Patty & Emory are #1 on the Billboard Bluegrass Charts again with MS II, which currently makes 5 weeks straight!

She ranks #41 on the Billboard Country Charts.

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Most PLN'ers have finally returned home from a weekend full of shows. We had a wonderful turn out this weekend, and PLN took up almost every single one of the front tables at the Birchmere on Sunday night.

Photos & Reviews are forthcoming, and should be up sometime this week, and of course, there is plenty of concert chatter on the message boards.

Patty also has a new date...

Sat 03/13/10: Plant City, FL @ the Florida Strawberry Festival Grounds

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By: Chris Parton

Patty Loveless started off her show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium Monday night (Nov. 2) by saying that it was good to be home. The Georgia resident did formerly live here in Middle Tennessee but I suspect the remark also had something to do with setting the audience up for a night of rootsy, down-home music. With the stage decorated with throw rugs, vintage lamps and acoustic instruments, she repeatedly referred to it as her living room and treated the crowd with the warm and friendly manner of a hostess being asked to sing for her guests. And they kept asking for about two hours, with Loveless reminding fans that they were "in it for the long-haul." Two hours may not seem that long, but with the emotional roller-coaster she took us on, I don't think a crowd could handle much more.

Loveless sampled tunes from across her 23-year recording career, including "The Night's too Long" (written by Lucinda Williams), "Nothin' but the Wheel" (from Only What I Feel) and "You Don't Seem to Miss Me" (her 1998 CMA-winning duet with George Jones), to more recent interpretations like the beautiful "Crazy Arms" and resolute "Busted." But plenty of attention was given to Mountain Soul II -- a roller-coaster in its own right. When combined with Loveless' evocative voice, songs like Mike Henderson's "Prisoner's Tears" could wilt even the most steadfast optimist into a slobbering mess while Tony Arata's "Handful of Dust" could restore one's faith in true love. The highlight of the night for me, though, was dedicated to coal miners who still risk their lives everyday. Put simply, I've never heard a more desperate and powerful rendition of "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive." Makes you wonder if hanging out in Patty Loveless' living room is always this emotional. I sure hope she has a garden or something.

-CMT.com

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By Julie Thanki

"I want you to feel like you're in my living room," Patty Loveless said to a worshipful Birchmere crowd Sunday night. The giant '30s console radio and table lamps onstage certainly added to the effect as the honey-voiced Loveless delivered two hours of country and bluegrass music, or, as she put it, "sharing music about real people and real life situations."

(A pair of standing ovations and covers of George Jones and Emmylou Harris, after the jump.)

The set list was organized in roughly chronological order, beginning with her cover of Lucinda Williams' "The Night's Too Long" (a Loveless single in 1990), progressing to timeless country songs by Ray Price and George Jones from her covers album "Sleepless Nights," and ending with a block of bluegrass music, her most recent endeavor, with a few deep cuts -- and a rowdy singalong of her biggest hit "Blame It On Your Heart" -- thrown in for good measure.

Though Loveless was in good spirits, teasing her band members and joking with audience members, two somber moments punctuated the evening. Loveless, a coalminer's daughter (her father died of black lung), brought the crowd to their feet with her stunning bluegrass version of "You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive," dedicated to her late parents, who had "the best seat in the house." She also dedicated "Too Many Memories" to the late Stephen Bruton, fighting tears as she ended the song with a sincere "Thank you, Stephen."

An encore that included Emmylou Harris' gospel song "Diamond in My Crown" brought the Birchmere crowd to its feet once more. The last one to exit the stage, Patty Loveless turned out the lights.

-Washington Post

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by Peter Cooper/ Tennessean


Right about the time Patty Loveless stopped having hit records on country radio, her music started getting better.

Funny how that works.

“I’ve come to a point in my life when I don’t need to be concerned about what next single I come out with,” said Loveless, whose new album, Mountain Soul II, is as fine a vehicle for her voice and sensibilities as anything she’s released. “I think with each project, I’m freeing myself up more.”

Loveless plays Monday, Nov. 2, at the Ryman, as part of a listener-appreciation show for WSM-AM 650. That station has played Loveless’ hits for 20 years, including “Timber, I’m Falling In Love,” “Chains,” “Blame It On Your Heart,” “You Can Feel Bad” and “Halfway Down.” WSM played “You Don’t Seem To Miss Me” in heavy rotation in the late 1990s, when some stations declined to program that ballad because George Jones sang the harmony vocals. (George Jones, apparently, not being appropriate for country radio.)

These days, Loveless doesn’t have demographic worries, and she and producer (and husband) Emory Gordy Jr. are free to choose the singers and players they want, without concern for who is hot. Del McCoury, Vince Gill, Jon Randall, Rebecca Lynn Howard and Emmylou Harris all sing on Mountain Soul II with Loveless, as does Sydni Perry, a teenage vocalist and musician who met Loveless in an autograph line.

“Sydni is 16,” Loveless said. “I met her when she was 9. She and her parents were standing in line to meet me, after a show I did at Tower Records at Opry Mills. In 2005, my fiddler, Deanie Richardson, had started a music and dance school, and Sydni became one of her students. It turns out that she’s a great, great singer, and Emory and I wound up using her on the last record, Sleepless Nights. She went into the studio on that, and on this, and held her own. She sang with Carl Jackson on ‘Fool’s Thin Air’ and with Ronnie McCoury on ‘Handful of Dust.’ ”

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