bunnetune : Hind sight is 20/20 but when we're in love we don't listen anyway gave everything to this person...listen to friends next ain't gonna happen, her voice aches but a little lighter to help us see the fool in love

ceejey : I love the way the Lyrics link the things that are of great value in this world. Then link them to a broken heart over Love gone wrong. Then makes you think of what is really important in life. I love all the songs on Mountain Soul, but this is one of my top three or four favorites

Becky : this one is pure old time country like it used to be. Becky : Carmella and Patty sound so great together. And Patty adds just the right "twang" to it

Larry : yeah, Stone Country. Not a hint of Pop here

bunnetune : almost sounds like one voice a natural not fake twang might i add

Becky : no, Patty NEVER has a fake twang....that's what makes her country. Hey, this song is so true too....I'd be so rich, if I could count up all the heartaches in my life and make em silver! I have to listen to it, to remember just what makes each song so special to me. I've heard the darn thing about 7 times today....lol

DANIEL PRAYED

Becky : Daniel Prayed, now this one is nothing but pure southern bluegrass Gospel! AND Ricky's mandolin, along with Deanie and Stuart's twin fiddling.....nothing makes bluegrass better than fiddle and mandolin...making them whine like a train! That mandolin pick up, lets ya know your in for a good one

Larry : The harmonies in it are simply outstanding. Ricky Skaggs really makes it. Larry : I like the way the Dobro counterpoints the mandolin and fiddles.

ceejey : I first heard Patty do this song live in concert a few years ago. That's when I knew she just had to make a bluegrass album one day!

bunnetune : reminds me of songs i grew up listening to in church ...harmonies are sensational. I like the way Ricky takes the lead in the chorus she has a generous heart to let someone else sing lead. It is very scriptural and offers us a challenge to be like Daniel and I like that. And the ending is penetrating!

Larry : You know, the thought just struck me. This CD is just like sitting front row center at one of her concerts.

bunnetune : Or sitting in a small room while she sings just to us that is how i feel when i listen to it

Becky: Like I was saying in another forum today Larry, I think what makes a CD sound so much like a live concert, is using the musicians that she's used to playing with, give or take a few. I really don't go for these stand-ins who do nothing but session work, they don't know what it's like to do live music....makes a big difference. And oh, how I love hearing Carmella and Patty do that harmony

ceejey : Well, Patty has always surrounded herself with great musicians. This album has a real traditional flare to it that lends so much credibility to the whole project.

SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW

Becky : Someone I used to Know is another traditional country tune, and Patty does it well. Great musicianship in this one too. Is that a dobro in that one?

ceejey : Someone I used to Know is a real favorite of mine. I love how it starts off with the harmony vocals. Then builds from there

Larry : Mine too. Got that Porter/Dolly, Conway/Loretta feeling to it. Was first done by George Jones and Tammy Wynette.

bunnetune : starting with just voices sets the mood for this song some things are to painful to talk about and Patty's voice shows that in this song. The vocals sound like a gnawing wound that can't be healed.

ceejey : and how many people have actually lived this song? You know, someone in your past that still means a lot to you that maybe you carried a picture of long after the relationship was over.

OUT OF CONTROL RAGING FIRE

Becky : Ok, this one is another great one for a duet. What a sound when you get Patty and Travis Tritt together, whoa baby! Pure country here! This is one of my favorites too. Reminds me of Kenny Rogers and Dotty West

Larry : Never considered Travis and Patty as duet partners, but they are great!

ceejey : Great duet with new found partner in Travis Tritt, and if you stop and think about this song, it is loaded with passion. Oh, and the harmony's on the ending are so totally amazing where it slows down and they follow each other with just the vocals.

bunnetune : Yes! Travis’ and Patty’s voices together are chilling. Now this one reminds me of Twitty and Lynn. Great words to describe passion mingled with lost love. bunnetune : I feel there is a little remorse but the feelings are too great to control the fire. This is a masterpiece!

Larry : Lets you know that no matter what the reason for breaking up, the passion/love was there and the fire can be lit again.

Becky : I tell you what, everytime I hear this song, I'm more and more amazed at Patty's voice and abilities. Like the way she and Travis hit and hold “firrrreeeee” at the end.

Larry : Yep, you got it!

RISE UP LAZARUS

Becky : Then she moves on to Lazarus, and belts it some more! Four part harmony; nothing better! Southern gospel bluegrass at it's best! Tater Tate....great musician....plays bass, sings bass, and I've never heard Deanie play her fiddle any better.

Larry : This is the only song of hers where she has had a bass singer in it, and mercy, does it work!!

ceejey : yeah. This song just flat out rocks, (or Bluegrass's, lol.) Yes the Bass harmony along with the rest of the vocals and of course a great gospel message.

bunnetune : this is purely sweet depicts our Lord this melts my heart it is as if she is talking to us. This takes me back to camp meetings filled with gospel music. The joy of resurrection day. I want to shout when this one plays. You know in the bible David danced when the ark came back to them. I believe this song gives that same excited feeling

Larry : She and Emory really got that gospel, tent meeting flavor dead solid perfect! When I first heard it, I thought it was a gospel standard, not newly written

Becky : Amen Larry! I would have LOVED to have watched Deanie play that one....hope to see her perform it at concert sometime. Becky : like being out on the back porch with Deanie, and her friends.....oh how I love it

ceejey : I can picture the tent, and all the coalminers gathered on their Sunday off listening to great music and a fire and brimstone preacher following the music

CHEAP WHISKEY ceejey : Cheap Whiskey, co written by Emory Gordy, along with Jim Rushing.

Becky : Cheap Whiskey....one of my favorites. it's soooooooo good, pure old time country at it's best

bunnetune : the instruments give us this feeling of time ticking away and I like the way that it sets the mood. The mandolin is simply awesome! Patty’s voice gives me that feeling of pacing the floor or rocking in a room all alone.

ceejey: Patty sings it the way it's supposed to be sung. A genuine ache, with so much soul and feeling. If you stop and think about this song, there is a real devastating picture painted here

Becky : pure country music. Great harmony, Tim Hensley, Carmella Ramsey and Patty. And Tim's mandolin playing adds that great sound to it

bunnetune : i like when it says the darkness is the worst of time

Becky : and it still echoes her warning.....but yet, dumb soul does it anyway

ceejey : again, that happens every day in real life. “The thing that will haunt him for the rest of his life is the smell of cheap whiskey and the sound of goodbye.”

bunnetune : like a slow painful death. But being sober now brings the reality of his loss; realized love but too late

Becky : yes CJ, the picture is, the warning is there, that there can only be one real love in his life, and if whiskey's it, then she aint....but he's got a sickness, and he can't help it. He knows he loves her, but the whiskey is calling his name

PRETTY LITTLE MISS

Larry : Yes!! This is great bluegrass! Ain't nobody plays the 5 string banjo like Earl Scruggs!

ceejey : yes I love this song.

Becky : this one is where I wanna kickoff my shoes and get barefoot.....real bluegrass at it's best! Toe tapping, clapping, upbeat music. Twin fiddles, Earl Scrugs on the banjo, Travis Tritt and Patty Loveless.....now there's some down home mountain music!

bunnetune : took me back to my first and only true love in high school. The rhythm is the same way my heart would beat when this guy came around. I love it!!"

ceejey : what is the line about getting married "when I turn twelve this summer?"

Larry : Well, dem mountain girls start early LOL

ceejey: Yes and Patty's Kentucky roots really shine on this song gives you the feeling of mountain folk maybe 75 years ago or so

Becky : takes a perfectionist to get timing like Patty has in this one too....so fast and upbeat, I can barely keep up

Larry : The vocals are sort of complicated on it too.

bunnetune : yeah heartbreak with an uptempo music

Becky : this is MY kind of bluegrass...the way I'm used to hearing it played

I KNOW YOU'RE MARRIED (BUT I LOVE YOU STILL)

ceejey : what a powerful picture this song paints! Again, this is another song where Patty pays close attention to the story line and message of the song, a real Patty Loveless trade mark through out her career

bunnetune : Good use of alliteration that can be tongue-tieing. The vocals show twinges of love accompanied by pain. It's very painful to love when you know it will never or should never be. Love at first sight but walks alone at the end.

Larry : Larry : Also a pretty big shot of defiance. She ain't gonna let a little thing like marriage stop her. Again, had I not known it was newly written, I would have figured it for an old standard. This is Travis Tritt again, right?

Becky : Right Larry. This one is a big hit I think, great duet material

SORROWFUL ANGELS

Becky : oh boy, this one is a great one, and the fiddle is awesome, even if Deanie isn't playing. "True love given and denied.." How heartbreaking! Stuart makes that fiddle cry almost as much as Patty's voice, and Rebecca Lynn Howard hits those high notes with such ease. This is definitely my favorite cut on the album.

Larry : If this one doesn't make your heart break, you are dead! Amazing how much pain, ache and sorrow can be put into one 3 minute song. Oh, Rebecca Lynn is superb on this cut. Two mountain girls that can sing about heartache and lost love like no others.

ceejey : yeah this song is maybe one of the top two on the CD. Patty has a genuine ache in her voice, this is the soul of Patty Loveless at its best

bunnetune : I love the way she sings denied there is a natural break in her voice that grips the soul. "She shined for him like candlelight.." Such a beautiful choice of comparison. The epitome of heartache when "Sorrowful angels weep into their wings." these are powerful words with vocals that makes the heart beat with agony as it listens do you feel like your heart has bled after hearing this one i do there is a pleading for comfort. The music here is so soft and melancholy it is breathtaking

SOUL OF CONSTANT SORROW

Larry : Patty's voice in constant Sorrow is simply overpowering. I get so lost in her voice I lose the song, if that makes any sense.

Becky : Yeah Larry, another one where I sit in wonder about her voice. Becky : Patty was born to sing this song. Patty and Ricky Skaggs again....man they can tear up some bluegrass

Bunnetune : In this song, Patty's voice has a deep, throbbing pain in it. I get chills when I listen to it.

ceejey : this song absolutely cried out for Patty to sing it. This is the reason that Patty has a perfect right to be doing this album. She has lived these songs, and grown up on this kind of music

YOU'LL NEVER LEAVE HARLAN ALIVE

Larry : As usual, I can't imagine anyone else doing these songs, but you have Rhonda Vincent doing one and Brad Paisley doing Harlan.

bunnetune : coal in the mountains and hearts of fathers filled with love to provide for family. You give all to give the best to your family. I love line "diggin' coal from bottom of your grave.." that says it all; it is an epitaph to coal miners.

Ceejey : the second song with reference to Harlan in it. ceejey : and this is the greatest story song on the cd, the greatest story song ever written. "In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky ceejey : Thats the place where I traced my bloodline. And its there I read on a hillside gravetone, you'll never leave Harlan alive." Totally awesome!! And in the end when one family seemingly breaks free from Harlan only to have grandad go back. But he never leaves Harlan alive.

Larry : Whoever wrote that song has coal dust in his veins.

Becky : Another marvelous Patty Loveless ballad, full of soul. This is another song that I'd love to see Deanie perform. Hear that lonesome fiddle? oh man! Listen to Patty, Jeff White and Carmella harmonize at the end

Larry : And that fantastic Patty humming too. Sometimes you can't tell what is fiddle and what is Patty. I love that!

Becky : oh yeah....so soulful! I've never heard anybody hum like she does....can't you just imagine her rocking a baby to sleep with that humming?

bunnetune : Like I said it is an epitaph to the coal miners. They were a sacrifial lot; family always came first

TWO COATS

ceejey : Two Coats, the third and final Gospel song on the CD. Patty sings this song with almost a blues flare. great story line. ceejey : I took off the old coat and put on the new. unless a man is born again he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. Emory really captured the truth of the Gospel with this song.

Larry : Another Emory Gordy Jr. Masterpiece. Larry : Patty's singing is the main focus, but the harmonies on it just make the vocal parts.

Becky : this song reminds me of Pretty Polly....maybe its the Stanley in it...lol. Becky : another one you can hear Carmella and Tim Hensley harmonizing so well in

bunnetune : a song of redemption.....with each having a personal choice. I love "the best thing i ever did do.." great line. A coat for all occasions

SOUNDS OF LONELINESS

Larry : Now, my total favorite on the cd. Sounds of Loneliness

bunnetune : the way it should have been done to begin with

Becky : ok, has anybody ever heard Deanie make that fiddle whine like that? this song sounds like it's nothing but Patty and Deanie's fiddle.....at least that's mostly what I hear

Larry : Can you guys see Patty Ramey sitting in the kitchen playing this song for her daddy and not get a tear?

Becky : nope

ceejey : I think of that every time I hear this song, and guess what happens, I have to wipe my eyes

bunnetune : yes and I see him wiping his tears and saying "Play it again darlin'."

Becky : Ok, who can tell the difference in Patty's hum and Deanie's fiddle at the end?

Larry: Not me! What is so neat about this song is the last almost minute and a half is that spellbinding Patty humming.

bunnetune : do you guys think it sounds celtic at the beginning or do i have the wrong word.

Larry : Yes, Brenda, it is celtic in flavor.

Becky : special fiddle tuning to make it sound like a bagpipe drone. I've heard Deanie make the fiddle sound like a train, a humming bird, and a whipporwill. No reason why she couldn't make it sound like a bagpipe.

bunnetune: It has such a neat sound. Much prettier than bagpipes though. I think it is much better arranged than first recording, and I really liked the first version of it. Ole Porter realized how good it was didn't he?

Larry : One thing I would like to talk about before we close is the production by Emory. Larry : I don't think anyone else could have done this project. Larry : I think there were other producers on individual songs, but the overall production is his.

Becky : Me either...I think the project is a reflection of Emory Gordy, Jr. AND Patty Loveless....it couldn't have been done by anyone else.

ceejey: I agree one hundred percent Larry and Becky. Emory Gordy Jr. is the best producer in Nashville, period.

bunnetune : no one else had the heart too, this is simply a masterpiece. Ie is in tune with her heart and soul and the two beat as one.