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| Smartin | Jul 14 2008, 09:12 AM Post #1 |
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Womack struggled with making new country album This fall, Lee Ann Womack will release Call Me Crazy, her first album in three years, and she says the long stretch between albums was a result of her struggles with a musical direction and the demands of being a working mother. Lee Ann, who has sold more than 6 million albums, is one of the most musically respected women in contemporary country music. Her last album, 2005's spectacular There's More Where That Came From, won the Country Music Association's Album of the Year, while "I May Hate Myself in the Morning" won Single of the Year. "Certainly after you win Album of the Year, there's going to be some pressure," she says. "I guess you put that on yourself, and I'm sure I've done that," she says. "I just don't want to let anybody down." She scaled back her work commitments, performing tour dates in 2006 but only a few private events in 2007, to spend more time with daughters Aubrey, 17, and Anna, 9. "It doesn't matter if you hire people to help you around the house. You still have that pull of needing to be home," she says. "And not only just needing to be in town, but mentally needing to be home and present. That was a big part of why I sort of stayed at home for a while." Musically, Lee Ann wasn't sure which direction she wanted to take. Her heart screams for pure, traditional country, and the critics adore her work in that area. But her most popular song was the pop-feeling country song "I Hope You Dance," and that's much of what country radio plays today. She's quick to note that her label, Universal Music Group, has encouraged her to make whatever kind of music she wants. "I don't know how to describe the struggle, except it gets frustrating sometimes. I think about so many things: about providing for the family and wanting to make everybody happy. I want to make everybody at the label happy and have success, and I want to make myself happy and play lots of real hard-core country music. Sometimes I start thinking about things too much." "I wasn't really sure what I was going to do," she says of her album. So her manager, Erv Woolsey, stepped in. "Erv finally said, 'I called Tony (Brown). Y'all are going in the studio.' Golly, I came to town wanting to make a record with Tony Brown, so I was thrilled. "When I had my first meeting with Tony, I just felt like he was going to help me. I felt like I cannot fail. I just felt like I was in good hands — not that I haven't been in the past. I've been fortunate enough to work with brilliant people. I've worked with (husband) Frank (Liddell), Mark Wright and Byron Gallimore, who are all brilliant. "For this record, and all the things that were going on in my head, and all the things that were weighing heavily on me, Tony took that away. "He really had a good handle on how to deal with me and where I was at the time. He let me be creative, but also helped me rein it in to get what was in my head on tape without floundering around too much." Folks at her label are enthused, and word is spreading that she's made another Album of the Year contender. She's released the album's first single, "Last Call," and will perform about 40 dates throughout the rest of 2008. "I'm just kind of getting my feet wet again, just trying to figure out where I fit in. Definitely I'm at a point in my life where I just want to be happy. I just want to do things that make me happy. "I really am a lot more relaxed, a lot more focused. A lot of the things that I worried about before just don't matter now." - http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080714/COLUMNIST0501/807140324 edit: just added url link (= ... Edited by Whoa-mack, Jul 14 2008, 01:27 PM.
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| Whoa-mack | Jul 14 2008, 01:16 PM Post #2 |
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Sweeeet. Great article. Thanks for posting Steve! . 40 dates? Wow! I know she's playing some with Alan Jackson.
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. 40 dates? Wow! I know she's playing some with Alan Jackson.
5:24 PM Jul 10
