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Not least of all, Sleepless Nights is the culmination of a decade-long quest by Loveless to honor the memory of her late sister and first inspiration, Dottie, with whom Patty started out as a trio including their brother Roger, who later dropped off his sister’s solo demo tape with Nashville power broker Tony Brown at MCA Nashville, who hipped his friend Emory Gordy to it, and the rest is country music history.

According to Loveless, many of the songs on Sleepless Nights were among her sister’s favorite. “A lot of them were, in fact,” she says. “Dottie was more influenced by Patsy Cline; I was influenced by many others, including Patsy. But if Dottie sounded like anyone, it was a mixture of Patsy, Brenda Lee, Connie Smith and Wanda Jackson. Which was a great sound.”

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