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Patty actually left Epic before it closed it’s doors. She requested in February of 06 to be let out of her contract, and they allowed it, perhaps seeing what was coming. I cant blame her. This was an incredible cd, and was notgiven the attention it deserved due to poor promotion and that god awful copyright protection on it that was eventually re-called. Not before it ruined a bunch of users computers though. Some saved with the patch, some not. (So note if you buy this cd used BE CAUTIOUS and MAKE SURE you know what version you are buying beforehand!)
A shame because this is incredible. “Nobody Here by that Name” is absolutely breathtaking.
Patty cut “When I Reach…” on a Red Hot & Country compilation years back and I was always wanting it on one of her cds. I was DELIGHTED when they put it on DMD, and the version they delivered gave me chills. WOW.
AMAZING. Grade A well deserved.
I had almost forgotten about the anit-piracy thing that was installed in some CDs back then. That did hurt this and a few other releases at the time. I remember Shelly Fairchild’s album having the same copyright protection on it. It didn’t crash my computer though – just wouldn’t let me burn it and played in a separate media player all its own. At least that’s the version I got … maybe I got a later release.
The same thing happened with Jon Randall’s Walking Among the Living album, which deserved more attention.
I like this album a lot. It’s worth mentioning that Dwight Yoakam is prominently featured on “Never Ending Song of Love.” The song is also on John Fogerty’s new album, though not as good as Patty’s. “My Old Friend the Blues” is probably my favorite on the album. This album is kind of a mix of genres, which is both cool and jarring. I think that if they had sequenced the tracks more evenly, it wouldn’t be so jarring. It’s just good that I typically listen to my music on shuffle more than albums straight through.
Thats the only problem I ever had with mine as well JR, I just couldnt burn it. It crashed the wife’s computer. It didn’t start off that way, it was their “PATCH” to fix the errors it caused that ended up crashing her computer. We had to buy a new PC for her. Their consolotation was our money back for the PL cd and a clean copy of it.
It is interesting how this album starts out contemporary and then switches gears about halfway through. I really don’t find it jarring, though. Somehow it works. I would be interested in knowing the thought process behind it, though.
Patty has indicated that she tries to reproduce a “Patty Loveless concert experience” with some of her albums..with a mix of acoustic and electric. (I think especially with On Your Way Home and her Dreamin’ My Dreams records) She’s opened some of her concerts in the past with Keep Your Distance, and made a mix of contemporary, electric and acoustic, often ending with a spiritual or inspirational song as her encore, as she ends so many of her albums as well.
I think it works too, Razor…and Leeann, I love the combo of Never Ending Song of Love leading into Big Chance..No surprise that I love Patty and Dwights version of NESOL the best, even better than the original. ;).
Nice review J R, I agree about the cohesion of the album, I think it works just fine, again I agree with your grade ( you folks have GREAT taste here, and a highly developed sense of artistic discernment. 😉 )
This album and the single Keep Your Distance deserved to do so much better. When I first saw the video for KYD, I thought to myself that the song and the video would shoot right up to number one, for sure. But 2005 was the year I grew up, woke up, and reaized that Nashville had sold it’s musical soul. So a soulful, real Mountain-Country song like Keep Your Distance never stood a chance. It was never in the cards that KYD woud be properly appreciated by a souless, Music-Row establishment.
And wow, what an album closer in When I Reach the Place I’m Going…Inspired and inspiring mountain melismatic vocals by the Queen of Mountain Soul, poetically moving lyrics by husband Emory, and a veritable symphony of Appalachian acoustic textures…It just doesn’t get any better than this.
To me, since the songs are such quality, it works. However, as a practice, I’d rather the styles be interspersed with each other. Then again, I could find that jarring as well. I’ve noticed that sequencing is something that I don’t always agree with on Loveless albums though.