Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago
{{Infobox song
| name = Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago
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| type = single
| artist = Lee Ann Womack
| album = There's More Where That Came From
| written = 2004
| released = {{Start date|2005|11|21}}{{cite magazine|title=Going for Adds: Country|magazine=Radio & Records|page=23|date=November 18, 2005|issue=1633}}
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| genre = Country
| length = 3:49
| label = MCA Nashville
| writer = {{hlist|Lee Ann Womack|Dean Dillon|Dale Dodson}}
| producer = Byron Gallimore
| prev_title = He Oughta Know That by Now
| prev_year = 2005
| next_title = Finding My Way Back Home
| next_year = 2006
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"Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago" is a song by American country music artist Lee Ann Womack, taken from her sixth studio album There's More Where That Came From (2005). This is the first single of Womack's career that she had a co-writing credit on and the only track from the album that she had a writer's credit on, co-writing it with Dean Dillon and Dale Dodson. It was released to country radio on November 21, 2005, as the third and final single from the album.
A minor hit, it peaked at number 32 on the US Hot Country Songs chart.{{cite book |title= Hot Country Songs: 1944-2012, Eighth edition|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |authorlink=Joel Whitburn |publisher=Record Research |year=2013 |page=378}} Womack would notably perform the song at the 2005 CMA Awards.Lee Ann Womack - "Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago" LIVE (2005 CMA Awards). YouTube.
Content
In the song, Womack sings about regretting the loss of her youthful self.
Critical reception
Matt Cibula of PopMatters gave the song a mostly positive review, saying that it was a good song.{{Cite web |last=Cibula |first=Matt |date=March 21, 2005 |title=Lee Ann Womack: There's More Where That Came From {{!}} PopMatters |url=https://www.popmatters.com/womackleeann-theresmore-2496110926.html |access-date=August 30, 2024 |website=PopMatters}} David Cantwell of No Depression called it the best song from There's More Where That Came From.{{Cite web |last=Cantwell |first=David |date=October 17, 2014 |title=Lee Ann Womack Returns to the Roots She Never (Really) Left |url=https://www.nodepression.com/lee-ann-womack-returns-to-the-roots-she-never-really-left/ |access-date=August 30, 2024 |website=No Depression |language=en-US |quote=The album's best cut might've been the one Womack co-wrote, "Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago"...}} Billboard editors called the track "tender and world-weary."{{Cite news |last=Waddell |first=Ray |date=February 5, 2005 |editor-last=Paoletta |editor-first=Michael |title=Billboard Picks: Albums |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XBQEAAAAMBAJ&q=Lee+Ann+Womack#v=snippet&q=Lee%20Ann%20Womack&f=false |access-date=August 30, 2024 |work=Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media |page=32 |via=Google Books |volume=117 |issue=6 |issn=0006-2510}}
Music video
Paul Boyd directed the music video for "Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago".{{Cite web |title=Lee Ann Womack - Twenty Years And Two Husbands Ago (2005) {{!}} IMVDb |url=https://imvdb.com/video/lee-ann-womack/twenty-years-and-two-husbands-ago |access-date=August 30, 2024 |website=IMVDb}} The music video opens with Womack looking in a mirror doing her make-up. There are scenes of her leaving a car, being in an outdoor dining room, and hanging out with her friends. The video has a retro style, taken from the 1960s, and was compared to Faith Hill's music video for "Like We Never Loved at All".
Commercial performance
"Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago" debuted at number 56 on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs chart the week of December 3, 2005, with 730,000 audience impressions.{{Cite news |date=December 3, 2005 |title=Billboard Hot Country Songs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lRMEAAAAMBAJ&q=Lee+Ann+Womack#v=snippet&q=Lee%20Ann%20Womack&f=false |access-date=August 30, 2024 |work=Billboard |publisher=Nielsen Business Media |page=57 |via=Google Books |volume=117 |issue=49}} It reached number 32 the week of February 11, 2006, spending 17 weeks in total on the chart.
Personnel
Taken from the liner notes of There's More Where That Came From.There's More Where That Came From (liner notes). Lee Ann Womack. MCA Nashville Records. 2005. 003073{{div col}}
- Tom Bukovac – electric guitar
- Mark Casstevens – acoustic guitar
- Rusty Danmyer – pedal steel guitar
- Shannon Forrest – drums
- Aubrey Haynie – fiddle
- Wes Hightower – backing vocals
- Luke Laird – backing vocals
- Steve Nathan – piano
- Randy Scruggs – acoustic guitar
- Bergen White – string section arrangements
- Lee Ann Womack – vocals
- Glenn Worf – bass
- Nashville String Machine – string section
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Charts
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!align="left"|Chart (2005–2006) !align="center"|Peak |
| {{singlechart|Billboardcountrysongs|32|artist=Lee Ann Womack}} |
| US Country Top 50 (Radio & Records){{cite magazine|title=R&R Country Top 50|magazine=Radio & Records|page=39|date=February 10, 2006|issue=1644}}
|align="center"|28 |
References
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{{Lee Ann Womack singles}}
Category:Songs written by Dean Dillon
Category:Song recordings produced by Byron Gallimore
Category:MCA Nashville Records singles