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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.
Canter Bridge 
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