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When Bobby Bones decided to go long on Lee Ann Womack’s “Send It On Down,” a stark Chris Knight ballad from her Grammy-nominated The Way I’m Livin’, it started a tremor. Playing the song twice on his morning show, declaring, “Want me to tell you about a song that I like… it’s this Lee Ann Womack song. It’s not even a radio song, but it’s a download song,” he said before playing the stark ballad. As the song hit its bridge, he interrupted, “Download it! I don’t make any money off it, but it’s the jam… Sound the Alarm: it’s a good song/download song,” the track shot into iTunes’ Top 50.
“It was crazy to see a mainstream country morning show do that,” Womack, en route to Los Angeles for the Grammys, mused, “but it was awesome, too. It doesn’t sound like everything else being played, and people really responded. As an artist, that’s what you make music for.”
Bobby Bones gets another shot at his favorite new song – as bobbybones.com premieres an exclusive in-the-studio look of “Send It On Down” today. Shot in Nashville’s House of Blues Recording Studios, it’s an intimate performance of a song that captures the jagged hopelessness of a woman on the brink. Check it out here: smarturl.it/LAWBobbyBones
It’s been one crazy thing after another for Lee Ann Womack’s The Way I’m Livin’, the project made for love that’s turning into the little record that could. First was the Grammy nomination for Best Country Album, then Esquire put it in their all-genre Top 10 Albums of 2014. Next The Nashville Scene was covered with Single, Album, Female Vocalist and Artist of the Year recognition, as well as recent cameo stints singing “Pancho & Lefty” with Steve Earle and Paul Kennerley’s “Born To Run,” at “The Life & Songs of Emmylou Harris” concert at DC’s DAR Constitution Hall,” an appearance on “The View,” then singing “Paradise” with John Prine in Florida later that same night.
Shot by Bill Filipiak, an award-winning documentary producer, the focus is on the playing and the vocal performance. A lean clip for a song that is equally to the bone.
“We’ve had some unlikely partners,” Womack says. “Whether it’s being part of the Emmylou Harris Tribute show in Washington DC and doing “Pancho & Lefty” with Steve Earle, singing with the Fairfield Four and the McCrary Sisters on PBS’ ‘Rock My Soul’ special with Lucinda Williams, Amos Lee and Buddy Miller or joining John Legend for CMT’s ‘Crossroads,’ this has taken me interesting places – and let me make music with incredible artists from other genres. So, why not Bobby Bones? Or anyone who feels the music…”
With The Los Angeles Times writing of her version of Neil Young’s “Out On The Weekend” that she “fills it with a longing just as heavy as the original… The result, one of many such revelations on Womack’s latest, lingers long after the coda fades” and The Wall Street Journal raving she “sounds like she’s making up for lost time,” Womack’s The Way I’m Livin’ is making inroads in all kinds of surprising places.
Today, you can see for yourself what all the raves are about. smarturl.it/LAWBobbyBones
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