Track Listing
1. Tear-Stained Letter
2. Trouble With the Truth, The
3. I Miss Who I Was (With You)
4. Everybody's Equal in the Eyes of Love
5. Lonely Too Long
6. You Can Feel Bad
7. Thousand Times a Day, A
8. She Drew a Broken Heart
9. To Feel That Way at All
10. Someday I Will Lead the Parade
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Dawn Sears, Jerry Douglas, Stuart Duncan, Vince Gill | | Producer: | Emory Gordy, Jr. | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Patty Loveless (vocals); Biff Watson, Steve Gibson (acoustic & electric guitars); Brent Mason, Tom Britt (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar, lap steel guitar); Paul Franklin (steel guitar); Jerry Douglas (lap steel guitar, dobro); Stuart Duncan (fiddle, mandolin); David Davidson, Connie Ellisor, Mary Olsen, Pamela Sixfin (violin); Kristin Wilkinson, Jim Grosjean, Kathryn Plummer, Gary Vanosdale (viola); John Catchings (cello); Butch Lee (Hammond B-3 organ); John Hobbs, Mike Lawler, Mike Rojas (keyboards); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Kathy Burdick, Vince Gill, Tim Hensley, Liana Manis, Donna McElroy, Carmella Ramsey, Dawn Sears, Harry Stinson, Jeff White, Curtis Young, Jim Rushing (background vocals).
Recorded at Woodland Digital, The Rec Room and Emerald Sound Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Patty Loveless won the 1996 Country Music Association Award for Female Vocalist Of The Year.
THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "The Trouble With The Truth" was nominated for a 1998 Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance.
The neo-Nashville superstar lives up to her name on this collection of songs about broken romance and regret. Loveless gains points for adventurousness right off the bat by leading off with a cover of Richard Thompson's rollicking "Tear-Stained Letter" (although she inexplicably rewrites it to excise a reference to the Clash). The heartbreak train continues rolling, making stops at "She Drew A Broken Heart," Jim Lauderdale's "I Miss Who I Was With You" and several other tales of lovelorn despondency. Even statements of ostensible self-possession like "You Can Feel Bad" and "A Thousand Times A Day" betray a wistful sadness at their core.
This is state-of-the-art Nashville country-pop, and, fittingly, it remained on the pop charts for most of 1996. It maintains the consistent standards Loveless has set with her previous releases. Her silken voice and tasteful interpretive abilities remain undiminished.
Editorial Reviews
...Loveless is more emotionally convincing with honky-tonk than with new-country stylings, but no other woman in contemporary country can pull off this mix half as well. - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (02/02/1996)
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