★★★★★
Over the course of her career, Lee Ann Womack has been praised for her traditional country vocal and songs. While she's been pretty successful with traditional minded country songs, Lee Ann has also recorded some more contemporary sounding tracks, one of which, "I Hope You Dance" has been her most successful single to date. While she didn't have a smash hit like that one on "There's More Where That came From," the traditionalists praised the album for its old-school sound...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Of all the divas Nashville has coughed up recently, Lee Ann Womack has to be the saddest?which easily makes her the most fascinating, particularly since her biggest hit was the ultra-uplift, seize-the-day, let's-all-cry-and-twirl-on-the-beach anthem "I Hope You Dance." So in 2005, when she snuck off to a dirty motel room for a liaison with trad country in There's More Where That Came From, it seemed like a genius move...
- www.villagevoice.com
2009-07-28
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Way more soulful than, you know, Trisha Yearwood ("Stronger Than I Am," "Why They Call It Falling").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
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- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Reclaiming female feistiness, which is as close as Nashville gets to feminism ("I'll Think of a Reason Later," "The Man Who Made My Mama Cry").
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Five years ago, Lee Ann Womack 'hoped people would dance' and they did—all the way to the cash registers. A couple years later she wanted them to 'leave something behind' and they did that too. Unfortunately it was her new album.
I Hope You Dance and Something Worth Leaving Behind illustrate the dicey boundaries country artists, especially women, face courting the pop market. After achieving crossover success, the obvious next step is to capitalize on the broader appeal. Country radio and the....
- www.pastemagazine.com
2009-06-17
★★★★★
Lee Ann Womack's third album, I Hope You Dance, finds the hypnotic middle between traditional and edgy contemporary country, mining just the right amount of bluegrass production values (keening fiddles, layered high-lonesome harmonies) to put the ache back into Nashville fare. With songs by Julie and Buddy Miller, Bruce Robison, and Bobbi Cryner, this is a triumph of musical integrity in a mainstream world.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
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