Started mastering today and, as you can imagine, it was a day of listening, listening and more listening. It's great, we have a handle on it, and I'm happy with the results so far, but we will spend the weekend listening again and tweaking. It's so much focus and thinking and making decisions about minutiae that most people will never notice... Is the kick drum too loud? Is there too much reverb on the vocal? Do we need a DIFFERENT reverb on the vocal? Do we need NO reverb on the vocal? Are the background vocals loud enough?

Such is life these days for Martina McBride the producer, artist and writer. Despite racking up 16 million in sales, 22 top 10 singles — including six number ones with crossover success in multiple genres — numerous CMA and ACM awards and a slew of national television appearances in her illustrious 15-year career, Martina continues to scale new artistic heights. Many performers might hesitate to tinker with such success, but not this one.