“I told Frank one time, ‘I think they expect me to be Billy Graham now.’ And I wasn’t comfortable with that,” Ms. Womack said. “What is called country music today to me has gotten quite a bit far away from that, especially on the emotional end. Ms. Womack’s youngest, Ms. Liddell, currently splits her time between writing and assisting in an East Nashville recording studio. After 20 years of releasing albums, Ms. Womack has her own unique position in the country landscape. “I moved here years ago, and Frank did too, and we just got caught up in a few square blocks,” Ms. Womack said.

Source: New York Times October 26, 2017 21:00 UTC