After a platinum-selling self-titled debut and a gold follow-up with
Some Things I Know,
Lee Ann Womack just keeps getting better. Billboard calls it "a career record."
I Hope You Dance is one of the finest albums to hit country music post
Shania Twain.
Womack possesses such a sweet, melodious voice and its distinctiveness graces every one of the 12 tracks like they were chosen just for her vocals. But it's the album's title track, a dedication to
Womack's daughters (and featuring the Sons of the Desert) that will leave you feeling swept away. (Her daughters, Aubrie and Anna Lise, who were ages 9 and 1 [respectively] at the time, appear in the video with her.) "Don't let some hardened heart leave you bitter/When you come close to selling out, reconsider/Give the heavens above more than a passing glance/And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance." Listeners will undoubtedly dance to
I Hope You Dance. ~ Maria Konicki Dinoia