Only What I Feel

Only What I Feel is the sixth studio album by American country music artist Patty Loveless and her first on the Epic Records label. It was released in 1993. Four tracks from the album made in into the Billboard top 20 country singles charts, including the #1 "Blame It on Your Heart" and the #3 "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye," later covered by Laura Branigan. The #6 hit "You Will" was originally recorded by Anne Murray as the title track of her 1990 album. The only single to not make the top ten was the #20 hit "Nothin' But The Wheel", considered by many Patty fans to be one of her finest works. The album peaked at #9, and was certified platinum for shipments of over 1,000,000 copies in the U.S. This album was Loveless' first album since she had surgery to repair burst nodes on her vocal cords in 1992.^[3]

Only What I Feel
Studio album by Patty Loveless
Released	April 20, 1993
Genre	Country
Label	Epic
Producer	Emory Gordy Jr.
Patty Loveless chronology
Greatest Hits (1993) Only What I Feel (1993) When Fallen Angels Fly (1994)
Singles from Only What I Feel
"Blame It on Your Heart" Released: April 3, 1993 "Nothin' but the Wheel" Released: July 1993 "You Will" Released: November 11, 1993 "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" Released: March 19, 1994

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Entertainment Weekly	A+ link
Los Angeles Times	[1]
Music Week	[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"You Will"	Pam Rose, Mary Ann Kennedy, Randy Sharp	3:16
2.	"How About You"	Chris Waters, Chuck Jones	2:41
3.	"Nothin' but the Wheel"	John Scott Sherrill	3:57
4.	"Love Builds the Bridges (Pride Builds the Walls)"	Jim McBride, Jerry Salley	3:32
5.	"Mr. Man in the Moon"	Wally Wilson, Mike Henderson	3:11
6.	"Blame It on Your Heart"	Harlan Howard, Kostas	3:34
7.	"You Don't Know How Lucky You Are"	Carl Jackson, David Wills	3:42
8.	"All I Need (Is Not to Need You)"	Will Robinson, Tim Nichols, Randy Scruggs	2:53
9.	"What's a Broken Heart"	Don Pfrimmer, George Teren	3:09
10.	"How Can I Help You Say Goodbye"	Burton Banks Collins, Karen Taylor-Good	4:59

Content

The album produced four singles for Loveless, all of which reached top 20 on the U.S. country charts. Leading off the single releases was the Harlan Howard-Kostas co-write "Blame It on Your Heart," which in June 1993 became a Number One country hit. After it came "Nothin' but the Wheel," which peaked at #20 during the week of October 23, 1993. Peter Wolf covered the song on his record Sleepless. The album's third single was "You Will" at #6, followed by "How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" with a #3 peak in July 1994.

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes.^[4]

• Drums: Owen Hale
• Bass guitar: Emory Gordy Jr.
• Electric guitar: Steve Gibson, Reggie Young
• Acoustic guitar: Biff Watson
• Mandolin: Steve Gibson
• Steel guitar: Paul Franklin, Sonny Garrish
• Fiddle: Stuart Duncan
• Keyboards: Barry Beckett, John Barlow Jarvis, Mike Lawler, Gary Smith
• Cello: John Catchings
• Violins & violas: David Angell, David Davidson, Jim Grosjean, Connie Heard, Kathryn Plummer, Christian Teal, Gary Van Osdale, Kris Wilkinson
• String arrangements: Emory Gordy Jr. (track 10)
• Additional musicians: Eddy Anderson, Mike Bowden, Pete Finney, Tim Hensley, Carmella Ramsey, Kenny Vaughan
• Lead vocals: Patty Loveless
• Background vocals: Kathy Burdick, Joe Diffie, Vince Gill, Tim Hensley, Kostas, Alison Krauss, Liana Manis, Donna McElroy, Carmella Ramsey, Curtis Young

Charts

Weekly charts Chart (1993–1994) Peak position US Billboard 200[5] 63 US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[6] 9

Year-end charts Chart (1993) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[7] 54 Chart (1994) Position US Top Country Albums (Billboard)[8] 41