CMT World Premieres Video for Lee Ann Womack's GRAMMY-Nominated "Chances Are"

June, 2016 (Press Release) - Nashville, TN - For Lee Ann Womack, who takes her Texas very serious, few things delighted her as much as the pair of GRAMMY nominations garnered by “Chances Are,” the neoclassic ballad from Hayes Carll. To capture the song’s forlorn reality embrace, the GRAMMY-winning vocalist wanted something authentic – and something that conjured the Lone Star icehouses and dancehalls where Womack’s kind of country was forged.
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Womack worked with Roger Pistole, the man behind her CMT Video Music Awards Best Female Video nominee “The Way I’m Livin’.” The pair went to New Braunfels, Texas to deliver an almost existential watercolor of the song about self-awareness, hope and the promise of something better. Always an artist to take the road less traveled, CMT: Country Music Television recognized the evocative power of the clip and are world premiering “Chances Are” on their June 4th “Hot 20 Countdown,” at 9 a.m. ET/PT.

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“Roger and I wanted to do something that was a departure, but also captured the essence of Texas, that vibe it has...and also how people can feel so isolated by their own decisions,” Womack explains. “We knew it was unconventional, but it really captures what the song is holding – and it shows the Texas that’s not so obvious, but has so much soul to it.

“When I heard CMT wanted to world premiere the video,” she continues, “I was thrilled. When you take chances and follow your heart, you never know. But for everything this song has given me and (The Way I’m Livin’), it was important to honor that – and then when you do the right thing, and something like this happens? Well, what’s better?”

“Chances Are” was nominated for Best Country Song and Best Solo Country Vocal Performance at the 2016 GRAMMY Awards. Taking ownership of every bad decision, every single wrong turn, the song’s narrator still manages to find hope – and that optimism is what drew the east Texan to Carll’s song, and pushed her to Texas for the clip.

“There is so much wide open there, so many small towns that have remained the Texas I grew up with,” she says. “It’s bright and light, and even though this person is lost, they keep their hope – and they keep looking for something good. I think that sort of optimism is something you can find in places like New Braunfels, because there’s that feeling of you know everybody, people are still nice… and yet it’s got the room for your lonesome to really spread out. That room to dream and not always get drowned in the bad things that happen, that’s why these locations seemed to capture both sides of it.”
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With a five out of five star review in USA Today, Rolling Stone offering, "Livin’ “feels like something Merle Haggard or Waylon Jennings would have crafted back in the Seventies,” Spin deeming it “the best of her career” and Garden & Gun stating, “Nashville is filled with artists making ‘the record they were born to make.’  With Livin’, Womack is one of the few who actually deliver,” the “Chances Are” world premiere marks the culmination of  the past two years for a woman who has set the standards for post modern country. See for yourself June 4th on CMT: Country Music Television,9:00 a.m. ET/PT.