CD Review

Lee Ann Womack

There's More Where That Came From

 

 
 

Texas born Lee Ann Womack scores huge with her new CD “There’s More Where That Came From”.
This CD brings back that traditionalist style of country music that most artists seems to have forgotten about.
Just listen to the title song and you’re hooked by the first three strokes from the fiddle bow. The song has
all the elements of a classic old-fashioned country song. The story of loving, passion, cheating, heartache and
guilty pleasures all in the confines of a three minute and fifty-three second song.. The theme continues into the
album’s first single “I May Hate Myself In The Morning”.

As the album unfolds you realize this is a slice out of one woman’s life. Songs like “One’s a Couple”,
“Twenty-Two Years and Two Husbands Ago”, “Painless”, “He Ought to Know by Now” deal with the loneliness of a husband that’s gone and a woman getting older. This CD is full of lyrical imagery like “Looking in the bathroom mirror, putting my makeup on / Maybelline can’t hide the lines of time that’s gone /
I weighed 105 soak and wet / I’d knock ‘em dead in that sundress / Had it all, just too young to know / That
was twenty years and two husbands ago”, which gives the listener the reminiscent storytelling of Patsy, Tammy,
Dolly and company. The sometimes lush production by Byron Gallimore along with Lee Ann’s heartfelt voice
truly gives this album the nostalgic feel of forty years ago.

 

By Steven Sandick