Strong Heart.txt
Patty Loveless - Strong Heart (2000)
Audio CD - Epic EK 69880
Original Release Date: August 29, 2000
Total time - 42:23
Track Listing:
01 - You're So Cool
02 - The Last Thing on My Mind
03 - My Heart Will Never Break This Way Again
04 - You Don't Get No More
05 - That's the Kind of Mood I'm In
06 - Thirsty
07 - Strong Heart
08 - The Key of Love
09 - She Never Stopped Loving Him
10 - Pieces on the Ground
Personnel:
Patty Loveless - vocals
Emory Gordy, Jr. - bass
Steve Nathan - keyboards
Craig Nelson - double bass
Leslie Norton - French horn
Russ Pahl - steel guitar, 12 string guitar
Kathryn Plummer - viola
Pamela Sixfin - fiddle
Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
John Barlow Jarvis - keyboards
Butch Lee - acoustic guitar
Jimmy Hall - harmonica
Richard bennett - guitar
Dan Dugmore - steel guitar
Stuart Duncan - Fiddle
Paul Franklin - steel guitar
Craig Kampf - drums
Mike Lawler - keyboards
Jerry Douglas - dobro, lap steel guitar
Liana Manis - backing vocals
Carmella Ramsey - backing vocals
Billy Thomas - backing vocals
Rebecca Lynn Howard - backing vocals
Ricky Skaggs - backing vocals
Review from All Music Guide:
(4 1/2 STARS)
"I tell you what, we're in a rut," Patty Loveless sang in "That's the Kind of Mood I'm In," the single released in May 2000 in advance of her tenth album, Strong Heart, which followed in August. The song, a plea from one lover to another to shake up a stale romance, also worked as an unintended metaphor for Loveless' career, as the 43-year-old, who had enjoyed widespread success in country music from the late '80s to the mid-'90s, struggled to stand up to a newly pop-oriented Nashville. "That's the Kind of Mood I'm In" bowed somewhat to Faith Hill's approach, though (to its credit) it ended up sounding more Cajun than crossover, but by the time Strong Heart was released it had only gotten into the lower reaches of the country Top 40, not boding well for the album's commercial prospects. Even so, it turns out to be another well-balanced set of songs from a singer who can give effective performances in a variety of styles and tempos. The most impressive harder-rocking tunes are "You Don't Get No More," which sounds like a ZZ Top song, and the bluesy "The Key of Love," songs you can imagine Loveless singing in a roadhouse on a Saturday night. The chaste ballads "My Heart Will Never Break This Way Again" and "Thirsty" (the latter featuring Travis Tritt on harmony vocals) sound like singles, but the song that cries out to be a country hit is "She Never Stopped Loving Him," one of those big, sentimental, string-filled country ballads that ends in the cemetery. True to form, Loveless and Gordy somewhat underplay it, when this kind of tearjerker should be done all out or not at all. At any rate, Strong Heart is a worthy addition to her catalog.
~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
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