Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance
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Free Music Notes for I Hope You Dance
Free Music Review: The Best C.D. Ever!
Hit: 5 Stars
"I Hope You Dance" is the best country album ever made. It has already become a classic. Womack mesmerized audiences with her first two albums, "Lee Ann Womack" and "Some Things I Know", both of which showcased her beautiful voice and excellent song selection. She tops herself again with "I Hope You Dance". The title track was a smash hit and crossed over to pop radio. It's a beautiful song about wishing the best for someone. Womack sings about things that matter, and her material is often serious. However, she co-wrote "I Feel Like I'm Forgetting Something" and this is a great uptempo, lighthearted song. Womack does not choose cookie-cutter songs, she sings songs that have a message and express emotion. The opening track "The Healing Kind" is done very believably. An often overlooked track is "After I Fall", a beautiful ballad about falling in love with somebody without being afraid of how it will turn out. "I Know Why The River Runs" is the best song on the album, a lovely song about the loss of a lover. "Why They Call It Falling" is a clever song with a play on words and describes falling in love to falling out of love. "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger" is a catchy tune with a little attitude to balance out all the soft songs on the album. And last, but not least is "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good". A cover song that Lee Ann does wonderfully. This is Lee Ann Womack's best album so far. It still has the country roots, but also sounds fresh at the same time, a rarity in country music today.
Free Music Review: What Country Should Be Like
Hit: 5 Stars
While her colleagues either dip their toes in pop music or embrace it wholeheartedly, Lee Ann Womack keeps it country. Womack's third release, I HOPE YOU DANCE, finds her looking back to country's past, while keeping both feet firmly in the present.Womack's nod to those who came before includes terrific cover versions of two modern classics: Rodney Crowell's "Ashes By Now" and Don Williams' "Lord I Hope This Day Is Good," as well as guest harmonies by New Traditionalist Ricky Skaggs (on "The Healing Kind"). More subtly, her respect is obvious in the Bakersfield twang of "I Feel Like I'm Forgetting Something," the Appalachian harmonies of "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger," and the album's rootsy instrumentation. But Womack places herself squarely in modern-day country with the lovely, poetic title track, a country take on Bob Dylan's "Forever Young," with guest vocals by Sons Of The Desert. Another standout is "Stronger Than I Am," a beautifully crafted song about a divorcee who realizes her daughter has survived the ordeal much better than she has. The tasteful production highlights Womack's delicate voice which, unlike those of her colleagues, dispenses with histrionics in favor of real emotion. In a sea of country/pop fluff, I HOPE YOU DANCE is a true gem.
Free Music Review: I hope you dance
Hit: 5 Stars
Recently my 18 year old daughter lost one of her friends in a tragic car accident. I struggled for a way to offer her comfort and consolation. I found inspiration in the words to " I hope you dance" I thought I might share my letter in hopes that anyone who is looking for words to console someone about a loss of life may find them in a song about living life. Dear Jennifer,
I want to tell you how sorry I am for the loss of your friend Benny. I know that he was a very special friend and your loss is immeasurable. My heart is heavy with your sorrow. I wish that I could find words to make your pain go away but I know that only time has that healing power.
Recently I heard a beautiful song with very beautiful lyrics. It is a song about Life and the kind people who dare to embrace it to the fullest. This song reminds me of you. I think that it will also remind you of Benny because, in your own words, he was one of those "Very Special" people that you and I talk about.
I hope that whenever you hear this song or read the words, you will be reminded of the good times that you and he shared. As time passes the pain in your heart will be replace by the joy of having been his friend.
When you and Benny had the choice, you both "chose to dance" and you danced together.
I love you
Dad
Free Music Review: LEE ANN DELIVERS KNOCKOUT JUNIOR RELEASE
Hit: 5 Stars
Lee Ann Womack is without a doubt in the top three most talented vocalists in Nashville (along with Reba McEntire and an undecided third). She proved this to me with her first album, reinstated herself with her sophomore Some Things I Know, and now should convince the world with her third release, I Hope You Dance. Lee Ann brings the listener into the song with ballads like "The Healing Kind," the title track, "Stronger Than I Am," (the best song on the album), "I Know Why The River Runs," and "Lonely Too." She makes you want to dance with the rollicking "I Feel Like I'm Forgetting Something," and once again closes off an album with a religious track, "Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good." Other songs with original background music like "Ashes By Now" are catch, as well as "After I Fall." Lee Ann's clear soprano voice cuts through the air on tracks like "I Hope You Dance" and "Why They Call It Falling." Overall, as strong or stronger than the stone country masterpieces "Lee Ann Womack" and "Some Things I Know," this CD might bring Lee Ann onto center stage...finally.Free Music Review: why they call it singin'
Hit: 5 Stars
I remember the day my friend's young teenage daughter Lee Anne belted out a slightly off-key Karaoke version of her near namesake Lee Ann Womack's 'I Hope You Dance' and introduced me to this strong female Nashville voice. A quick trip to the music store later, I owned the DANCE cd, my first prolonged exposure to the somewhat more mainstream sound than is common both to previous and subsequent Womack offerings.
It's beautiful music, the critics be damned.
The title track gives durable counsel that nicely balances the countrified pathos of other songs, like the mellifluous and touching 'Stronger Than I Am'.
Truth is, there's not a mediocre track on this album, thanks to some solid if predictable accompaniment, witty writing, and Womack's ever agreeable voice.
Even songs that threaten to plod ('I Know Why the River Runs') come alive when the singer's crescendoing surge rises to meet the track laid down by the base and percussion. Each track comes alive in its own way.
Purists long for more twang. But this is solid, soulful, mainstream country.