Patty Loveless Dreamin' My Dreams CD

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 Expectations
After such a long successful career, you have expectations of new material from an artist. Patty Lovess meets and excedes those expectations with her new CD, Dreamin' My Dreams. No other female country singer out there today has the true soul of country like Patty. From her opening into her first track 'til the last note of the final song, Patty leads you through a full range of styles, music tempos and emotions. Sit-back, ejoy and experience it all.
Submitted by Moo3621 (Lockport, IL) 
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 Great
This CD has the Best of Patty, country and Bluegrass
Submitted by rcb45 (woodbridge, VA, USA) 
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 splendid
When she got to Nashville, Patty Loveless knew her dreams had come true. That's what this splendid new album is about. "Keep your distance" gets you at once in the swing of things. In the style of "Mountain Soul" or "On Your Way Home". Patty has an extraordinary, thrilling voice. The voice is emotional, strong, warm and pure enough to put you under its spell. You can't listen to "When Being Who You Are Is Not Enough" or "Nobody Here By That Name" without feeling strong emotion. "Same Kind Of Crazy" shows you that Patty can also use drums (very reasonably indeed) to add some swing to a few tracks, allowing her to widen the scope of her repertoire and talent. It's been quite a clear change of style for a few years now, but that suits her perfectly. Richard Thompson, Jim Lauderdale, Julie and Buddy Miller, Leslie Satcher, Delbert Mc Clinton, Steve Earle, Delaney Bramlett, Tom Schuyler, Gary Nicholson, Tony Arata, Pete Wasner, Lee Roy Parnell and Allen Reynolds all play a part in this new album. What a dream! For every bluegrass/folk music fan. Know your fundamentals! FACM ( French Association of Country Music )
Submitted by facm69 (Lyon,France)
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 Wonderful Patty
Forget--at least for a moment--the controversy over the DRM and spyware Sony unwisely put onto this cd. DREAMIN' MY DREAMS is a joy. Patty just keeps getting better. She’s used one of her greatest skills–choosing wonderful and unexpected covers–to create (along with her great producer/husband, Emory Gordy) one of her finest recordings. Patty’s voice just keeps getting better, more subtle and more moving. She puts to shame nearly everyone else singing in Nashville, outdoing the Shania’s and Faith’s of the world by a mile, and welcoming the worlds of country, alt/country and mountain music in one moment. One clear indication of this is the importance she and Emory give to the instrumental players–including by giving them many long instrumental solos. Just look at the names: Emory himself (guitar), Stuart Duncan (on the fiddle everywhere here and on mandolin), Butch Lee (Telecaster and electric guitar), Ronnie McCoury (mandolin), Rob Ickes (dobro), Deanie Richardson (fiddle), Tom Britt (slide and electric guitar), Albert Lee (electric guitar), Bryan Sutton (banjo and guitar) and many others. One could write a monograph praising just the guitar work here. Superb harmony vocal work from Harry Stinson, Virgie Lee, Emmylou Harris (yes!), Carmelia Ramsey, Butch Lee, Claire Lynch (yes!), Tim Hensley and Jon Randall. Patty has selected such a winning combination of songs by great songwriters, including fun propulsive compositions by Richard Thompson (“Keep Your Distance”–a great opening number), Delaney Bramlett (a great duet with Dwight Yoakam on the famous “Never Ending Song of Love”) and Patty and Emory themselves (the hilarious “Big Chance”): OH, MAMA, DADDY, CAN ‘T YOU SEE? HOLLER’S CLOSIN’ IN ON ME COUSINS POURIN’ DOWN LIKE RAIN THEY’RE RUNNIN’ OUT OF GIVEN NAMES IT’S SO CROWDED I CAN’T BREATHE YOU NEED ONE LESS MOUTH TO FEED FORTY DOZEN HERE AT HOME YOU WONT’ MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE Patty’s singing is innovative and flexible throughout and always moving. Her mountain lonely voice is haunting, as always, and especially when accompanied by Stuart Duncan’s equally mournful fiddle. Sensational singing–simply one of our best stylists. Listeners will find their own favorites. Mine include: Lauderdale and Satcher’s “When Being Who You Are is Not Enough” (sung with Emmylou and Virgie Lee doing harmony), Alan Reynold’s lovely 70's waltz “Dreaming My Dreams with You,” Thom Schuyler’s “On the Verge of Tears” which allows Patty to open heart-rendingly with the words “oh, your memory still amazes me” and later “I’m gonna cry right now” (which you believe!), Steve Earle’s fine “My Old Friend the Blues” and Patty’s second recording of her husband’s and Joe Henry’s “When I Reach the Place I’m Going.” There are even two brief, lovely, acoustic bonus cuts (Patty on the guitar?) which exemplify why Patty’s so special. Enjoy.
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 Correction
In my original review I meant to check 5 stars but I overlooked the rating box.
Submitted by JSP54 (Cincinnati, Ohio)
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