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In April 2014, Womack signed with [[Sugar Hill Records (bluegrass label)|Sugar Hill Records]], an imprint of Rounder Records.<ref name=sugarhill>{{cite web|url=http://theboot.com/lee-ann-womack-sugar-hill-records/|title=Lee Ann Womack Signs With Sugar Hill Records|date=April 10, 2014|publisher=The Boot|access-date=April 10, 2014|archive-date=April 13, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140413091427/http://theboot.com/lee-ann-womack-sugar-hill-records/|url-status=live}}</ref> Her first album for the label, ''[[The Way I'm Livin']]'', was released September 23, 2014.<ref name=sugarhill/> Half of this album consists of cover songs including [[The Wrights (duo)|The Wrights]]' "[[The Way I'm Livin' (song)|The Way I'm Livin']]", [[Hayes Carll]]'s "Chances Are", [[Buddy Miller]]'s "Don't Listen to the Wind", [[Neil Young]]'s "[[Out on the Weekend]]", [[Bruce Robison]]'s "Not Forgotten You" and [[Kenny Price]]'s "Tomorrow Night in Baltimore". Rating the album four out of four stars, Mansfield compared the album to "Dolly Parton's finest". He also said that "Her run-ins with the devil may seem uncomfortably specific, but the swelling steel guitars carry her as if on angels' wings."<ref name="USA Today">{{cite web|last=Mansfield|first=Brian|author-link=Brian Mansfield|title=Listen Up: Lee Ann Womack, Leonard Cohen and alt-J|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/09/23/lee-ann-womack-leonard-cohen-alt-j-listen-up/16095173/|work=[[USA Today]]|date=September 23, 2014|publisher=[[Gannett Company|Gannett Company, Inc.]]|issn=0734-7456|accessdate=July 10, 2024|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217064126/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/09/23/lee-ann-womack-leonard-cohen-alt-j-listen-up/16095173/|url-status=live}}</ref> Erlewine said that the album "plays like a classic album: it's a record where the sum is greater than the individual parts".<ref>{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=''The Way I'm Livin''' review|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-way-im-livin-mw0002714370|work=[[AllMusic]]|publisher=[[All Media Network]]|accessdate=July 10, 2024|archive-date=December 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217062909/https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-way-im-livin-mw0002714370|url-status=live}}</ref>
Her second album for Sugar Hill, a vinyl [[extended play]] album of cover songs called ''[[Trouble in Mind (EP)|Trouble in Mind]]'', was released in 2015. At the [[
On August 15, 2017, Womack announced her new album ''[[The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone]]'', which was released on October 27 through [[ATO Records]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/08/15/543434422/songs-we-love-lee-ann-womack-all-the-trouble|title=Lee Ann Womack Embodies 'All The Trouble' In A Wrenching Country Blues|website=npr.org|access-date=March 19, 2018|archive-date=July 16, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716111835/https://www.npr.org/2017/08/15/543434422/songs-we-love-lee-ann-womack-all-the-trouble|url-status=live}}</ref> The project included 14 songs that were recorded largely at [[SugarHill Recording Studios]] in [[Houston]], Texas.<ref name="jurek llg"/> Womack co-wrote six of the album's songs including the singles "[[All the Trouble]]", "Sunday" and "Hollywood". Jurek said that the album "provides listeners an exceptionally well-rounded portrait of both the mature writer and the iconic singer. What Womack delivers has little to do with Nashville -- a plus -- in favor of polished yet hardcore Texas Americana."<ref name="jurek llg">{{cite web|title=''The Lonely, the Lonesome & The Gone'' review|last=Jurek|first=Thom|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lonely-the-lonesome-the-gone-mw0003099796|work=[[AllMusic]]|publisher=[[All Media Network]]|access-date=July 10, 2024|archive-date=June 12, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612143426/https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-lonely-the-lonesome-the-gone-mw0003099796|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Lonely, the Lonesome & the Gone'' and "All the Trouble" received Grammy Award nominations for Best Americana Album and Best American Roots Song, respectively, in 2019.<ref name="grammy"/>
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