Jasper County (album)

Jasper County
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 13, 2005 (2005-09-13)
StudioSound Emporium (Nashville, Tennessee)
GenreCountry
Length38:08
LabelMCA Nashville
ProducerGarth Fundis
Trisha Yearwood chronology
Inside Out
(2001)
Jasper County
(2005)
Greatest Hits
(2007)
Singles from Jasper County
  1. "Georgia Rain"
    Released: April 25, 2005
  2. "Trying to Love You"
    Released: November 2005
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic(85/100)[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com[2]
AllMusic[3]
Billboard(favorable)[1]
Chicago Tribune(favorable)[4]
Entertainment WeeklyB−[5]
The New York Times(average)[1]
People[6]
PopMatters[7]
Stylus MagazineA−[8]
USA Today[9]

Jasper County is the tenth studio album by American country music singer Trisha Yearwood. It was Yearwood's first studio album in four years since 2001's Inside Out.

Yearwood took a four-year break from recording after 2001 mainly because she began a relationship with Garth Brooks (whom she would later marry) and creative time. It was given a positive review by AllMusic, who called the album "one of her very best records."[3]

The album reached number 1 on the Billboard country albums chart. It was also her highest peak on the Billboard 200, peaking at number 4. Her final album for MCA Nashville, it produced the singles "Georgia Rain" and "Trying to Love You", which peaked at number 15 and number 52, respectively, on the Hot Country Songs charts; the latter was also a number 28 hit on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. Later presses of the album also included "Love Will Always Win", a number 23-peaking duet with her husband, Garth Brooks, which was also on Brooks's 2006 The Lost Sessions album. The track "Who Invented the Wheel" was originally recorded by Anthony Smith on his debut album If That Ain't Country.

  1. ^ a b c "Critic Reviews for Jasper County". Metacritic. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  2. ^ Downs, Jolene. "Trisha Yearwood - Jasper County". About.com. Archived from the original on September 9, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  3. ^ a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Jasper County - Trisha Yearwood". AllMusic. Retrieved November 16, 2008.
  4. ^ Harkness, Geoff (September 30, 2005). "Trisha Yearwood 'Jasper County'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  5. ^ Willman, Chris (September 23, 2005). "Jasper County Review". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 29, 2007. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  6. ^ Arnold, Chuck; Novak, Ralph (September 19, 2005). "Picks and Pans Review: Trisha Yearwood (Jasper County)". People. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  7. ^ Tranter, Nikki (September 27, 2005). "Trisha Yearwood: Jasper County". PopMatters. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  8. ^ Inskeep, Thomas (November 23, 2005). "Trisha Yearwood - Jasper County - Review". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
  9. ^ Mansfield, Brian (September 12, 2005). "Trisha Yearwood, Jasper County". USA Today. Retrieved May 31, 2013.