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A Trisha Yearwood Retrospective, Part Five: 2000-2002

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Trisha Yearwood makes two of her best albums before heading on the first hiatus of her career.

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This batch of fifty entries is the first to include major chart hits, with three of Pam’s top forty entries in the mix. 

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I want to preface this by saying, as I’ve said before, that Hunter Hayes is tremendously talented. “Tattoo” is further evidence that he can assemble all of the necessary components for an entertaining record, and

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