The Way I'm Livin'

The Way I'm Livin was recorded and mixed by Chuck Ainlay at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville, Tennessee.{{cite AV media notes|title=The Way I'm Livin' |others=Lee Ann Womack |year=2014 |pages=2–3 |type=booklet |publisher=Sugar Hill Records |id=SUG-CD-4107 |location=Franklin, TN}} Additional recording was done by Brandon Schexnayder and Christian Best at Dogtown Studios in Nashville, and Monique Studios in Cork, Ireland. The album was produced by Chuck Ainlay, Glenn Worf and Womack's husband Frank Liddell.

{{Music ratings

| MC = 84/100{{cite web|author=Metacritic|title=Critic Reviews for The Way I'm Livin'|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/the-way-im-livin/lee-ann-womack/critic-reviews|publisher=CBS Interactive|accessdate=September 24, 2014}}

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=The Way I'm Livin' – Lee Ann Womack|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-way-im-livin-mw0002714370|work=AllMusic|publisher=All Media Network|accessdate=September 24, 2014}}

| rev2 = American Songwriter

| rev2Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Horowitz|first=Hal|title=Lee Ann Womack: The Way I'm Livin' |url=http://www.americansongwriter.com/2014/09/lee-ann-womack-way-im-livin/|work=American Songwriter|date=September 23, 2014|publisher=ForASong Media, LLC |issn=0896-8993|accessdate=September 24, 2014}}

| rev3 = Billboard

| rev3Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Dauphin|first=Chuck|title=Lee Ann Womack, 'The Way I'm Livin': Track-by-Track Review |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-615/6259263/lee-ann-womack-im-livin-track-by-track-album-review|magazine=Billboard|date=September 23, 2014|publisher=Prometheus Global Media|issn=0006-2510|accessdate=September 24, 2014}}

| rev4 = The Daily Telegraph

| rev4Score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{cite web|last=Chilton|first=Martin|title=Lee Ann Womack, The Way I'm Living, album review |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/11101190/Lee-Ann-Womack-The-Way-Im-Living-album-review.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140917133305/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/11101190/Lee-Ann-Womack-The-Way-Im-Living-album-review.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 17, 2014|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=September 17, 2014|issn=0307-1235|accessdate=September 24, 2014}}

| rev5 = USA Today

| rev5score= {{Rating|4|4}}{{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, Inc.|issn=0734-7456|accessdate=September 24, 2014}}

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According to Metacritic, The Way I'm Livin' received a weighted average of 84 out of 100, based on 7 mainstream critic reviews, indicating "Universal Acclaim". In his review for USA Today, Brian Mansfield compares the album, which is "rooted in gospel and hymns", to "Dolly Parton's finest". Mansfield noted, "Her run-ins with the devil may seem uncomfortably specific, but the swelling steel guitars carry her as if on angels' wings."

In his review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine observes that The Way I'm Livin' "plays like a classic album: it's a record where the sum is greater than the individual parts". Hal Horowitz, in his review in American Songwriter, writes, "The resulting comeback doesn't always click but when it does, the artist can rebound with some of their best work". Horowitz goes on to write, "This is a triumph for country music that's never musty yet still harkens back to a simpler, less glitzy time when emotions drove songs, not simplistic clichés."

In his review in Billboard magazine, Chuck Dauphin writes, "Was it worth the wait or has Womack stayed away from music-making too long? The answer is a very definitive one, as the Texas native reclaims her spot as one of country's most expressive and distinctive vocalists." Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Martin Chilton writes, "She succeeds admirably with The Way I'm Livin', a moving and powerful set of songs, right from the gorgeous opening prelude Fly ... It's great to have Lee Ann Womack back with such a sad and lovely album, which has an eye-catching cover."

The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 99 and on the Top Country Albums at No. 18, selling 4,300 copies for the week.{{cite news |url= http://roughstock.com/news/2014/10/29640-country-album-sales-report-october-1-2014/ |title=Country Album Sales Report: October 1, 2014 |author= Matt Bjorke on October 1, 2014 |work=Roughstock |date=October 1, 2014 }} Sales figure give here [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TJhlcBSNSswma7gvitJ2jO8E0o4w-Vabwefh3_233DU/edit#gid=0] As of February 2015, the album has sold 14,600 copies in the US.{{cite news |url= http://roughstock.com/news/2015/02/32613-country-album-chart-report-february-4-2015/ |title=Country Album Chart Report For February 4, 2015 |author= Matt Bjorke|date=February 4, 2015 |work=Roughstock }} Sales figure give here [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hXF9BhdnNRJYx-59KRVY6ZnAhm7Qki05ingKtSvyzXU/edit#gid=0]

{{Track listing

| total_length = 46:20

| title1 = Fly

| writer1 = Brent Cobb, Reed Foehl

| length1 = 2:31

| title2 = All His Saints

| writer2 = Mindy Smith

| length2 = 3:22

| title3 = Chances Are

| writer3 = Hayes Carll

| length3 = 3:41

| title4 = The Way I'm Livin'

| writer4 = Adam Wright

| length4 = 3:43

| title5 = Send It on Down

| writer5 = Chris Knight, David Leone

| length5 = 4:06

| title6 = Don't Listen to the Wind

| writer6 = Julie Miller

| length6 = 4:00

| title7 = Same Kind of Different

| writer7 = Natalie Hemby, Adam Hood

| length7 = 2:55

| title8 = Out on the Weekend

| writer8 = Neil Young

| length8 = 4:33

| title9 = Nightwind

| writer9 = Bruce Robison

| length9 = 3:34

| title10 = Sleeping with the Devil

| writer10 = Brennen Leigh

| length10 = 3:18

| title11 = Not Forgotten You

| writer11 = Robison

| length11 = 3:19

| title12 = Tomorrow Night in Baltimore

| writer12 = Kenny Price

| length12 = 3:23

| title13 = When I Come Around

| writer13 = Mando Saenz

| length13 = 3:55

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{{track listing

| headline = Walmart Deluxe edition

| title14 = Satisfied Mind

| writer14 = Joe "Red" Hayes, Jack Rhodes

| length14 = 3:28

| title15 = Cup of Loneliness

| writer15 = George Jones, Burl Stevens

| length15 = 2:18

}}

As per liner notes.

;Musicians

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• Chris Carmichael – string arrangements
• Ashley Cleveland – backing vocals
• Matt Chamberlain – drums
• Mick Flannery – backing vocals
• Paul Franklin – pedal steel guitar
• Kenny Greenberg – additional electric guitars
• Tom Hambridge – bass drum
• Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
• Anna Lise Liddell – backing vocals
• Frank Liddell – backing vocals
• Duke Levine – electric guitar, acoustic guitar
• Mac McAnally – acoustic guitar, piano, B–3, Rhodes piano, keyboards, mandocello
• Buddy Miller – backing vocals
• Charlie Pate – backing vocals
• Frank Rische – backing vocals
• Mike Rojas – accordion
• Aubrie Sellers – backing vocals
• Jason Sellers – backing vocals
• Hank Singer – fiddle, mandolin
• Morgane Stapleton – backing vocals
• Lee Ann Womack – vocals
• Glenn Worf – bass guitar, upright bass

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;Production

• Frank Liddell – producer
• Chuck Ainlay – producer, recording, mixing
• Glenn Worf – producer
• Brandon Schexnayder – additional recording
• Christian Best – additional recording
• Gavin Lurssen – mastering

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