Patty Loveless signing a shirt

Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey on January 4, 1957 in Pikeville, Kentucky) is an American country music singer. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1215x1270, 257 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Patty Loveless Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1215x1270, 257 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Patty Loveless Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to... January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Pikeville is a city located in Pike County, Kentucky. ... country music, see Country music (disambiguation) In popular music, country music, also called country and western music or country-western, is an amalgam of popular musical forms developed in the Southern United States, with roots in traditional folk music, Celtic music, blues, gospel music, and old-time music that began...

One of the most popular female country singers of the 1990s, Loveless rose to stardom thanks to her mix of honky tonk and emotive country ballads. She is a distant cousin of Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle. Loretta Lynn (born April 14, 1935) is an American country singer who was the leading country female vocalist during much of the 1960s and 1970s. ... Crystal Gayle on the cover of her concert DVD Crystal Gayle in Concert, showing her trademark long hair Crystal Gayle (born January 9, 1951) is an American country music singer. ...

When she was a child, her brother, a producer with The Porter Wagoner Show, often brought her to that show's set, where she got to meet Wagoner Show star Dolly Parton (whom Loveless cites as a great influence on her career). The Porter Wagoner Show, RCA, 1963 Porter Wagoner (born August 12, 1927, in Howell County, Missouri, in the Ozark Mountains) is an American country music singer. ... Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American country singer, songwriter, composer, author and actress. ...

Patty is an active amateur "ham" radio operator.

She was signed to MCA Records in 1985 and released her self-titled debut in 1987. She released four more albums for MCA through 1991, scoring hits with songs such as "Timber, I'm Falling In Love," "Chains," "I'm That Kind of Girl," and "Jealous Bone." She parted ways with MCA in 1991 citing lack of major attention from the label. While there she was forced to compete with Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood and Wynonna. Feeling that she was not a label priority, she left for Epic Records. The Music Corporation of America was a United States based corporation in the music business. ... Patty Loveless was the self-titled début album from the future country music superstar from Pikeville, Kentucky. ... Reba Nell McEntire (born on March 28, 1955) is a Grammy Award-winning singer and one of the best-selling country music performers of all time, known for her pop-tinged ballads that include 22 #1 hits. ... Trisha Yearwood Trisha Yearwood (born September 19, 1964) is a country music singer. ... Wynonna Judd shakes hands with Marine Cpl. ... Epic Records is an American record label, and subsidiary of Sony BMG. // History Epic was launched originally as a jazz and classical music label in 1953 by CBS. Its bright-yellow, black and blue logo became a familiar trademark for many jazz and classical releases. ...

Following throat surgery to repair her vocal chords, she released the album Only What I Feel in 1993 to the best reviews of her career. She scored smash hits with "Blame It On Your Heart" and "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye". For Patty Loveless, the music was always there, even though the sales were not. ...

Perhaps her crowning achievement was that album's follow-up, When Fallen Angels Fly. It won the Country Music Association's Album of the Year award and gave her four Top 10 singles. She followed it up with The Trouble with the Truth in 1996 which gave her Female Vocalist of the Year awards from both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association. The seventh album by Patty Loveless was remains her biggest selling to this day. ... The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. ... By her eighth album Patty Loveless had become a master at country music hitmaking. ... The Academy of Country Music (ACM) was founded in 1964 in Los Angeles, California. ... The Country Music Association (CMA) was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

Although she continued to record for Epic, releasing Long Stretch of Lonesome and Strong Heart in the next four years, her commercial momentum came to a halt as she failed to score Top 10 singles from either album. Three of the tracks on Long Stretch of Lonesome would chart in the top 20 on the Billboard Top Country Singles. ... The tenth album of original material from Patty Loveless, Strong Heart was quite a departure from her earlier style. ...

In an effort to control her own destiny, rather than be controlled by country radio, Loveless made an abrupt move away from commercial, country/pop and made a stone-cold bluegrass album in 2001. Mountain Soul was released to numerous critical accolades and sold decently despite a lack of radio support. She used the same bluegrass approach on a Christmas album, Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas, in 2002. On Your Way Home, a return to more commercial oriented country, was released in 2003 to critical acclaim. Bluegrass music is considered a form of American roots music with its own roots in the English, Irish and Scottish traditional music of immigrants from the British Isles (particularly the Scots-Irish immigrants of Appalachia), as well as the music of rural African-Americans, jazz, and blues. ... Mountain Soul, the eleventh album by Patty Loveless, found her returning to real roots music after the less than successful experiment at pop music on Strong Heart. ... Theres a little more electric instrumentation here on On Your Way Home than in her two preceding bluegrassy albums, Mountain Soul and Bluegrass & White Snow, giving the album a more modern (and commercial) flavor, but not to the degree of most current so-called country music. ...

In 2005 she released Dreamin' My Dreams. While critical reception was good, it did not fare at all well commercially. The album debuted and peaked at #29 on Billboard's country album chart while no song from the album made the singles chart. This was the first time in Loveless' career that this had happened. This is the fourteenth album of original recordings by Patty Loveless. ...

Discography

Albums

• Patty Loveless (1987; #35 US Country)
• If My Heart Had Windows (1988; #33 US Country)
• Honky Tonk Angel (1988; #7 US Country; Plat. US)
• On Down the Line (1990; #12 US Country; Gold US)
• Up Against My Heart (1991; #151 US; #27 US Country)
• Only What I Feel (1993; #63 US; #9 US Country; Plat. US)
• When Fallen Angels Fly (1994; #60 US; #8 US Country; Plat. US)
• The Trouble with the Truth (1996; #86 US; #10 US Country; Plat. US)
• Long Stretch of Lonesome (1997; #68 US; #9 US Country; Gold US)
• Classics (1999; #99 US; #6 US Country; Gold US)
• Strong Heart (2000; #126 US; #13 US Country)
• Mountain Soul (2001; #159 US; #19 US Country)
• Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas (2002; #20 US Country)
• On Your Way Home (2003; #77 US; #7 US Country)
• Dreamin' My Dreams (2005; #175 US; #29 US Country)

Patty Loveless was the self-titled début album from the future country music superstar from Pikeville, Kentucky. ... With her second album, If My Heart Had Windows, Patty Loveless finally broke into the upper reaches of the Billboard Top Country Singles charts with both If My Heart Had Windows and A Little Bit in Love reaching the Country Top Ten. ... Her third album, Honky Tonk Angel, was the one that made Patty Loveless a country music star. ... On Down the Line was not quite the huge success that the previous Honky Tonk Angel had been for Patty Loveless, although it did spawn two singles which made it to #5 on the Billboard Country Singles charts, the Kostas-penned On Down the Line and the Matraca Berg/Ronnie... This was the fifth and final album that Patty Loveless would record for MCA Records. ... For Patty Loveless, the music was always there, even though the sales were not. ... The seventh album by Patty Loveless was remains her biggest selling to this day. ... By her eighth album Patty Loveless had become a master at country music hitmaking. ... Three of the tracks on Long Stretch of Lonesome would chart in the top 20 on the Billboard Top Country Singles. ... For the Aphex Twin album of the same name, see Classics (Aphex Twin album). ... The tenth album of original material from Patty Loveless, Strong Heart was quite a departure from her earlier style. ... Mountain Soul, the eleventh album by Patty Loveless, found her returning to real roots music after the less than successful experiment at pop music on Strong Heart. ... Theres a little more electric instrumentation here on On Your Way Home than in her two preceding bluegrassy albums, Mountain Soul and Bluegrass & White Snow, giving the album a more modern (and commercial) flavor, but not to the degree of most current so-called country music. ... This is the fourteenth album of original recordings by Patty Loveless. ...

Singles

Country Tracks chart, chart of country music hit songs. ...

External links

• Patty Loveless official site
• Patty Loveless at Country Music Television