12/13/2023 0 Comments Music in all these sleepless nights![]() ![]() Jedd Hughes makes an appearance on "That's All It Took" to reclaim this song from the shelves. While a song like "There Stands the Glass" has been recorded many times, this is the only version that comes close to the Webb Pierce hit. He showers them in emotion and Loveless simply needs to open her mouth to tell the story behind the words to get it across to the listener, where it resonates deeply. ![]() Gordy's production understands that the object of accompaniment is to be true to the song and drenches these tunes in pedal steel, hushed, shuffling drums, fiddles, electric guitars, and Hargus "Pig" Robbins' piano. From Felice & Boudleaux Bryant's title track (sung with Vince Gill), Ralph Mooney's "Crazy Arms," that scored big for Ray Price, and "Why Baby Why," a tune George Jones co-wrote (his presence is invoked either as a songwriter or as an inspiration no less than four times here), and Dickey Lee's "He Thinks I Still Care," (a hit for Jones who replaced the pronoun), Loveless takes each of these cuts deep into the well of her heart and let's them rip. They were recorded with genuine attraction and enthusiasm by an artist whose voice signifies the very best of the tradition's qualities - without falling into the museum-piece trap. These 14 songs, chosen from hundreds and produced by her celebrated husband, Emory Gordy, Jr., are all from the canon and undisputed classics of the repertoire. Having begun her professional career as a songwriter at the age of 14, at 51 she's a seasoned veteran with an authentic story - raised in a holler by a coal-mining father, she began singing with her brother at the age of 12. Since much of contemporary country borrows so heavily from the clichéd production standards - not to mention compositional styles - of '70s and '80s rock, both north and south of the Mason Dixon line, it takes a talent as big as Patty Loveless' to remind the punters where the music came from and what qualities make it timeless and immeasurably valuable.Īs writer Holly Gleason's fine liner essay attests, Loveless has long been one of country music's gentry artists (a genuine lineage holder to the tradition). Even in high budget films I feel like the crowd in the background is fake and they aren’t dancing to the actual music, or people are pretending to be drunk, so I really wanted that authenticity of Warsaw and I knew I couldn’t do anything that would distract or interfere with the mode and atmosphere I wanted to capture.Who would have thought that recording an album of classic country tunes from a bygone era would be the most radical act a country artist could commit? When it's 2008 and contemporary country sounds are wound so deep in an identity crisis that threatens to exhaust every bit of its vitality and creativity. When I knew I wanted to do this I knew there wasn’t enough really good young actors that had that new vibe to them, or that represented the style of how I wanted to tell the story, so I knew I would have to work with non-actors or people off the streets, because that’s where the energy is. That was the idea of the structure of the film was to make a movie of moments where the audience has to connect the dots. All those crazy and random things that happened, I’m only now making sense of it. That’s how I felt when I got into my 30s. I really wanted to make a film about youth and all those crazy emotions associated with it and the fragmentary nature of it and how once you are past that period in your life you have to look back and make your own narrative about it. ![]()
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