Wynonna Judd faces ‘The Hard Truth’ on vulnerable new album - Jamaica Gleaner

NEW YORK (AP): Wynonna Judd’s first album in 10 years, The Hard Truth, could come with a warning – but the title works just as well. Across 10 tracks, the country music icon bares all: There are songs about her late mother and principal musical collaborator Naomi Judd, who died by suicide in 2022 at age 76. There are songs about her estranged daughter Grace Kelley, whose 4-year-old daughter, Kaliyah, Judd is raising. There are songs for Judd’s biological father, whom she never got to meet and first learnt about in a therapy session when she was 30 years old and pregnant with her son Elijah. And there are songs about hope, triumph, resiliency and success – an encapsulation of an artiste who has lived a lot of lives, now completely willing to lay it all out there. “I’m not a victim. I don’t think of myself as somebody who is defined by all of this,” Judd told The Associated Press. “It happened to me, but it doesn’t mean that I’m constantly in despair. I feel like I’ve been reborn. This album has given me a voice, literally and figuratively.