Judds Talk Taylor Swift, 2010 Reunion

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November 13, 2018 5:56 pm

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Wynonna Judd and her mother Naomi will reunite The Judds in 2010.

“We are ‘in talks,’ so there’s nothing that’s been defined yet,” Wynonna Judd tells Billboard.com. “I just felt it in my spirit. A couple weeks ago I said, ‘It’s 2010. It’s been 25 years. It’s take your mother to work year.”

The Judds last performed at this year’s CMA Music Festival in Nashville, where the warm crowd response inspired them to consider reuniting again. “It was huge,” says Wynnona. “We sang for 50,000 people and they sang back to us and it was a holy moment. And on the drive home I thought, ‘Y’know, I really appreciate where I’ve come from and the people do, too, and they love the Judds music and it hasn’t disappeared.’ I just thought, ‘Y’know, I think it’s time.’”

Judd, who has just completed a young adult novel, “The Restless Heart,” a fictionalized account of her career that deals with a teenage star, recently clarified her comments on Taylor Swift. At Wednesday’s CMA Awards, Judd was asked what advice she had for the 19-year old country sensation, who’d just been named Entertainer of the Year.

“You want my honest comment? It’s too much too soon,” Judd told USAToday.com. “Time is God’s way of keeping everything from happening at once. It’s just too much of a good thing too soon. Mom and I rode in a car for the first year of our career to visit radio stations. There was a making of the star, there was a rising-up, and the fans went with us. Now it’s over coffee breaks, the success, almost.”

On Thursday, Judd changed her tune, writing on her official web site: “I understand that my comment about Taylor Swift’s Entertainer of the Year nomination came across as a negative statement. My intent was not to take anything away from her talent and contributions to the country music industry, all of which are truly unprecedented for an artist of any age. Taylor is a beautiful, hard-working young woman that deserves the success she has had and I support her as an artist and as a woman in the business.”