Sleepless Nights [PA]

Performer: Patty Loveless
Artist: Vince Gill; Jedd Hughes
Engineer: Ellery Durgin; Justin Niebank; Justin Niebank
Producer: Emory Gordy, Jr.; Emory Gordy, Jr.
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Biff Watson (guitar, acoustic guitar); Harold Bradley (guitar); Emory Gordy (acoustic guitar, bass instrument); Guthrie Trapp, Steve Gibson (electric guitar); Pete Finney (steel guitar); Deanie Richardson (mandolin, fiddle); John Hobbs, Hargus "Pig" Robbins (piano); Billy Linneman (upright bass); Harry Stinson (drums, background vocals); Carmella Ramsey, Jedd Hughes, Vince Gill (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Justin Niebank. Liner Note Author: Holly Gleason. Recording information: Quad Studios, Nashville, TN; The Cave II, Dallas, GA; The Sound Kitchen, Franklin, TN. Photographer: Russ Harrington. Many contemporary country artists have tackled an album's worth of old-school country classics in an opportunistic way, but Patty Loveless comes by her roots honestly on SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. These are the songs she heard from her music-loving parents in her Kentucky childhood, and the songs she sang with her brother in a youthful duo. It also doesn't hurt that she has an unerring ear for picking the right material. So when she rips into such evergreens as George Jones' upbeat, rockabilly-tinged "Why Baby Why," or Carl & Pearl Butler's temptation-of-perfidy tune "Don't Let Me Cross Over," she comes at them with a heart full of country soul, a real sense of history, and a passion for recreating the kind of emotional impact those songs had on her own life.

Mojo (Publisher) (p.115) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Wedding her Kentucky coalminer's daughter voice to George Jones's phrasing and Emmylou Harris's restraint, she gives each song an unforced intimacy."

As one of the "New Traditionalists" of the mid-1980s, Patty Loveless had a pure country voice that helped return country music to its roots. Though she's never traded on it, Loveless is in fact country music royalty, being a cousin of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. A favorite duet partner of both Vince Gill and George Jones, Loveless continues to record a winning mix of songs both heartbreaking and humorous, managing always to stay true to the maxim "keep it country."

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