{"id":16783,"date":"2019-07-18T15:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T21:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809239"},"modified":"2019-07-18T15:21:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T21:21:44","slug":"this-is-what-lee-ann-womack-learned-from-willie-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/this-is-what-lee-ann-womack-learned-from-willie-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is What Lee Ann Womack Learned From Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:678417?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">16m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Lee Ann Womack loves <em>everything<\/em> about Willie Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/podcast\/lee-ann-womack-huge-country-music-success-didnt-feed-my-soul\/\">National Podcast of Texas<\/a>, Womack reminisced with host Andy Langer about filming the music video for \u201cMendocino County Line\u201d in downtown Austin. She says, \u201cGetting to ride horses toward the state capitol with the most famous Texan ever, it was a big moment for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed photographer Mark Seliger directed the video, which settled in for a long stretch on CMT\u2019s playlist. Written by Bernie Taupin and produced by Matt Serletic, the song led to an ACM award, CMA award, and Grammy award, and climbed to No. 22 at country radio.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgFGMkNgZ3w?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgFGMkNgZ3w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI love him,\u201d she says of Nelson. \u201cI love all of his people, I love his whole vibe and everything he has going on, musically, personally, the whole thing, I can\u2019t even say enough. We toured on that song and I learned so much from watching him. I\u2019d been around so many spoiled brats and so many divas and just s\u2014 that goes on in that whole Nashville scene.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continues, \u201cAnd then here comes Willie and his camp, who were totally not in that scene. Willie was so kind to everybody that was working on the crew, the fans\u2026 We did <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>, we did several awards shows, we did all this stuff together, and I never saw him say, \u2018I\u2019m too tired to rehearse it again,\u2019 or \u2018I\u2019m not showing up for rehearsal or soundcheck.\u2019 He was the ultimate professional and I learned so much from him. It was a great time for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTzWcHWW8rA?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rTzWcHWW8rA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>Nelson has recorded innumerable duets over the years, although his offbeat phrasing can be intimidating to singers who aren\u2019t prepared for it. So, was it hard for Womack to sing with Willie?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHmm-mmm, it wasn\u2019t hard,\u201d she says. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t difficult for me. I don\u2019t know why. I think probably because I had listened to him for so many years, I knew what to expect, but no, it wasn\u2019t a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1809239\/this-is-what-lee-ann-womack-learned-from-willie-nelson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 16m ago Lee Ann Womack loves everything about Willie Nelson. In an interview with the National Podcast of Texas, Womack reminisced with host Andy Langer about filming the music video for \u201cMendocino County Line\u201d in downtown Austin. She says, \u201cGetting to ride horses toward the state capitol with the most famous Texan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 15:17:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}