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Mountain Soul II

The sequel to Mountain Soul, which won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album.
Patty Loveless, 2009

Released
29 September 2009
Label
Saguaro Road
Producer
Emory Gordy Jr.

Mountain Soul II is her sixteenth studio album, released on 29 September 2009 as a follow-up to the 2001 record. Vince Gill, Del McCoury and Emmylou Harris were among the contributing vocalists, Harris on a cover of her own Diamond in My Crown. Loveless included traditional songs and sang Children of Abraham a cappella. The lead single, in September 2009, was a cover of Harlan Howard's Busted.

Four of its 15 songs, Half Over You, Blue Memories, Feelings of Love and A Handful of Dust, had been recorded by her before, and Big Chance had appeared on Dreamin' My Dreams in 2005. The album won the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album at the 2011 ceremony in Los Angeles.

Track listing

  1. Busted3:25 Written by Harlan Howard
  2. Fools Thin Air3:24 Written by Guy Clark and Rodney Crowell
  3. A Handful of Dust3:05 Written by Tony Arata
  4. Half Over You3:25 Written by Karen Staley
  5. Prisoner's Tears3:56 Written by Mike Henderson, Mark Irwin and Wally Wilson
  6. Working on a Building2:52 Traditional
  7. Friends in Gloryland1:25 Traditional
  8. (We Are All) Children of Abraham2:24 Written by Patty Loveless and Emory Gordy Jr.
  9. Big Chance2:53 Written by Patty Loveless and Emory Gordy Jr.
  10. When the Last Curtain Falls3:49 Written by Emory Gordy Jr. and Jim Rushing
  11. Blue Memories2:47 Written by Karen Brooks and Paul Kennerley
  12. You Burned the Bridge4:19 Written by Jon Randall
  13. Bramble and the Rose2:54 Written by Barbara Keith
  14. Feelings of Love3:15 Written by Kostas
  15. Diamond in My Crown2:45 Written by Paul Kennerley and Emmylou Harris

More from Patty Loveless

Honky Tonk Angel (1988), Only What I Feel (1993), When Fallen Angels Fly (1994), The Trouble with the Truth (1996), Mountain Soul (2001)

Sources

  1. Mountain Soul II, Wikipedia
  2. Patty Loveless, Wikipedia