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| Sleepless Nights | 
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| Artist: Patty Loveless
Label: Saguaro Road Records
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 526
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 19660
UPC: 610583243222
EAN: 6105832432228
ASIN: B001C0NMXY
Release Date: September 9, 2008
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Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
| • | Why Baby Why | | • | The Pain Of Loving You | | • | He Thinks I Still Care | | • | Sleepless Nights | | • | Crazy Arms | | • | There Stands The Glass | | • | That's All It Took | | • | Color Of The Blues | | • | I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know | | • | Next In Line | | • | Don't Let Me Cross Over | | • | Please Help Me, I'm Falling | | • | There Goes My Everything | | • | Cold, Cold Heart |
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Product Description
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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 39 more reviews...
 Patty Loveless Sleepless nights December 24, 2008
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 December 23, 2008
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! December 20, 2008
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. SLEEPLESS NIGHTS has restored my faith in her and also returns PATTY LOVELESS back to the top of Country Music. Too many Country gals are actually singing country tinged heavy Pop tunes these days, but, Patty reigns as Queen of Country. SLEEPLESS NIGHTS sets an appropriate gaging tool and blueprint album for all wanna-be C&W artists to follow! If they're going to call their product "Country", then make it pure COUNTRY, and this album sets a perfect example. Personally, I like a variety of music, growing up with a steady diet of classic Top 40 Pop-Rock-Soul, but, when I want to hear Country music, I prefer it like this album, add some Gary Stewart, Delbert McClinton, etc. Loveless has reinvented herself through her superb song choices on this entire album, recreating gem after impeccable gem, making each classic composition her own. Her interpretations seem to erase the memory of the originals, and they become brand new again. Forget the old versions - these are new again!!! Her vocals are top form, her phrasing and pitch perfect singing are a dream listening experience. Loveless is blessed with one of the most gorgeous, irresistable and purest of Country voices you'll ever hear. A gifted vocalist with an instrument full of passion, emotional depth, Loveless creates unforgettable three minute mini-dramas with the simplest lyrics and just a basic band. A big, beautiful voice, with many hypnotic shades and pretty colors all over and in it! The ballads on here burn from sizzling to steamy and treading deep water at the same time. The harmonies between Loveless and her background singers, duet partners, are to die for, beautifully executed. The title track finally, after decades, sounds like a radio friendly Top 10 hit. Selection after selection, the whole of SLEEPLESS NIGHTS' tunes with their weepy steel guitars, country fiddles, steady back beat, and lead vocalist create a perfect album. Loveless displays renewed inspiration and a fiery, robust resonance in her vibrant vocals. These versions sound more vigorous than the originals did. She's never been afraid to rock, and she cuts loose with her signature rockin' attitude on some of these tunes with gusto. The opening track, first single, "WHY BABY WHY" is a trademark Loveless barnyard stomper, fiery vocals and drivin' fiddles, a direct descendent, and influenced by Linda Ronstadt's 1973 "Silver Threads & Golden Needles" - it rocks! This is the PATTY LOVELESS we all came to love and behold! This is the Patty we affectionately remember and yearned to hear again. She's back in top form and a very welcome sound and sight to these ears and eyes. Thank you Patty, for living up to our expectations with this great album!
 +1/2 -- Patty Loveless unleashes on the classics December 20, 2008
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As terrific as this project looks on paper, the results aren't as satisfying as the elements might suggest. Loveless is in good voice, the songs are classics, and the arrangements suitably stripped of modern Nashville conventions, but the results are lacking in dynamic range and one-dimensional. Loveless has the tone and twang to effortlessly cast herself back (unlike, for example, Martina McBride on 2005's Timeless), the problem is that she also has an incredibly powerful voice that's unleashed in full-throat on every track. The Linda Ronstadt-styled emoting is impressive, even stop-you-in-your-tracks chilling, for a track or two, but the lack of any softness is wearying at album length. Emory Gordy Jr.'s production and arrangements provide typically sympathetic settings for his wife, and Loveless obviously respects and deeply understands her material, but compacting fourteen emotionally-charged singles onto one album leaves the listener feeling battered. Perhaps it was Loveless' artistic goal to hammer home the sorrow of these songs, but it would make a better listening experience as a series of singles stretched out over a year or two. 3-1/2 stars, if allowed fractional ratings. [2008 hyperbolium dot com]
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS - PATTY LOVELESS November 27, 2008
SLEEPLESS NIGHTS - PATTY LOVELESS. GREAT CD FOR ANYONE WHO LIKES REAL COUNTRY.
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