Greatest Hits (CD)

Bursting onto the country scene in 1997 with the hit song "Never Again, Again," Lee Ann Womack upheld the classic Nashville standards of earlier generations, with an achey sob in her voice and songs of cheatin' and heartsickness. With each progressive album, Womack went slightly more pop, the commercial pinnacle being her sentimental 2000 hit, "I Hope You Dance," from the album of the same name. Nevertheless, by 2005, with the release of THERE'S MORE WHERE THAT CAME FROM, Womack seemed to be reverting back to the straight-up, Tammy Wynette-inspired sound that impressed critics and fans at the start of her career.

• Category:  Music  »  Country  »  Contemporary Country
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: May 4, 2004
• Label: MCA Nashville
• UPC: 602498615959
• WAPI (Tower ID): 106439375
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #11290 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #83751 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
• #117 in Contemporary Country (See Top 100 Contemporary Country Bestsellers)

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Personnel: Lee Ann Womack, Willie Nelson (vocals); B. James Lowry, Randy Scruggs (acoustic guitar); Brent Mason, Pat Buchanan (electric guitar); Aubrey Haynie, Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Steve Nathan (keyboards); Glen Worf (bass); Lonnie Wilson, Chad Cromwell (drums).

Producers include: Mark Wright, Lee Ann Womack, Matt Serletic, Frank Liddell, Byron Gallimore.

Recorded at Ocean Way, Essential Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.

To earn a greatest-hits compilation after only four albums (not counting a Christmas record that's unrepresented here), you have to make one hell of a splash on the music scene. That's exactly what Lee Ann Womack did between 1997 and this disc's '04 release. Hearing this sampler of Womack's albums, the sweet, angelic voice and solid songcraft jump out in equal measure. Perhaps of more historic importance, though, is the context. If Womack had appeared 10 or 15 years earlier, she would have seemed like a foreshadowing of country's pop-friendly future. After years of being inundated by Faith Hill and Shania Twain's disciples, however, Womack's amiable, relatively modest approach seems downright rootsy, with more ache and twang per bar than any Nashville assembly-line kewpie doll has in her entire catalog. From the lovelorn "The Fool" to the lighthearted romp "I'll Think of a Reason Later," GREATEST HITS shows Womack in her best light.

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