time she came to town by me for a concert that I was to bring my camera and if security says anything about it I was to tell them that Trisha Yearwood said to bring go and talk to her.

I have alot of country weekly magazines I have collected over the years. I also have a ot of Trisha stuff on video tape like her concerts.

I can't wait until this greatest hits album hits store and Sept.11th is not far away.
Thanx,
Stephanie

I was 5 years old and I used to sit for hours watching TNN (back in the days of playing music videos) I really liked The Judds, Lorrie Morgan,Reba, Tanya Tucker and a few others but they started to play "Shes In Love with the Boy" and I really liked the video with all the farm animals and the voice! I was only 5 so the chickens in the video was enough to sell me but I really liked the song as well. Once the next 3 singles came out I stayed hooked and thought "Thats What I Like About You" was the funniest video. I remember saying up money forever so I could be at the mall with my dad to buy her debut CD the day it came out!!! I gotta credit my parents for doing so much for me. They joined me into the fan club and I brought every album the day it was released no exceptions and I finally got to meet her June 22nd 1995 when I was 8 years old. It was awseome. I was scared and embarrassed myself as I posted here before. I continued to see her in Pittsburgh and just stayed a fan. I even made a special trip to see her in Nashville in 2006 with the NCO for their V-Day concert. Here I am 20 years old and 16 years later and I cannot remember a time in my life without Trisha!

Song Remembers When is a stellar album. I still have it in my CD Player. Cant get enough of it.

wmdude102086 you are a SMART man!

The first time I saw Trisha sing was backup for someone at a show (can't remember who, sorry it's that age thing) the first thing that ran through my head was that she would not stay in the backround very long. 2 years later she offer up "She's in love with the boy" It just proves that good things happen to good people!
Take care!

Trisha caught my attention when I saw the video for She's In Love With the Boy in '91. I was hooked from the beginning. In '92 she was the very first concert my parents took me to and I can remember what she was wearing and everything. I still have the cassette tape of he debut album and the picture from her fan club way back then. Of course, as I grew up, my musical tastes changed, but Trisha was still my favorite. Then in '97, Garth brought me home to country and I've been obsessed every since. Trisha remains my favorite and I've had the pleasure of meeting her twice and seeing her in concert 9 times. She never, ever disappoints and is probably the sweetest, most genuine star out there.

Well, I did not discover Trisha when she first came out with SILWTB in 1991, as I listened to mostly pop and rock in the eighty's and early nineties. I think when George Strait came out with his movie in the early nineties (Pure Country I think) that I started listening to country on a regular basis. My discovery of Trisha was on the 1993 CMA awards. She was nominated for the Horizon Award and came out and sang "The Song Remembers When" wearing a long red coat. I've been hooked ever since. I just loved the song and her delivery. Shortly thereafter, I went out and bought TSRW and saw her sing at a local honky tonk in Dallas. She then came out with "Thinking About You" which is one of my all time favorites. As she came out with each new album my admiration for her just grew and grew. I eventually went back and bought the first two cd's (SILWTB and HIA) and now have a collection of all of her releases. I've seen her in concert 6-7 times and she consistently delivers a stellar performance. She always selects meaningful songs and her voice is just incredible. She will always be my favorite country queen.

ooh dear... I discovered Trisha when she first came on the scene. I was 7 years old and in the first grade. I couldn't sleep one night, so I was watching Nashville Now on TNN...the show that Ralph Emery hosted. Then, Trisha walked on the stage in a white leather outfit and sang She's In Love With the Boy. I distinctly remember saying MOM!!! WHO'S THAT!!!? It was love at first sight! LOL She's been my favorite ever since, and I always knew there was something different about her that made her stand out from everyone else.

AND maybe it was just a coincidence that my second grade teacher looked pretty much identical to Trisha. I had a huge crush on her, too...

Wow! It's interesting to read about all the different ways people have found Trisha. Am I the only one who discovered her through JAG?

In 1995 my husband and I moved from the coast to the interior of Maine. Not knowing anyone in the area I made friends through horse activities as I'd always been involved in riding. Unlike where I'd moved from the majority of riders in this area rode Western and listened to country music, so I started to listen to country, too. I've never been a hard rock fan, and the shift from soft rock to country was easy. (Now I listen to country exclusively!) So I had heard some Trisha songs and, of course, some of her work with Garth. But I really didn't have a face to connect to the name.

Then I discovered JAG. I made some great friends via the internet and a couple of fansites. After watching "The Return of Jimmy Blackhorse" Trisha's character, Lt. Cmdr. Coulter, became my favorite guest star and I began to collect her music. It wasn't long before I was hooked by her amazing voice and ability to communicate a story in 4 minutes or less. I've now been to 5 concerts and never grow tired of listening to her. Her live performances are so powerful!

ltcmdrcoulter

I saw her video version of "How Do I Live" however I can not remember what year it was. But whatever year it was that was when I became a fan.....Than when we got Digital Cable her videos were being played on GAC and even CMT.

Well, I was only 6 years old when "She's In Love With The Boy" came out so I wasn't quite a fan - but my mom was and I remember Trisha's first album playing in the car on the way to school.

I didn't become a real fan myself until Songbook was released. I remember walking around the house, yard, beach, etc for hours with the cassette in my WalkMan. I went out and bought all the previous albums after a few days of owning Songbook.

My parents divorced when I was little and my dad and I had a very strained relationship -- I was convinced for most of my childhood that he didn't know a thing about me -- so I was shocked when he surprised me with two tickets to the taping of Live By Request for A&E in 2000. I guess he had been paying attention. That was my first Trisha concert and I've lost track of how many I've been to since then... I was lucky enough to meet her backstage at an Atlantic City show on July 4th, 2002 -- and I look forward to many more concerts and albums!

Well it happened very Very oddly..in weird events..but im so glad it did.

One day I was flipping through Sirius Sattelite radio stations about 1 1/2 years ago and I stopped on this one station because a song I liked was on..it quickly ended and I was ready to chang the station until I heard a song i never heard before.(I wasnt raised listening to country music and i had just started listening to it so i didnt know a lot of songs.)The song was XXX's and OOO's.I listened to it and completly fell in love with it, so I went and got on my computer and looked up the lyrics.The next day me and my sister were watching like Master Series maybe or just plain music videos on GAC and Trisha came on with SILWTB..which I also never heard before.Also loved it.Then the next day we were watching Con Air and Thats where I hear How Do I Live..and im like Hey that voice sounds so familliar and im like is that...but I was cut off by my dad who suprised me with Yes thats Garth's ol lady Trisha.(I already knew who Garth was..my brother is a humongo fan).The day after that I was in the car with my friend Courtney and then Walkaway Joe came on the radio....after that I took this as a sign that maybe Trisha is someone i should start listening to.So thats when i became a HUGE FAN!!!

trisha isn't at all familiar in holland,
last year i got a dvd from marcus from the opry , when i heard ttly and silwtb i was hooked
wow what a voice, and later when i heard more songs well what can i say what an amazing voice what a lady, she is great
for the first time i don't have to skip songs on a cd, there is not a single song i don't like,
and holland, they don't know what they are missing