Trisha's Back In Town

7/19/2007 Stephen L. Betts Oklahoma resident Trisha Yearwood is in Nashville this week. She tells the Tennessean she loves the time she spends there more than ever. "I think I enjoy it more because I'm not really caught up in the day to day," says Trisha, who moved near Tulsa, Okla., in 2003 to be near Garth Brooks. "It was very easy when I lived in Nashville for 15 years to think that the crisis over what shirt to wear for this TV show is an important issue. It's easy when you move to a place like Oklahoma, where the issues are how do I talk to my daughter about a friend of hers from school running away from home. We've got to figure out who has got the uniform for the soccer game tonight and is it clean. I can go in (to Nashville) and do what I love to do. If there's some big drama or newest gossip, I usually have no clue what's going on, and it's kind of nice to say, 'I don't have any idea about that.' I can really enjoy the music part and then go home and enjoy the life part." Trisha was in town shooting the video for "Heaven, Heartache and the Power of Love," the first single off her first album on Big Machine Records, which will be released in November. "It just seemed like the right first single to come out with guns blazing," she says. "It's a really up-in-your-face kind of song. I'm hoping people will say, 'It sounds like they were having a good time in the studio.'"  While in Music City, Trisha stays at the Brentwood home (south of Nashville) that she has owned for six years. "I've thought about selling it, but I really like feeling like I am home when I'm there," she says. Garth still owns a Nashville home as well, but he tends to stay at Trisha's house when he's here. "We like my place, but he worked so hard to get all this land," she said. "We don't want to be multi-home owners, but we haven't figured out how" to solve the situation yet. Also in the works for Trisha is a cookbook with her sister and mother called Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen. The book, slated for release in April, features recipes of her mom's and grandmother's. "A lot of those recipes weren't written down, so I'm excited about having this book to hold in my hand of all the family recipes."