Songfacts®:

• Ten years after the release of her previous album, Wynonna & The Big Noise, Wynonna Judd returned with the 2026 album, The Hard Truth, which was written in the aftermath of her mom Naomi's suicide. On "Girl Who Could Sing," Wynonna reckons with a huge secret Naomi kept from her for years: The man who raised Wynonna wasn't her biological father. While she never got the chance to meet him, the belongings he left behind after his death inspired the song.
  
  "When they found him, they went through his stuff and they found a drawer full of clippings. And I told that to Cactus [Moser, husband/producer] and he said, 'That's a song.' So he wrote down, 'They found a drawer full of clippings,'" she told the Off The Record podcast.
  
  "And after that, it went from 'What the hell?' to 'Was I really ever your daughter or just a girl who could sing?' And the very beginning hooks you pretty quickly. 'I didn't know my daddy, I think he was proud.' And when I sing that, people are like, 'Oh my God, here we go.'"