‘Catch of the Day’ – Lee Ann Womack “Chances Are” [VIDEO]

In a world of faster, harder, louder, today's featured artist wants something far more radical: to be real. An artist who isn't afraid to strip it all away, get to the core of of a song filled with love and raw emotion, and to deliver songs that hit you like a run away train. Today we feature a veteran county singer who has won 5 CMA awards, 5 ACM awards and a Grammy Award during her career.

Lee Ann Womack hit number one on both the country and adult contemporary charts in 2000 with the title track from her album I Hope You Dance. It is the only #1 single in a career that has spawned seven studio albums, a greatest hits album and 8 top-10 hits. But for Womack, music is more than sales and awards, its the ultimate form of connection and communication. Raised on classic country records by Ray Price, Nelson and George Jones, she recognizes the power of visceral truth in a song.

Sometimes, the business of the music business stands in the way of a truly incredible artist. After a dispute with her label, Mercury Nashville Records over album content and promotion of the single "Finding My Way Back Home" in 2006, Womack left the label, and the single and album were never released. She rejoined her original label, MCA Nashville, releasing "Last Call", the lead single for the albumCall Me Crazy. The album was nominated for a Grammy award for Album of the Year in 2009. She went back to work on what was supposed to be a seventh studio album in 2009, but it never materialized.

It would be six more years, and anther record company before Womack's seventh album materialized. In 2014, signed to Sugar Hill Records, Womack released her most recent album, The Way I'm Livin'; an unpolished gem that was recorded almost completely live during two three-day sessions in a small, unassuming studio in which trash lids were used for percussion and with nothing besides a fiddle and a stripped down band behind her. For her efforts, Womack has been nominated by the Country Music Association for Female Vocalist of the Year for the album.

The first two singles from the album, the title track and "Send It Down" failed to chart in 2014 and early this year. Today our spotlight falls on the third single from The Way I'm Livin'. Lee Ann Woack and "Chances Are" are the Catch of the Day, new music you haven't heard, but you'll want to hear it again.