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1	Patricia Lee Ramey (born January 4, 1957), better known as Patty Loveless, is a CountryMusic singer from Pikeville, Kentucky. After many years working as a singer, and a stint in the Wilburn Brothers' band, Loveless wound up in Nashville in the mid-1980s. Her first few albums on [[Creator/{{MCA}} MCA Records]] were modest successes, building up to her first #1 hit "Timber, I'm Falling in Love" in 1989. While at MCA, she scored other big hits with "Chains", "On Down the Line", "I'm that Kind of Girl", and "Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)" among others.
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3	After a vocal cord surgery put her career on hiatus for most of 1992, she moved to Creator/EpicRecords. Throughout her tenure with them, she continued to have huge hits with the likes of "I Try to Think About Elvis", "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye", "You Can Feel Bad", and "Lonely Too Long". Although the hit making largely dried up in the 21st century, she continued to record as late as 2009.
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5	Loveless is known for her twangy bluegrass phrasings blended with traditionalist lyrics and 1990s country style production. All but two of her albums were produced or co-produced by longtime husband Emory Gordy Jr., who also contributed on bass. Many of her albums also feature contributions from Greek songwriter Kostas Lazarides, and harmonies from Music/VinceGill.
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7	!Albums:
8	* ''Patty Loveless'' (1987)
9	* ''If My Heart Had Windows'' (1988)
10	* ''Honky Tonk Angel'' (1988)
11	* ''On Down the Line'' (1990)
12	* ''Up Against My Heart'' (1991
13	* ''Only What I Feel'' (1993)
14	* ''Greatest Hits'' (1993)
15	* ''When Fallen Angels Fly'' (1994)
16	* ''The Trouble with the Truth'' (1996)
17	* ''Long Stretch of Lonesome'' (1997)
18	* ''Classics'' (1999)
19	* ''Strong Heart'' (2000)
20	* ''Mountain Soul'' (2001)
21	* ''Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas'' (2002)
22	* ''On Your Way Home'' (2003)
23	* ''Dreamin' My Dreams'' (2005)
24	* ''Sleepless Nights'' (2008)
25	* ''Mountain Soul II'' (2009)
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27	!Tropes present:
28	* AgeProgressionSong: "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" follows the narrator as a child, then as a young adult divorcing her husband, then as a mature adult watching her mother die.
29	* AutoTune: The very first line of "Keep Your Distance" auto-tunes the line "If I cross your path again", but such production appears nowhere else in the song (or really, anywhere else in her discography).
30	* ChristmasSongs: ''Bluegrass & White Snow: A Mountain Christmas''. She also recorded a cover of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" on Music/AlvinAndTheChipmunks' ''A Very Merry Chipmunk'' album.
31	* CommonMeter: "Chains" and "The Night's Too Long" are both common meter double.
32	* FakeOutFadeOut: "Keep Your Distance" comes to a dead stop before picking up for one more repeat of the chorus.
33	* GreenEyedMonster: "Jealous Bone" has the narrator expressing jealousy by being unable to handle the thought of the one she loves with anyone else.
34	* LadyInRed: Says in "I'm That Kind of Girl" that she's not quite this, but not a blushing maiden either.
35	-->I ain't the woman in red, I ain't the girl next door\
36	But if somewhere in the middle's what you're looking for, I'm that kind of girl
37	* ListSong: "I Try to Think About Elvis" is a random list of things that the narrator "tr[ies] to think about" when stuck on the thought of her lover.
38	* LoveHurts:
39	** Subverted with "Hurt Me Bad (In a Real Good Way)". The protagonist was hurt by a previous lover, but admits that she would not be in her more comfortable current relationship if not for the failure of the previous one ("Would've never found you if he'd wanted to stay / Oh, he hurt me bad in a real good way").
40	** Also subverted in "You Can Feel Bad". The singer's boyfriend leaves her and apologizes for breaking her heart. She shrugs and tells him she's fine, but he can feel bad about breaking up with her if it eases his guilty conscience.
41	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Mountain Soul'' and ''Mountain Soul II'' were straight-up bluegrass albums, while ''Sleepless Nights'' was a covers album.
42	* RecordProducer: Her longtime husband Emory Gordy Jr. produced or co-produced all but two of her albums.
43	* SympatheticAdulterer: "Lonely Too Long" is told from the mistress' POV, where she says the male in the relationship shouldn't feel bad for his one-night stand because both of them have been in boring relationships and just want to spice things up: "We ain't done nothin' wrong / We've both been lonely too long".
44	* UncommonTime: The last line of "Blue Memories" is in 10/4.
45	* WanderlustSong: "That's the Kind of Mood I'm In":
46	-->I tell you what, we're in a rut, we're in a deep rut\
47	So habitual, predictable, I tell you what we oughta do\
48	We oughta drive away, fly away, find a way to get away\
49	We need a break from the same old, same old nothin' new\
50	Wanna go out on a limb on a whim, yeah\
51	That's the kind of mood I'm in

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