Patty Loveless: Patty Loveless (MCA-5915)

THERE'S NO doubt that this is one super-fine country voice. Patty Loveless, a coal miner's daughter from Kentucky, no less, is heiress to a number of country vocal traditions, and has assimilated them with soul and savvy. She handles ballads and uptempo songs with equal grace and finesse, and her voice tears and breaks in all the right ways and in all the right places.