Sons of the Desert (band) "Change" followed in 2000. Counting two singles from the unreleased album, Sons of the Desert charted eight times on the "Billboard" Hot Country Songs charts, including the top ten hit "Whatever Comes First"; they were also guest vocalists on Lee Ann Womack's 2000 hit "I Hope You Dance" and Ty Herndon's "It Must Be Love", both of which reached No. 1 on that chart. Following the band's disestablishment, Drew Womack became a solo artist. The band, deriving its name from the 1933 Laurel and Hardy film "Sons of the Desert", was founded in 1989 by a group of students attending
Sons of the Desert (band) "What I Did Right", was released after "I Hope You Dance," and it reached a peak of No. 22 on the country charts in 2001. At the end of the year, Virden left the group, reducing Sons of the Desert to a duo with the Womack brothers in the lineup. Sons of the Desert exited the label and broke up. Drew Womack recorded a solo album for Smith Music Group in 2003 which featured several contributions from the band's other members, and a re-recording of "Leaving October". In 2012, Womack released his first solo album in nearly a decade, "Sunshine