I Hope You Dance
| Lee Ann Womack
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I Hope You Dance
I Hope You Dance is the title of the third studio release by American country music singer Lee Ann Womack. It was released on May 23, 2000 as her first album for MCA Nashville. The title track was a crossover hit in 2000, becoming her only Number One country hit, while "Ashes by Now", "Why They Call It Falling", and "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger" all reached Top 40 on the country charts as well.-Wikipedia
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My Kind Of Country
Lee Ann Womack’s most commercially successful album features crystalline vocals, an ambitious selection of material ranging from the traditional sounds closest to her heart to Americana to adult contemporary influences which barely escape being bland.
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All Music
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.
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Country Rebel
“I Hope You Dance” became an almost instant No. 1 hit on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs chart, and worked its way over to the Billboard Hot 100 and Canada Country Tracks, while simultaneously charting in at least five other countries.
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Wide Open Country
Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance" was one of the first huge country hits of the 2000s, and is now known as a modern classic. Written by Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers, "I Hope You Dance" was released in March 2000 to high critical praise. The track was a huge crossover success, quickly hitting number one on both the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks, the Billboard Hot 100 and Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts. The inspiring and hopeful message of "I Hope You Dance" instantly connected with listeners and quickly became a standard musical selection at school proms and graduation ceremonies. Even after the release of five well-received albums and many hit singles, the much-beloved single is now widely-recognized as Womack's signature track.
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People
With its rueful tone, evocative songs and emotion-drenched, sweet-voiced vocals, this could have been mistaken for a Dolly Parton album. Who would have guessed it’s the erstwhile Texas firebrand Womack in a new mode less suited to honky-tonks than to wedding receptions. She extracts maximum sentiment from this 12-song collection, much of it tending toward the love-gone-wrong side of town.
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American Songwriter
“I Hope You Dance,” recorded by Lee Ann Womack with Sons of the Desert, and written by Tia Sillers and Mark D. Sanders, was one of 2000’s most successful singles in several genres, and is one of only a handful of songs in the past two decades that can truly be considered a classic. A life-affirming song with an uplifting, timeless message, it’s based on the narration of a mother expressing the wish that her children will step out and embrace life, and take a chance on love and faith.
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Billboard
Womack has seen the effect of “I Hope You Dance” firsthand for years. Co-written by Sanders with Tia Sillers (“There’s Your Trouble,” “That’d Be Alright”), it was named single of the year by the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association, and earned country song honors from the ACM, the CMA and the Grammys. It spent five weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart in 2000 and 11 weeks atop the Adult Contemporary list in 2001.
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Rate Your Music
You get the feeling most mainstream female country singers out there today would be just as happy singing MOR or disco (and sometimes they do -- Shania or Faith, anyone?). Not Lee Ann Womack -- country is in her blood. This is a fine example of how a bunch of great songs and a strong singer make for a happy marriage -- and the title track is just brilliant. It's not alt-country, for sure -- there's still plenty of Nashville buff-n-shine here -- but when it's done to this level, who's complaining?
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Rolling Stone
Womack had her greatest career success with a slice of pop-country, the Grammy-winning 2000 single “I Hope You Dance.” While the crossover hit helped introduce her to a larger audience, it also might have left some confused.
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The Boot
I Hope You Dance" was the debut single from and title track of Womack's third studio album, which has sold more than 3 million copies. The song earned her multiple awards, including a CMA for Single of the Year.
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Saving Country Music
“I Hope You Dace” written by Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers was a #1 song in country, won the 2001 CMA and ACM awards for Song of the Year, the Grammy Award for Best Country Song and was nominated for the Grammy’s Song of the Year.
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Plugged In
With fiddles, pedal-steel guitar and vocals reminiscent of ’70s country crooners, Lee Ann Womack possesses a rootsy, unpretentious, coal-miner’s-daughter quality increasingly rare in this age of pop crossovers like Shania Twain and Faith Hill. Most of the songs on this release (Womack’s third) deal with lost love and its emotional fallout in a neutral manner.
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New York Times
Her 2000 blockbuster album contained the billowy inspirational ballad “I Hope You Dance” and the country rock of “Ashes by Now,” along with “Does My Ring Burn Your Finger,” a searing, Appalachian-sounding number by the future Americana luminaries Buddy and Julie Miller. “I Hope You Dance” became her biggest hit, a country chart topper that also crossed over to the pop Top 20, though its message-driven appeal was a departure.
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Last Fm
Her third and possibly most successful album to date, 2000's I Hope You Dance, featured, along with the award-winning aforementioned title cut (to which Sons of the Desert supplied the backing vocals) also featured the hits "Why They Call It Falling" and "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger" as well as covers of the 1980 Rodney Crowell hit "Ashes By Now", and the Don Williams' 1981 classic, "Lord I Hope This Day Is Good."
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Gallery Of Sound
"I Hope You Dance'' is the title of the third studio release by American country music singer Lee Ann Womack. It was released on May 23, 2000 as her first album for MCA Nashville. The title track was a crossover hit in 2000, becoming her only Number One country hit, while "Ashes by Now", "Why They Call It Falling", and "Does My Ring Burn Your Finger" all reached Top 40 on the country charts as well.
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Entertainment Focus
It was 2000’s I Hope You Dance that sent her career stratospheric. The song was a worldwide hit and catapulted her to stardom. She’s since become a critical darling for her traditional sound, blended with contemporary and occasional pop elements.
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Longview News Journal
Once a stalwart of contemporary country, Womack's career has darted between categories. She scored a huge crossover hit with "I Hope You Dance" in 2000 and now you'll find her in the Americana section of music magazines.
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Entertainment
Lee Ann Womack’s third album, I Hope You Dance, finds the hypnotic middle between traditional and edgy contemporary country, mining just the right amount of bluegrass production values (keening fiddles, layered high-lonesome harmonies) to put the ache back into Nashville fare. With songs by Julie and Buddy Miller, Bruce Robison, and Bobbi Cryner, this is a triumph of musical integrity in a mainstream world.
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Tv Tropes
Following the closure of Decca in 1999, she moved to MCA in 2000. It was there that she had her biggest hit with "I Hope You Dance", a beloved pop Parental Love Song from mother to child, with a guest vocal from country group Sons of the Desert. The song was her only #1 hit on the country charts, and a Top 20 pop hit.
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LA Times
“I Hope You Dance,” is the glossy pop-crossover ballad Womack drove to the top of the charts in 2000.
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BGS
Within the country sphere and without, she is best known for 2000’s smash single, “I Hope You Dance,” which achieved the crossover success so many Nashville artists covet. Recorded with Sons of the Desert, it’s a slick and sentimental pop-country anthem whose uplifting lyrics could double as a graduation speech or a Hallmark card.
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Times Union
I Hope You Dance" became a smash crossover hit, and the album attained platinum sales status.
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NY Country Swag
Her timeless voice and her undeniable stage presence makes her one of the best in the business.
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Washington Times
Once a stalwart of contemporary country, Womack’s career has darted between categories. She scored a huge crossover hit with “I Hope You Dance” in 2000 and now you’ll find her in the Americana section of music magazines.
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Kentucky
There was the huge 2000 crossover single I Hope You Dance, for starters, which now stands as a signature hit for the Texas-born singer. There have also been blooming artistic relationships with such Americana mavericks as Buddy Miller that expanded her stylistic appeal beyond conventional country confines.
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