For years, Loveless, who doesn't take readily to the spotlight, seemed to labor in the shadow of more outgoing performers. On When Fallen Angels Fly, her seventh album, she...
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Patty Loveless expanded on the success of her comeback album, Only What I Feel, on its successor, When Fallen Angels Fly, which made the country Top Ten, went gold, spawned...
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Loveless's follow-up to her breakthrough When Fallen Angels Fly isn't a masterwork on that level, but it's not as weighty either. Instead, it ranges from fiddle-sawing...
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Having broken through at the tail-end of the neo-traditionalist trend in country in the 1980s, Patty Loveless was one of the few established artists to navigate the...
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MCA Special Products' Sings Songs of Love contains ten highlights from Loveless' popular late-'80s recordings for MCA. There are enough hits here to qualify the disc as a...
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As expected, Patty Loveless's second hits compilation, covering her first five years on Epic Records, was even better than her earlier Greatest Hits on MCA, showing off a...
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Patty Loveless has created one of the most consistent bodies of work within contemporary country, and Long Stretch of Lonesome does nothing to erase the notion that she is...
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The inevitable hits compilation chronicling Patty Loveless's five years and five albums at MCA is, in the Nashville tradition, not exactly generous: It contains only ten...
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The song subjects hardly classify Loveless as a honky-tonk angel, at least by Hank Thompson's definition. But this was the album that established Loveless as a major...
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Loveless's second album begins a pattern of improvement that would follow for years. The title track, a George Jones remake, was her first top 10 single, and the Steve...
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Loveless's Kentucky-country sound is still in development here. It didn't sound bad at the time (didn't yield any big singles, either), but listening to albums like When...
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Loveless shows the greatest range of any of her MCA albums on Up Against My Heart, which contains the hits "Hurt Me Bad (In A Real Good Way)" and "Jealous Bone," as well as...
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Loveless gets a little more adventurous with each album, though she never forgets to include sure-fire hits like "Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)" and "Jealous Bone." This...
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Many people wondered how Loveless's voice would recover from throat surgery in 1992. She responded powerfully with this album, her first for Epic, where she joined her...
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Loveless underwent throat surgery and switched labels before creating this album, and both helped. She sounds stronger and more impassioned than she had in years, and her...
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Here, Loveless covers tunes by songwriters ranging from bluegrass (Claire Lynch's "Some Morning Soon") to folk-rock (Lucinda Williams' "The Night's Too Long"), investing...
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Patty Loveless entered the 1990s with On Down the Line, an excellent album that contained such major hits as "The Night's Too Long," the gutsy "Blue Memories" and the...
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"I tell you what, we're in a rut," Patty Loveless sang in "That's the Kind of Mood I'm In," the single released in May 2000 in advance of her tenth album, Strong Heart,...
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The Millennium Collection: The Very Best of Patty Loveless gathers highlights from the singer's body of work, including "If My Heart Had Windows," "A Little Bit of Love,"...
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A 180-degree departure from contemporary commercial country music, album number six from the always dynamic Loveless is like a breath of fresh air on a steamy summer...
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In the wake of the success of the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, with its traditional country and bluegrass music, Epic Records green-lighted Patty Loveless' plan to...
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Who says country music is dead? Patty Loveless and her producer, husband Emory Gordy, Jr. obviously don't give a damn about what's popular in the morally reprehensible and...
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MCA's 2005 release The Definitive Collection runs a generous 22 tracks, mostly taken from Patty Loveless' time at the label in the second half of the '80s, although there...
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