Call Me Crazy
| Lee Ann Womack
Call Me Crazy
Call Me Crazy is the seventh studio album by country music singer Lee Ann Womack, released on October 21, 2008 via MCA Nashville Records. It is her first studio release in three years, as her previous album (2006's Finding My Way Back Home) was not released. The lead-off single to this album is "Last Call" which in late 2008 became Womack's first Top 20 country hit in three years. The album's second single, "Solitary Thinkin", was released in April 2009 and reached the Top 40 of the country charts, peaking at #39 in June 2009. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Country Album on December 2, 2009.-Wikipedia
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Slant Magazine
There is little lingering doubt as to Womack’s talent, so Crazy doesn’t prove any new points regarding her strengths as a hard-country vocalist.
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American Song Writer
For all of her pop accessibility, Lee Ann Womack is one of the star standard bearers of country music nobody can mistake for anything but the real deal.
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Houston Press
Lee Ann Womack Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Solitary Thinkin'" Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for "Everything But Quits" with George Strait Best Country Album for Call Me Crazy.
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My Kind Of Country
I bought Lee Ann’s album, Call Me Crazy, when it came out in October. It had a little sticker on it which said “Including the hits ‘Last Call’, ‘Solitary Thinkin’ ‘ and ‘Everything But Quits’!” After that, I knew that it was highly possible that “Solitary Thinkin’ ” would be a single. It just has this relaxed feel, which is so effective that it made me forget my sinus headache- and it’s even a fun song to sing along to. It just has a lazy vibe – in a good way of course.
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Rolling Stone
Once again, Womack is all alone and headed for the bar. While we can't condone it, lonely and drowning her sorrows are a couple of the ways we like her best (on record, anyway). But rather than indulging in sadness and frustration, she seems resigned to the fact that downing a few glasses of the hard stuff will go down more smoothly than just giving up and moving on, at least until reality sets in. This slow-burning number, penned by singer-actor Waylon Payne (Walk the Line) gave Call Me Crazy one of its most powerful shots.
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Houston R
Lee Ann Womack Best Female Country Vocal Performance for "Solitary Thinkin'" Best Country Collaboration With Vocals for "Everything But Quits" with George Strait Best Country Album for Call Me Crazy.
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My Kind Of Country
I bought Lee Ann’s album, Call Me Crazy, when it came out in October. It had a little sticker on it which said “Including the hits ‘Last Call’, ‘Solitary Thinkin’ ‘ and ‘Everything But Quits’!” After that, I knew that it was highly possible that “Solitary Thinkin’ ” would be a single, and I was worried. A slow drinking song on radio? How will that ever work? Well after the success of “Last Call”, I felt better- that maybe radio would at least kind of accept this song, because it really is a great song.
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Rolling Stone
Once again, Womack is all alone and headed for the bar. While we can't condone it, lonely and drowning her sorrows are a couple of the ways we like her best (on record, anyway). But rather than indulging in sadness and frustration, she seems resigned to the fact that downing a few glasses of the hard stuff will go down more smoothly than just giving up and moving on, at least until reality sets in. This slow-burning number, penned by singer-actor Waylon Payne (Walk the Line) gave Call Me Crazy one of its most powerful shots.
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Country Music Alive
Lee Ann Womack’s newest album is her first since 2005. 3 years is a long time between albums, however, Call Me Crazy was worth the wait. Believe me. This isn’t just another country album. No way. You see, this album here is something special. It proves to me and so many others many things. First, country music as we know it is not dead. Second, you can create a true traditional country album and still maintain a contemporary sound. Third, Tony Brown is a master of producing a real-deal country album, and not just for George Strait.
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Country Standard Time
With Greatest Hits, Womack - country chanteuse extraordinaire - delivers again and again.
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All Music
Lee Ann Womack began recording a sequel for MCA Nashville after 2008's Call Me Crazy, but none of its advance singles stuck, leading the singer to shift direction for her seventh studio album. This album didn't appear until 2014, not on Universal but on Sugar Hill/Welk, who picked up The Way I'm Livin', an album that effectively reboots her career.
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Gazette Review
It wouldn’t be until 2008 that Womack would release her next album, after a three year hiatus. Entitled, Call Me Crazy, her seventh studio album was produced by Tony Brown and consisted of twelve songs including the title track, Last Call. Entering the Billboard Country Chart at number four and the Billboard 200 at number twenty-three, Call Me Crazy produced two singles, Solitary Thinkin’ and Last Call, the latter which would ultimately be the artist’s first top twenty hit in three years. Warmly received, the album was later nominated for a Grammy Award for the category of “Best Country Album” in December 2009.
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Pop Matters
Call Me Crazy is best when Womack conveys the understanding that we’re all sinners, when musically she doesn’t try too hard to isolate herself from the sins. After all, in the world of country music, sin is never that far away.
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Country Universe
Never before has she so deeply explored the darker shades of love and life with such a sense of misery and resignation. Indeed, some of the album’s best moments are also its most desperate. Lead single and opening track “Last Call” finds her ruminating that the only love she gets is when there’s whiskey on his breath, while “Have You Seen That Girl” has her mourning the bright-eyed and optimistic girl she used to be, and wondering, “Where along the way did I lose me?”
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Musicians Friend
Lee Ann Womack is undoubtedly a contemporary country poet. "Call Me Crazy" is her first album in three years, and it is shining evidence that Womack is one of the most important country music stars around. The opener, "Last Call," is a sad ballad about cheating, heartbreak and alcohol. "The Bees" has a heartfelt folksy melody, matched with an elaborate instrumental arrangement that's almost sci-fi. Then there's "The King of Broken Hearts," where Womack channels Dolly Parton, and "The Story of My Life," which is both an homage to early country music, as well as packed with modern elements. Finally, there's a duet with George Strait: "Everything but Quits."
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Last FM
Call Me Crazy is the sixth studio album released by country music singer Lee Ann Womack, released on October 21, 2008 via MCA Nashville Records. It is her first studio release in three years, as her previous album (2006's Finding My Way Back Home) was not released. The lead-off single to this album is "Last Call", which in mid-2008 became Womack's first Top 20 country hit in three years.
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Napster
It sounds like Lee Ann Womack was in an introspective mood for her seventh album, Call Me Crazy. Many of the songs are melancholic numbers about ending relationships ("Either Way," "Last Call"), identity crises ("Have You Seen That Girl") and feeling empty despite success ("I Think I Know"). But it's more self-examination than gloom and doom, and Womack's honeyed twang sounds at home on these soul-searching songs. Both "Everything But Quits" (with George Strait) and "If These Walls Could Talk" have a classic sound that remind you what country music used to sound like and are, along with the unconventionally catchy, "The Bees," highlights in this collection.
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Seattle Pi
Just when you thought she couldn't get any better, Lee Ann Womack surprises in a big way. "Call Me Crazy" is Womack's best album yet. While the set includes a pure country duet with hero George Strait and a cover of his "The King of Broken Hearts," Womack doesn't need Strait's formidable shoulders to lift her up. The haunting single "Last Call" is song-of-the-year material on a number of levels: songwriting, vocal performance and production. "Either Way," about a loveless marriage, is brilliant, and "Solitary Thinkin' " proves Womack has more soul than just about any other country female vocalist out there.
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Entertainment
This overdue follow-up Call Me Crazy brings in a new producer (Tony Brown) but has Lee Ann Womack in much the same traditionalist mode, sounding like a distaff version of George Jones at his finest. Even when she sings of emotional dead ends (”You can go or you can stay/I won’t love you either way”), defeat has never sounded so winsome.
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Texas Monthly
One of country music’s biggest stars walks away from the Nashville machine to sing the kind of songs she heard growing up in East Texas.
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CMT
She certainly doesn’t shy away from recording challenging songs. “Either Way” bluntly describes a marriage that’s over, although the household hasn’t splintered off just yet. Meanwhile, “The Bees” might make sense if you’ve read the book that inspired it, The Secret Life of Bees. But if you haven’t, the lyrics are a real head-scratcher. (She says it’s “for the listener to take however they want to. It’s not real literal. Everything doesn’t tie up real neatly.”) The melody, however, is hypnotic, and guest vocals from Keith Urban don’t hurt either.
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Country Central
Not only did Lee Ann’s album take a spot on my top 15 albums of the years for 2008, it was also highly praised throughout the remainder of the country music community. Four of the twelve tracks are co-written by Womack and fans will discover two other very well-known male voices accompanying the songstress, including Keith Urban and George Strait. Last time Womack and Strait collaborated was for “Good News, Bad News”, which earned them a Country Music Association award for “Musical Event of the Year.”
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Hip Online
Lee Ann’s youthful sadness is gone now, yet the lessons she learned from Tammy, George and other country-to-the-bone icons who captivated her as a child come through loud and clear on Call Me Crazy, her seventh and most impressive outing to date in a career full of great music. Simply put, the collection of songs, the exquisite production and the sheer artistry of Lee Ann’s straight-from-the-heart vocals—whether powerful, vulnerable, achingly sad or joyful—combine to make this one stunning album.
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One Country
Call Me Crazy in 2008— she demonstrated her longevity and penchant for succinctly-structured story songs and truth. “The Fool,” “The Man Who Made My Mama Cry,” “A Little Past Little Rock,” “A Man With 18 Wheels,” “I’ll Think Of A Reason Later,” “(Now You See Me) Now You Don’t” and “I May Hate Myself In The Morning” (just to name a handful) stand as some of her most remarkable recordings, but that’s only scratching the surface. Her catalog is one of the most diverse and inspiring to ever see the light of day and land in the history books.
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Tennessean
Country radio playlists changed, nothing from Womack's 2008 "Call Me Crazy" album charted in the Top 10, and by 2010, solo female artists were rarely welcome on radio playlists.
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Paste Magazine
Womack’s new record, Call Me Crazywith George Strait), as well as a few poppier songs. (“The Story Of My Life,” for instance, may seem like “I Hope You Dance, Part Two.”) But Womack’s got the story to back up the sentimentality.
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Vulture
As if we had any soul left to crush, headliner Lee Ann Womack tried to out-sad the opener with songs from her forthcoming disc, Call Me Crazy.
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Norfolk Daily News
With traditional steel guitar and fiddle on "Call Me Crazy" - Womack's first release since her CMA album of the year "There's More Where That Came From" - Womack proves there really was more. Slightly better (it's hard to improve upon an album of the year) than her last, Womack sounds more mature this time around as she offers advice and explanation.
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Nuts About Country
So what came out with Call Me Crazy, we have all the familiar Nashville people working with her, and Womack co-wrote most of the songs. Tony Brown produced, and it was mastered by Bob Ludwig of Gateway Mastering, which is a bit unusual in that he usually masters rock CDs, but he's also known as one of the industry greats.
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BGS
Together, Lee Ann and George were beacons of the trad country duet form, especially in the ’90s and early 2000s. This one from the jewel in the crown of Lee Ann’s discography, Call Me Crazy, is crisply modern, but with decidedly timeless vocals.
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Good Reads
Call Me Crazy is the sixth studio album released by country music singer Lee Ann Womack, released on October 21, 2008 via MCA Nashville Records. It is her first studio release in three years, as her previous album (2006's Finding My Way Back Home) was not released. The lead-off single to this album is "Last Call" which in late 2008 became Womack's first Top 20 country hit in three years.
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My Kind Of Country
Her next full-length album Call Me Crazy finally saw the light of day in the fall of 2008. Upon release critics hailed the album as one of the year’s best and praised Womack for continuing to explore her roots and show that women don’t have to rely on singing feel-good songs all the time.
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Metacritic
This overdue follow-up Call Me Crazy brings in a new producer (Tony Brown) but has Lee Ann Womack in much the same traditionalist mode, sounding like a distaff version of George Jones at his finest.
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