Lee Ann Womack

Lee Ann Womack's There's More... is an album steeped in an old-school country tradition: tales of dead-end relationships, cheating and broken hearts abound. The traditional-sounding arrangements -- featuring steel guitar, piano, harmonica and fiddle, -- help color a page from a bygone era, leaning heavily on the sepia-toned '70s for a classic, "old country" sound. Case in point: the stunning "I May Hate Myself in the Morning" sounds like a long-lost country gem from the 1970s and is one of the CD's many highlights. This release is a classic in every sense of the word.

Womack's fifth album offers a fairly standard portrait of a Nashville Woman circa now --
occasionally feisty but mostly vulnerable, sentimental and a little resigned. The lack of
surprise is part of the pretty package, since There's More Where That Came From banks on
bittersweet ballads that Womack makes her own, even if they could have been written for
someone else