The year 2011 will bring three platinum country recording artists to the stage as George Strait and Reba McEntire continue where they left off after the end of the 2010 fall tour, but with the addition of Lee Ann Womack. Thus, now Lee Ann Womack tickets are once again available to see the singer in the midst of her comeback after fading away in the middle of the first decade of the 21st century.
Lee Ann Womack's journey from country music fan to country music sensation can called odd, at best. Born on August 19, 1966, she spent her youth in Jacksonville, Texas dreaming of working in the country music industry in some capacity, and found encouragement from her father a high school principle with a part time gig as a disc jockey. Heck, she even came with him sometimes and chose which records would hit the air waves next. Womack's dreams were not only bolstered by contemporary music. She also learned to play the piano, leaving her well equipped for a future singing touching ballads to accompany her pop hits.
College proved to be a test. Lee Ann Womack entered South Plains Junior College and majored in country music, the first degree of its kind. Performing in Country Caravan, her college band, she would ultimately leave with the blessing of her parents. She followed her dreams, heading to Nashville to study music business at Belmont University. These studies ended just short of her degree, when family life took her away from her studies.
She would return though. By the mid-90s her marriage to fellow country musician Jason Sellars had hit the proverbial rocks and divorce would soon follow. At the time she was performing at local clubs and writing songs with Bill Anderson and Rocky Skaggs. Post-divorce Lee Ann Womack would begin to focus on her own performances and eventually impressed Bruce Hinton, the MCA chairman at the time, and earned a record contract from Decca Nashville, MCA's sister company.
Lee Ann Womack went to work on an eponymous debut album. Writing her own songs, she wished to use her own lyricist voice, but accepted help when it came to the recorded vocals, welcoming Mark Chestnut, Rocky Skaggs, and Sharon White into the recording studio to help record and produce material for an album that eventually went platinum. The album succeeded despite worries that her voice too closely resembled Le Ann Rimes. Womack prevailed and her album peaked at number nine on the U.S. Country charts. The best was yet to come.
