Patty Loveless dedicated her performance at the Library of Congress Wednesday night (Nov. 16) to her sister, Dottie, who was only 48 when she died of emphysema. Wednesday was National COPD Day (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder), and emphysema is a form of COPD.
Patty was part of the CMA Songwriters Series, which was making a return [...]
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Interview & Article Archive
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Loveless to Kick off DRIVE4COPD Campaign
The Drive4COPD campaign, a multiyear initiative aimed at promoting awareness of the need for early detection of COPD, features NASCAR driver Danica Patrick, actor Jim Belushi, Olympic medalist Bruce Jenner, musician Patty Loveless and football great Michael Strahan. All have close family members affected by bronchitis or emphysema.
Loveless will kick [...]
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Holler Back: Patty Loveless Releases ‘Mountain Soul II’
Holler Back: Patty Loveless Releases ‘Mountain Soul II’
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With a voice like a wrecking ball made of honey, Patty Loveless tears into the opening lines of Harlan Howard’s 1962 classic “Busted,” the first song on Mountain Soul II, the long-awaited continuation of the critically acclaimed 2001 album that laid bare the Kentucky [...]
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From USO to the American Dream
From USO to the American Dream
By Christian Anderson – GX
Her voice is clear and sweet, and if you listen to her songs at just the right time, you might think angels were singing to you. There is no doubt in my mind that the Soldiers who listened to her sing during the holidays one year [...]
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9 QUESTIONS: Patty Loveless keeps shaking a leg
By: Bill Lynch
IF YOU GO Mountain Stage begins 6 p.m. Sunday in the Cultural Center Theater, state Capitol Complex, with Patty Loveless, Marty Stuart, Mary Gauthier and Hayes Carll. Tickets $10.50 advance, $15 at the door. For show updates, call 556-4975, ext. 3. For advance tickets, visit www.mountain stage.org, Taylor Books at 226 Capitol St. [...]
Loveless Dedicates D.C. Performance to Late Sister
On November - 18 - 2011
Categories: 2011, drive4copd, interview
Loveless, Black draw D.C. crowd…
On November - 17 - 2011
Loveless, Black draw D.C. crowd, but lesser-known songwriters steal show
Patty Loveless and Clint Black may have been the most famous names on stage at the Country Music Association Songwriters Series event Wednesday night, but the two musicians on either side of them — songwriters Bob DiPiero and Tim Nichols — stole the show.
“I’m a world-famous [...]
Categories: 2011, drive4copd, interview
Loveless Wants to Sing with Michelle Obama
On November - 16 - 2011
If Patty Loveless has her way, she’ll be dueting with Michelle Obama on her next cross-country album tour. The Grammy Award-winning entertainer was in Washington on Wednesday for a Country Music Association-sponsored concert at the Library of Congress and to recognize World COPD Day. Her sister, Dottie, died of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the [...]
Categories: 2011, drive4copd, interview
The “Honky-Tonk Angel” breathes life into a new cause
On April - 13 - 2011
At fifty-four, country songstress Patty Loveless can still belt out tunes in a rich, Kentucky-bred lilt and shimmy blithely around a stage, her strawberry-blond shag swinging. But the Paulding County resident and Georgia Music Hall of Famer doesn’t take for granted that she can breathe well enough to do so. Her older sister, Dottie—a spunky [...]
Categories: 2011, drive4copd, interview
Generations apart, Molly O’Day, Patty Loveless enter KYHOF together
On April - 7 - 2011
Music abounded in Patty Lee Ramey’s home when she was growing up in Pike County. Among the singers to inspire the singer who became multiplatinum-selling artist Patty Loveless, and her family, was fellow Eastern Kentucky native Molly O’Day.
“Molly was an artist my mother listened to many, many years ago,” Loveless, 54, said. “There was this [...]
Loveless was Sensational
On November - 18 - 2010
By Jeff DeDekker
I had high hopes for Patty Loveless’s show at the Casino Regina last night and I’m happy to report that she didn’t disappoint. Taking the stage at 8:30 p.m. on the nose, Loveless wasted little time showing she still had the singing chops. As I tweeted last night, it took only to [...]
Categories: 2010, concert review
Loveless flying high on the applause-o-meter
On September - 22 - 2010
Loveless flying high on the applause-o-meter
By Mike Morsch
After spending a week touring Switzerland, one of the things that Patty Loveless learned is that the Swiss country music fans know how to applaud.
And applaud and applaud and applaud.
“It was kind of like I was very fresh to them,” said Loveless in a telephone interview last week, [...]
Categories: 2010, interview, newspaper article, online article
Lambert and Loveless Build a ‘House’ Together
On September - 19 - 2010
Lambert and Loveless Build a ‘House’ Together
Miranda Lambert and Patty Loveless fans who attended their concert on September 11 – which also included Craig Morgan- had a special treat when the pair performed two duets. Miranda invited Patty to join her on ‘The House That Built Me,’ and then joined Patty when she sang her [...]
Categories: 2010
