July 18, 2008 — Jimmy Wayne has a Top 15 hit on his hands with "Do You Believe Me Now," and his album of the same name is set for release on Aug. 26.
But Jimmy wasn’t entirely in control of the production. The album was officially completed at one point, but he discovered that he had an opportunity to give one of the songs, "No Good For Me," a special extra voice.
"Just when I thought I was finished with the CD, I got a call from a good friend," he wrote in his MySpace blog. "Patty Loveless has agreed to sing a duet with me on one of my favorite songs on this CD. This song had already been recorded, mixed and ready for packaging — however, when Patty agreed to sing with me on it, we pulled the song off the CD as fast as pulling a kid out of oncoming traffic, back onto the sidewalk! It’s worth it, because it’s Patty Loveless. Who wouldn’t do it?"
While Jimmy’s album is just weeks away from release, Patty has her own project in the pipeline.
Sleepless Nights, in which Patty covers songs by the likes of George Jones, Ray Price and the Everly Brothers, comes out Sept. 9. In the meantime, Patty’s also backing several other artists on current albums, just as she’s doing for Jimmy. She sings with George Strait on a song called "House Of Cash" on his Troubadour album; she also backs Kathy Mattea on "Blue Diamond Mines" on Kathy’s CD Coal.