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I Hope You Dance
Lee Ann Womack
Retail Price (not our price): $13.98
Release Date: 2000-05-23
Manufacturer: Mca Nashville
Format: Audio CD
Discs: 1

Track List
Now here, for your listening pleasure, the tracks...

Disc 1

Editorial Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):

1) Amazon.com
Lee Ann Womack may well have the most hard-country female voice in Nashville; while her first two albums showed much promise, they didn't boost her past the middle of the pack. So what's the Nashville solution? Instead of playing to her strengths, make her soprano sound smaller and more compact (think Dolly, not Tammy), de-twang it so she sounds more creamy and dreamy. In other words, try to make her sound more like everyone else. Most of these songs are slow or midtempo, building ever so predictably, and with arrangements paying little more than lip service to roots. Womack sounds better with less accompaniment ("I Know Why the River Runs," "Thinkin' with My Heart Again") and best when her drawl prevails ("Does My Ring Burn Your Finger"). And she sounds unbeatable when she's totally involved, as on the best song, "I Feel Like I'm Forgetting Something." And who cowrote that? Why, Lee Ann did. It's the only such song here, but somebody should take a hint. --John Morthland

2) Album Description
CMA winning album from the country music stars 2001 album. Includes the bonus track 'I Hope You Dance' (Brian Rawlings Mix). Billboard calls it 'the finest country album post Shania Twain'.

Customer Reviews (supplied by Amazon.com):
Average Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5

1) I HOPE YOU DANCE   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I KNOW IT'S AN OLDER CD BUT I RECENTLY LOST A SON AT THE VERY YOUNG AGE OF 45YRS. & ONE DAY I WAS HAVING A REALLY BAD DAY & I HEARD THIS SONG(TITLE SONG). IT WAS QUITE COMFORTING TO ME. I KNOW I HAVE HEARD THE SONG A MILLION TIMES BEFORE BUT I REALLY "GOT IT" THIS TIME. I LOVE IT!! I BOUGHT IT SO I CAN LISTEN TO IT ANY TIME, ESPECIALLY, ON THOSE REALLY BAD DAYS. CLAUDIA aka....MOM

2) I Hope You Dance ~ Lee Ann Womack   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I was glad you had this CD in stock. I am enjoying it very much.

3) I Hope You Dance   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I love this recording of I Hope You Dance and the philosophy of life to participate. This song is especially significant to me because a friend who was having surgery for an aneurysm had a celebration of his life and this was the song that we sang with him at the party before his surgery. He made an incredible recovery and is still with us.

4) shiping   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
i recieved my order in prompt time and i would shop at amazon for other products

5) why they call it singin'   [Rating: 5 out of 5]
I remember the day my friend's young teenage daughter Lee Anne belted out a slightly off-key Karaoke version of her near namesake Lee Ann Womack's 'I Hope You Dance' and introduced me to this strong female Nashville voice. A quick trip to the music store later, I owned the DANCE cd, my first prolonged exposure to the somewhat more mainstream sound than is common both to previous and subsequent Womack offerings.It's beautiful music, the critics be damned.The title track gives durable counsel that nicely balances the countrified pathos of other songs, like the mellifluous and touching 'Stronger Than I Am'.Truth is, there's not a mediocre track on this album, thanks to some solid if predictable accompaniment, witty writing, and Womack's ever agreeable voice.Even songs that threaten to plod ('I Know Why the River Runs') come alive when the singer's crescendoing surge rises to meet the track laid down by the base and percussion. Each track comes alive in its own way.Purists long for more twang. But this is solid, soulful, mainstream country.