Dolly Parton - The Essential Dolly Parton
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Free Music Review: Not much on country, but it's pretty good
Hit: 4 Stars
I listened to this, and it took me back to days of listening to WRCP in Philadelphia, PA. in the backseat of my parent's car. Especially with the older material, and I feel her voice was one of innocence in those earlier tunes, and I know that I have to separate all of this from my own wonders of the Southern culture. I began to notice a couple of tunes dealt with Biblical Themes: "Joshua", and "Coat Of Many Colors". I know that the south is the Bible Belt, but I have to wonder where the Bible ends, and Southern Traditions begin, and how they're supposed to be intertwined. I also see how country is starting to sound more like early r&b from the seventies, and I just would like to sit down with some of these southern musicians like Dolly and The Statler Brothers, and see where thier faith lies, and what leads them to record songs like "Dumb Blonde", and "Why'd You Come In Here Looking Like That?", and then there's the attitude of "If You Can't Beat Them Join Them." Where I found this on the last song on the album where she covers the songs like Collective Soul's "Shine?" I know that I used to work in a truck company, and everyone there was flabbergasted when I requested a block of the Doobie Brothers for my birthday on a rock station, and it was because they were staunch country and western lovers, so what happens? I am just filled with so many questions about this, and I also want to take time here to commment of "Mule Skinner Blues" I feel it's one of the worst songs ever written let alone recorded. By far, and I'm sorry to say Dolly's was the worst. It was like eating french cut green beans, and the slivers going down your throat. It was like waking up one morning, and have your parents yelling and screaming at you for no reason, it just leaves you with a impending feeling of depression for the rest of your day, week, your life. I just hate it because it's a bad tune, and when I think of Mule Skinning it's pain where mules are skinned alive to make whatever product would make you rich, and while I'm not an animal's rights activist I do feel the pain of a mule when it was skinned because that's what I feel I'm going through when hearing this song. I just have so many questions pertaining to the southern musicians, but I want to keep this separate from the stuff on here that's actually good. I feel that Dolly is talented, so that's what I choose to focus on here, and perhaps I'll have a chance to talk with her sometime to find out what the south is all about. Free Music Review: Wonderful!!
Hit: 5 Stars
This is a wonderful collection of original Dolly Parton recordings. Very enjoyable!!! I love it!!Free Music Review: A Really good Overview
Hit: 4 Stars
I have always dug Dolly Parton&this Double Disc Set is a must have for any Newbie getting into Dolly's Work. She is a Good Songwriter&Vocalist who has always had Her own Distinctive style. yes she is long overdue for a Strong Box set,but this Collection covers many of Her Hits&also Pre Cross-Over Run.Free Music Review: Solid retrospective repeats many that came before
Hit: 5 Stars
A career as long and rich as Parton's can't possibly be fully surveyed in only thirty-seven tracks on two discs. But this latest Essential volume does an admirable job of pulling together many of the singer-songwriter's catalog highpoints, mixing her best-loved solo hits with duets from Porter Wagoner, Kenny Rogers and Ricky Van Shelton, her trio work with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris, and finishing with a track ("Shine") from her trio of recent bluegrass-influenced albums.
The track list here covers much of the same ground as the two volume mid-90s "Essential" set, though notably adding Parton's first charting single, "Dumb Blond," and stretching into Parton's twenty-first century's return to her mountain roots The merger of RCA/BMG and Sony/Columbia opened the doors for the breadth of material pulled together here, but it's simply not enough to fully essay Parton's artistry; the list of missing essentials is as long as the list included here. Further, the space available on each disc suggests a desire to keep the mechanical royalties in line with a list price that's affordable to an audience beyond Parton die-hards.
This set is well positioned to replace the previous two volume series as a value-priced overview/entry-point to Parton's extraordinary catalog. That it repeats much of the same core catalog as earlier compilations is something of an empty complaint, given that it's not intended to probe any deeper. Still, with most of Parton's RCA album catalog out of print, this view of the better-known highlights does re-beg the question of when individual album reissues or a comprehensive box set will be produced for Parton's hardcore fans. [©2005 redtunictroll at hotmail dot com]
Free Music Review: Yet another compilation
Hit: 4 Stars
This is probably the most comprehensive collection there is for Dolly Parton's music (unless you can find a copy of the Australian 3 cd import LEGENDARY). With the recent merging of RCA/BMG and Sony/Columbia, I hope that they will be responsible and release her albums that are not yet available on CD. Fans would buy that. Yet RCA is still releasing these collections, year after year. At least this time, it's somewhat complete. It's far from definitive, but it's a good place to start. 37 tracks spread out over 2 discs give a quick overview of her career. Lets hope they do a boxed set or something different than the average compilation with the same tracks on it.