LEE ANN WOMACK > Call Me Crazy

For all of her pop accessibility, Lee Ann Womack is one of the star standard bearers of country music nobody can mistake for anything but the real deal.

Videos by American Songwriter

Label: MCA 
[Rating: 3]

For all of her pop accessibility, Lee Ann Womack is one of the star standard bearers of country music nobody can mistake for anything but the real deal. Her last outing, the rightly-acclaimed 2005 CMA Album of the Year, There’s More Where That Came From, ably reclaimed sounds of the modern generation of a full generation ago, and only increased expectations for what she might do next. The answer is a pretty straight-ahead collection of expertly-sung, hard country songs, mainly contemporary ballads that explore the world of women left lonely in smoky bars, marriages fixable, unfixable or fine, and loneliness of the various sorts (as the cut “I Think I Know” has it) that killed Keith Whitley, Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. The set includes a cover of Jim Lauderdale’s “The King of Broken Hearts,” a relatively light duet with George Strait, and four songs co-written by Lee Ann, including a killer “Have You Seen That Girl”-which refers to the bright-eyed one the singer used to be. That’s country-very good country.



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