Pure country from Womack at Johnny D's

By her own characterization, Lee Ann Womack's latest record, "The Way I'm Livin'," is an overt, intentional move away from the compromises that she often felt called upon to make when she was part of the commercial country-music world. It is also, perhaps not unrelated, completely devoid of the poppier elements that were present, to varying degrees, on all of her six preceding records.