Mountain Soul II is the sixteenth studio album by American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless , is an American country music singer.Since her emergence on the country music scene in late 1986 with her first album, Loveless has been one of the most popular female singers of the Neotraditional country movement, although she has also recorded albums in the Country pop and...

. The album was released on September 29, 2009. It is a follow-up to her previous album, Mountain Soul

Mountain Soul

Mountain Soul is the eleventh album of original recordings by Patty Loveless. The album was recorded between January and March 2001 and was released on June 26 in the United States. It first charted on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart on July 14 , and remaining on the charts for 87 weeks...

, released in 2001. Mountain Soul II features 15 songs including a re-recording Loveless' 1991 single "Blue Memories", previously recorded on her 1990 album On Down the Line

On Down the Line

On Down the Line is the fourth album released by country music artist Patty Loveless. Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee during December 1989/January 1990, it was the follow-up to her breakthrough album, Honky Tonk Angel....

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"Busted" was released as the album's lead-off single in September 2009.

Track listing

1. "Busted
   Busted (Harlan Howard song)
   -Cover versions:* Johnny Cash, with the Carter Family, reached #13 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart in 1963.* Ray Charles reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963. This was from his album Ingredients in a Recipe for Soul...
   
   " (Harlan Howard
   Harlan Howard
   Harlan Perry Howard was a prolific American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard wrote a large number of popular and enduring songs, recorded by a variety of different artists...
   
   ) – 3:25
2. "Fools Thin Air" (Guy Clark
   Guy Clark
   Guy Clark is an American Texas Country artist. In his career, he has released more than twenty albums, primarily on major labels. He has also written singles for other artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner and Rodney Crowell....
   
   , Rodney Crowell
   Rodney Crowell
   Rodney Crowell is a Grammy Award-winning musician, known primarily for his work as a singer and songwriter in country music....
   
   ) – 3:24
3. "A Handful of Dust" (Tony Arata
   Tony Arata
   Tony Arata is an American singer-songwriter. He was born and grew up in Savannah, Georgia, attended the Georgia Southern University, and moved to Nashville in 1986....
   
   ) – 3:05
4. "Half Over You" (Karen Staley) – 3:25
5. "Prisoner's Tears" (Michael Henderson, Mark Irwin, Wally Wilson
   Wally Wilson
   Wally Wilson , is an American record producer and songwriter based in Nashville.-Career:Wally Wilson has worked with artists as diverse as Leon Russell, Bo Diddley, the Neville Brothers, Junior Wells, Amy Grant, Trisha Yearwood, Lone Star, Lorrie Morgan, Sammy Kershaw, Rick Trevino, Rascal Flatts...
   
   ) – 3:56
6. "Working on a Building" (traditional) – 2:52
7. "Friends in Gloryland" (traditional) – 1:25
8. "(We Are All) Children of Abraham" (Patty Loveless, Emory Gordy, Jr.
   Emory Gordy, Jr.
   Emory Gordy, Jr., born December 25, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American musician and music producer. Since 1989, he has been married to country music artist Patty Loveless. Gordy was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992...
   
   ) – 2:24
9. "Big Chance" (Loveless, Gordy) – 2:53
10. "When the Last Curtain Falls" (Gordy, Jim Rushing) – 3:49
11. "Blue Memories" (Karen Brooks
    Karen Brooks
    Karen Brooks is an American country music singer who is best known for a series of Top 40 hits on the Billboard Country Chart in the early 1980s, including "Faking Love," a duet with T.G. Sheppard which topped the country chart in February 1983.Brooks was born in Dallas, Texas in 1954. Attended...
    
    , Paul Kennerley
    Paul Kennerley
    Paul Kennerley is an English singer-songwriter, musician and record producer working in the American contemporary country music industry. His works include the concept albums, White Mansions and The Legend of Jesse James...
    
    ) – 2:47
12. "You Burned the Bridge" (Jon Randall
    Jon Randall
    Jon Randall Stewart is an American country music artist. Signed to RCA Records in 1995, he debuted that year with the album What You Don't Know. A second album for RCA, 1996's Great Day to Be Alive, was recorded but never released...
    
    ) – 4:19
13. "Bramble and the Rose" (Barbara Keith) – 2:54
14. "Feelings of Love" (Kostas
    Kostas
    Kostas Lazarides is a Greek-born American country music songwriter, known professionally as Kostas. He has written for several country music artists, including Dwight Yoakam, Patty Loveless, and Travis Tritt, and has won eleven awards from Broadcast Music Incorporated...
    
    ) – 3:15
15. "Diamond in My Crown" (Kennerley, Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris
    Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...
    
    ) – 2:45

Chart performance

Chart (2009)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Bluegrass Albums	1
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	19
U.S. Billboard 200	91
Canadian Top Country Albums	42