Sentimentally Yours by Patsy Cline

Sentimentally Yours came out on Decca in 1962, the third and last studio album Patsy Cline released in her lifetime; less than a year later she was killed in a plane crash, and only one more album, recorded in 1963, followed after her death. Owen Bradley produced, and by now the partnership that had reshaped her sound and made her one of the first country singers to cross over into pop was running at full power.

It's a torch singer's record in Nashville clothes, and Cline's voice does the heavy lifting: rich, aching and in no hurry, able to make heartbreak sound like the most dignified thing in the world. At its centre is "She's Got You", one of the hits of her final years, sung as if she's holding back tears by sheer force of will.

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