Something Worth Leaving Behind
| Lee Ann Womack
Something Worth Leaving Behind
Something Worth Leaving Behind is the fourth studio album from American country music singer Lee Ann Womack, released in 2002. It peaked on the Billboard 200 at #16 and the Top Country Albums at #2. Two singles were released from the album; the title-track (a Top 20 hit) and "Forever Everyday". This was also the first album of Womack's career not to produce a Top Ten country hit.-Wikipedia
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All Music
Something Worth Leaving Behind cemented Womack's place in the country music pantheon by pushing her own boundaries as an artist further than ever before. Her seemingly effortless cruise through honky tonk, country-pop ballads, and searing midtempo "message" numbers serves her well on this wildly adventurous collection of songs.
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Country Standard Time
"Something Worth Leaving Behind" mines similar turf to "I Hope You Dance" in taking a look at the big picture. The title track, written by Brett Beavers and Tom Douglas, in its narrowest terms is about loving someone and leaving a mark on another's life. In broader terms, it cites Mozart, DaVinci and Jesus as people who left long-term marks on the world.
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Saving Country Music
Lee Ann’s 2002 record Something Worth Leaving Behind was all over the place. It was partly rock, partly who knows what to call it, where you hear a song like “I Need You” with it’s muffled drum intro almost like a drum machine chased by braying guitars, and it sounds like a precursor to some of the worst music of modern country today. That said, “He’ll Be Back” from that record might be one of the best gems of Womack’s entire career—if you made it that far into the tack list to hear it. Something Worth Leaving Behind didn’t produce a Top 10 hit, and so whatever experiment was going on there was ultimately deemed unsuccessful, and for good reason.
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Rolling Stone
Whether our time on Earth affects one life or many, most of us would like to be remembered for having made some kind of lasting contribution. True, we can't all be Leonardo da Vinci or Marilyn Monroe, but the inherent beauty in our simplest gestures toward each other can be a work of art worth celebrating. Ironically, this was the title cut to an album that invited strong negative criticism, but the message remains a powerful one.
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Pop Matters
This juxtaposition of images -- perhaps unintentionally -- lays the groundwork for the material contained on the album, which is an interesting mix of contemporary and traditional country. There are songs for the fans of the well-known "cover" Lee Ann -- the title track, "Forever Everyday" and "You Should've Lied" among them -- and songs representative of this new, more bad-ass "sleeve" model. It's these badass tracks that give this album its punch. Though Lee Ann can't really take the credit for her new sound having written none of the album's songs, she certainly deserves credit for refusing to stick to the basics, allowing herself to have a bit of fun, while remaining true to her roots.
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Last Fm
Something Worth Leaving Behind is a 2002 album from Lee Ann Womack. It peaked on the Billboard 200 at #16 and the Top Country Albums at #2. The album's only singles were "Something Worth Leaving Behind" and "Forever Everyday", both of which were minor Top 40 hits on the Hot Country Songs charts in 2002. This was also the first album of Womack's career not to produce a Top Ten country hit.
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Lonestar Music Magazine
In the fall of 2002, when Lee Ann Womack released an album called Something Worth Leaving Behind, much was made at the time — at least in country music circles — about the Jacksonville, Texas-born country singer’s dramatic makeover from suburban mom to sultry, sexy diva.
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Billboard
As much as Womack has been praised for her traditional Country stylings, she can also wring emotion out of more crossover-flavored material. This cut from her 2002 Something Worth Leaving Behind disc never got the attention it deserved, but this was -- and still is -- the keeper of the disc. With a dreamy arrangement, the singer grabbed a hold of the yearning-filled lyrics, giving arguably the most seductive performance of her career.
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Country Universe
Womack released her ambitious fourth album, Something Worth Leaving Behind. It featured more challenging and off-beat material than she’d done before, along with a pop-flavored production that disappointed her purist fans. While radio didn’t embrace the project, the album went gold and the title track earned her another Grammy nomination.
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No Depression
With hushed pop bluegrass and comparatively spare uptempo country-rock, I Hope You Dance balanced perfectly the demand for both older and newer country sounds. Something Worth Leaving Behind abandons that unique strength even as it embraces subpar repetitions of the crossover move that made Womack famous. The results, no matter which side of the pop-twang divide you’re on, will likely be very disappointing.
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Something Worth Leaving Behind is the fourth studio album from American country music singer Lee Ann Womack, released in 2002. It peaked on the Billboard 200 at #16 and the Top Country Albums at #2. Two singles were released from the album; the title-track and "Forever Everyday". This was also the first album of Womack's career not to produce a Top Ten country hit.
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Oz Music
"Something Worth Leaving Behind'' is a 2002 album from Lee Ann Womack. It peaked on the Billboard 200 at #16 and the Top Country Albums at #2. Two singles were released from the album; the title-track (a Top 20 hit) and "Forever Everyday". This was also the first album of Womack's career not to produce a Top Ten country hit.
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