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"Womack back to country and on top"; The Plain Dealer
Topic Started: Jun 21 2006, 07:25 PM (267 Views)
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Womack back to country and on top

By ROY CHURCH
Sunday, June 18, 2006 10:58 PM EDT

Lee Ann Womack has had her ups and downs since breaking onto the country music scene in 1997.

Having tried pop and discarded it to return to country, Womack will perform in the Honeywell Center's Ford Theater Sunday, June 25, at 7:30 p.m. It will be her second appearance in Wabash - the first coming in February of 2000.

Tickets at $38 (main floor and most of the balcony) and $18 (last few rows of the balcony) are on sale at the Honeywell box office or by calling 563-1102.

Eugenia's restaurant will serve a preconcert buffet beginning at 5:30 p.m. Reservations are recommended by calling 563-1102.

In 1997, Womack was named Top New Female Vocalist by the Academy of Country Music and she won the British Country Music Award for Best International Country Album of the Year.

The following year the American Music Association (ACM) named her Favorite New Country Artist.

Then in 2000 and 2001 she hit it big with "I Hope You Dance." In addition to singing the inspirational song on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" and making three appearances on "The Tonight Show" in less than a year, she won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Country Song.

In 2000, it also won her two Country Music Association (CMA) awards (Song of the Year and Single of the Year) and three ACM honors (Single of the Year, Song of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year).

In 2001, she also was named CMA's Female Vocalist of the Year and "I Hope You Dance" was named Billboard magazine's Adult Contemporary Song of the Year.

Her popularity and fame continued into 2002 when she teamed with country music icon Willie Nelson to win three awards for "Mendocino County Line." The duet earned Womack and Nelson a Grammy for Country Vocal Event of the Year, CMA's Vocal Event of the Year and ACM's Vocal Event of the Year.

The I Hope You Dance album was Certified Triple Platinum, her first album, entitled Lee Ann Womack was Certified Platinum and Some Things I Know was Certified Gold.

Then she hit a drought. There were not even nominations in 2003 or 2004.

The year 2005, however, was a totally different story.

The headline on The Associated Press story following the 2005 CMA award show in New York City was "Lee Ann Womack is queen of CMA awards."

The night's big winner, Womack took home three awards - Single of the Year, Album of the Year and Musical Event of the Year, an award she shared with the legendary George Strait.

The single was "I May Hate Myself in the Morning," the album was entitled "There's More Where That Came From" and the musical event was a duet entitled "Good News, Bad News."

Womack and Brad Paisley came to the show with the most nominations (six apiece), but Paisley went home empty-handed.

The Associated Press story said Womack's latest album "marked her return to more traditional country music after a detour through pop-infused material."

She said she hoped her wins "would encourage more of her kind of country music.

"'Sometimes I think we are scared of real country music, but a message like what was in that song ("I May Hate Myself") , that transcends any boundaries, and a great song is a great song.'"

When Womack appears in Wabash it will be her fourth show in four nights. On June 22 she will appear at Country Fest Minnesota in Turtle River, Minn. The following day she will be in Hankinson, N.D., at the Dakota Magic Casino. On Saturday, June 24, she will be in Cadott, Wis., at Country Fest 2006.

Womack, now 39, started singing where most singers get started - in church. Having grown up in Texas, she went to Nashville when she was 17.

Three weeks ago when the Wabash Plain Dealer caught up with her, she was in a recording studio working on her latest CD. Still unnamed, it is scheduled to come out this fall.

"All the songs (on the CD) are new," she told the Plain Dealer. "Some of them I wrote; the rest were written by my songwriting friends."

What can Wabash concert-goers expect to hear?

"All the hits," Womack said, "and some songs from the new album."

She'll bring with her her own seven-piece band and her daughter, Aubrie, 15, one of her backup singers.

Shilo, a country western band, will open for Womack. The band performed June 15 on the Honeywell Center's outdoor plaza as part of Jammin' in June.

Sponsors for the Womack concert are American Trust Federal Savings Bank, Peru, and Martin Yale Industries, Wabash. The media sponsor is WWKI (100.5), Kokomo.
-CF
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