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Lee Ann Womack began recording a sequel for MCA Nashville after 2008's Call Me Crazy, but none of its advance singles stuck, leading the singer to shift direction for her seventh studio album. This album didn't appear until 2014, not on Universal but on Sugar Hill/Welk, who picked up The Way I'm Livin', an album that effectively reboots her career. Produced by Frank Liddell -- Womack's husband but more notably the producer behind recent hit records by Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, David Nail, and the Eli Young Band -- The Way I'm Livin' finds the veteran singer intentionally abandoning the chart race for deeply felt intimacy. Womack didn't write any of the songs on The Way I'm Livin' -- a collection of writers ranging from Bruce Robison, Kenny Price, Julie Miller, and Mindy Smith to Hayes Carll and Neil Young bear credits -- but the material is so carefully selected, the album plays personally. Naturally, this is a testament to Womack's skills as a singer -- she's never been more nuanced, sliding into the lyrics, laying back sometimes, leaning into the lyrics elsewhere, all the twists giving the songs an earthiness that grounds the record -- but also to Liddell's lithe production, which never draws attention to itself. The Way I'm Livin' maintains an easy, mellow vibe but it contains plenty of sly, unexpected turns; the title track is dressed in sympathetic strings, "Chances Are" glides on a steamy Southern soul crawl, "Sleeping with the Devil" echoes with the memories of forgotten country classics. There's pleasure within the sounds Womack and Liddell make with their crack supporting musicians and the songs resonate emotionally, their themes of love, regret, and maturity enhancing each other. In that sense, The Way I'm Livin' plays like a classic album: it's a record where the sum is greater than the individual parts.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Brent Cobb, ComposerLyricist - Frank Liddell, Producer - Reed Foehl, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Mindy Smith, ComposerLyricist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Hayes Carll, ComposerLyricist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Adam Wright, ComposerLyricist - Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Chris Knight, ComposerLyricist - Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - David Leone, ComposerLyricist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - Julie Miller, ComposerLyricist - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Natalie Hemby, ComposerLyricist - Adam Hood, ComposerLyricist - Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Neil Young, ComposerLyricist - Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Bruce Robison, ComposerLyricist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Frank Liddell, Producer - Brennan Leigh Hulbert, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Bruce Robison, ComposerLyricist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
K. Price, ComposerLyricist - Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Frank Liddell, Producer
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Glenn Worf, Producer - CHUCK AINLAY, Producer - LEE ANN WOMACK, MainArtist - Frank Liddell, Producer - Mando Saenz, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
Album review
Lee Ann Womack began recording a sequel for MCA Nashville after 2008's Call Me Crazy, but none of its advance singles stuck, leading the singer to shift direction for her seventh studio album. This album didn't appear until 2014, not on Universal but on Sugar Hill/Welk, who picked up The Way I'm Livin', an album that effectively reboots her career. Produced by Frank Liddell -- Womack's husband but more notably the producer behind recent hit records by Miranda Lambert, Pistol Annies, David Nail, and the Eli Young Band -- The Way I'm Livin' finds the veteran singer intentionally abandoning the chart race for deeply felt intimacy. Womack didn't write any of the songs on The Way I'm Livin' -- a collection of writers ranging from Bruce Robison, Kenny Price, Julie Miller, and Mindy Smith to Hayes Carll and Neil Young bear credits -- but the material is so carefully selected, the album plays personally. Naturally, this is a testament to Womack's skills as a singer -- she's never been more nuanced, sliding into the lyrics, laying back sometimes, leaning into the lyrics elsewhere, all the twists giving the songs an earthiness that grounds the record -- but also to Liddell's lithe production, which never draws attention to itself. The Way I'm Livin' maintains an easy, mellow vibe but it contains plenty of sly, unexpected turns; the title track is dressed in sympathetic strings, "Chances Are" glides on a steamy Southern soul crawl, "Sleeping with the Devil" echoes with the memories of forgotten country classics. There's pleasure within the sounds Womack and Liddell make with their crack supporting musicians and the songs resonate emotionally, their themes of love, regret, and maturity enhancing each other. In that sense, The Way I'm Livin' plays like a classic album: it's a record where the sum is greater than the individual parts.
© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:46:10
- Main artists: Lee Ann Womack
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Concord Sugar Hill
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
© 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company ℗ 2014 Sugar Hill Records, A Welk Music Group Company
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