Patty Loveless helped define the 1980s and ‘90s country music with her smooth, strong voice that sounds like it was born and bred in a Kentucky holler. Loveless is one of the many female artists who’s ...

Born the daughter of a coal miner in Pikeville, Ky., Patty Loveless comes naturally by her versatile, powerhouse voice, with a range that's as suited to radio-friendly barnburners as it is to haunting ...