As always, Patty Loveless connects with listeners, singing about their joys and sorrows. Sleepless Nights is her newly recorded homage to the classic country hits of the '50s, '60s, and '70s. She personally selected each song, country classics first made popular by George Jones, Hank Locklin, Porter Wagoner, Webb Pierce, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Conway Twitty. Born and bred country, Patty's pure crooning on these favorites is yearning and melancholy, enhanced only by sparse accompaniment. The new sessions feature several legendary band members: guitarist Harold Bradley, who played on the original hits of Patsy Cline and Roy Orbison; blind pianist Pig Robbins, an equally legendary session musician for decades: and the brilliant Al Perkins (ex-Flying Burrito Brothers and Manassas member) who plays steel guitar on many tracks.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Country music does not get any better than this:
There is really nothing to be said for this material and the
performance of this artist except that if you love country music
and want to hear it as it is meant to be, run, don't walk to
the nearest retailor of quality music and listen to your hearts
content to the finest performance of quality country music that
you are likely to hear. You will listen to this material over and over
again.
Patty Loveless Sleepless nights:
I think this is one of Patty's best albums ever done. It's nice to hear someone still making tradional country music.
Thank you, Patty:
Thank God for Patty Loveless. I had almost given up hope. All the female country singers sound alike. They've been chewed up by the Muzak Machine and made into carbon copies of each other. Then Patty Loveless does this recording, sounding fresh and sounding traditional. There is hope. Rejoice.
Pure Country & Rock 'N Roll - Ultimate Patty Loveless!:
Like many other die hard Patty Loveless fans, I too had grown weary of her last few albums, as her music had become schmaltzy, monotonous, lifeless, totally uninspiring, the fire was gone and she seemed stuck in a rut for almost a decade, except for her superb "Mountain Soul" & its Christmas season companion Cds. I didn't even bother to buy "Dreamin' My Dreams", as I'd given up on her - not good, considering I couldn't get enough Patty Loveless and have every Cd she's issued since her debut in 1987.... more info
