Lee Ann Womack Talks About Grammy Nomination, New Music And The Way She’s Been Livin’

Best known for her hit singles, “I Hope You Dance”, “Last Call”, “Think of a Reason Later” and “Mendocino County Line”, Lee Ann Womack, along with her affective voice, has also acquired the 2015 Grammy Nominee for Best Country Album, ‘The Way I’m Livin’.

Who knew Lee Ann Womack and her newest album, ‘The Way I’m Livin’, would have racked up such significant critical acclaim, some of which being a Best Records of 2014 in all genres from Esquire, three appearances in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and RollingStone.com. Even The Los Angeles Times has been generous enough to mark the album as being “warm like a campfire on a chilly night.”

After spending several years as a professional songwriter, it is Womack’s turn to make it to the Top Ten on the country charts, and it all started with the release of her eponymous album in 1997. “I Hope You Dance” followed a few years later in the middle of 2000. “Something Worth Leaving Behind” was then released in 2002, which moved Womack into the country mainstream for good.

She has since earned two Grammy nominations, for Best Female Country Vocal Performance as well as “Something Worth Leaving Behind” and Best Vocal Collaboration (in the country genre) for her duet with Willie Nelson on “Mendocino County Line”.

In today’s country music world of faster, harder, louder…Lee Ann Womack wants something far more essential…just to be real. Strip away all the extras and get to the core of life, love and raw emotion, and what you will find are songs that still resonate it all to the stopping power of a hollow point bullet. Womack’s less-is-more approach to making music is also how she put together her latest LP, ‘The Way I’m Livin’.

“All I want to do,” the ‘return to tradition’ artist stated, “is follow my heart, and sing great songs. If people like it, or it’s something they’re looking for, all the better. It makes me really, really happy when music touches people.” Time Magazine describes her old-fashioned country sound that of “the clarity of a soul that realizes loss is a form of purification, a scraping away of false ideals and excess emotional baggage.”

The multi-talented star will also be performing in concert at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday, April 18th at 8 p.m. Joining Womack will be special guest Amanda Shires, a Texas-bred singer/songwriter-fiddler who has been compared to the likes of Emmylou Harris and Dolly Parton.

Womack is currently out on tour across the US. To see if she is coming to your hometown, check out her Website and to keep up with the way she’s been livin’, follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

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