Patsy Cline - Sentimentally Yours

It's entirely possible that Patsy Cline was gifted with one of the world's most perfect voices. Sultry, rich, positively glowing, she set a standard that was impossibly high, and impossible for anyone else to achieve. With this album, she set the bar even higher, producing some of her most well-known hits. She remains still today as powerful a singer, and every inch a Leading Lady of Country Music.

For all the torch-singer brilliance of Patsy Cline's magnificent alto voice, Patsy herself never really wanted anything more than to be a plain honky-tonk girl, and is famous for having said she wanted to be another Hank Williams (rather than another Kitty Wells). Like Hank, she lived hard and died young (although in her case it was a plane crash), taking her amazing voice into history with her and leaving behind an amazing catalog of songs. "Sentimentally Yours" was one of her original albums, and captures beautifully the woman at her prime.

Beginning with the Hank Cochran classic, "She's Got You," Patsy's voice takes hold of a song and wrings every last bit of emotion from it, tearing at the heart with gripping emotion. She proves her always country spirit with renditions of "Your Cheatin' Heart," "Half As Much," and "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You)," and takes on magnificent pop songs of the time, such as "You Belong To Me."

It's actually rather nice when an old album is reproduced on CD exactly as it was on vinyl, without alterations and additions, allowing new listeners to experience the music the way it was intended by the original producer and sound mixer (although, of course, you don't have to flip the CD over). Patsy's timeless voice remains captured in this album and her others, forever enchanting generation after generation.