Inspired by her critically acclaimed and commercial hit album, Mountain Soul, comes the long-awaited followup. Here Patty's Kentucky roots shine through, featuring her crystalline country vocals amid bluegrass-tinged accompaniment. Patty is surrounded by a stellar supporting cast including country and bluegrass legends Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Al Perkins, and Del and Ronnie McCoury.

From Patty Loveless: "Just like the first “Mountain Soul”, we recorded "Mountain Soul 2" “live” in 4 days. All musicians and vocalists performed “real-time”. And some vocalists also played and sang at the same time. “Live”....what a concept! Although the title of the album is “Mountain Soul 2”, it’s really not a recreation of the original “Mountain Soul”. It’s a continuation, an extension, an update.

For Mountain Soul 2, I performed the original lyrics of “Busted”. Harlan Howard had written the song in the early 60’s and it was about coal-miners. He changed the lyrics to cotton-farming to accommodate a request from an artist whose background didn’t involve coal-mining. Harlan gave a copy of the original lyrics (about a coal-miners family) to my husband/producer, Emory Gordy Jr many years ago, and when it came time to do this album, Emory pulled out these old lyrics.

“Prisoner’s Tears” was originally done by Jon Randall, but the record was shelved, and the song never saw light. At first I had trouble with the idea of a woman in prison, but the lyrics are even more potent from a female standpoint.

“A Handful of Dust” was on my second Epic album (When Fallen Angels Fly), and I felt that it hadn’t received the attention it deserved. It’s a wonderful lyric from the pen of the brilliant Tony Arata." Mountain Soul 2 features these 3 songs plus 12 others.

Listen to Busted

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