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Metascore
78

Generally favorable reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews What's this?

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8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: The latest album for the country artist was produced by Emory Gordy, Jr.

Top Track

He Thinks I Still Care
Just because I ask a friend about him Just because I spoke his name somewhere Just because I rang his number by mistake today He thinks I still... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Loveless has offered another unqualified masterpiece with Sleepless Nights and reasserted her place as one of the premier artists not just of the country genre but of contemporary popular music.
  2. Mojo
    80
    She gives each song an unforced intimacy. [Feb 2009, p.115]
  3. The Kentucky-bred singer builds an ideal showcase for her strengths on Sleepless Nights, unearthing a string of jewels from country's past with a passionate, pure revival of classics both familiar and rescued from obscurity.
  4. In lesser hands this collection of country classics might have been badly mishandled, but in the willing arms of traditionalist extraordinaire Patty Loveless and producer/husband Emory Gordy Jr., the past is brought to new life.
  5. Loveless treats these songs without even a trace of nostalgia, but as the living embodiment of stories that not only transfer emotion, but reveal the hidden truths of love, life, sadness, grief, and wisdom gained by experience.
  6. In a way, these songs may work better taken one at a time. All together, the safe approach can lull.
  7. Q Magazine
    60
    A pointed dig at modern Nashville's dull production line, Sleepless Nights is a collection of covers from a lost era of Patsy Cline and The Everly Brothers, Loveless's classic voice knocking pretenders into a cocked Stetson. [Jan 2009, p.120]
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