Latest Release
- NOV 23, 2023
- 1 Song
- I Hope You Dance · 2000
- Some Things I Know · 1998
- Some Things I Know · 1998
- Lee Ann Womack · 1997
- The Great Divide · 2000
- There's More Where That Came From · 2005
- Call Me Crazy · 2008
- The Way I'm Livin' · 2014
- Pawn Shop · 2016
- Greatest Hits · 2000
Essential Albums
- The Way I’m Livin’ was made nearly six years after Lee Ann Womack’s previous studio album—2008’s Call Me Crazy—and it's clear that much has changed in her world. This is the sound of a refreshed artist who's more authentically country than ever. Womack’s husband, Frank Liddell, handles the production; he smartly fit his wife into his schedule, which has also included manning the boards for Miranda Lambert and The Pistol Annies. The two chose the best songs around, from songwriters such as Hayes Carll (“Chances Are”), Julie Miller (“Don’t Listen to the Wind”), Mindy Smith (“All His Saints”), and Neil Young (“Out on the Weekend”). Then they went about making them Womack’s own. As a superior singer, Womack has always had the ability to deliver a song with unfussy phrasings and sincere commitment. Liddell’s acoustic-based production gives Womack the room she needs while never pushing her to sing too hard. It’s as if the writers were composing with Womack in mind.
- From its song topics to arrangement choices, There’s More Where That Came From invokes the ambiance of 1970s country. Lee Ann Womack ventured this way before, though hits like “I Hope You Dance” nudged her in an adult pop direction. Here, she’s decidedly gone Old School Nashville, moving to leisurely tempos and wrapping herself in keening fiddles and mournful pedal steel guitars. Fortunately, she doesn’t recreate the country stylings of the Me Decade so much as find relevance in the best aspects of the era. Tunes like “I May Hate Myself In The Morning” and “Twenty Years And Two Husbands Ago” find Womack exploring classic country themes with a bedrock honesty and a survivor’s spirit. “When You Get To Me” lets her cut loose for a guitar-driven workout. More typical, though, are tear-stained reflections like “Painless” or the title tune. “Stubborn (Psalm 151)” closes the album with a touch of romantic grandeur. Womack’s Southern Everywoman warmth and aura of self-reliance comes through in these tracks. While not a radical departure, There’s More Where That Came From eases her away from standard-issue country hit-making and towards something more uniquely her own.
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About Lee Ann Womack
Country singer-songwriter Lee Ann Womack first fell in love with music as a child, when her father, a radio DJ, let her choose records to play on air. ∙ Tammy Wynette was so moved by Womack’s haunting vocals on the 1997 track “Never Again, Again” that she volunteered to write and record demos for her. ∙ Her signature hit, “I Hope You Dance,” won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Country Song and was included on the Recording Industry Association of America’s list of the Songs of the Century. ∙ In 2002, CMT ranked her among the 40 Greatest Women of Country Music. ∙ She won a Grammy Award in 2003 for her duet with childhood hero Willie Nelson on “Mendocino County Line,” a signature moment that she said she would cherish forever. ∙ With a sound that paid homage to classic country, her fifth LP, 2005’s There’s More Where That Came From, won the Country Music Association’s Album of the Year award. ∙ In 2018, Womack joined country luminaries Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire as a recipient of the ASCAP Golden Note Award in celebration of her extraordinary career.
- FROM
- Jacksonville, TX, United States
- BORN
- August 19, 1966
- GENRE
- Country