Released 1999
On past albums, Texas native Katy Moffatt has tended to camouflage her flair for hard-country hurtin' songs beneath a familiar acoustic-folk veneer. Loose Diamond brings Moffatt's country leanings front and center without ignoring her broader folk, rock, and blues influences. Producer Dave Alvin has assembled a first-rate West Coast roots-country studio crew, including members of his own Guilty Men and Dwight Yoakam's band. Moffatt's voice sounds equally at home on Hank Williams Jr.'s honky-tonk howler "Stoned at the Jukebox" and on a slowed-down arrangement of the Blasters' roots-rocker "So Long Baby Goodbye." But the standout track is a duet with Alvin on the traditional folk standard "The Cuckoo" that benefits from Greg Leisz's raise-up-the-dead slide-guitar playing. —Rick Mitchell, Amazon.com
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Track list:
1. I Walk Alone (L. Jiles/C. Beam) 3:20
2. Wheel (Katy Moffatt/Rosie Flores) 3:48
3. Here We Go (Katy Moffatt/Jeff Rymes) 2:45
4. Fools Fall In Love (J. Lieber/M. Stoller) 3:23
5. Burning Memories (D. Merrick/P. McLaughlin) 4:06
6. The Cuckoo (Traditional) 4:04
7. Loose Diamond (Jo Carol Pierce/Lucky Nakeedress) 3:49
8. Whiskey, Money & Time (Hugh Moffatt) 4:45
9. Stoned At The Jukebox (Hank Williams, Jr.) 3:32
10. Big Fool (Katy Moffatt/Tom Russell) 2:45
11. So Long Baby Goodbye (Dave Alvin) 3:34
12. Watin' For The Sun To Shine (Sonny Throckmorton) 3:34