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Patty Loveless - Sleepless Nights
Rip Info
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Artist: Patty Loveless
Album Title: Sleepless Nights
Record Label: Saguaro Road Records
Rip Date: 2008-09-11
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Genre: Country
Year: 2008
Source: CD
Encoder: LAME 3.97 -V2 --vbr-new
Quality: 157 kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Track List
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01 Why Baby Why 2:18
02 The Pain Of Loving You 2:46
03 He Thinks I Still Care 2:59
04 Sleepless Nights (Feat. Vince Gill) 4:21
05 Crazy Arms 3:59
06 There Stands The Glass 2:35
07 That's All It Took (Feat. Jedd Hughes) 2:35
08 Color Of The Blues 3:06
09 I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know 3:30
10 Next In Line 3:06
11 Don't Let Me Cross Over 3:23
12 Please Help Me, I'm Falling 2:40
13 There Goes My Everything 2:50
14 Cold, Cold Heart 2:53
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Rip Notes
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Thankfully for country music disciples, Patty Loveless blends classic and
contemporary country music seamlessly, a practice that is often used, but rarely
mastered. On Sleepless Nights, she delivers a record that engages the listeners
and pays tribute to the old life-and-love songs of yesterday. With husband and
producer Emory Gordy, Jr. and the assistance of a number of Nashville's
first-rate musicians (among them, Nashville Sound pioneers Harold Bradley and
Pig Robbins), Loveless honors these memories of misery with style and class.
Sleepless Nights is an album about paying for sins, praying for strength and
staying faithful to old memories and new loves. Cheating is the choice subject
for "Don't Let Me Cross Over", drinking is the word of the day on "There Stands
the Glass" and sadness is the stuff of "Color of the Blues". And through the
course of fourteen classic cuts, Loveless demonstrates that certain wounds are
lingering, lasting and sometimes, permanent.
The album itself is a lesson in loneliness. It's a testament to the art form of
country music, warts and all. It shows how the genre, as with almost any style
of music from blues to gospel to jazz, is born out of pain. It's an emotion that
is part of the deep roots of music, and this pain takes on many names when
directed by the voice of one of country music's finest artists ever. As a whole,
Sleepless Nights makes a fascinating case study in sadness.
A shift in how country music is approached has caused the often harsh realities
of heartache and hurt to be glossed over in favor of uplifting tunes that
encourage determination and denial rather than facing these fears and failings.
But throughout her career, Loveless has found true connection to material that
spells out such sorrowful times. While a number of country music's classic
artists have demonstrated the difficulties of hard living in their songs, it is
hard loving that has caused the characters in these songs to reach the brink.
That consuming, fiery feeling which is unyielding and often unreturned. And
Loveless' plaintive voice shows full awareness that love is most painful when it
cannot be given equally by those that trade in it, and the sad songs here prove
it.
And of course, it's the sad songs to which she has always seemed most perfectly
suited. The ballads that may be unfamiliar to many listeners are the real
keepers here. Her yearning vocals on "The Pain of Loving You" (a hidden gem from
Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner) gains new meaning and measure through the
longing in the Loveless voice. On the most haunting track, the title cut
recorded previously by the Everly Brothers and Emmylou Harris, Loveless sings of
a woman in dire need of her old love. From the depths of despair, she still
manages to keep faith that her broken heart will be repaired. As she wails and
wonders openly to her former flame "Why did you go?" with the piercing pain in
her voice, she's complemented by a beautiful harmony vocal from Vince Gill. The
Davis sisters' "I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know" is also fiercely sung (and
assisted by a wonderfully melodic steel guitar), yet recognizes that the sting
is a powerful thing and will have to be endured.
Throughout the album, even the sad songs, Loveless and her supporting cast shine
with enjoyment and energy. Even though Sleepless Nights treads on serious
themes, the musical arrangements are not always so solemn. At times it's the
ultimate in what one could call "beautiful pain". On the first single, "Why,
Baby, Why", a reworking of the 1955 George Jones classic, Loveless leans into
the lyric with the mountainous twang that has become her trademark, and she
dances the line between desperate and defiant with great ease. On this track,
and other timeless tunes such as "Please Help Me, I'm Falling" and "Crazy Arms",
she fully acknowledges the marvelous delights of deep-rooted affection that have
created these painful situations. The musicians assist her with poignant, yet
pleasurable settings. Loveless proves that with the nuance in her voice and true
insight into what makes these relationships rewarding, regardless of the pain
involved. She excels at exploring the complexity in human relationships and how
these ties that bind are rarely crystal clear.
On any covers collection, the natural inclination is to compare the songs with
the original versions, but Loveless' musical identity and distinctive vocal
talent make the difference on Sleepless Nights. She even tackles "She Thinks I
Still Care", a George Jones staple and a neat shuffle that features a swaying
piano on the playing-pretend ballad. And although Webb Pierce's version of
"There Stands the Glass" is inimitable, Loveless (with a little fiddle at just
the right times) is able to make the song her own through her spirited and
sprightly vocal. The subtlety and sass on display is considerable and carefully
rendered. But examining this album from a song-by-song perspective would leave
the message ever-elusive. Sleepless Nights, as with all great country albums, is
meant to be enjoyed as a whole. And it's best viewed as an example of the
heart's push-and-pull, and Loveless' voice echoes with an understanding that
life is fully lived because of these experiences, not in spite of them.
In previewing the album, Loveless said, "It's a little bit of a history lesson,
but I think once you hear the songs, the stories... you're going to be drawn to
it". Although those involved with Sleepless Nights could never truly capture the
sound of these old recordings (technology and time have made that impossible),
they are able to capture their spirit. Loveless conjures up memories of an older
era of country music, and her fresh twist on these classics feels natural,
sounding like a channel to the past and a legend in the present.
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| Artist : Gabriella Cilmi |
| Album : Lessons To Be Learned |
| Bitrate : VBRkbps |
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| Source : CDDA |
| Label : Universal |
| Year : 2008 |
| Genre : Soul |
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| Rip date : 09-Apr-2008 |
| Store date : 00-000-0000 |
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| Encoder : LAME 3.97 -V2 --Vbr-New |
| Size : 64,4 MB |
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+--------------------------------[Track List]--------------------------------+
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| 01. Save The Lies 03:39 |
| 02. Sweet About Me 03:23 |
| 03. Sanctuary 03:29 |
| 04. Einstein 03:40 |
| 05. Got No Place To Go 03:24 |
| 06. Don't Want To Go To Be Bed Now 03:09 |
| 07. Messy 03:55 |
| 08. Awkward Game 03:28 |
| 09. Safer 03:25 |
| 10. Cigarettes & Lies 02:52 |
| 11. Terrifying 02:38 |
| 12. Sit In The Blues 03:24 |
| 13. Echo Beach (UK Bonus Track) 03:24 |
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