When Patty Loveless was a little girl, she had an ongoing argument with her father. Each week the two would settle into their living room in Pikeville, Kentucky to watch television. Her father, a coal miner and country music fan, wanted to watch the Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt Review, but his daughter preferred The Flintstones. “Of course Daddy would always win out,” she admits, “and I’m so glad he did. It taught me a lot.”

And we’re so glad he did. Loveless, who possesses a plaintive, aching voice with the elastic sensibility of a steel-guitar, is one of the last genuine country singers in a genre gone far too pop. One of the most expressive voices in any genre of music, her yearning alto resides somewhere at the intersection of Twang & Soul. She is the torchbearer for the brutally honest approach that defined the careers of Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn (who is Loveless’ distant cousin).

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