Trisha Yearwood debuted her new track titled “Put It in a Tune” through the 2024 CMT Music Awards in Austin on Sunday, marking the nation vet’s first new single since 2020.
The Grammy winner took the stage below a lone highlight as she delivered the cathartic lyrics: “If it’s too onerous to confess/If it’s a reminiscence that received’t give up/If it makes you need to cry all evening lengthy/Put it within the track.” The observe’s wealthy melody and devastating refrain — “All of the ache and all of the harm, when it’s too onerous simply to say the phrases/I discover my pen and pour it on the web page/Seize a guitar and simply play alongside/It don’t matter who was proper or flawed/Simply put it in a track” — made Yearwood’s newest providing an on the spot traditional.
“Put It In a Tune” was co-written with Erin Enderlin and Jim “Moose” Brown, and is the lead single from Yearwood’s as-of-yet untitled upcoming sixteenth album, a followup to her 2019 LP Each Woman. In her over 30-year profession as a recording artist, the mission is the primary time Yearwood is a co-writer on each observe on the album.
Yearwood was additionally honored because the inaugural recipient of CMT’s June Carter Money Humanitarian Award at this 12 months’s ceremony. It was additionally the singer’s first look on the telecast since 2019, when she carried out “Delta Daybreak” alongside Tanya Tucker and Brandi Carlile.
Yearwood was acknowledged for her charitable work with Habitat for Humanity, the Stanford Ladies’s Most cancers Heart, the American Most cancers Society, and the Humane Society, amongst a number of different teams. She and husband Garth Brooks had been acknowledged as Habitat Humanitarians in 2016.
The Humanitarian Award was created to acknowledge a musician “who demonstrates an distinctive dedication to neighborhood and their fellow artists, embodying June’s spirit as a fierce advocate and initiator in paying it ahead, serving to others discover their voice and utilizing their platform to encourage and uplift others.”
Throughout Yearwood’s speech when accepting the award, the artist mentioned it was an honor to have her title “in the identical sentence as June Carter Money.”
“She discovered methods to maintain shining her personal gentle,” she mentioned, including, “and he or she had no greater fan than her husband, Johnny Money.” Yearwood continued, “I solely hope with this [award] to be as huge part of my neighborhood and pretty much as good of a pal to fellow artists as she was. It may be actually onerous to face up for what is true and what you consider in. June simply did it.”
