[9] At an early age she was interested in country music; Aubrey often took his daughter to KEBE with him to help choose records to play on the air.

[1] A year later, Womack left the college and after an agreement with her parents, she enrolled at Belmont College (now Belmont University) in Nashville, Tennessee, where she studied the commercial aspect of the music business and interned at the artists and repertoire (A&R) department of the MCA Nashville label.

[1][14][15][16] Womack wrote songs with some popular Nashville songwriters, including country singers Bill Anderson and Ricky Skaggs, who would later record her composition, "I Don't Remember Forgetting" for his 1997 album Life is a Journey.

[1] Of the album's 11 songs, Ricky Skaggs and his wife Sharon White sang backing vocals on its lead single "Never Again, Again",[17][18] while Chesnutt collaborated with Womack on the track "Make Memories with Me".

[21][22][a] Rating the album "A", Alanna Nash of Entertainment Weekly wrote that "This native of Jacksonville, Tex., has more heart than any other new female country singer, and a passel of traditional-sounding songs that may just be good enough to turn Nashville's commercial tide.

"[23] Thom Owens of AllMusic thought Wright's production was "slick [and] professional" and noted that Womack "certainly has a voice that can make the mediocre sound appealing, which results in a winning debut.

[20] Also included on this album were collaborations with Vince Gill and Joe Diffie on "I Keep Forgetting" and a cover of George Jones' "I'd Rather Have What We Had", respectively.

Some Things I Know was promoted through shows through October to November before Womack's second daughter Anna Lise Liddell was born in January 1999.

The album was led off by the single "I Hope You Dance", a collaboration with the country music band Sons of the Desert.

"[33] Conversely, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic thought the album "was a sure fit for Womack to move into the country mainstream for good.

"[1] Thom Jurek, also of AllMusic, said in a retrospective review that the album "cemented Womack's place in the country music pantheon by pushing her own boundaries as an artist further than ever before.

"[35] That September, Womack contributed to the theme song for the PBS animated TV series adaptation of The Berenstain Bears.

She also collaborated with Willie Nelson on his single, "Mendocino County Line," which peaked at 22 on Hot Country Songs.

In early 2003, she played Haylie Adams in a guest appearance on the popular CBS television series The District.

[1] In 2004, Womack performed "I Hope You Dance" at the Republican National Convention, in which George W. Bush was nominated for his second term as President of the United States.

[37] She also collaborated with Red Dirt Music band Cross Canadian Ragweed on their hit "Sick and Tired" in 2004.

[5] Many people in the music industry called the album, "a return to tradition," featuring songs about drinking and cheating with a distinctive older country twang, mixing strings and steel guitar.

[38] Erlewine praised the album's production and songs, comparing it to those released by Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrell, and Dolly Parton in the 1970s.

[5][26] Two additional singles were released from the album in 2005 that became minor hits: "He Oughta Know That by Now" and "Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago", the latter co-written by Womack.

The lead single "Finding My Way Back Home", her only work for Mercury, was released in the late summer of that year.

[41] Also in 2007, Womack collaborated with Joe Nichols on "If I Could Only Fly" from his album Real Things[42] and recorded Steve Dorff's "Love Will Still Be There" for the soundtrack of the film September Dawn.

[20] Also included on the album were covers of Jim Lauderdale's "The King of Broken Hearts" and Ashley Gearing's "I Found It in You", as well as a collaboration with George Strait on "Everything But Quits", one of the songs which Womack co-wrote.

[29] In October 2009, Womack released a cover of Trent Willmon's "There Is a God", as the lead-off single to her then-upcoming seventh studio album which never surfaced.

[45] Womack also collaborated with Alan Jackson on a cover of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire", which was released that December as a single from his compilation album, 34 Number Ones.

[48] Half of this album consists of cover songs including The Wrights' "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".

[54] Womack co-wrote six of the album's songs including the singles "All the Trouble", "Sunday" and "Hollywood"; the album also included covers of the 1961 Harlan Howard standard "He Called Me Baby", Lefty Frizzell's "Long Black Veil", Brent Cobb's "Shine On Rainy Day" and George Jones' "Take the Devil Out of Me".

"[54] 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.

[56] In January 1999, Womack had a second daughter, and first child with record producer Frank Liddell; they married later that year on November 6, 1999.