On the Cover – Patty Loveless

10/27/2003 – November 2003 Publishers Special

Label: Epic
Booking: William Morris Agency
Management: Mike Robertson Management
Producers: Emory Gordy, Jr.
Current Single: “Lovin’ All Night”
Current Album: On Your Way Home
Current Video: “Lovin’ All Night”

Birth Date: Jan. 4
Interesting Facts: Youngest girl of seven children
Awards: CMA Awards—Vocal Event in 1993 (w/George Jones); 1998 (w/George Jones); 1999 (w/Vince Gill); 1995-96 Female Vocalist; 1995 Album for When Fallen Angels Fly; ACM Awards—1996-97 Female Vocalist; Radio & Records Reader Poll—1997 Female Vocalist
Hits: “The Boys Are Back In Town,” “Out Of Control Raging Fire,” “That’s The Kind Of Mood I’m In,” “You Don’t Seem To Miss Me,” “You Can Feel Bad”
RIAA Certifications: Long Stretch Of Lonesome (gold); Trouble With The Truth (platinum); When Fallen Angels Fly (platinum); Only What I Feel (platinum) Musical Influences: Dolly Parton, George Jones, Linda Ronstadt, Patsy Cline, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn

Patty Loveless’ latest album, On Your Way Home, is both a look back and a look forward. It finds her continuing the exploration of her musical roots that begin on her last disc, Mountain Soul. Both records delve into the high lonesome bluegrass sound that was a trademark of some of Loveless’ early work.

Lovesless says, “Music, for me, is history. Yours, mine, ours. It’s about where we come from.”

She didn’t, however, intend to rest on past accomplishments when putting her new record together. She turned to some of today’s top writers—Rodney Crowell, Matraca Berg, Marty Stuart, and Buddy Miller—for contemporary tunes that explore country music’s timeless themes of love, loss and longing.

The common thread that binds these songs together is realism. She says, “I always believe that I’ve got to convince the listener that I’ve experienced the song. Sincerity is everything.”