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Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love

Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love is the eleventh studio album by American country music artist Trisha Yearwood. The album was released on November 13, 2007 on Big Machine Records and was produced by Garth Fundis.

Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love

November 13, 2007

Sound Emporium, The Rukkus Room and Compass Sound Studio[1] (Nashville, Tennessee).

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Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love was Yearwood's first studio album released since 2005's Jasper County and the first for the Big Machine record label. (In 2007, she exited MCA Nashville Records, her label of the previous 17 years, where she'd recorded ten studio albums between 1991 and 2005.) The album contains three singles that were spawned between 2007 and 2008.

Release and singles[edit]

Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love's title track was released as the lead single on July 30, 2007. The song debuted at number 49 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart the week of July 28, 2007 and was the week's highest-debuting single.[10] The single eventually peaked within the Top 20 on the Billboard country chart at number 19, while also reaching number 7 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart. Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love was officially released on November 13, 2007 and debuted at number 10 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and number 30 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, selling about 33,000 copies within its first week.[11] In January 2008, the album's second track was released as the second single "This Is Me You're Talking To". The song debuted at number 58 on the Billboard country chart the week of January 12, 2008, while "Another Try," featuring Yearwood with country artist Josh Turner, debuted one position higher that same week at number 57.[12] The single would peak at number 25 on the Billboard country chart.[13] The third and final single spawned from the album was the fourth track "They Call It Falling for a Reason". Released on July 26, 2008, the song debuted at number 60 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart[14] but only peaked at number 54.[13]

– lead vocals, harmony vocals (10)

Trisha Yearwood

Hammond B3 organ (1, 4, 5, 10, 12), acoustic piano (4, 6, 9, 10, 12)

Reese Wynans

Steve Cox – acoustic piano (2, 11), Hammond B3 organ (8)

Gary "Bud" Smith – Hammond B3 organ (3)

– acoustic piano (7)

Steve Nathan

Steven Sheehan – acoustic guitar (1, 4, 6), (1)

National guitar

– acoustic guitar (2, 8, 11, 13)

Bryan Sutton

Kurt Riles – acoustic guitar (3)

– acoustic guitar (5, 9, 10, 12)

Billy Joe Walker, Jr.

– acoustic guitar (10)

Nathan Chapman

Johnny Garcia – electric guitar (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8-12)

– electric guitar (3-6, 10, 11, 12)

Kenny Greenberg

Troy Lancaster – electric guitar (3)

mandolin (1)

Sam Bush

lap steel guitar (1), steel guitar (2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12)

Dan Dugmore

Scotty Sanders – steel guitar (3)

– steel guitar (9)

Paul Franklin

– bass (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8-12)

Steve Mackey

Steve Bryant – bass (3)

– drums (1, 3, 4, 6)

Chad Cromwell

– drums (2, 5, 8-12)

Greg Morrow

– percussion (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12), vibraphone (8)

Eric Darken

baritone saxophone (4), tenor saxophone (4), horn arrangements (4)

Jim Horn

Chris Dunn – (4)

trombone

Steve Herman – (4)

trumpet

fiddle (5), mandolin (10)

Stuart Duncan

Rob Hajacos – fiddle (8, 11)

– strings (7), string arrangements and composer (7)

Jonathan Yudkin

– harmony vocals (1, 3)

Jessi Alexander

– harmony vocals (1)

Jon Randall

Bob Bailey – harmony vocals (4)

Vicki Hampton – harmony vocals (4)

Wes Hightower – harmony vocals (5, 9)

– harmony vocals (5, 9)

Sonya Isaacs

– harmony vocals (6)

Keith Urban

– harmony vocals (8, 11)

Karyn Rochelle

– harmony vocals (10)

Garth Fundis

– harmony vocals (12)

Jim Lauderdale

The Nashville String Machine (Tracks 2, 6 & 9)

Garth Fundis – producer

Matraca Berg – producer (3)

Jim Collins – producer (3)

Chad Carlson – recording

A.J. Derrick – recording

– additional recording, mixing

Chuck Ainlay

Matt Andrews – additional recording

Kyle Ford – second engineer, additional recording

– mastering

Bob Ludwig

Gateway Mastering (Portland, Maine) – mastering location

Juanita Copeland – production coordinator

Tommy Colorigh – digital imaging

Virginia Team – digital imaging

Ron Roark – graphic design, art direction

Bonnie Richardson – graphic design

Sandi Spika Borchetta – art direction, wardrobe stylist

Mark Tucker – photography

Debbie Dover – hair stylist

Lori Turk – make-up

Trisha Yearwood music profile at her official website