Wynonna Judd and Husband Cactus Moser ‘Fell in Love with Each Other All Over Again’ While Working on New Album (Exclusive)

Rachel DeSantis, Eric AnderssonThu, October 1, 2026 at 1:00 PM UTC

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Cactus Moser and Wynonna Judd in Austin, Texas in April 2023.Credit: Christopher Polk/GettyThe country star opens up about working on ‘The Hard Truth’ with Moser, her husband of 14 years -

Wynonna Judd says making her new album The Hard Truth with husband Cactus Moser reignited their connection after 14 years of marriage

Moser cowrote nine songs with Judd and produced the album, encouraging his wife to embrace vulnerability over perfectionism

Judd and Moser married in 2012 after decades of friendship

Music certainly has some special powers for Wynonna Judd and her husband Cactus Moser.

The country star, 62, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story that working on her deeply personal new album The Hard Truth (out Oct. 2) with Moser helped the pair find a new spark after 14 years of marriage.

“I think we fell in love with each other all over again because we had so many subjects that were so real that it forced us to go out on date night and talk about it. Communication is everything to me, and that album has brought us together in a way that’s so intimate here,” she says, pointing to her head. “Marriage is about more than just the physical, and so bonding through that music was so sacred.”

Judd and Moser, 69, cowrote nine of the album’s 10 tracks together, and he produced the record. Though they married in 2012, their friendship goes back decades, and the singer says that having trust in someone the way she does in Moser is invaluable to her creativity.

Wynonna Judd on the cover of PEOPLECredit: Cedrick Jones

For one, she struggles with being a perfectionist. But the encouragement she gets from Moser — with whom she is raising her 4-year-old granddaughter Kaliyah — helped her through.

“I’m always struggling through the insecurity of, ‘Oh gosh, I could have done that better,’” Judd says. “And he would say, ‘Absolutely not. That’s the most intimate I’ve heard you sing it. We’re going to leave it alone.’ ... We have a partnership that is just glorious.”

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She adds, “We have a partnership that is just glorious.”

Judd and Moser first met in 1989, when his band Highway 101 opened for the Judds on tour. The singer went on to marry and divorce twice before reconnecting with Moser, and they were engaged on Christmas Eve in 2011.

Wynonna Judd and husband Cactus Moser in Nashville in 2023Credit: Todd Williamson/NBC via Getty

Judd describes her new record as “raw and real,” and the album covers everything from visiting her daughter Grace in jail to her late mother, Naomi Judd.

“I feel an awful lot like I’m walking this really thin line that you can only get away with once in your lifetime. And it’s because I’m older,” she says. “I’m just starting to really come into myself in a way that I’ve never felt before. I just feel this honesty coming that helps me to propel into the next day. I just feel so free.”

For more on Wynonna Judd, pick up the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands everywhere Friday.

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