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Instrumentalists include guitarists George Marinelli of Bruce Hornsby & the Range and Steuart Smith with Rosanne Cash; bass player Leland Sklar, who has worked with Phil Collins; and mandolinist Sam... The farewell processional of The Judds, which has extended through most of 1991, has been one of the more protracted professional departures ever masterminded by shrewd management.Milking the last fan tear and audience dollar out of a tragic situation, it has transformed the pain of private heartache into a profusion of newspaper and magazine headlines, concert attendance records and, doubtless, handsome financial rewards.Naomi Judd-whose autobiography, "Love Can Build a Bridge," is sailing along on The New York Times non-fiction bestseller list-implies that she finds her successful fight against chronic liver disease to be much in keeping with her personal history.

Until Naomi Judd's chronic hepatitis doomed The Judds' touring act in 1991, daughter Wynonna regularly fielded journalists' questions as to why she didn't leave her mother and go solo.

She eventually got "so mad when these guys would ask me that," recalls the outspoken redhead, that she would counter with a suggestion that they divest themselves of a manly private part of their anatomy.

Laughing, she follows with a soothing mimicry of Naomi-like tact: "`Now, Wynonna, don't be disrespectful.

Look for women to head the new release list in the month of May.

The big news is the May 18 scheduled release of Janet Jackson's debut on the Virgin label.