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Producer Emory Gordy Jr. (her current husband) wraps Loveless around 10 prime laments that express the aftershock of betrayal, in musical settings that range from up-tempo to hillbilly solemn. The opener, Richard Thompson's Tear-Stained Letter, has a perky Cajun feel, with fiddles and steel guitar establishing a...
MUSIC . . . THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH: "Misery loves country," says TIME's Richard Corliss. But even in a musical genre that tries to put a pang in every twang, Patty Loveless stands out. "Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators." Patty...
The Seattle Times drops Li'l Abner strips in which the hillbilly hero believes he's eaten one of his parents. Says the Times: "Distasteful."
Actors who have been good all along -- Tuck Milligan as a sharecropper who uses the Civil War to settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made...
Offutt was raised in the hills of Kentucky. "Hillbilly was what the people in town called us," he writes. "Hick, ridgerunner, redneck, inbred ingrate, and my personal favorite, pig-fucker. My mother is my sixth cousin. My brother and sister are also my cousins but nobody in my family ever...