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Article: A BIGGER TWANG LEE ANN WOMACK RISES HIGHER BY RETURNING TO COUNTRY MUSIC'S ROOTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 26, 2005
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Nashville hitmaker Lee Ann Womack has a few pet peeves. Here's one
of them: "Nothing irritates me more than seeing someone at college
age decide to become a country singer," she says.
Womack certainly didn't wait that long to make her decision. She
can't even remember when she didn't want to be onstage. As the
daughter of a country disc jockey in East Texas, she was
indoctrinated early. She helped pick out some of her dad's songs and
then came her Dolly Parton fascination.
"I remember watching Dolly Parton on TV as a kid and thinking, `If
this is what country singing is all about, then I want to do it,' "
says Womack, who opens Toby Keith's "Big Throwdown II" tour, along
with Shooter ...