Lee ann womack, 'don't listen to the wind'

In 2014, after years as a chart-topping country star, Lee Ann Womack released _The Way I'm Livin'_ on an independent label. Having parted ways with MCA Nashville in 2012,

Womack's move to Sugar Hill Records signaled a musical transition. Critically hailed as one of her best albums, it reflected a more rootsy and traditionalist approach to music-making,

and sounded more like new-school Americana than old-school Nashville country. Nominated twice at this year's Americana Music Honors & Awards, Womack was embraced by a music

community that she had respected for a long time, but rarely resembled. This past May, Womack was interviewed on _World Cafe_ and performed songs from _The Way I'm Livin'_.

"I'm making more of the kind of music that I really love," Womack told host David Dye, referring to the inspiration she'd found in the work of Americana

singer-songwriters such as Jim Lauderdale, Lucinda Williams and Buddy and Julie Miller. Sounding far removed from the crossover country-pop of her huge 2000 hit "I Hope You Dance,"

Womack performed the shimmering "Don't Listen To The Wind," a song written by Julie Miller, at the 2015 Americana Music Honors & Awards ceremony. Copyright 2021 XPN. To

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