When Fallen Angels Fly is the seventh studio album by American country music artist Patty Loveless, released on August 23, 1994. It reached #8 on the Top Country Albums charts and was certified Platinum for shipments of over 1,000,000 copies in the U.S. All four of its singles — "I Try to Think About Elvis," "You Don't Even Know Who I Am," "Here I Am," and "Halfway Down" — reached the Top Ten on the Hot Country Songs charts. "Old Weakness (Coming on Strong)" was also recorded by Greg Holland on his 1997 album Exception to the Rule and Delbert McClinton on his 1997 album One of the Fortunate Few. Both "Old Weakness" and "Over My Shoulder" were also recorded in 2002 by Tanya Tucker on her album Tanya.
When Fallen Angels Fly won the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year in 1995, Loveless was only the third woman in the history of the CMA Awards to win.
Track listing
Personnel
Technical
Emory Gordy Jr.: Producer
Mixed By Derek Bason & John Guess
Engineered By Bob Bullock, Amy Hughes, Craig White & Marty Williams
Mastered By Glenn Meadows
Musicians
Eddy Anderson – percussion
Richard Bennett – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Kathy Burdick – background vocals
Jerry Douglas – slide guitar
Glen Duncan – fiddle
Stuart Duncan – mandolin, fiddle
Pete Finney – steel guitar
Paul Franklin – steel guitar
Sonny Garrish – steel guitar
Steve Gibson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Emory Gordy Jr. – bass guitar
Owen Hale – drums
Jimmy Hall – blues harp
Tim Hensley – background vocals
John Hobbs – piano
John Barlow Jarvis – piano
Mike Lawler – keyboards
Patty Loveless – lead vocals
Donna McElroy – background vocals
Liana Manis – background vocals
Carmella Ramsey – backgrounds vocals
Dawn Sears – background vocals
Harry Stinson – drums, background vocals
Biff Watson – acoustic guitar
Paul Worley – acoustic guitar
Curtis Young – background vocals
Charts
References
1994 albums
Epic Records albums
Patty Loveless albums
Albums produced by Emory Gordy Jr.