Music Review

Call Me Crazy (2008)

EW's GRADE
A-

Details Release Date: Oct 21, 2008; Lead Performance: Lee Ann Womack; Genre: Country/Bluegrass

 YOU\'RE CRAZY Lee Ann Womack\'s long overdue follow-up Call Me Crazy is a treat for country-lovers and the rest Lee Ann Womack
YOU'RE CRAZY Lee Ann Womack's long overdue follow-up Call Me Crazy is a treat for country-lovers and the rest

Four years after There's More Where That Came From thrilled critics and CMA voters alike, we were left wondering if that titular promise was still on the table. This overdue follow-up Call Me Crazy brings in a new producer (Tony Brown) but has Lee Ann Womack in much the same traditionalist mode, sounding like a distaff version of George Jones at his finest. Even when she sings of emotional dead ends (''You can go or you can stay/I won't love you either way''), defeat has never sounded so winsome. A–
Download This: Stream Call Me Crazy at leeannwomack.com

Originally posted Oct 15, 2008 Published in issue #1017 Oct 24, 2008 Order article reprints

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