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| Call Me Crazy | 
 enlarge | Artist: Lee Ann Womack
Label: Mca Nashville
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 983
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.2
MPN: 000602502
UPC: 602498889596
EAN: 0602498889596
ASIN: B000N0QVEQ
Release Date: October 21, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Last Call | | • | Either Way | | • | Solitary Thinkin' | | • | New Again | | • | I Found It In You | | • | Have You Seen That Girl | | • | The Bees | | • | I Think I Know | | • | If These Walls Could Talk | | • | Everything But Quits | | • | The King Of Broken Hearts | | • | The Story Of My Life |
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Album Description
MCA Nashville will officially released Lee Ann Womack's new single "Last Call", to radio June 30. Her highly-anticipated seventh album, produced by Tony Brown and titled Call Me Crazy, will debut this Fall. "I'm so fired up to be back doing what I feel like I was born to do, which is making country music," said Womack. "The time I spent writing, looking for songs, and meeting with Tony felt so effortless and natural." "One of my favorite things when making a record is working with some of the best singers and musicians in the world...it was so fun to have some of them work on this project." Four of the twelve tracks are co-written by Womack and fans will discover two other very well-known male voices accompanying the songstress, including Keith Urban and George Strait. Last time Womack and Strait collaborated was for "Good News, Bad News", which earned them a Country Music Association award for "Musical Event of the Year."
Album Description
Lee Ann Womack's seventh album Call Me Crazy is her most impressive outing to date in a career full of great music. Lee Ann's youthful desire to sing was fulfilled and the lessons she learned from Tammy, George and other Country icons who captivated her as a child come through loud and clear on Call Me Crazy, Simply put, the collection of songs, the exquisite production and the sheer artistry of Lee Ann's straight-from-the-heart vocals, whether powerful, vulnerable, achingly sad or joyful, combine to make this one stunning album.
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Call Me Impressed! October 24, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Three years is a long time to wait for new music from any vocalist. Many careers are made and quickly fade in that span of time. Sometimes too, the anticipation for something new doesn't always live up to one's expectations. Lee Ann Womack's Call Me Crazy manages to meet and exceed any and all expectations ten-fold. This could well be the finest album of her decade-and-a-half long career.
Indeed from the opening bars of her current hit single, Last Call, it's apparent that three years to recharge and refocus did Ms. Womack a world of good. Her voice is exquisitely lush and pure, proving that like fine wine, some things... even those that need no improving... DO improve with time. She's truly never sounded better, or more inspired than she does on this album. Her phrasing is impeccable. Her rhythm panache shows a skill and playfulness. Without a doubt, this is a fun album to listen to! Never over-powering, or over-bearing. Not in your face, but subtle. It's as easy on the ears as Lee Ann is on the eyes. And in addition to never sounding better, she's never looked better; sporting a newly svelte figure that I'm sure would be the envy of women half her age. Compile a list of country music's most beautiful women, and Lee Ann Womack is a must-include near the top. In a bold move, the front cover pose teasingly reveals just her gorgeous gams... and nothing else! The back cover pose more than makes up for the omission of seeing her pretty face under the album title. It showcases what a true beauty this country songbird really is!
The songs are all first rate, including four of the twelve (New Again, Have You Seen That Girl, If These Walls Could Talk, and Everything But Quits), which were co-written by Womack herself, showcasing yet another of her many talents. She is an eloquent writer and masterful storyteller. On Everything But Quits, the LAW is joined by one of her.... and all of country music's.... heroes, the legendary George Strait. Strait is an ageless troubadour, to borrow the title of his latest single. His style, his charm, and his talent transcend time. He was great twenty-five years ago and is even better today. Lee Ann was fortunate to have him grace her album with his presence. Their voices blend beautifully, and the lush string section on this song is reminiscent of the 1960's pop/country sounds of Eddie Arnold and Ray Price.
But not to leave George alone in the vocal collaboration department (of which Everything But Quits should win top honors at the CMA's), Lee Ann Womack corralled yet another country hunk, Keith Urban, to sing back-up vocals with her on The Bees, a song that grabs your attention instantly with its sensuous thumping bass /drum beat. This song literally begs for a music video, and would surely be a hit on CMT and GAC.
Bottom line is this; if you've never experienced the magic of Lee Ann Womack's angelic voice, Call Me Crazy is a great place to start. A true artist in every sense of the word, Ms. Womack stays respectful to traditional country, while retaining a current and contemporary sound. Her talent is a rare commodity, and one worth celebrating and enjoying. Give this album a chance and pop it into your CD player. I guarantee you'll be pleasantly surprised at what you hear! A+
The best country record since Lee Ann Womack's last record October 22, 2008
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
If, like I, you worship the voice of Lee Ann Womack, you took the afternoon off on Tuesday to race to the record store, and you've already played it twelve times and think it's the best album ever made. If you are simple and have no taste, the Shania Twain section is to the left.
Married, 2 kids and a great cd October 21, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I will have to comend Lee Ann on this recent cd Call Me Crazy. Last Call (6), Either way (4), Solitary Thinkin (5), New Again (4), I Found It In You (10), Have You Seen That Girl (5), The Bees (3.5), I think I Know (4), If These Walls Could Talk ( 5), Everything But Quits duet George Strait (6), The King Of Broken Hearts (5) The Story Of My Life (10). I hope this cd does well and most treasured for me to listen to will be The Story Of My Life (20), tears from The King Of Broken Hearts and of course Last Call. The Bees was the only song I rated as a low grade because it was a slower type song. Still trying to figure out my life and what to do with it but Everything But Quits might be an option. Im glad I purchased and will certainly enjoy and listen to over and over. Truly reccomend.
Womack's CD: Call Us Satisfied October 21, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Prime Cuts: Last Call, Everything But Quits (with George Strait), New Again
Lee Ann Womack does not just sing she creates. Assaying lyrically eloquent tales, Womack puts on display (via these songs) three dimensional characters who pulsate with red-blooded emotions just like each of us. Whether it's the emotionally dented woman (of "New Again") or the lonely tavern patron sitting alone with jukebox ("Solitary Thinking") or the distraught doormat who has reached her emotional dead end ("Last Call"), these are deftly painted stories with narratives that ought to resonate with anyone who has had been experience with the various permutations of love's entanglements. Teaming up again with hit producer Tony Brown (Vince Gill, Brooks and Dunn, Reba McEntire and George Strait) "Call Me Crazy" continues her honky-tonk-inspired country direction paved by her previous effort "There's More Where That Came from."
Talk about stories with a twist: lead single "Last Call" is most telling. With the accompaniment of surging, anguished twang and moan of guitars, steel and fiddle, "The Last Call" narrates the tortured story of a woman who finally made her last call on her man who always treated her as his last call. Also, check out the barely devastation she summons on "If These Walls Could Speak" a deliberate tale of love that has run its course. As the pedal steel moans with ascending ache, Womack offers up the deeply lonesome ballad "Solitary Thinkin'," in which she sits alone in a smoky bar with the jukebox ruminating about her heartache. Pain has never sounded so good.
Nevertheless, Womack does not leave us in total depravity: on the hopeful "New Again," with carefully nursed lines and a gorgeous tune, she offers hope for the emotionally scarred with that special someone who can make us whole again. The Dean Dillon co-write "Everything But Quits" finds Womack teaming up with label mate George Strait again. Befitting to the overwhelming status of the two superstars, "Everything But Quits" is one of the country's brightest spots beaming with encouraging lines over a slow heart-felt melody. With echoes of her big hit "I Hope You Dance," the gorgeous string-laden ballad "The Story of My Life" is a heartfelt advisory to embrace the poetry of life.
If there's any criticism it's that there are far too many ballads and the uptempo numbers do not stand up as well relative to the slowies, with the exception being Womack's cover of Jim Lauderdale's "King of Broken Hearts." Formerly cut by George Strait and also produced by Tony Brown, Womack could hardly go wrong with this infectious propulsive hit-to-be with its incessantly catchy hook. Overall, Womack has outdone herself this time: her nuanced and sensitive delivery add dimensions to these carefully chosen songs. With such a fine country record, call us satisfied.
Talent Trumps All November 2, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Disclosure. If you live in New Jersey and listen to country music chances are the windows remain rolled up tightly while you're driving. In the case of Lee Ann Womack this geographic bias does a grave disservice to a tremendous talent (It also doesn't help that the New York radio market hasn't fielded a country station for decades.)
Admittedly, I know very little about country as a genre and even less about Ms. Womack in particular, so stumbling across a few cuts on XM from her latest release, Call Me Crazy left me wondering just who the woman is behind the pipes. After buying the disc (and rolling up the windows) what I quickly discovered is a remarkable voice that in one minute can whisper a room full of pathos and in the next can literally shred your speakers. When you set your prejudices aside, it is clear that in the case of Lee Ann Womack talent is her genetic trump card.
That said, this is clearly not a feel good record, finding Womack in constant turmoil about one disastrous relationship or another - with Last Call, Either Way and If These Walls Could Talk (among others) hard-wired into 911. In fact, these are just the type of toxic reflections that run-of-the-mill bad relationships must talk about when they want to feel better about themselves. Some of us call lawyers while others drown their conflicts in a bar. Both have their virtues.
All that aside, what allows this release to transcend the material's Soap Opry inclinations is Womack's seemingly limitless vocal range. Each song goes to a real place that is unfailingly powerful, honest and tough-minded. Country or not - there's always room for that - even in New Jersey.
Highly recommended!
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