Guide Note

Grammy award winner Lee Ann Womack is a country music singer who released her debut album Lee Ann Womack in 1997 and hit the top ten country charts with singles "The Fool" and "You've Got to Talk to Me". She has performed with artists such as Sons of the Desert, Cross Canadian Ragweed and she sang "Mendocino County Line" with Willie Nelson. Today she has a total of eight albums and 21 charted singles.

Fast Facts

1. Born: August 19, 1966
2. Origin: Jacksonville, Texas
3. Years Active: 1997 - Present
4. Record Label: MCA Nashville

• 1997: Lee Ann Womack
• 1998: Some Things I Know
• 2000: I Hope You Dance
• 2002: Something Worth Leaving Behind
• 2002: The Season for Romance
• 2004: Greatest Hits
• 2005: There's More Where That Came From
• 2007: Finding My Way Back Home

• Graduated from high school & entered college at 17.

• Worked as an intern at MCA Nashville while attending classes.

• Her only Billboard No. 1 hit is "I Hope You Dance," a five-week No. 1 country hit (and also multi-week No. 1 on the adult contemporary charts), which served as her introduction to pop-oriented artists.

• Her 2002 duet with legendary country singer/songwriter Willie Nelson, "Mendonceno County Line," was that year's Country Music Association's Vocal Event of the Year. The duet also served as Nelson's first major country hit in more than a decade.

"I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is." - Lee Ann Womack

"I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences." - Lee Ann Womack

"I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road." - Lee Ann Womack