Advantages: great tracks with lots of memories Disadvantages: Nothing we have not heard before
I would like to start this review with afew facts about DollyParton for those who don't already know her and her work.
Born: Dolly Rebecca Parton.
Place: Sevierville, Tennessee.
Date: 19 th January, 1946
She was 4th of twelve children and began performing at the age of 9, when she was appearing on the Cas Walker Show on WBIR- TV in Noxville , Tennessee. She recorded her first Album on a small label, Goldband at the age of 13 and also appeared at the Grand Ole Oprey in Nashville.
She is an accomplished musician, playing Guitar, banjo, autoharp , piano and drums.
Also a Grammy winning, Academy Award winner, Country Singer, Songwriter, Composer, Author , actress.
Now to this album.
This is a very good album, with many of her best known songs, and also some not so well known.
Tracklist:
I will always love you ( which ...
Advantages: Varied introduction to Country's greatest lady Disadvantages: Like many Dolly anthologies it concentrates on her own writing and so makes unforgiveable omissions
The point is, actually, that she should be in your - and anybody else you may happen to care about's - CD collection.
This is an excellent introduction to Dolly. Any Greatest Hits album will give you 'Jolene', 'Coat of Many Colours' and 'I will always love you' but not a sense of Dolly through her many periods.
Like other great artistes, DollyParton has kept evolving, kept developing and exploring different dimensions of songwriting and performance. Hence it requires a special collection to give you a sense of the 'whole'.
'Today I started loving you again'', 'The Salt in my Tears'. 'Blue Valley Songbird' and 'I wanna go back there' showcase Dolly at her best - interpreting the work of other classic Country artists - here Merle Haggard - and writing her own material.
In the last few years, she has also collaborated ...
Advantages: Many of Dolly's greatest hits are included Disadvantages: Only 21 songs, so some hits are missing
southern ditty about a loner living in a shack by the railroad track, in a very similar vein to Johnny Cash's "Boy Name Sue", with a trilling yodelling chorus.
6. Coat Of Many Colours (1971) - written by Parton. Soothing pure vocals tell the charming autobiographical tale harking back to Dolly's impoverished youth, with her Momma sewing together donated rags to make the coat of many colours of which Dolly was so proud.
7. Please Don't Stop Loving Me (with Porter Wagoner) (1974) - written by Parton and Wagoner. "You bring me the sunshine when none is in sight". The pair take turns with verses of mutual admiration, coming together for a harmonised chorus. A great country beat number.
8. The Bargain Store (1974) - written by Parton. "The Bargain Store" attracted a great deal of controversy and was banned by some radio stations on release ...
Product Information for "Coat Of Many Colors - Dolly Parton" »
Product details
Title
Coat Of Many Colors
Performer
Dolly Parton
Genre
Country
Release Date
05/03/2007
Recomended Retail Price
10.99 GBP
Original Release Year
2007
Label / Distributor
RCA Nashville / Sony Music/Arvato Services
Engineer
Al Puchucki
Producer
Bob Ferguson
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Studio
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
828768124222
Catalogue Number
82876812422
Additional notes
Album Notes
Personnel: Dolly Parton (guitar); Dolores Edgin, June Page, Joe Babcock (vocals); Dave Kirby, George McCormick, Billy Sanford, Jerry Shook (guitar); Pete Drake (steel guitar); Buck Trent (banjo); Mack Magaha, Johnny Gimble, Buddy Spicher (fiddle); David Briggs, Hargus 'Pig' Robbins (piano); Bobby Dyson (bass instrument); Jerry Carrigan (drum). Recording information: 1969 - 1971.
Album Reviews
Dirty Linen (p.47) - "COAT OF MANY COLORS is a bittersweet childhood memory of growing up poor in the Smoky Mountains, framed in a way that's touched many..." No Depression (p.76) - "[H]er work addressed complex subjects directly, yet with simplicity and nuance, her flair for stark, gothic Appalachian numbers comparable to ancient folk ballads."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Coat Of Many Colours
2.
Traveling Man
3.
My Blue Tears
4.
If I Lose My Mind
5.
Mystery Of The Mystery
6.
She Never Met A Man (She Didn't Like)
7.
Early Morning Breeze
8.
Way I See You
9.
Here I Am
10.
Better Place To Live
11.
My Heart Started Breaking (bonus track)
12.
Just As Good As Gone (bonus track)
13.
Tender Touch Of Love (bonus track)
14.
My Blue Tears (acoustic demo/bonus track)
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