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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, Dolly Parton 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 with many contempory artists and there are some stellar partnerships featured here. Yes, 'Islands in the Stream' - recently voted Country's greatest duet by the viewers of CMT is absent but, in my opinion, it's not her greatest duet. Ladysmith Black Mambazo complement the raw emotion of her voice far better than Kenny Rodgers and the track she cut with them 'Peace Train' is featured here. Interestingly, it was co-written by Cat Stevens.
Other tracks feature Alison Krauss, with whom Dolly has worked frequently over the past few years although her track with Norah Jones 'Creepin In' is probably better known. (I am not keen and quite glad it didn't make it here).
My only reservation is that I can't accept this as the definitive collection. For me, no collection could be complete without 'Potential New Boyfriend' - but then I hold the eighties in great affection!
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