Just when you thought she couldn't get any better, Lee Ann Womack surprises in a big way. "Call Me Crazy," the follow-up to her highly lauded "There's More Where That Came From," is Womack's best album yet. While the set includes a pure country duet with hero George Strait and a cover of his "The King of Broken Hearts," Womack doesn't need Strait's formidable shoulders to lift her up. Haunting single "Last Call" is song-of-the-year material on a number of levels: songwriting, vocal performance and production. Indeed, the first-time combination of Womack and producer Tony Brown is overdue and magical. "Either Way," about a loveless marriage, is brilliant, and "Solitary Thinkin' " proves Womack has more soul than just about any other country female vocalist out there. All hail the queen of country. —Ken Tucker