The Judds - Greatest Hits
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Track
listing
1. Why Not Me
2. Rockin'
With the Rhythm of the Rain
3. Mama He's Crazy
4. Give a Little Love - (previously unreleased)
5. Grandpa
(Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)
6. Girls Night Out, A
7. Change of Heart
8. Have Mercy
9. Cry
Myself to Sleep
10. Love Is Alive
Product Details
- Audio CD (May 4, 2004)
- Original Release Date: 1988
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Curb Records
The Judds Biography
Up until the rise of Brooks & Dunn in the '90s, the Judds were
the most commercially successful duo in country music history. Mother
Naomi and daughter Wynonna enjoyed an astounding run of 14 number one
singles from 1984 to 1989, ranking them as one of the most popular
country acts of the '80s. Their music combined elements of traditional
country harmony singing, bluegrass, and Appalachian folk with pop, rock,
and polished contemporary production. Moreover, Wynonna's powerful,
bluesy, often sexy lead vocals established her as one of the finest
female country singers of her era. But even more important than their
widely accessible sound -- or their considerable visual appeal -- was
their sympathetic understanding of working-class and small-town women,
earned through a long, hard struggle of their own. Though their
off-stage relationship was often more contentious than it appeared, it
took a life-threatening illness to bring the Judds to a halt -- Naomi
retired from performing when she was diagnosed with hepatitis C but beat
the disease to watch Wynonna enjoy an acclaimed solo career.
The
Judds' story began in Ashland, KY, where Naomi was born Diana Ellen Judd
on January 11, 1946. An honor roll student, she often played piano in
the Baptist church her family attended but shocked the town by getting
pregnant at age 17 by a man who abandoned her immediately. Hoping to
save face, she married new sweetheart Michael Ciminella but missed her
high-school graduation, giving birth to Wynonna (born Christina
Ciminella, May 30, 1964); to make matters worse, her brother died of
cancer not long after, and her parents divorced. In 1968, the family
moved to Los Angeles, and new daughter Ashley (later, of course, a
successful movie star) was born not long after. Unfortunately, the
marriage broke apart in 1972, and the family often survived on welfare
while Diana bounced between jobs (waitressing, modeling, serving as
secretary for the pop-soul group the 5th Dimension) and endured an
abusive rebound relationship. In 1976, she moved the family back to
Kentucky, where they lived in a mountain home with no phone or TV. Music
helped pass the time, and Wynonna began playing the guitar and
harmonizing with her mother, who was in the meantime studying to become a
nurse. She renamed herself Naomi and brought the family back to the
West Coast to finish her nursing degree. Wynonna's singing talent was by
then readily apparent, and in 1979, the Judds moved to Nashville in
hopes of making it in the music business.
Naomi and Wynonna made
tapes of themselves on a cheap cassette recorder and sometimes sang on
Ralph Emery's local morning show. They caught their first big break
through Naomi's nursing job: one of her patients happened to be the
daughter of record producer Brent Maher, and that contact eventually led
to an audition for RCA executives in early 1983. The Judds were signed
on the spot and issued their debut single, "Had a Dream (For the
Heart)," late in the year. It reached the country Top 20, and it was
accompanied by a quickly assembled mini-album, The Judds. Their second
single, "Mama He's Crazy," was a breakout hit that went all the way to
number one and later won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal by a Duo or
Group. Their first true full-length, Why Not Me, was released in 1984
and took its place as a classic of modern country, establishing the
Judds as spokeswomen for a new generation of female country music fans.
The Grammy-winning title track, "Girls Night Out," and "Love Is Alive"
all went on to top the country charts, as did the album, which also sold
over a million copies.
The Judds were now full-fledged stars, and
they spent the rest of the '80s cranking out hit after hit. 1985's
exuberant Rockin' With the Rhythm spawned four number one singles in
"Have Mercy," "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days" (another Grammy
winner), "Rockin' With the Rhythm in the Rain," and "Cry Myself to
Sleep." 1987's Heartland was widely viewed as more uneven than its
predecessors but kept their hit streak going strong with the
chart-toppers "I Know Where I'm Going," "Maybe Your Baby's Got the
Blues," and "Turn It Loose." The ten-track Greatest Hits was released in
1988 and featured two new songs: "Give a Little Love," which went to
number two and won another Grammy, and "Change of Heart," which hit
number one. 1989's River of Time became the first Judds album not to top
the country charts since their debut mini-album but continued their
streak of consecutive million-sellers all the same. "Young Love (Strong
Love)" and "Let Me Tell You About Love" both hit number one and would
prove to be the last Judds songs to do so.
By this point in the
Judds' career, mother and daughter were clearly distinct personalities.
Naomi was the extroverted stage presence, the sometime songwriter, the
ambitious businesswoman who steered the group's career and pushed her
daughter to keep realizing her talent. Wynonna -- despite her quiet,
reserved demeanor -- was a prodigiously talented vocal stylist who grew
surer of herself with every passing release and rebelled more and more
forcefully against her mother's direction. By the time Love Can Build a
Bridge was released in 1990, there was already speculation that Wynonna
was ready to mount a solo career. Not long after the album was released,
Naomi announced that she had been diagnosed with hepatitis C, a chronic
and life-threatening illness that she had likely contracted from a
needle during her days as a nurse. The constant touring had already
begun to take its toll on her health, and she elected to retire from
performing and recording, following one last farewell tour in 1991. Love
Can Build a Bridge produced several hits, including the Top Fivers
"Born to Be Blue" and the title track, and the tour was unsurprisingly a
blockbuster success.
Wynonna released her solo debut in 1992 and
followed it with several more successful albums over the course of the
'90s. Naomi, meanwhile, sought alternative medical treatment for the
disease that was expected to take her life in several years. She
published her autobiography, Love Can Build a Bridge, in 1993; the book
was later turned into a TV-movie. By 1999, Naomi's hepatitis had somehow
gone into remission, and she and Wynonna reunited for a gala New Year's
Eve concert to ring in the new millennium; it was later released as The
Judds Reunion Live. A full-fledged reunion tour followed in 2000, and
four newly recorded Judds songs were issued exclusively on a bonus disc
included with Wynonna's solo album New Day Dawning. Following the tour,
Wynonna resumed her solo career, while Naomi made her primary living as a
motivational speaker.
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