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01) Something Worth Leaving Behind (single cut)
02) I Saw Your Light
03) When Your Gonna Run to Me
04) Talk to Me
05) Forever Everyday
06) Orphain Train
07) I Need You
08) You Should've Lied
09) He'll Be Back
10) Surrender
11) Blame It on Me
12) Closing the Memory Down
13) Something Worth Leaving Behind (album cut)
01) Something Worth Leaving Behind (single cut)
02) I Saw Your Light
03) When Your Gonna Run to Me
04) Talk to Me
05) Forever Everyday
06) Orphain Train
07) I Need You
08) You Should've Lied
09) He'll Be Back
10) Surrender
11) Blame It on Me
12) Closing the Memory Down
13) Something Worth Leaving Behind (album cut)
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Something Worth Leaving Behind is the fourth studio album from Lee Ann Womack, released in 2002. It peaked on the Billboard 200 at #16 and the Top Country Albums at #2. Two singles were released from the album; the title-track (a Top 20 hit) and "Forever Everyday". This was also the first album of Womack's career not to produce a Top Ten country hit.
Background
Womack told The Early Show "It's very much in line with my last three. This is my fourth project. You know, I have the real traditional country songs on there, and then I have some things that are a little more contemporary and up-tempo. And--and, but I--you know, I try to find songs from the best songwriters that I can." Womack told Billboard, "Every album seems critical when you are making it. I have a lot of confidence in my team. You can't predict commercially what an album is going to do. I just have to make the best music I can and move on. I've never, ever felt like in my career that everything hinges on the next single. I don't worry about it."
In 2005, Womack told The Dallas Morning News, "I didn't have that much fun making Something Worth Leaving Behind. Now that I look back on it, because of the success that I had prior, I was so worried that I was gonna not measure up to that, that I over-thought everything on that record. I tried...to please everybody with that record...myself, radio, the listeners, everybody who loved 'Never Again, Again' and everybody who loved 'I Hope You Dance.' And it just didn't work. It backfired."
Tim Perry of The Independent wrote, "Following such an album is a hard task, but someone of her newfound stature can avail herself of the best songwriters. This is solid, radio-friendly stuff. Brian Mansfield of USA Today listed it as the tenth worst album of 2002 and wrote, "Womack's ill-advised crossover ploy and a makeover that made her look like Britney Spears' mother made one of Nashville's most respected singers the butt of jokes." Michael Paoletta of Billboard wrote, "Womack is brilliant vocalist who is at a career crossroads; here's hoping she leans toward substance over style." Ralph Novak of People Magazine gave the album a mixed review and wrote, " Womack's voice, which can trickle off and become a wan instrument, gains noticeably in vigor when she approaches more energetic material."
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There are at least two categories of disappointment. You can want one thing but get another. Or you can get what you want but still want it to be...better. Something Worth Leaving Behind, Lee Ann Womack's highly anticipated follow-up to the phenomenal I Hope You Dance, falls into both categories. Womack is one of contemporary country's best singers, a claim she'd already proven when "I Hope You Dance" became the soundtrack for graduations and birth announcements across the heartland. That signature record inspired such spontaneous adulation that, eventually, an I Hope You Dance book became a New York Times bestseller. Womack's encore is built around a title track that expects to scratch, and to cash in upon, the same transcendent itch. Indeed, the Something Worth Leaving Behind campaign -- the album, which begins and ends with versions of the title song, and its tie-in book -- hit stores all on the same day. But the new song isn't worth a brand. "I Hope You Dance" was a deceptively simple record; its hopeful lyrics were set amidst an arrangement brooding and bittersweet enough to underscore why hope is necessary. By contrast, "Something Worth Leaving Behind", a paean to the value of lives lived outside the spotlight, is simply simple-minded. Songwriters Brett Beavers and Tom Douglas not only conclude, against all evidence, that Elvis had to die to be famous; they also lump King Midas and Jesus Christ into the same verse -- a grouping that either mistakes Midas for a real man or confuses Jesus with a mythological figure. Succeeding songs fail just as miserably to repeat earlier successes. For instance, "Forever Everyday" (the new album's attempt at a "Stronger Than I Am") mourns the adult loss of childlike wonder in a series of "precious moments" vignettes. And even when Womack and her co-producers choose intelligent songs, such as Julie Miller's "I Need You", they bury them in busy, noisy, and, worst of all, generic pop and classic-rock arrangements. ("Nice cock-rock guitar," my wife yells from the kitchen.) With hushed pop bluegrass and comparatively spare uptempo country-rock, I Hope You Dance balanced perfectly the demand for both older and newer country sounds. Something Worth Leaving Behind abandons that unique strength even as it embraces subpar repetitions of the crossover move that made Womack famous. The results, no matter which side of the pop-twang divide you're on, will likely be very disappointing.
CREDIT: http://nodepression.com/album-review/lee-ann-womack-something-worth-leaving-behind
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Something Worth Leaving Behind is the fourth studio album from Lee Ann Womack, released in 2002. It peaked on the Billboard 200 at #16 and the Top Country Albums at #2. Two singles were released from the album; the title-track (a Top 20 hit) and "Forever Everyday". This was also the first album of Womack's career not to produce a Top Ten country hit.
Background
Womack told The Early Show "It's very much in line with my last three. This is my fourth project. You know, I have the real traditional country songs on there, and then I have some things that are a little more contemporary and up-tempo. And--and, but I--you know, I try to find songs from the best songwriters that I can." Womack told Billboard, "Every album seems critical when you are making it. I have a lot of confidence in my team. You can't predict commercially what an album is going to do. I just have to make the best music I can and move on. I've never, ever felt like in my career that everything hinges on the next single. I don't worry about it."
In 2005, Womack told The Dallas Morning News, "I didn't have that much fun making Something Worth Leaving Behind. Now that I look back on it, because of the success that I had prior, I was so worried that I was gonna not measure up to that, that I over-thought everything on that record. I tried...to please everybody with that record...myself, radio, the listeners, everybody who loved 'Never Again, Again' and everybody who loved 'I Hope You Dance.' And it just didn't work. It backfired."
Tim Perry of The Independent wrote, "Following such an album is a hard task, but someone of her newfound stature can avail herself of the best songwriters. This is solid, radio-friendly stuff. Brian Mansfield of USA Today listed it as the tenth worst album of 2002 and wrote, "Womack's ill-advised crossover ploy and a makeover that made her look like Britney Spears' mother made one of Nashville's most respected singers the butt of jokes." Michael Paoletta of Billboard wrote, "Womack is brilliant vocalist who is at a career crossroads; here's hoping she leans toward substance over style." Ralph Novak of People Magazine gave the album a mixed review and wrote, " Womack's voice, which can trickle off and become a wan instrument, gains noticeably in vigor when she approaches more energetic material."
User Album Review
There are at least two categories of disappointment. You can want one thing but get another. Or you can get what you want but still want it to be...better. Something Worth Leaving Behind, Lee Ann Womack's highly anticipated follow-up to the phenomenal I Hope You Dance, falls into both categories. Womack is one of contemporary country's best singers, a claim she'd already proven when "I Hope You Dance" became the soundtrack for graduations and birth announcements across the heartland. That signature record inspired such spontaneous adulation that, eventually, an I Hope You Dance book became a New York Times bestseller. Womack's encore is built around a title track that expects to scratch, and to cash in upon, the same transcendent itch. Indeed, the Something Worth Leaving Behind campaign -- the album, which begins and ends with versions of the title song, and its tie-in book -- hit stores all on the same day. But the new song isn't worth a brand. "I Hope You Dance" was a deceptively simple record; its hopeful lyrics were set amidst an arrangement brooding and bittersweet enough to underscore why hope is necessary. By contrast, "Something Worth Leaving Behind", a paean to the value of lives lived outside the spotlight, is simply simple-minded. Songwriters Brett Beavers and Tom Douglas not only conclude, against all evidence, that Elvis had to die to be famous; they also lump King Midas and Jesus Christ into the same verse -- a grouping that either mistakes Midas for a real man or confuses Jesus with a mythological figure. Succeeding songs fail just as miserably to repeat earlier successes. For instance, "Forever Everyday" (the new album's attempt at a "Stronger Than I Am") mourns the adult loss of childlike wonder in a series of "precious moments" vignettes. And even when Womack and her co-producers choose intelligent songs, such as Julie Miller's "I Need You", they bury them in busy, noisy, and, worst of all, generic pop and classic-rock arrangements. ("Nice cock-rock guitar," my wife yells from the kitchen.) With hushed pop bluegrass and comparatively spare uptempo country-rock, I Hope You Dance balanced perfectly the demand for both older and newer country sounds. Something Worth Leaving Behind abandons that unique strength even as it embraces subpar repetitions of the crossover move that made Womack famous. The results, no matter which side of the pop-twang divide you're on, will likely be very disappointing.
CREDIT: http://nodepression.com/album-review/lee-ann-womack-something-worth-leaving-behind
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