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♪ ♪
- I have a surprise for you. - Do you?
- Yes.
When we get back to Nashville, you know
your little cowgirl outfit--
- Oh, you're kidding.
- --when you were three years old?
I have it.
I put in a little acrylic box for you.
And the fringe is all coming off, and Margaret said,
"You're going to have the fringe replaced?"
I said, "Heck no."
I want every ice cream stain that's on there.
- [laughs]
- But, you know, it's funny how things from our past
keep coming back.
♪ ♪
- [inhales and exhales]
My mother died by suicide.
That is not something that's easily
said in a room of people.
You know, when I pass my mom's house,
I still think of the day that I got the call,
and I'm still driving over that day.
It's the weirdest thing.
Your brain replays and replays and replays
trauma until it's filed.
♪ ♪
- You love me?
You ever going to leave me?
[laughs]
♪ ♪
- She loved words.
This is her dictionary.
And you had to come in and pick a word and learn a new word.
"Eminent" is the word I picked today, Mom.
You turn left, and then this was always her favorite room.
I haven't been back in here.
Her desk...
that she used to sit here and do autographs.
Oh, me.
And then she had my little cowgirl outfit.
[laughs] The littlest cowgirl.
[laughs]
It was so cute.
Ah, this is too weird.
You just take a lot for granted.
[cheers and applause]
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
Oh, my god, I'm so mad that she's not here.
And I'm relieved she's not in pain anymore.
I go through all the emotions kind of at once.
It's like a birth and a death.
It brings about everything you have in your life,
and it brings it to a head.
It's joy. It's sorrow.
It's pain.
It's I can't believe this has happened,
but why am I surprised?
I'm shocked but not surprised.
I'm still in the middle of processing my grief,
and I have 1,000 decisions to make
about whether or not I'm going to do this final Judds tour.
It's a really hard decision.
♪ ♪
My mom had a thing for packing her car full of this stuff.
And everywhere we would go, she would
pass out my CDs or her book.
She had a thing for the fans, and she just--
she carried stuff in her car and handed out autographs
everywhere she went.
So she was always thinking about the fans.
So my mom is the family historian.
NG4, '84-- oh, the beginning?
OK.
Like, that's probably one of our very first shows--
1984.
I am literally 18 years old.
Those were our first outfits.
Oh, they're terrible.
They're so bad, they're good.
Oh, my god.
RCA-- that's our very first job.
I'm just a baby in some of these.
Gosh.
Before we became successful and famous,
we were on welfare, food stamps.
My mom and my sister slept on a mattress on the floor.
I remember Mom and Ashley and I,
we were so poor and so unsure about the future--
and I'm talking future, like of the next day,
if we're going to have something
to eat kind of thing.
Mom was just determined as hell to put food on the table.
And here's my mother as a nurse.
She got in some trouble for wearing too much makeup.
Look at her.
I mean, she's got on eyelashes, for god's sake.
She's a nurse with eyelashes on.
We were just ordinary girls from Kentucky.
When she moved to Nashville with me,
everyone thought she was nuts.
She did work as a nurse, you know,
until she became one of the most famous women
in country music.
- I just feel like the most fortunate
person that's ever lived.
- And we went from welfare to millionaire.
We made it.
We did huge tours.
We did Oprah, Jay Leno, award shows,
Vegas, and the Super Bowl.
We performed for the pope, six presidents,
and the list continues.
[twangy guitar music]
♪ ♪
- I prayed about it for several weeks
and then realized I have to resign.
I have to retire from the music industry that I love so much.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
Goodbye, America.
- It's been one heck of a ride.
♪ ♪
[sniffs]
You just...
take a lot for granted.
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♪ ♪
There are moments when I can't believe that mom is not here.
We just announced this tour and made all these plans.
- The toothpaste is out of the tube.
- It's happening right this minute.
We're touring together.
- To Wynonna's credit, she definitely
wanted to give Naomi one more run around the sun,
so to speak.
Naomi is super excited.
And from there, it just started.
- Everybody was so excited to see them stand side by side
and hear the harmony and see them singing together again.
So the anticipation of this tour,
which had a great amount of buildup,
in truth, the anticipation was huge.
I mean, the fan base was dying for and beyond excited
to see the two of them back on stage again.
- And we just appeared at the CMT Awards,
which we hadn't done in years.
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♪ ♪
- ♪ I'd gladly walk across the desert ♪
♪ With no shoes upon my feet ♪
♪ To share with you the last bite ♪
♪ Of bread I had to eat ♪
♪ I would swim out to save you ♪
♪ In your sea of broken dreams ♪
♪ When all your hopes are sinking ♪
♪ Let me show you what love means ♪
both: ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
♪ Don't you think it's time? ♪
♪ Because when we stand together ♪
♪ It's our finest hour ♪
♪ Because we can do anything ♪
[together] ♪ Anything ♪ - ♪ Anything ♪
[together] ♪ Anything ♪
- ♪ Keep believing in the power ♪
When she looked at me, I knew something was wrong.
I just knew it.
I knew it; when she got on stage
and she looked at me with that look,
and I went, "Oh, my gosh, she's in trouble."
So...yeah.
She was late, and she's never late.
So I don't know-- we don't-- there
are some things we don't know. - Yeah.
- She was lost. - Yeah.
- The look on her face, her body language.
- And then she was fine the rest of that night
in terms of knowing where to sing, but it was still--
it looked like she was--
- I saw cracks in her armor.
- We learned today of the death of country
music great Naomi Judd.
Daughters Wynonna and Ashley said in a statement
that they lost their mother, "To the disease
of mental illness."
Naomi and Wynonna were to be inducted
into the Country Music Hall of Fame tomorrow night.
Naomi Judd died in Nashville.
She was 76 years old.
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- What I witnessed and what I experienced,
I'll never be the same.
- Family, all of us, all of, you know, my kids,
her kids, you know, the cavalry came racing.
- At the moment when Mom died, I said,
"Now the glass is half empty.
And how am I going to navigate these waters?"
It's so uncertain.
The tour was too much to consider at the time.
How in the world am I going to do this without her?
Because every single song I can see her
in my mind's eye dancing around,
and even my movements are to her.
And so every single moment is to be shared with her.
And now what am I going to do without her?
- As soon as she started to think
about the fans and the people holding these tickets
and just the kind of mystery,
she was very clearly saying, "They need to know."
Then at the CMT Memorial, which was this beautiful tribute
to Naomi, Wy just decided to announce what she
was thinking about the tour.
- I can't put into words how devastated I am.
I said goodbye to her two weeks ago and kissed her
on the forehead.
[whimpers]
She was unlike anyone in our family.
And I miss her so much.
But I will continue to sing.
I said I would, and--
[applause]
So I've made a decision that after a lot of thought,
I'm going to have to honor her and do this tour.
I'm just going to have to.
[cheers and applause]
[twangy music]
♪ ♪
- Just when you're done, and--
- Ready to fight? - Yep. How's it going?
- I like that hat.
- I came really close to canceling this tour.
♪ ♪
I'm absolutely exhausted, and I'm emotional,
and I'm really fragile, and I don't really want to do this.
However, this is life after death.
You know what, guys?
This is for the fans.
This isn't about me.
The fans are having their own experience,
and they want to see what reminds them of that--
the Judds.
"Grandpa" is so timeless.
I would rather see the video in the '80s and it be schlocky
in the '80s than it be--
let's just do the music video.
- That's actually not a bad idea.
- In a time where everybody has an opinion of what
the show should be like and what songs I should do,
and I want to tell a story about this incredibly
beautiful, dysfunctional, loving, fighting family.
And my mom was the centerpiece,
you know, and now she's not.
♪ ♪
So beautiful.
Look how beautiful she is.
She doesn't really hang the wash on the line.
[laughter]
That is a complete fabrication.
[laughter]
I did the laundry.
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- ♪ I'm holding back ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Like all the good times ♪
♪ ♪
♪ My mamas gone, gone, gone forevermore ♪
- I hope that I can walk away from this experience feeling
better, not bitter, for what has happened
with mother dying.
[together] ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
- ♪ Oh love and only love ♪
[together] ♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
- ♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
[together] ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
- ♪ Don't you think it's time? ♪
♪ Don't you think it's time? ♪
♪ ♪
- I just lay there, and I weep for the sorrow of not
having her here to argue with.
And yeah, how am I going to do this?
- I believe in the power of love.
[cheers and applause]
And I believe there is always hope.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
- It was my husband who said to me, "You deserve
to celebrate this legacy."
And I think that's when I started to go,
there is a possibility that this actually might work.
- I knew that the women of country music
would show up for Wy.
- Country music, it's pretty tight.
We show up for each other, and we will kick
anybody's ass for each other.
We just will. That's the way we are.
- It was an immediate, "Who would be the list
that will be the co-Judd with Wy?"
It was just a matter of, you got to ask,
and that's all there is.
- I said, "If you need me for anything at all ever,
I will show up."
- I know all the Judd's songs, so I was ready to,
put me in, coach, whatever you need.
- I feel very honored to be asked.
- It's just a very emotional thing to be a part of.
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The success of the Judds carved a path for all of us.
It's just like this girl power, you know.
And I also feel very palpably that we
are here to support her.
- I certainly think it's a celebration
of the Judds' music.
I wouldn't say even close a chapter, actually.
I would say maybe reopening a chapter.
♪ ♪
- Today I'm calm just because I'm freaked out into a calm.
- Mm-hmm.
- Like, it's the--
I mean, we're on stage Thursday for rehearsal,
and then Friday is the day.
- Wow.
- Come over and look at this picture,
if you want to grab it.
Hmm?
- Which one are you talking about?
- This one.
Loretta Lynn and Tammy Wynette,
and Dolly is not in the picture.
She was obviously busy doing something fabulous.
But these women are my teachers.
Hurry up. I got to make dinner. - I know. I know. I know.
I'm working.
- Do you want pancakes, or do you want like, eggs and bacon?
I mean, I have sausage.
I don't have bacon.
- Sausage and pancakes.
- Because you've been such a good boy.
Oh, honey, this time tomorrow we'll be on a bus.
- Thank you, honey.
- You're welcome, husband.
- All that dancing and being a superstar,
and now you're here being-- - This--
I can remember my moves from Mom and me to--
I can remember her going, dun, dun, dun.
She was so, you know--
- The chef that dances...
Makes happy pancakes.
Oh, man, I am maxed out.
OK.
- Lindsay and I were talking, "How are we going
"to pack and get on the bus?
"And how are we going to do it all in a day?
Where am I going to put my lashes?"
I mean, come on, priorities.
Some of these for daytime, showtime,
after showtime.
All right.
- How you doing?
- [chuckles] Ohh.
- [laughs]
- Yes.
- It is a long drive? - It's--
- A ton of money.
- --very close to 10 hours. - OK.
[light music]
♪ ♪
[twangy upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[car horn honks]
♪ ♪
- Welcome. Good morning.
- Good morning.
Aww.
[light music]
♪ ♪
- Let us talk about a couple of things, if you're open.
- OK.
You're supposed to ask me how I am first.
- Hey, honey, only cause you looked so great,
I figured you were just perfect.
- [sighs]
- Do you want to say something about--
I really want to thank, you know,
Brandi, or whoever it is that night,
for coming alongside and just being
my friend during this time.
Something like that.
- OK. I know you'll--
- I like how you're trying to, like, script me, but go ahead.
- Well, I'm-- we're going to have to have some of that,
because we can't just wingding.
I mean, we have such a cool thing.
You know, we both are aware.
It's fairly miraculous and special
to be the kind couple who can do all we do,
every ounce of work, together.
- OK, so what you're saying is, don't talk so much.
- So--so...
[laughing]
I am so glad that there's people here
just so I don't get hurt.
- My mother spent a great deal of her time
in the middle of the circus being the ringleader.
I'm not really a ringleader.
My gifting is not in the administrative.
My gifting is in the music and the fellowship through music.
So I'm going to have to lean on Cactus even more.
- You are going to be amazing, as you always are.
Calm down.
You're just fine. You're just good.
Breathe. Breathe.
[laughing]
- I am breathing.
- OK.
So instead of starting the show with Wynonna
on the main stage, we're going to sneak her
around the building to a smaller B stage
in the middle of the floor.
Then she'll take an elevator up and perform the first song
in the middle of the audience.
Now, in order for this to work, we've got
to get her there unnoticed.
And that is a little tricky when there's at least
10,000 fans in the venue.
- From here-- yep, this is where we put her in.
- This is where we enter? - Yep.
So let's--
- Whose idea was this?
- So the B stage sounds really good on paper.
If you've ever been in an elevator with Wynonna Judd,
she is the most claustrophobic person
I've ever met in my life.
- And here we go.
- Put her in a road case, and we roll her out.
I'm okay.
- Get her underneath right before
the band walks on stage.
- [indistinct].
- Mother, wherever you are, I hope you can see this.
- That's me and Bubba and Wynonna under there.
Bubba is our stage manager.
And I had a dream cues.
And Bubba looks at me.
So I say, OK, send her.
So he pushes the button, and she goes up.
- I'm going up an elevator surrounded
by pitch black and fog.
I can't see two inches in front of my face.
And I feel wobbly on the elevator.
But I think this is important for me
during this time to step outside
of myself and my comfort zone.
♪ ♪
- Look at that.
Ooh.
Now I got a real Judds jean jacket.
Oh, and it says Brandi on the front.
- Aww. - Brandi Judd.
- Oh my god.
- I didn't even know she was doing this though.
Look at this.
- Oh my gosh.
- That's so cool.
- That looks so cool.
- Being on this tour is surreal.
The Judds were undoubtedly one of the most instrumental
musical influences on my childhood,
especially my early childhood.
It was totally transformative not just
for me but our whole family.
My brother Jay, who's singing with the Judds on this tour,
taught me to sing harmony to "This Country's Rockin'."
- When I found out that I was going to be on this tour
and had to learn the songs, I started playing them all.
And it was like, I know all of these.
Done. You know?
To get up there with just me and Brandi singing
backup vocals together for Wynonna Judd,
I kept saying, "Mom is going to die.
- It's a big deal.
It's a big deal for our family.
But for her and I, specifically, a big deal.
- The Judds were a mother-daughter
language for a lot of mothers and daughters.
- That we really understood.
Look at those pictures.
- It says, "My dearest Brandi, five months ago, Mama left,
"a new chapter begins.
"Thank you for being a part of this time
"of reflection and celebration.
Love you dearly, Wy."
- Oh. - She's so thoughtful.
both: ♪ And love ain't just a song ♪
♪ Sweet words of music to go dancin' by ♪
- Yeah. - Yeah, right?
- Do that. - OK.
He's got it.
- So she'll take the second verse.
She'll start it.
- This is going to be heavy.
How are any of us going to sing?
- If I cry, I have so much support, it's OK.
- Absolutely. - It is OK.
- Oh, it's-- - It's just in front
of thousands of people, and people--
just as long as I don't look ugly cry.
- I--I tried to get hypnotized to do this,
because when I was practicing the songs,
I was having a hard time picturing doing them with you
and not getting emotional.
So this is where she's doing her hypnotism
on me through this text.
She says, "Asking your grieving self to take a front row seat
and watch the show instead of be a part of it."
- Hmm.
- "And let your performer self be the one that does the work."
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♪ ♪
- I've been crying already, and it hasn't even started.
I know that her and her mom are strong women,
and I did not doubt that she
would not continue this journey.
And her mom's looking right down on her from heaven.
- My favorite part about the Judds
is just being able to hear their music.
They're a big part with the relationship
between me and my grandma.
- There's not a bad Judds song--
"Love Can Build a Bridge."
You know, you just can't--
you have to stop and feel that song from your toes
all the way to your soul when it comes on.
- I have seen her over a thousand times now.
I think it was like 2018 I had hit my 1,000th show.
Wynonna, I love you, and I know this is very hard for you
to go through.
I love you, girl.
I love you, love you, love you.
- My grandpa had gotten tickets
to the Statler Brothers,
and it was a sold-out crowd of 10,000 people.
And then the emcee came over the speakers and said,
"Ladies and gentlemen, please help us
give a warm welcome to the Judds."
I was at the edge of my seat from the word go,
and I was hooked.
So they're very precious to me.
Um...
this is going to be very, very hard tonight.
- All right, here we go. - Oh, look out.
Look out. - You can't sneak in.
[laughs]
- All right, let's-- let's circle up here,
grab hands.
- So, you know, those two trapeze people,
they come together, and you hope that they
catch each other.
Mom had always caught me.
And I always caught her.
I'm now doing it by myself.
[exhales]
Here I go.
- In Jesus' name. Amen.
[together] Amen.
- [laughing]
[applause]
- Yeah.
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♪ ♪
- OK, did we forget anything?
- No.
- OK.
Just checking.
- And if we did forget, it's not that important.
- So we're going to push you backwards,
and we don't have a ramp tonight.
So that way, we don't--
- You're going to push me backwards?
- Yeah, right.
- OK.
- There's no ramp, so smooth sailing all the way there--
- All flat floor. - All flat floor.
- [sighs]
- Maybe a couple of bumps, but they'll be little bitty ones.
- You got this. - [exhales]
[twangy upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Had a dream about you, baby ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ Had a dream about me, little baby ♪
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Had a dream about you, baby ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ Had a dream ♪
♪ About me and you ♪
♪ Had a dream that I woke up crying ♪
♪ Well, I can try, but I just can't stop ♪
♪ And the time's dragging by, tick-tock ♪
♪ Oh, my heart, it just can't love no one but Michigan ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ Well, I'm high and dry and lonely ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I'm as lonesome as can be ♪
♪ Oh, yes ♪
♪ And I stare out of my window ♪
♪ Well, I can play, but I just can't win ♪
♪ And the weather's looking mighty grim ♪
♪ Oh my heart, it just can't love no one but you ♪
- ♪ Top row up there ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ Oh my heart ♪
♪ Ooh, oh my heart ♪
♪ Oh my heart, it just can't love no one but you ♪
♪ Oh my heart ♪
♪ Oh oh my heart ♪
- Oh my god, this is so much fun.
♪ I can't just love no one but you ♪
♪ ♪
Is this really happening?
[cheers and applause]
[vocalizing]
[cheers and applause]
Oh, lord.
[cheers and applause]
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
This next song, turn your lights on
so heaven can see us.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
♪ Love ain't a candle ♪
♪ ♪
♪ It doesn't burn for one night ♪
♪ And need the dark to shine ♪
Sing this part for me.
[together] ♪ Love is alive ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ And love ain't just a word ♪
♪ In every dictionary with nowhere defined ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Love is a man and he's mine ♪
Sing the chorus for me, everybody.
Here we go.
♪ Oh, love is alive and at our breakfast table every day ♪
♪ Of the week ♪
♪ Love is alive and it grows every day ♪
♪ And night, even in our sleep ♪
♪ Love is alive and it's made a happy woman out of me ♪
♪ Oh, love is alive ♪
♪ ♪
[together] ♪ And here by me ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Love ain't just a mood ♪
♪ A distant far away dream ♪
♪ That needs the night to rise ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Love is alive ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, love alive and at our breakfast table ♪
♪ Every day of the week ♪
♪ Love is alive and it grows every day and night ♪
♪ Even in our sleep ♪
[together] ♪ Love is alive and made a happy woman out of me ♪
- ♪ Oh, love is alive ♪
♪ And here by me ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Love is alive ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Here by me ♪
♪ ♪
- Wow.
[cheers and applause]
Whoo.
[cheers and applause]
Oh, my.
[laughs]
I'm speechless, actually.
The way they sang, the way that they looked at me--
I looked down front and saw some of the fans that
have been there since the beginning of time,
Judd time, that I just was overcome with emotion
to the point where I was shaking.
[cheers and applause]
[light music]
♪ ♪
- Oh, thank you, sweetie.
[gentle piano music]
It'll never happen again the way it happened tonight.
♪ ♪
I know in my heart that each and every fan that
has been there has watched me go through every single part
of my life.
And I just felt so supported and so loved
and yet so alone.
I came immediately offstage
and went straight to the shower
and just stood in the shower and cried.
[light music]
♪ ♪
We're in Toledo, Ohio, and this is the second show tonight.
I'm going to cry a lot, and I know it.
And so Ashley is here today to support me as a sister.
And I have hugged her several times today.
And we're just bonded in a different way
because of death.
Ashley was 14 and I was 18 when I made it in show business
and left to go on the road with my mom,
and Ashley was left behind.
We have a lot of, you know, making up to do, I guess.
And now that Mom is gone, especially,
Ashley is learning how to show up in my camp,
and I'm showing up in her camp.
I don't have a lot of blood relative family left,
and one of them is Ashley.
I want a relationship with my sister,
and what does that look like?
♪ ♪
I'm really nervous that you're here.
- Are you? Say more about that.
- Well, just, I'm vulnerable.
Last night, I felt so much support and love
from the audience that it was--
it was like a hurricane.
It literally came at me.
And knowing that you're here--
- Mm-hmm.
- You know, you're sitting there and seeing it
for the first time.
[exhales]
Doing that thing where we're together,
but I'm really glad you're here.
- Yeah, I'm glad to be here too.
It's a little--
I'm a little steadier than I expected to be.
I actually feel really solid.
- Good.
- But I don't even really look at pictures of Mom yet.
And to know that there's going to be all this video
and, you know, this is--
it's the story of your life and music,
and it's the story of my childhood.
- Here we are in front of thousands of people.
Here we go.
- I'm proud of you.
- Thank you.
It's been a long journey.
[gentle guitar music]
♪ Old tin roof, and leaves in the gutter ♪
♪ A hole in the screen door big as your fist ♪
♪ And flies on the butter ♪
♪ Mama baking sugar cookies ♪
♪ We were watching cartoons ♪
♪ I heard her holler from the kitchen ♪
♪ Which one of you young ones wants to lick the spoon? ♪
[together] ♪ Yellow jackets on the watermelon ♪
♪ Honeysuckle in the air ♪
♪ Daddy turning on the sprinkler ♪
♪ Us kids running through it in our underwear ♪
♪ Old dog napping on the front porch ♪
♪ His ear just a-twitching ♪
♪ I fell asleep on Granddaddy's lap ♪
♪ To the sound of his pocket watch ticking ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago ♪
♪ ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
♪ You can dream about it now and then ♪
♪ But you can't go home again ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ But there's a blacktop road ♪
♪ A faded yellow center line ♪
♪ It can take back to place ♪
♪ But it can't take it back in time ♪
[both vocalizing]
- ♪ It doesn't seem like it was all that long ago ♪
[both vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ You can dream about it every now and then ♪
♪ But you can't go home again ♪
♪ Old tin roof ♪
♪ Leaves in the gutter ♪
♪ A hole in the screen door big is your fist ♪
♪ And flies on the butter ♪
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
I know you love me.
And I love you, too.
And we're family.
Speaking of family, my beloved sister is here tonight.
[cheers and applause]
- And so we were visiting on the bus earlier,
and we kind of went through my kindergarten
up to the 10th grade reminiscing,
lots of family memories.
And we just thought we would share a little bit.
And I was wondering if there was
something that you wanted to--
that you maybe left out about one of your favorite memories
about Mom.
- Mother had a great sense of adventure,
and we lived in the back of a U-Haul it trailer, literally.
- At times, we did.
And something that I've been remembering a lot lately
is that she was soft, and she smelled pretty.
And I think that's what I loved about her best.
And we just wanted to remind everybody
that you don't have to be alone if you're hurting.
You can always call 988.
And you can always go to grief.com.
And you can always look at the National
Alliance for Mental Illness.
There are resources.
And we might feel like we're alone,
but we're in community, like we are tonight.
[cheers and applause]
And I'm really proud of you.
[gentle guitar music]
♪ ♪
- I'll do my best.
This is a tough one.
Um, she wrote so many songs for you.
♪ ♪
♪ Yes, I'm holding back a flood of tears ♪
♪ I'm just thinking about those happy years ♪
♪ Like all the good times that are no more ♪
♪ My mama's gone, gone, gone forevermore ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Silence so deep only my soul can hear ♪
♪ Says now the past is what I fear ♪
♪ And the future isn't what it used to be ♪
♪ Only today ♪
♪ Is all that's promised me ♪
♪ Flow on, river of time ♪
♪ Wash away the pain and heal my mind ♪
♪ Flow on, river of time ♪
♪ Carry me away ♪
♪ And leave it all far behind ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Flow on, river of time ♪
♪ ♪
Sometimes you just need somebody to hold on to.
♪ Yes Lord ♪
♪ Oh, we're all driven by ♪
♪ Driven by the winds of change ♪
♪ Whoo ♪
♪ Seems like nothing-- nothing ever stays the same ♪
♪ And it's fate that guides me around the bend ♪
♪ Life's forever beginning ♪
♪ Beginning again ♪
♪ So flow on, river of time ♪
♪ Wash away the pain and heal ♪
♪ I get stronger every day now, Lord ♪
♪ Flow on, river of time ♪
♪ Wash away the pain ♪
♪ And leave it all far behind ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Flow on, river of time ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Flow on ♪
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- I'm sure there are people that are going through
much more difficult than I, and yet this is my story.
And this is why I've agreed to do this documentary is
because I want other people to see themselves in what
I'm doing and realize, "God, if Wynonna can do it,
I can do it."
I got a message from somebody through Mom's husband that
said, "I'm actually going to decide to stay and not commit
suicide because of last night."
And I went--
Yeah, she wrote him, and said, "I'm not going to end my life.
"I'm going to decide to choose life,
because I see what devastation it is to the family."
Wow.
So between shows, this family that I come home to
is everything to me, and it keeps me going
and fills me up with joy and gives me purpose.
Elijah, get me some butter, please.
Top, inside the door, butter block.
Today I am Mrs. Moser, and I'm texting my grandson.
And it's my granddaughter's six-month birthday today.
And there's just all of this happening at once.
- Wy is a fantastic cook.
I mean, she can sing really well,
but man, she can really cook too.
- Singing is my side hustle. - Double threat.
Yeah, that's kind of like your second--
second job.
- There's times when they start chanting
my name, which is uncomfortable,
because she's out there.
- [laughing]
Even I think you're funny.
- The amount of love that crowd has for me is unbelievable.
[laughing]
I mean, and her. And her.
I mean, they're obviously there to see her,
but man, the amount of love they show me, it's incredible.
- Marrying Cactus was one of the greatest days of my life,
because I've never trusted someone
and loved someone simultaneously
like I love Cactus.
- There's a lot to this tale, and it's nothing
you would ever have dreamt.
[laughing]
I asked Wynonna to marry me on Christmas Eve.
- It was perfect, because it was on the farm,
and it was just the two of us and horses.
And it was perfect.
- We got married on June 10th.
On August 18th,
I had a Mercury Cougar cut off my leg,
you know, literally, on the road.
I lived through the night, which was a miraculous story.
And that two and half, three months into getting married,
she had to become a nurse.
And there was a lot of things she had to do.
You have to clean this kind of a wound.
It's horrid.
That's kind of our thing.
Even in the worst of times, we can
figure out how to get past it.
And, you know, thank God.
You know, find a happy place.
- Them together is just kind of a fun thing to watch.
They're just kind of the couple that everybody wants to be.
- We are blessed beyond anything else.
No matter what else happens in our lives,
jobs, and everything else, we have this family circle.
- Yes. - Right?
And that is power.
And so in Jesus' name, we just say, thank you.
Thank you for this family.
- This family is everything to me.
I have three bonus children, as well as two of my own.
Cactus and I have blended our family together,
and it is awesome.
[together] Cheers.
- It looks like Hollywood except with donkeys.
[laughter]
- Honey, we got to go.
- Lindsay, don't forget the eyelashes.
[twangy upbeat music]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
- ♪ Had a dream about you, baby ♪
♪ Had a dream ♪
- OK, send her up.
- ♪ About me and you ♪
♪ ♪
- What?
Oh, my God.
- As I was going up, I pretty much immediately
knew something was wrong.
My cape got stuck in the lift.
The elevator immediately took me to the ground.
[tense music]
I did the first song on my knees.
because it knocked the wind out of me.
I'm OK.
- I was panicking.
My first thought was, OK, the show is over.
But when went up and pulled her cape, and she said,
"I'm fine. I'm fine. I'm fine.
Just give me the microphone." I'm like, OK.
OK, she's fine.
- I am letting you see this, even though I don't want you
to see this, that I'm having some real anxiety,
and I feel like
how a Tiger Woods or a sports person feels
when they're off their game.
And we're nixing the "B" stage tonight.
And I feel like somehow I'm failing in a way,
and it's really debilitating, because it's,
like, I am a champion.
I was "trained" to come out here and kick ass.
And I feel vulnerable.
And we will "revisit" this in another state.
- Perfect.
- I'm dealing with a hell of a lot for me.
And I'm a tough son of a bitch.
And I can work hard and do a show with 104 temperature.
I've done it many times.
Yet this is different, you guys,
because this is dealing with your mental health.
And your mental health is as important as your physical
and spiritual health.
♪ ♪
The grief is just so coming in waves in a way
that I wasn't expecting, and on stage,
I'm getting really dizzy.
And it's freaked me out.
I went to my doctor, and we did vitals and talked about meds
and just everything.
And is there anything I'm doing?
And-- and I guess the grief gets so powerful
and the support and the love is so intense that it's knocking
me over, like literally.
- This is one of the hardest things you are going
to go through this lifetime.
Like, you are in the middle of probably
your biggest challenge.
- My mom and I were really disconnected towards the end.
And I was on the road with Cactus and the band,
and I was doing my thing, and Mom was here by herself.
And I have immense pain about that.
And I've asked myself, you know,
what could I have done differently?
And I think that's one of the things.
What-- not tour?
Not travel? Not live my life? No.
I just think that I could have been a little more present.
[light music]
♪ ♪
- When you walked into that room,
what was your feeling when you saw her?
- No words.
Absolute disbelief, like this is not my mother.
It's not my mom.
Honestly, I was in such disbelief.
I was frozen.
- Your mom lying on the floor--
your mind doesn't know how to process it,
so it is going to float around for a little bit.
It's going to float around till it
finds a little more grounding.
- Hmm.
- And in time, you will find a little
more ability to remember other images rather than that one.
- OK.
Hmm.
- Did you yearn and love and wish for something different
as you slow those moments down now?
- Yeah, I wish I had punched the cop that
was standing there in my way.
No.
I say that just because I was so mad
at him for him shooing me away, because it's like,
that's my mom.
I wish I had pushed him out of the way
and gone and kissed her on her forehead then
instead of when she had already died.
[exhales]
- You are going on stage in honor of her,
and that absence is allowed,
painful, and it's your mom.
You know, as you know, this isn't your singing partner.
This is your mom.
And you have it all, a full life, the bad and the good,
and one of those things is a horrific tragedy.
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
- I feel her nudging me when I'm really weary,
like tired today.
My mother has a really good work ethic.
All throughout the Judds, she had a very
strong sense of purpose--
and driven.
I'm not as driven and as ambitious as she was.
And so I feel her saying to me, rub some dirt on it
and get back in the game.
[upbeat guitar music]
[laughs]
[together] ♪ I love the slide of a steel guitar ♪
♪ I love the moan of an old blues harp ♪
- [vocalizing]
[together] ♪ I love the shake of a tambourine ♪
♪ I love the bass when it's blowing me ♪
- ♪ Put on your shiny shoes ♪
[together] ♪ And turn it loose ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Everybody put on your shiny shoes and turn it loose ♪
- Killer. But you've got after that.
Whatever you did-- - Cool.
- Yeah, one more.
[together] ♪ Turn it loose ♪
- That's it. - OK.
- And that's it.
- I'm so amazed that I've never worked with you all.
I think about that.
And I would say something to you,
and go, "Why have we not worked with them?"
- Do you know that you were our first-- you--
have we ever told her this?
- Oh, you petted my--
you petted my spiky hair one time.
- You were our first-- - Oh, yes.
- We opened up for you at the old fairgrounds at Fan Fair.
- Oh. - Yes.
- That was--
- We sang in 19-- - You were our first.
- That was '99.
- 1999.
And you came up to us afterwards, and you were like,
y'all are-- you said something really kind to us.
And you're like, "Keep going."
- And you like did--
- We only knew about four songs.
- I like your hair.
It was spiky and short.
- Yes.
- If I could go back to that, to Fan Fair out there,
and sweating and-- - Dude.
- --being like it was, it was so cool.
- Fun. - Let's do it.
- I think I have a picture of us with you.
- I would love to see that picture.
So here's the set list.
So what do we start with?
- "Girls Night Out." - "Girls Night Out."
- Question being, these two are probably
going to hold off on it.
I kind of agree with them. - You talked about this.
- I think it might be--
- It might be a good idea to stay--
stay off the stage there.
- Hey, I like a girls' night out.
[laughter]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Karen, Kimberly, Philip, and Jimi of Little Big Town,
and Martina McBride, y'all.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
♪ Well Friday finally came around ♪
♪ This girl's ready to paint this town ♪
♪ Tonight ain't nothing going to slow me down ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Hell, I did my time working all week ♪
♪ Tonight's all mine ♪
♪ Tomorrow I'll sleep ♪
♪ I want to hear a band with a country sound ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, I've been cooped up all week long ♪
♪ I've been working ♪
[together] ♪ My fingers to the bone ♪
♪ Well, it's a girls' night out ♪
♪ Honey, there ain't no doubt ♪
♪ I'm going to dance every dance till the boys go home ♪
♪ Well, it's my night to rock ♪
♪ No watching that old clock ♪
♪ Ain't no doubt ♪
♪ Lordy, it's a girls' night out ♪
♪ Well, now it's a girls' night out ♪
♪ Honey, there ain't no doubt ♪
♪ I'm going to dance every dance till the boys go home ♪
♪ Well, it's my night to rock ♪
♪ No watching that old clock ♪
♪ Oh, ain't no doubt ♪
♪ Lordy, it's a girls' night out ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Two step or the Cotton Eye Joe ♪
♪ They can play 'em fast or they can play 'em slow ♪
♪ I can do them all, just show me the floor ♪
♪ ♪
- You know that's right.
- ♪ You can give me a little rock and roll ♪
♪ Even a waltz with the lights down low ♪
[together] ♪ I'll still be dancing ♪
♪ when you close the door ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Girls now ♪
♪ I've been cooped up all week long ♪
♪ And I've been working ♪
[together] ♪ My fingers to the bone ♪
♪ Well, it's a girls' night out ♪
♪ Honey, there ain't no doubt ♪
♪ I'm going to dance every dance till the boys go home ♪
♪ Well, it's my night to rock ♪
♪ No watching that old clock ♪
- ♪ Oh, ain't no doubt ♪
♪ Lordy, it's a girls' night out ♪
Everybody dance.
Whoo.
All right.
♪ ♪
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, I say ♪
[together] ♪ It's a girls' night out ♪
♪ Oh, honey, there ain't no doubt ♪
♪ I'm going to dance every dance till the boys go home ♪
♪ Well, it's my night to rock ♪
♪ No watching that old clock ♪
♪ There ain't no doubt, Lordy, it's a girls' night out ♪
- All right, here we go, girls.
♪ ♪
It's all attitude, honey.
♪ ♪
[laughs]
[vocalizing]
♪ ♪
♪ Oh, it's a girls' night out ♪
♪ Baby, don't you forget it ♪
♪ Oh ♪
[together] ♪ It's a girls' night out ♪
♪ Honey, there ain't no doubt ♪
♪ I'm going to dance every dance till the boys go home ♪
♪ Oh, it's my night to rock ♪
♪ No watching that old clock ♪
- ♪ Ain't no doubt Lordy ♪
[together] ♪ It's a girls' night out ♪
[cheers and applause]
[light music]
♪ ♪
- Well, the reaction of the fans is magical.
And for Wynonna, it's such a sacred, special bond
that they have.
It's like they're here to support her
and to celebrate this legacy of the Judds.
- I just want to say that, you know,
you have this perception of people that are on the radio
and in a glass box before you ever
have an opportunity to meet them in a meet and greet
or in a mall or whatever.
- I met her in a mall when she was 15.
- I know.
- And there have been people that have been disappointing,
and there have been people that have been far greater than I
could have ever imagined.
And sharing the stage with you will be framed on my wall
for the rest of my life.
But the moment I will always appreciate the most is,
you were the first call that I got when the news
broke about my divorce.
- [whistles]
- Oh, I didn't know that.
- Mm-hmm.
So thank you for being far more legendary
than anyone will ever even actually know.
- Ohh. - God bless you.
- And thank you for--
thank you for including me in this.
- Oh, my gosh.
- I'm a moth to the flame, my darling.
- Oh, cheers.
- OK.
And cheers, and cheers.
- And thank you-- thank you for having me--
- [laughs] Oh, come on.
- You're a dream.
Good morning, everyone. - Good morning.
How is everybody?
We have a lot to talk about, but we'll start with--
- A lot?
- A lot of greatness.
- OK.
- We'll start with the first thing,
which is probably the most timely.
So we would like to talk to you about extending the tour.
The tour has done exceptional business.
It has been a celebration for all the fans
in such a big, epic way.
- Big, epic-- those words together.
- Big, epic, mm-hmm. I mean, I think you got--
- Extending the tour-- what-- for what?
- For 15 more arena shows, starting January--
- No.
- Mm-hmm.
[laughing]
- What? Wow.
OK, time-out. Time-out.
I'm-- let me rewind.
15 more shows.
How in the world?
- The only reason that crowd is going insane,
they just want to go, thank you.
You have mattered to us for our whole lifetimes.
You mattered to us when we were little.
You matter to us now that we're, you know, whatever age.
And so it isn't that they're just focused on those songs,
which they are, but it's you.
- They're singing unlike I've ever heard them.
Mothers and daughters-- there is
a huge component to this that is so beyond show business.
These people grew up with me and watched me,
and they are invested.
- I mean, people want it. Buildings want it.
Buildings are calling us right now asking for it.
And so I think, go for 15 more.
- [laughing]
- What do you think?
- What do I-- it doesn't matter what I think.
- Oh. [laughing]
- No, it really doesn't. No. No. No. No. No.
I heard this years ago. Give the people what they want.
- That's fair.
- This is not about what I think.
What do I think?
It doesn't matter right now, because this is, uh,
about the people.
- Here's how I would like to announce.
I have us an offer for the outdoor concert
series at "TODAY" show out in the plaza.
It would all be about the tour.
- We'll gonna announce it 7:00 a.m. eastern.
- And then the tickets would go on sale at noon.
So it'd be like boom, boom, boom, boom.
- Wow.
You know, bring it.
Bring it.
[upbeat guitar music]
♪ ♪
- They're out there with their ponchos on.
- Oh, yeah. They're ready.
♪ ♪
- Hey, Hoda. Good to see you.
- I'd know that voice anywhere.
Yeah, I love you too.
- See ya. I'll see you in a bit.
[laughter]
- I feel like I've known Hoda since I was-- well, I have,
since I was a teenager. - Hi.
- I want you to meet. - Hi.
- How are you, Rainey, one of the producers.
I've seen you a bunch in concert.
And I just want to show you the text my mother just sent me.
- Can you FaceTime her real quick?
- Oh, mom.
[laughter]
- Hi, Wynonna.
- Say, hi, Mom. - Hi.
- This is so special.
- Wynonna Judd has been making her mark on country music
for decades earning five Grammys with her mom
Naomi as the iconic duo The Judds.
- When I think about you on the stage surrounded
by these fans that have adored you,
it wasn't how you expected it at all.
- No.
- And yet it feels like maybe it's healing you.
- It is, because I get really sad, and I go out on stage,
and I look out, and I see a mother-daughter,
and all of a sudden things are better.
I just feel better.
- Your music is just incredible.
You're sounding--
- If I didn't feel the way I did,
I wouldn't sing the way I do.
- Love seeing you.
- Well, I'm here whenever you need me. Call me.
- We hope you come back and visit.
[phone chiming]
- It's General Cody.
Hold on.
Yes, sir.
- You on your bus driving to Mississippi?
- Not yet, sir.
What are you doing?
- Well, I'm sitting here thinking about you.
I saw the big announcement for the next tour.
You're right next to my home.
- Oh, my gosh, that's awesome.
- I'm General Dick Cody-- retired.
- I'm Vicky Cody.
And we met Wy shortly after September 11, 2001.
- A lot of people don't know this
about Wynonna and her mother, God rest her soul.
First phone call I got right after 9/11
other than from the military was from Wynonna Judd.
She said, "General, the Judds are Kentucky girls.
"You're our Kentucky general.
What do you need us to do for you and the troops?"
Wynonna came up and did three or four
free concerts for our troops.
Her mom and her sat with our troops
getting ready to deploy at night into Kandahar,
and they sat and prayed with them.
As booming as her voice is, her heart beats stronger,
especially for this country.
I'm so proud of the way you're expressing yourself.
- I appreciate you, and you're my family,
and I love you guys.
We'll talk soon. - Do what you do.
I love you. We'll talk later. Bye-bye.
- OK. All right. Bye bye.
General Cody, former vice chief staff of the army.
He is my father figure.
He calls me to tell me he's proud of me, like a soldier.
[laid-back twangy music]
So we're coming down to the last three concerts.
And the next one is Nashville.
Since mom left, I've had anxiety about doing this tour.
Cactus has been there every step of the way on this tour,
and I could not have gotten as far as I got without him.
And he kept me believing that it was
possible to do the B stage.
- Look at my piece of toast.
Do you even want to step off of that?
I swear we can put the mic closer.
- Cactus has been there for me in ways I didn't
even know that I needed.
He's not only helped me to conquer my fears
around this tour; he's been there to help
me heal through this tour.
- I speak it to be; it is already done.
She owns the toaster.
- We love each other deeply and show up for each other.
I can't do it without him.
[together] ♪ Hey, good looking ♪
♪ What-- what you got cooking? ♪
♪ How's about cooking something up with me? ♪
- You know what I love about country music?
It's real people, real words in the real world.
I'm overwhelmed, and I'm grateful,
because I've got so many people that support me.
[together] ♪ What you got cooking? ♪
♪ How's about cooking something up with me? ♪
[vocalizing]
- [vocalizing]
[laughter]
- Hi, honey.
- You're beautiful.
[light twangy music]
♪ ♪
- I never got a chance, actually,
until this tour to tell Wynonna what
their music has meant to me.
Out of college, I was in Georgia for the summer,
and I was working for an insurance company,
and I was driving two hours one way.
So in that car ride every day, I would listen to the radio.
And I remember hearing "Mama He's Crazy" on the radio,
and I pulled over at a Kmart.
They had a little--I think it was like a little
five-song EP, and I bought it and played it
all the rest of the way home.
And, honestly, it was a catalyst for me.
I was in Nashville by the time I was 19.
I mean, and I really credit Wynonna's voice and The Judds
with really giving me that push.
So more important than I think she would ever know.
- I know you love me.
I'm counting on it.
[cheers and applause]
Thank you.
[gentle guitar music]
♪ ♪
♪ Mama, I found someone ♪
♪ Like you said will come along ♪
♪ He's a sight and so unlike ♪
♪ Any man I've known ♪
♪ I was afraid to let him in ♪
♪ Because I'm not the trusting kind ♪
♪ But now I'm convinced that he's heaven-sent ♪
♪ And must be out of his mind ♪
♪ ♪
[together] ♪ Mama, he's crazy ♪
♪ Crazy over me ♪
♪ And in my life is where he stays ♪
♪ He always wants to be ♪
- ♪ I've never ♪
[together] ♪ Been so in love ♪
♪ He beats all I've ever seen ♪
♪ Mama, he's crazy ♪
- ♪ And mama, he's crazy ♪
♪ He's crazy over ♪
♪ Me ♪
[cheers and applause]
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
- Let's bring Trisha, shall we?
[upbeat music]
Whoo. Get it, girl.
- ♪ They say everybody's got a someone ♪
♪ A sweet somebody to love ♪
♪ It might be fate or destiny ♪
♪ May be written in the stars above ♪
♪ But I can't help but wonder
♪ After all that I've been through ♪
♪ Maybe my baby's nowhere to be found ♪
♪ And I was just born to be blue ♪
[vocalizing]
- Ha-ha.
[vocalizing]
- ♪ Ohh ♪
both: ♪ Was I born to be blue? ♪
♪ Born just to cry? ♪
♪ Born to be alone till the day I die? ♪
- You're scaring me, and I like it.
- Good.
You better be scared. - [laughs]
- ♪ Whoa ♪
both: ♪ Was I born to be loved? ♪
♪ Born to be kissed? ♪
♪ Born to find the one to show me what I missed? ♪
[vocalizing]
- ♪ Hey ♪ - ♪ Hey ♪
- ♪ Ha-ho ♪
Take that, America.
♪ ♪
Whoo.
[cheers and applause]
We need to do this again, I swear.
- I would, anytime.
I'll be in your driveway tomorrow.
It'll be great.
To me, this whole tour feels like all we want to do
is support Wynonna in the way that she needs.
And I think she's experiencing joy.
I think it's also hard.
I can't imagine all of the emotions
that she goes through in any given night.
But we just want to help her finish this strong.
And, um, it's just my honor to be here.
[upbeat music]
- ♪ Some call it county with a little bit ♪
♪ Of rhythm and blues ♪
♪ And when the boys start rocking ♪
♪ There's a beat that you just can't lose ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Where it's going to take us nobody knows ♪
♪ It sure feels good to the body and soul ♪
♪ Oh-oh ♪
[together] ♪ I love the slide of a steel guitar ♪
♪ I love the moan of an old blues harp ♪
♪ ♪
♪ I love the shake of a tambourine ♪
♪ I love the bass when it's low and mean ♪
♪ So put on your shoutin' shoes and turn it loose ♪
♪ ♪
- Man, I love the '80s and the '90s.
Country music, man, it's so good.
It's, like, yes.
♪ ♪
[musical flourishes]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
Ashley and I have never forgotten where we come from.
We are Kentucky girls through and through.
Playing Kentucky is always so, so special.
- What are they going to do when Ashley Judd walks out
in Rupp Arena today?
- She's going to go something like, "Go, Cats."
- I'm excited. I am so excited for this.
- You look nice.
Why, thank you.
- Particularly nice one.
I like the palette.
- Really?
Oh, wow.
Thank you. - I like the--
- I was kind of back there going,
"I don't know if I like what I'm doing here.
It's just-- eh."
- You're an autumn, aren't you?
- It's our talk for--
- You're a spring-autumn.
You have to say something. - Very pretty.
- Thank you.
- Health to wear it. - Health to wear it.
[light guitar music]
♪ ♪
both: ♪ Kentucky you are the dearest land ♪
♪ This side of heaven to me ♪
- You know, I think it's remarkable
that Ashley and I have made it as far as we have.
We have a lot of, you know, making up to do, I guess.
♪ ♪
You know how it is when you're 20 and 30.
You know everything.
And you're so right.
And then you learn as you get older, you can be right,
or you can be loved.
You're going to have to pick one today.
And as you get older--
Appreciate you guys.
--and you look around, and you realize,
there's going to come a day when you're not here anymore.
And I just don't want to fight anymore
or argue as much as I just want to sit and have dinner.
You know, I just want a relationship with my sister,
and what does that look like?
♪ ♪
- When I first came to Nashville, I was 19.
As part of my graduation present from my parents,
my mom bought studio time.
I got to record five songs.
And one of them was "Have Mercy."
- ♪ Have mercy on me ♪
- You're doing frickin' awesome, Faith.
- We can go over--
- Don't be so hard on yourself.
That's my job for myself.
I'm having a hard time.
- Let me take some of your pain, sister.
- Take it.
- ♪ That's why I'm here for you ♪
♪ You are not alone ♪
♪ I am here with you ♪
♪ Though we're far apart ♪
♪ You're always in my heart ♪
♪ Oh, you ♪
Listening to The Judds, you know, in high school,
like, I was crazy to meet them.
I mean, we all were.
You know, a mother-daughter duo with a family harmony,
just like sitting on their front porch,
and having a conversation with them.
♪ You are not alone ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Don't ever do that again.
[laughter]
Good.
Good night.
What I remember is that Faith was the first to reach
out personally.
Can I cook for you?
Can I bring you something?
Faith was literally one of the very first people
that reached out.
She's close to me, because I've known her
since she was a teenager.
I love her so much.
- God, I've known Wynonna and Naomi,
I mean, most of my career.
I mean, I can't remember exactly when we met.
It was, you know, after I'd had some successes and stuff,
of course, because I couldn't get close to them
until I had some success.
And then after Faith and I got married, you know,
we all started having kids, and, you know, our kids
went on playdates together.
I remember that quite a bit.
So we were around each other quite often.
- I love you, sweetheart.
- Oh, my God. Oh-ho-ho-ho.
- Yeah, I mean, you know, when something like that
happens to somebody that you know and you love,
that's your first instinct is to reach out
and just, you know, you never have the right words.
All you can do is just say, "I love you; I'm here."
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Sitting in the porch swing ♪
♪ Listening to the light rain ♪
♪ Beatin' on the tin roof ♪
♪ Baby, just a-me and you ♪
both: ♪ Rockin' with the rhythm of the rain ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ Slide on over ♪
♪ Baby, hold me closer ♪
♪ Moving to and for ♪
♪ Just swaying like a slow freight train ♪
both: ♪ Rockin' with the rhythm of the rain ♪
♪ ♪
- ♪ So let the breeze ♪
- ♪ Rockin' with the rhythm of the rain that's fallin' ♪
- ♪ Keep blowing ♪ - ♪ Night birds are singing ♪
♪ The crickets are calling ♪
- ♪ Oh, my heart will never be the same ♪
♪ Keep the sweet ♪
- ♪ Whisper in my ear, baby ♪
- ♪ Feelin' flowing ♪
- ♪ Nights like this come once in a lifetime ♪
- ♪ Oh me and my baby ♪
both: ♪ Rockin' with the rhythm of the rain ♪
- ♪ Me and my baby ♪
both: ♪ Rockin' with the rhythm of the rain ♪
[cheers and applause]
- Whoo.
♪ ♪
Faith freakin' Hill.
[cheers and applause]
- Ow!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Love you back.
- Come on, people.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ You've been looking for love all around the world ♪
♪ Don't you know this country girl's still free ♪
♪ Why not me? ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Well, you've finally come down to your old hometown ♪
♪ Your Kentucky girl's been waiting patiently ♪
♪ Oh, baby, why not me? ♪
[together] ♪ Why not me on a rainy day? ♪
♪ Why not me to love your cares away? ♪
♪ Baby, why not me? ♪
- ♪ Oh, yeah ♪
[together] ♪ Why not me when the nights get cold? ♪
♪ Why not me when you're growing old? ♪
♪ Baby, why not me? ♪
♪ ♪
[all vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Baby, why not me? ♪
[all vocalizing]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Kentucky ♪
♪ Why not me? ♪
[cheers and applause]
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
I love you so much.
Oh.
♪ ♪
Good night.
Did we have fun, or what?
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
[cheers and applause]
[somber music]
- Everything I did was with her on the bus.
That's really when I think about her, too, at night,
on the bus, because we had so many years together.
♪ ♪
Here's what I know about grief.
It hits in waves, and you just don't know
when it's going to happen.
I feel very little girl today.
I want some ice cream, and I want to watch cartoons
and stay home from school.
♪ ♪
- These are your talking points.
♪ ♪
[exhales]
- I have many questions about the suicide,
and I think I always will.
There's no way they'll ever be answered.
You just have to accept it and make peace
with it as much as you can.
- Ready? - And with no further ado,
the queen herself, Wynonna Judd.
[cheers and applause]
- So this is a big fat hairy deal for me.
And 31 years ago almost to the day
I did my last concert with my mom.
And we are recreating it on November the 3rd
at the Murphy Center.
I will tell you, everyone from my lawyer, to my gynecologist,
to my preacher--
[laughter]
I'm not kidding-- to people I don't even like...
[laughter]
Are coming.
So there's a conviction of just wanting
to help someone out in the audience,
and that's what this tour is.
I'm with these people in this moment.
I'm exhausted today.
I've done so many shows where I literally fall on my knees,
because the love is so strong.
It's the most emotional I've ever been
and the most vulnerable I've ever felt
and the strongest I've ever been able to sing.
- I know; I see you.
- Don't forget to do your grief work.
I do my grief work this afternoon,
and people ask me what I'm doing.
And I say, on a good day, I reach out for help.
On a bad day, I reach out for help,
because I can't do this by myself.
And I'm living my life in the public eye through this grief.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- I just feel so helpless so much of the time.
I'll be honest with you, if I can help one fan, two fans,
more fans, I am here to help somebody not do
what my mother did, period.
♪ ♪
- Hey.
Awesome job back there as usual.
- Hey, thanks, toots.
♪ ♪
I'm tired.
I'm weary.
I'm worn.
I'm blessed. I'm stressed.
And I'm feeling a lot of pain, because, you know,
when I pass my mom's house, I still think of the day
that I got the call, and I'm still driving over.
♪ ♪
I don't want to be a martyr, so I'm talking about this,
because I want somebody to say,
"Well, if Wynonna can do it,
I can do it, because she's a hot mess."
But I'm still showing up every day.
♪ ♪
This isn't performing.
This is living.
♪ ♪
- I would say that Wy was so bonded to me.
♪ ♪
We just had this psychological umbilical cord
that frankly wasn't cut until the farewell concert itself.
♪ ♪
- The one thing that's perfect tonight
is that you guys are out there sharing this with us.
[cheers and applause]
I couldn't find my shoes.
And I got the wrong boots on.
And I don't like the way my hair looked tonight.
But I got my mom, and I got you guys,
and that's all that matters right now.
[cheers and applause]
December 4, 1991 was our last concert.
That was the last time I was ever on stage with her
until 2015 for a reunion.
♪ ♪
1991-- this is what was going on.
- I said to Wynonna, "What if we recreated
the 1991 special at the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro?"
And without hesitation, she was like, "Yes, let's do this.
And now how do we do it?"
[light guitar music]
- We had toyed with bringing a lot of the artists back.
And everyone said yes.
It's pretty incredible. It's pretty emotional.
I mean, I went out there when they were putting up The Judds
sign, and I was like, "God, I can't tell you how many times
that I've watched this special."
I mean, over and over and over.
It's going to be pretty emotional, I think,
for her today.
♪ ♪
- We're trying to recreate the vibe with a 2022 twist.
It's going to be really strange for me.
I'm going to be singing some of the same songs
that I was singing that night,
and it's just-- it's a strange event.
But it's necessary, I think, because people
want to relive those memories.
♪ ♪
- All right, you guys, to Wynonna Judd
and to life after death,
to celebrating life after death.
[together] Amen.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
- Yeah, cheers.
- I look up to her so much and the way
that she just is who she is and stands in her power
and sings her ass off.
[indistinct chatter]
- We've been together for so long that we've had
personal losses, and the music was
always the thing that brought us back together
and was the joy.
And that's what I see happening for Wy,
is that it's healing her, and it's
healing everyone around her.
- Let me hug you. Thank you for letting me be
a part of this.
Like a lot of folks my age, listening to The Judds,
that was just part of-- it's just part of your musical DNA.
When music like that is such a part of the fabric of what you
are made of, I should say thank you specifically
out loud to her for that.
[indistinct chatter]
- I'm just overwhelmed.
I'm sad and happy.
That's weird.
I'm sad happy.
- What might be happening for Wynonna
is that she is seeing evidence
of the good
that her and her mom have put into the world.
But I hope that she's seeing that even sometimes if it's
hard for her to understand...
♪ ♪
What it was all leading to,
or feeling like maybe the price was too high
in some ways, that she can see somebody like me and say,
we helped someone, you know,
when she can't see all the other people they helped,
but they're out there.
♪ ♪
[gentle guitar music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I'd gladly walk across the desert ♪
♪ With no shoes upon my feet ♪
♪ To share with you the last bite ♪
♪ Of bread I had to eat ♪
♪ And I would swim out to save you ♪
♪ In your sea of broken dreams ♪
♪ When all your hopes are sinking ♪
♪ Let me sing to you what love means ♪
[together] ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
♪ Don't you think it's time? ♪
[music intensifies]
- ♪ Yes, when we stand together ♪
♪ It's our finest hour ♪
♪ Because we can do anything ♪
[together] ♪ Anything ♪ - ♪ Anything ♪
[together] ♪ Anything ♪ - ♪ If we keep believing ♪
♪ In the power of love ♪
[together] ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
- ♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
[together] ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
- ♪ Don't you think it's time? ♪
♪ Don't you think it's time? ♪
♪ Yeah, yes, I do ♪
[together] ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
- ♪ Oh, love and only love ♪
[together] ♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
- ♪ Between your heart and mine ♪
[together] ♪ Love can build a bridge ♪
- ♪ Love and only love ♪
[together] ♪ Don't you think it's time? ♪
- I believe in the power of love.
[cheers and applause]
And I believe there is always hope.
- ♪ Amen ♪
♪ And the greatest of these is love ♪
♪ ♪
She wrote those words for you.
♪ Love and only love ♪
♪ ♪
I think the tour was a great distraction,
and it was incredibly difficult for me.
[cheers and applause]
But here's what I know.
I know that it helped people.
[cheers and applause]
♪ ♪
- Goodbye, America.
- It's been one heck of a ride.
I still hear my mother, and I feel her.
And I don't know that that will ever change.
♪ ♪
It's not the way the story was supposed to end.
[gentle music]
♪ ♪
Time certainly helps you get to the sixth stage of grief,
which is finding meaning.
Singing the Judd music was so healing,
even moreso than I had anticipated.
Fans helped me to heal through a very deep and dark time.
♪ ♪
It was both hell and hallelujah.
♪ ♪
♪ Had a dream ♪
♪ About you, baby ♪
♪ Had a dream about me ♪
♪ And you ♪
♪ Had a dream ♪
I want a lemonade.
- I'm going to have to go with vanilla malt,
because that always goes with chicken biscuits.
And then, what am I drinking? You guys have lemonade?
Yes, we do. - Bingo. Boom.
- ♪ Oh, my heart, it just can't love ♪
♪ No one but Michigan ♪
[cheers and applause]
♪ But I'm high and dry and lonely ♪
[laughing] You guys are awesome.
You made my day.
♪ I was lonesome as can be ♪
♪ Oh, yes ♪
♪ And I stare out of my window ♪
She'll settle in a minute.
She's still wandering.
♪ And the weather's looking mighty grim ♪
♪ Oh my heart, it just can't love no one but you ♪
Is this really happening?
[vocalizing]
You need to calm down and lay down.