Matt Bjorke: With “Sleepless Nights” you’ve recorded some of your all-time favorite songs. How did it come about?

Patty Loveless: Well, I would go back and say when I was the age of 12, my brother Roger brought me around to local country jamborees around Louisville, KY and we started singing and performing together and we were doing quite a few of these songs. I was doing more of the female songs like Loretta Lynn, Brenda Lee, Wanda Jackson, Connie Smith and Patsy cline while at other times I’d do some Merle Haggard songs. Also, at that time I would perform some Linda Ronstadt songs. Roger was doing stuff like Conway Twitty, Hank Sr. and of course, Elvis. (laughing), Everybody did him. He and I would do Conway and Loretta songs and also some Ernest Tubb and Loretta songs.

So during the time I had taken off from the road, I’d actually taken a sabbatical because I wasn’t really sure, to tell you the truth, if I was going to return or not. I was trying to figure out if I was just gonna to hand it over to the youth today, the current artists out there and sort of just sit back and maybe concentrate on the writing instead. And that would enable me to be home…

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