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Trisha Yearwood Interview

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Tennessee is known for music and has been fortunate enough to be home to some incredible musical talent. Trisha Yearwood is just on of the unbelievable talents. a three-time Grammy winner with 11 gold or platinum albums under her belt, Trisha Yearwood has been hailed by Entertainment Weekly as "one of the finest interpretive singers ever" On November 13t, her latest album (and her first with Big Machine Records) hit the streets with the single, "Heaven, Heartaches and the Power of Love."

While Trisha and her husband, Garth Brooks, now live in Oklahoma, they both have homes in Tennessee as well. Recently, we sat down with Trisha to hear what she loves about the holidays and the beautiful state of Tennessee.

Q.What do you love about the holiday season in Tennessee?

A.The thing I love the most about the holidays in Tennessee is how everything so gets into decorating their homes and their yards (laugh). I love to drive around during the Christmas season and see everyone's decorations.

Q.Do you have a favorite holiday tradition with your family?

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A.Well, the biggest tradition that my family has is to just be together; we are a very close family and, because of marriage and children and travel, Christmas has taken place in everybody's house at different times., different places. But Tennessee is definitely been a place that we've had Christmas. My sister's got three children and lived in West Tennessee for quite a while, so there were a lot of Christmas's there. Christmas at my house in Nashville always revolves around some type of amazing meal and really just being together, so my greatest holiday memory just involves being with my family.

Q.You have a home in Oklahoma as well as a home in Tennessee, and as a celebrity, spend a lot of time on the road. What do you miss about Tennessee when you are away?

A.I moved to Nashville in 1985 from Georgia and the thing that I grew to love about Tennessee so much was how green, and the rolling hills, just how beautiful it is, really. I traveled a lot to East Tennessee, and my sister used to live in West Tennessee, so I pretty much got to check out the whole state. I think that's the thing I miss most when I'm gone. Living in Oklahoma, it's a little flatter, little hotter, little browner in the summer time and always, when I'm flying in (to Tennessee), and I see those hills and all that green grass, I just think it's very unique to Tennessee.

Q.What do you love most about Tennessee?

A.I think the thing that I love about Tennessee the most is it feels really welcoming. I'm from a small town in Georgia, and Georgia will always be home for me. Even tough Tennessee borders Georgia, as a young girl moving here from Georgia, it felt like, it might as well have been the moon, you know, it was a long way from home. And I think I stayed here (Tennessee) and made it feel like home because it's a really friendly place. I've been all over the state, I've played music all over the state, or I've had family and friends who have lived in different places (of Tennessee), so I've been just about everywhere and I think there's that atmosphere. Even the big cities...Nashville, Knoxville...they have a small town feel to the, and I'm from a very small town, so I guess I love Tennessee because it feels like home.

Q.What are the must-do-things for a visitor to Tennessee and why?

A.I think being in country music, I would probably recommend the country things for people to go and see when they come to visit Tennessee. But even if you're not a country music fan, the number one thing on my list to tell people to go see would be the Ryman Auditorium. It was a church before it became the "Mother Church of Country Music." That building to me is just magic, and I never get tired of going in there, so I think everyone that visits Tennessee should go to the Ryman.

Want to know more about Trisha, hear more of this interview and have a chance to win a trip to Tennessee? Log on to http://winter.tnvacation.com/trisha_yearwood, see the entire video interview and catch answers to five more questions including Trisha's:

• Favorite places to hear live music
• Favorite Tennessee restaurants
• Beset places to shop in Tennessee (and what she found while shopping)
• Favorite Tennessee experiences outside of Nashville
• Music that she prefers for a Tennessee road trip

While there, you'll notice Trisha Yearwood is GAC's "December Artist of the Month." You can easily link to Trisha's atrist page on GACTV.com.

Plus, enter to win the GAC-Southern Living "Tennessee Holiday" Giveaway!
Prize Package includes:

• Two night stay in Nashville at Gaylord's Opryland Resort & Convention Center durning "A Country Christmas."
• Admission for two to your choice of a Gray Line Nashville Sightseeing Tour. Tour includes attractions such as the Hermitage, Belle Meade Plantation, Ryman Auditorium, Carnton Plantation, the Carter House and much more.
• Gift cards to two of Trisha's favorite Nashville restaurants (go to http://winter.tnvacation.com/trisha_yearwood for answers).
• Two night stay at the Inn at Christmas Place in Pigeon Forge.
• Two tickets to Dollywood's "A Smoky Mountain Christmas Festival" including the production Babes in Toyland.
• Trisha's preferred music for your Tennessee Road Trip, including her new CD, "Heaven, Heartaches, and the Power of Love" (go to http://winter.tnvacation.com/trisha_yearwood to get answers to Trisha's preferred music).

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