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Remember When the Judds Played Their ‘Final Show’?

The Judds performed what was billed as the final show of their career together on Dec. 4, 1991, but that was far from the end of the line for the mother-daughter country duo.

The duo of mother Naomi and daughter Wynonna Judd launched their career in 1983 with the release of "Had a Dream (For the Heart), and by 1990 they had built a career that had landed them a string of 14 No. 1 hits, including "Mama He's Crazy," "Girls' Night Out," "Have Mercy," "Love Is Alive," "Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout the Good Old Days)" and more. On Oct. 17, 1990, Naomi Judd dropped the bombshell news that she was retiring at the age of 44 due to being diagnosed with Hepatitis C, a disease that affects the liver and can cause potentially life-threatening side effects.

The Judds decided to say goodbye to their fans with a Farewell Tour in 1991, culminating in a date on Dec. 4 at the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., that was filmed for a TV special titled The Judds: Their Final Concert . The special performance includes appearances from Carl Perkins, Reba McEntire and Larry Gatlin, and features an emotional moment in which Naomi urges Wynonna, who had already announced her intention to launch a solo career, to "go toward the light" as she takes her own path forward.

That proved to not be the last the fans saw of the Judds. While Wynonna continued into a successful solo career that placed a series of hits including "No One Else on Earth," "She Is His Only Need" and "I Saw the Light," Naomi became a spokesperson for the American Liver Foundation, and she also founded the Naomi Judd Education and Research Fund, providing education about and support for Hepatitis C.

Naomi was healthy enough to return to the stage for a Judds New Year's Eve concert in Phoenix, Ariz, in 1999, and the Judds subsequently reunited for the Power to Change Tour in 2000, followed in 2010 for what they again said would be their final tour, the Last Encore Tour. They reunited again in 2015, performing a nine-show residency called Girls Night Out at the Venetian in Las Vegas. In 2021, they were revealed as new Country Music Hall of Fame inductees. 

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A Look Back At The Judds’ Farewell Concert TV Special From 1991

The other week, I was on the phone with my dad talking about the Judds and his interactions with them on Music Row.

We were talking about the upcoming tour and how tragic the loss of Naomi is still affecting him. My dad was fortunate enough to work with Naomi for a short stint and always shares fun stories of her and the Judds duo.

Since that conversation, I have been having the Judds heavily on my music rotation.

My YouTube suggested clearly picking up on this trend of mine and suggested a video I had never seen….the Judds Farewell Concert, a TV special.

No doubt, I had to click on it.

The duo’s original farewell tour took place in 1991 after Naomi announced she was retiring at the age of 44. On the very last stop of this tour, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, at the Murphy Center, they set up to film a TV special to document the magic of the Judds.

After singing a few songs, Naomi addresses the crowd.

“ Tonight is sort of a celebration; I think of love, laughter, music, and life.”

She goes on to say that she broke into the Country Music Hall of Fame to break out the ‘party dress’ she was sporting that evening.

“I think Wynonna and I love country music more in this minute than the day that we discovered it because you all have allowed us the last 8 years not only to heal our relationship and become best friends, but I think you quite possibly saved my life.

So, this is a thank you and appreciation party for your love and support.”

  I’m holding back tears at this point.

After their note to the crowd, they go into “River of Time.”

  The hour-and-a-half show includes all of their fan favorites like “Mama, He’s Crazy,” “Have Mercy,” “Why Not Me,” “Love Is Alive,” and “Grandpa.”

As Wynonna is about to embark on what should have been the last tour of the Judds, now with some modifications due to the tragic passing of Naomi Judd,  it’s nice to look back and see the Judds for the talent and joy they brought their fans.

There will never be a mother-daughter duo like the Judds.

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December 4, 1991: The Judds Performed Their Final Concert

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On December 4, 1991, The Judds performed their final concert at the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, TN. In less than a decade, the mother-daughter country act charted 23 hit singles and won five Grammy Awards. With their perfectly harmonized voices, The Judds mellifluously melded together traditional country, bluegrass, Appalachian folk, pop, and rock sounds. As a result of their hardscrabble early years, The Judds wrote songs that appealed to many other women (and men) with similar small town, working class backgrounds.

The Judds’ origin story began with a teen pregnancy, years of perseverance and then serendipity. Naomi Judd was born Diana Ellen Judd in Ashland, KY on January 11, 1946. As an honor roll student and piano player at the local Baptist church, Judd shocked the town when she got pregnant at 17 by her boyfriend, Charles Jordan. She married Michael Cimenella and had her daughter Christina, who now goes by Wynonna Judd. After moving to Los Angeles, CA in 1968, Naomi had her second daughter, actress Ashley Judd. However, after her divorce from Michael in 1972, the single mother and her two daughters often lived off of welfare in order to make ends meet. In 1976, they moved back to Kentucky, lived in a mountain home without a phone or TV and started making music together.

In 1979, The Judds were serious about breaking into the country music scene, so they moved to Nashville, TN. While working as a nurse to pay the bills, Diana officially changed her name to Naomi and spent the rest of her free time tirelessly promoting their music to Nashville producers with a cassette tape in hand. Their first big break happened when Naomi discovered that one of her patients was the daughter of a major record producer. She convinced him to come over to their home and listen to them perform. He liked what he heard and the duo landed a record deal with RCA Records in 1983. Their debut single, “Mama He’s Crazy” (1984), skyrocketed straight to No. 1. After that, the duo had a run of eight consecutive chart-topping songs, including “Why Not Me” (1984), “Girls Night Out” (1985), “I Know Where You’re Going” (1987), and “Turn It Loose” (1988). Thanks to their multiple years of dominating the charts and country radio stations, The Judds became synonymous with the 1980s country sound. After releasing four more albums, including the platinum-selling “Rockin’ With Rhythm and Heartland,” Naomi was diagnosed with Hepatitis C, causing her to retire. After The Judds disbanded, Wynonna launched her successful solo career with her mother’s support. Although Naomi and Wynonna continue to have their fair share of rocky times together, their music always seems to bring them back together.

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News | JUDDS LAUNCH THEIR FAREWELL TOUR, LOOK TO FUTURE

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The Kentucky mother-and-daughter team are often credited with supplying the final irresistible shove that sent traditional folk-based mountain music, the stuff at the real root of country, back to center stage. They also, quite remarkably and rather unexpectedly, built a bridge that connected disparate audiences. Older country fans, long disenfranchised from Nashville, heard the echoes of favorites like the Louvin and Delmore Brothers (two of Naomi`s fondest influences) in the Judds` music. Younger fans, who thought country began with Hank Williams Jr., got an entertaining crash course in history. True-blue folkies who never expected anything ”real” to come out of Nashville changed their tune. Rockers began guiltily whispering to trusted friends that while they never listened to country, heaven forbid, they did sort of like the Judds.

The Judds` contributions to country seem far from over, but as anyone who has stood in a grocery checkout line or seen an entertainment publication in the last few months knows, they will come in a somewhat different form from now on. Naomi Judd, who is suffering from hepatitis, is semiretiring from music. Her condition has stabilized, but it restricts her activity level and leaves the rigors of touring simply out of the question.

A farewell tour under way now (the Judds play a soldout show Sunday at the Star Plaza) concludes Dec. 4 with a concert (and pay-per-view special)

from the Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The show should include a mix of past hits and selections from the Judds` last studio album, ”Love Can Build a Bridge.” (RCA also recently released a best-of set, ”The Judds Greatest Hits Volume Two.”)

Naomi, whose life and career have often seemed an object lesson in quiet determination, is hardly planning to meekly disappear from view. She will continue songwriting and is involved in a Judds biography currently being prepared. She may also do some work with the American Liver Foundation, which receives a portion of the proceeds from the pay-per-view concert special. Meanwhile daughter Wynonna has already begun work in Nashville on a new Tony Brown-produced solo debut. That album is tentatively scheduled for release in early 1992.

Other shows of note

The Mekons, Friday at Cabaret Metro: The Mekons exist in an odd twilight zone between punk, the Pogues and standard-issue cowpoke music. For some 13 years and through at least as many central and peripheral players, this unpolished gem of a U.K. band has cobbled together a strange melange of musical influences, fury at the state of the world and a surreal sense of humor. As the title of its latest, import-only album, ”The Curse of the Mekons,” suggests, the band seems to have a dark cloud perpetually hovering over its career. Its music has been the silver lining.

Soundgarden, Friday at the Vic: Soundgarden has been the salvation of guilty intellectuals with a predilection for hard rock. As alienated lyrically as it is big, crunchy and mean musically, Soundgarden has become one of the top purveyors of the so-called ”Seattle sound” and a hot item on the hip hard-rock scene. The new ”Badmotorfinger” album, a follow-up to

Soundgarden`s major-label debut and a series of well-received indie efforts, finds the band exploring more textured and adventurous territory.

Battlefield Band and Milladoiro, Friday at the Irish-American Heritage Center: Since first emerging during the traditional-Scottish-music revival of the `70s, Battlefield has become one of the foremost modern exponents of Celtic music. The band combines technical skill, a rich repertoire and the artful and subtle use of some modern ideas and instrumentation. Battlefield recently added two new members and released an album called ”New Spring.”

Milladoiro, which is appearing for the first time in the U.S., promises to be quite an ear-opening addition to this Celtic bill. The group specializes in Spanish Celtic music. Judging from a new U.S. debut, ”Castellum Honesti:

Celtic Music of Spain” on Green Linnet, Milladoiro`s Spanish style is more spacious, jazzy and otherworldly than the Celtic forms performed by its Scottish cousins.

Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band, Friday and Saturday at B.L.U.E.S. etcetera and Tuesday at B.L.U.E.S.: Unlike many of today`s zydeco wannabes, this Louisiana accordionist doesn`t make concessions to popular styles, beyond perhaps the occasional bit of lead electric guitar. But Carrier, who played with Terrance Simien before forming his own band two years ago, doesn`t really need to play that game. He and his band play a firm, frenetic brand of roots zydeco that moves along at a clip some speed-metal bands would be hard-pressed to match. Carrier has become something of a favorite on the club scene here and is back to celebrate a new album, ”Boogie Woogie Zydeco,” just out on Chicago`s Flying Fish label. Tuesday`s show will be the official record release party.

Richard Marx, Saturday at East Leyden High School in Franklin Park: The things some folks won`t do for a little publicity. To draw attention to his new album, ”Rush Street,” Marx is rushing around doing free concerts in five cities, including his old hometown, all in one day. He`s expected to hit East Leyden around 6:15 p.m., air-traffic control willing, and will do some new songs and few of the hits from his first two multiplatinum albums.

Bruce Cockburn and Sam Phillips, Saturday at the Riviera: With its rebellious and hedonistic stance, rock has always had a rather uneasy relationship with things spiritual. Few artists have successfully fused the iconoclastic mood and creative ferment of rock at its best with a concern for higher things. You`ve got two of today`s finest practitioners in this double bill. Canadian folk-rocker Cockburn`s concerns have made an articulate and impassioned voice for human rights and political issues in albums like the soon-to-be-reissued ”Dancing in the Dragon`s Jaws” and ”Stealing Fire” or his latest and 20th studio album, ”Nothing But a Burning Light.” Phillips, whose songs almost seem to glow with divine inspiration, takes a different path, exploring the darker recesses of culture and personality in brilliantly atypical pop-song structures.

The Buzzcocks, Poster Children and Carnival Art, Saturday at Cabaret Metro: More than almost any other band of its era, the Buzzcocks managed to make punk sound loud, fast and cuddly. A well-received reunion tour encouraged Pete Shelley and the rest of the gang to keep buzzing a bit longer and current shows should highlight new material the band hopes some label (hint, hint)

will find completely irresistible. Two promising alternative bands in a Pixies/Sonic Youth vein open-Champaign`s Poster Children, who were one of the hotter items at this year`s Midwest Music Conference, and L.A.`s Carnival Art, which recently made its Beggars Banquet debut with ”Thrumdrone.”

Hopefest, Sunday at Park West: Bo knows homelessness. For the second year in a row, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Bo Diddley brings his famous beat to town in a benefit for the Chicago Coalition of the Homeless. The coalition is an umbrella organization for groups and individuals working to address problems of homelessness and affordable housing in the city. All the performers are donating their time and talents. Along with Diddley, they include Buddy Miles, Valerie Wellington, Erwin Helfer, the Pearl Handle Blues Band, Katherine Davis, the Gospel Cavalcade, Dwayne Richardson and the Coalition Band.

Willis Alan Ramsey, Sunday at FitzGerald`s: On the strength of one beloved cult album (recently reissued), Ramsey has been regarded as one of the more impressive figures in the `70s Texas progressive-country scene. Coaxed back after a 20-year divorce from music by Lyle Lovett, he began work on a second album and started touring again. The show includes new material and some of the favorites Ramsey wrote and originally recorded like ”Muskrat Love” and ”Northeast Texas Women.”

Rickie Lee Jones, Tuesday at Park West: For some reason, songs and smells seem to have an instant and direct route back into the past. They tap memories and emotions we hardly knew existed in our minds. It is that tender and somewhat melancholy process, rather than an attempt, however purely motivated, to tag along on the current jazz nostalgia craze, that seems to be the motivating force behind ”Pop Pop,” a new album of acoustic standards from Jones. She seems to have struck some tender chords for fans with the project- this show is sold out.

Nanci Griffith, Thursday at Park West: On her earlier albums, the godmother of ”folkabilly” crafted a literate sound straddling the ground between folk, pop and progressive country. The lush orchestration on her latest album, ”Late Night Grande Hotel,” suggests Griffith is edging closer to adult contemporary music now, though her lyrical dissection of topics like homelessness or smug young Republicans is hardly typical easy-listening fare.

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THE JUDDS - THEIR FINAL CONCERT (1991) (HARD TO FIND)

On december 4, 1991, the judds - naomi and wynonna, the musical cinderellas from kentucky, gave their final concert performance as a duo. after seven years, fourteen country number one records, two double platinum, two platinum, four gold albums and countless awards, naomi and wynonna closed the curtain on their loving musical partnership with this moving performance.  this spectacular finale features all of their greatest hits as mother and daughter raise their voices together in beautiful harmony offering their signature blend of bluegrass, early rock, '40s jazz, and appalachian folk sounds for one last memorable event., songs performed: born to be blue - give a little love - mama, he's crazy - don't be cruel (with the jordanaires) -river of time - had a dream (for the heart) - rompin' stompin' bad news blues - guardian angel - the sweetest gift (a mother’s smile) - rockin' with the rhythm of the rain - maybe your baby's got the blues - have mercy - let me tell you about love (with carl perkins) - love is alive - turn it loose - change of heart - why not me - grandpa (tell me 'bout the good old days) - love can build a bridge (with the christ church choir). (104 min, full frame).

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Wynonna Judd to Recreate the Judds' 1991 Farewell Concert in a New TV Special: 'A Big Deal for Me'

To air on CMT next March, the show will feature an all-star bill of Judd's current tourmates, including Kelsea Ballerini, Brandi Carlile, Little Big Town, Martina McBride and Ashley McBryde

Just days after announcing "The Judds: The Final Tour" will expand to 15 more dates, Wynonna Judd has revealed yet more big news: She will be re-creating The Judds Farewell Concert — the now-legendary TV special that aired in 1991 — for national broadcast on CMT next March.

Judd has been bringing out other artists one at a time on her current tour, but tour-mates Ashley McBryde , Brandi Carlile, Kelsea Ballerini and Little Big Town will all be featured on the televised show, The Judds: Love is Alive — The Final Concert . Tour opener Martina McBride is also scheduled to join the cast, with additional guests to be announced.

The concert will be recorded next Thursday in the Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, the same arena where the original special was staged.

"This is a big, fat, hairy deal for me," Judd said during a news conference on Wednesday in a Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, restaurant not far from her home south of Nashville. "We are taking full advantage of the love and support."

She was referring, of course, to the overwhelming audience response that she's been experiencing since she hit the road on Sept. 30 with the tribute tour. It was originally planned as a final reunion for her and her mother, Naomi Judd . But after a long struggle with severe depression, the Judds matriarch lost her life to suicide on April 30, the day before the duo's induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Two weeks later, at her mother's public memorial celebration in Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, Judd announced she planned to honor the tour commitment .

At the news conference, Judd spoke at length about the crowd reactions at the concerts so far.

"I will tell you, as an artist, I've never experienced this kind of emotion at a show," she said. "They're singing so loud that I stand back from the microphone and just weep because there's a revival taking place. I think it's because of the death of Mom and also the life that I've had for 39 years on the road. The fans grew up with me and they're losing their parents and they're bringing their mothers. And it's just a chance for people to express themselves and, boy, are they! … I've done so many shows where I literally fall on my knees because the love is so strong."

The intensity of these moments, she said, has caused a whole swirl of reactions in her: "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 … It's a remarkable combination of joy and sorrow, pain and pleasure."

Judd said she's also experiencing the challenges of sharing the stage with her new partners.

Ballerini, the youngest on the tour at age 29, surprised Judd with her depth of knowledge of the Judds catalog.

"I'm passing the torch to Kelsea, who wasn't even born when a lot of my songs were out," Judd said, "and that's weird as heck. I'm looking at her and she's singing some of the deep cuts, and she knows the words and I'm going, whoa."

Judd also recalled a moment, during a duet with McBryde, when the younger artist decided to assert herself.

"Here comes Ashley McBryde, like 'get out of the way, I'm coming,'" Judd jovially recounted. "And [she] takes over your song and you take a step back and you're like, really? I admire [her] courage. She took over the song because she has known it for however many years and sung at karaoke, and she decided 'it's my turn.' And she took over and I let her. It's like the elderly dog letting the baby dog, the puppy, take the treat and not bite the puppy. I let her have the treat."

At another concert, Yearwood seized the moment of two powerhouse vocalists on the same stage, and she threw down the gauntlet.

"If she wasn't wearing a dress, I would've knocked Trisha down," Judd quipped. "She challenged me vocally, and it was a sing-off for a minute. It was amazing. … She got right in my face and I think we even touched bras. We got really connected and really sang, and it was amazing. It was almost as good as wrestling. I'm serious. It was a really good moment."

But who won the contest?

"She let me win because she backed up and bowed," Judd said. "It was my party!"

Tickets to The Judds: Love is Alive — The Final Concert are now on sale . The special, a collaboration between CMT and Sandbox Productions, is scheduled for airing in March 2023, the month after Judd closes the tour.

Part of the proceeds from the concert special will support the Tennessee affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness , the country's largest grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of people with serious mental illness and their families.

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Wynonna Judd has been having a hard time since Naomi Judd 's April death . ET's Rachel Smith spoke to the 58-year-old singer at Wednesday's CMA Awards in Nashville, Tennessee, and she opened up about how difficult it was to recreate The Judds' 1991 Farewell Tour for  The Judds: Love Is Alive  earlier this month.

The tribute concert, which will air on CMT in March, took place at the Murphy Center at Middle Tennessee State University, the same location where the mother-daughter duo performed their final show together decades earlier.

"They say that when you pass on that all these things flash through your mind. I got out of the car and I thought about my mom telling me what she told me that night and just the memories," Wynonna told ET. "... It was the past and the present and the future all in one night. It's painful as hell. I'm writing a song with my husband where I talk about [how] I'm somewhere between hell and hallelujah."

Wynonna said that continuing the tour that she and her mom had planned to embark on together has been both "really hard and therapeutic."

"It's interesting, the fans, I trust them and they trust me. We grew up together. The fans loved me so much. I feel elevated if that makes sense. I feel held and supported and loved," she said. "The music just takes me and pulls me forward. Find something that you love so much that you'll do it no matter what shape you're in, that's what I do every night." 

"I go in faith and just watch what happens and it's amazing," Wynonna added. "... I really don't know what I would do without music. I don't know that I could make it."

While Naomi's death by a self-inflicted gunshot wound is "beyond anything" Wynonna "could ever understand," the singer told ET that she has continued to "walk through it."

"I think it's courage just to show up and watch it and see what happens. I see people and I smile, and they love me, and I love them," she said. "... Grief and gratitude happen simultaneously on most days. I'm just an example of life after death. You just show up in whatever shape you're in. And here I am... I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere."

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