The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
| Lee Ann Womack
The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone
The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone is the ninth studio album by the American country music singer-songwriter Lee Ann Womack. It was released on October 27, 2017, by ATO Records. It was available to stream a week before on NPR.orgas part of its First Listen series. -Wikipedia
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NPR
an album that shows Womack to be one of American roots music's foremost auteurs, one with a compelling voice for storytelling and the vision to use it to powerful effect
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American Song Writer
Womack is in terrific voice throughout, the songs — including her co-writes — are top notch and with Lidell’s sympathetic backing and production, it’s hard to imagine how anything could be improved.
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Sounds Like Nashville
Wherever the inspiration is coming from on the track, there’s a raging fire behind her performance that will no doubt grab the listener.
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Pop Matters
The relatively sparse instrumentation gives the album a tight feel, without any showy instrumental fills and only a modicum of decorative touches.
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All Music
an exceptionally well-rounded portrait of both the mature writer and the iconic singer
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Rolling Stone
a sharp fusion of country, gospel, soul and blues that finds the CMA Award-winning vocalist tapping into the rich musical history of the Lone Star State
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Saving Country Music
Lee Ann Womack is stepping up to give these songs breath and life, and contributing her own words more than ever
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Roughstock
How do you follow-up one of the best albums of your career? If you're Lee Ann Womack, you record this album.
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Lincoln Joournal Star
But that’s not where real country is generally found these days. And that’s just what Womack brings from start to finish on an album that’s one of the best
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AXS
it's a more mature Womack, and one who is ready to ride whichever muse she can saddle in Americana's big tent of influences
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Country Standard Time
one of the most defining records Womack's ever made. She's redefined herself as an artist of depth and consequence, and that's etched in the identity she reveals here.
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Belles & Gals
Along with some wonderful arrangements and playing Lee Ann’s vocals again prove why she is considered one of the best interpreters of a song in country music.
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Exclaim!
Her move away from pop music on The Lonely, The Lonesome & The Gone signals a deeper understanding of the country, blues and soul genres, but there aren't enough ideas here to make it succeed.
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Highway Queens
The Lonely, The Lonesome & the Gone is outstanding with quality songs and vocal performances throughout.
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Chicago Reader
Lee Ann Womack brings nuance, depth, and emotional range that comes with age, dispatching the sort of bromides Nashville has proffered over the last couple of decades
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My Kind of Country
it is a beautifully realized piece of work from a general artistic point of view, but I really miss the traditional country Lee Ann Womack
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Washington Times
as good an album as she’s ever done
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Wide Open Country
she delivers a sometimes scorching, sometimes brooding deep dive into heartache
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Christian Dorn Music
The record definitely has a blues/gospel vibe to it, all while keeping a country sound. ... it's nice to hear an album that sounds like musicians in a room playing great songs. It sounds like a band.
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Contry As
Every track is an absolute winner.
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Telegram
she’s achieved a natural blend of styles bonded together by her country roots and her flair for evolving outside the box
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Riverfront Times
it's clearly the deep well of feeling, a well that she taps with every breath, every effortless, tingling phrase, that matters most of all
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KEF Direct
The production is glorious – real musicians playing real instruments in the same room at the same time, all serving the song and not their own agendas.
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Folking.com
finds her powerful bluesy vocals in fine fettle for a set of self-penned material and covers
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