Something Special

Dolly Parton - Something Special

Something Special
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Artist: Dolly Parton
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1995-08-22
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Crippled Bird
  2. Something Special
  3. Change
  4. I Will Always Love You - Dolly Parton featuring Vince Gill
  5. Green-Eyed Boy
  6. Speakin' Of The Devil
  7. Jolene
  8. No Good Way Of Saying Good-Bye
  9. The Seeker
  10. Teach Me To Trust

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Free Music Review: Dolly's Something Special
Hit: 5 Stars

By the mid 1990s, Dolly's career was slowing down, radiostations were not playing her music anymore, because they thought she was too old. "Something Special" was a hit! for Dolly, making it on the U.S. country album chart at #10. The album features three updated classics from her own repertoire: "Jolene", "The Seeker" and "I Will Always Love You" which was recorded as a duet with Vince Gill. The duet version of the song "I Will Always Love You" hit #14 on the U.S. country singles chart, making it Dolly's highest charting song single in four years, her last hit song at the time was "Rockin' Years" from her 1991 album "Eagle When She Flies". Also the duet verison of the song "I Will Always Love You" was named Country Music Association's Vocal Event Of The Year. Pretty good for someone who wasn't being played on the radio anymore.


1. Crippled Bird - is one of the saddest, but one of the most beautifully sung songs I've ever heard Dolly sing.

2. Something Special - is the main title to the album. The song is mostly low key & instead of a drop, at one point in the song, there's a lift from the music and from Dolly's vocals.

3. Change - is another low key song, that sort of has a power to it, thanks to Dolly's singing voice.

4. I Will Always Love You - This is Dolly's third version of the song that she wrote years ago. It's also probarly the best version to date, due to her matured voice and music style of the 1990s, not to mention Vince Gill helped too. The original version was on her 1974 album "Jolene" and later became a hit for her with "The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas" version. The duet version was also a hit like I said in the review above, making #14 on the U.S. country singles chart.

5. Green-Eyed Boy - By the title you know it's about a boy, that she misses. Cute & playful song.

6. Speakin' Of The Devil - has a old traditional country feel to it. The song is very playful too.

7. Jolene - This is Dolly's second version of the song, it has a more modern sound to it, and Dolly's vocals are more matured, then the original one, making this version better.

8. No Good Way Of Saying Good-Bye - is the second best song on the album, it's a little low key, but has a familiar sound & name to it like "I'll Never Say Good-bye" which appears on "Hungry Again".

9. The Seeker - This is Dolly's second version of the song, it's also better then the original and is one of Dolly's best religious songs she's ever sung.

10. Teach Me To Trust - is a very sad song, just like "Crippled Bird" & "Change", this song has a power to it too, maybe because of Dolly's vocals.


P.S. - Better late then never.

Something Special Poster

Perhaps if Dolly Parton looked more like Abraham Lincoln and less like Jayne Mansfield, she would get the same respect from critics and historians as Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Parton certainly deserves it, for her gifts as a singer and a songwriter are quite similar to those of Willie and Hag--all three have at times perfected a particular regional style of country music (Parton's Appalachiana, Nelson's Texas swing, and Haggard's Bakersfield sound) until it became paradoxically universal. Parton's 1995 album, the aptly titled Something Special, is one of those rare glimpses we get at just how talented she is. The disc includes three of her best-known tunes--"I Will Always Love You," "Jolene," and "The Seeker"--from the early '70s, when she was at her songwriting peak, and supplements them with seven more recent Parton compositions in the same style. Like her older, best work, these songs boast a nongimmicky simplicity that allow her mountain background to shine through in the unadorned loveliness of her melodies and the commonsense directness of her lyrics. The album would have been even better if the producers (Steve Buckingham and Parton herself) had used fewer orchestral charts and more traditional country settings, but even the pop arrangements keep the instrumentation restrained to the background and Parton's quivering Appalachian voice out front. --Geoffrey Himes

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