The Tour Collection

Dolly Parton - The Tour Collection

The Tour Collection
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Artist: Dolly Parton
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
CD Release Date: 2008-07-01
Music Label: Sony/Bmg Int'l
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Love Is Like a Butterfly
  2. Cowgirl and the Dandy
  3. Love, You're So Beautiful Tonight
  4. But You Know I Love You
  5. Most of All Why
  6. Falling out of Love with Me
  7. Bubbling Over
  8. Yellow Roses
  9. Fool for Your Love
  10. I Will Always Love You [Original Version]
  11. Because I Love You
  12. Sweet Music Man
  13. You Are
  14. Real Love
  15. Lovin' You
  16. I'll Make Your Bed
  17. Love with Me
  18. Hold Me
  19. Sweet Summer Lovin'
  20. Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot)
Music CD 2
  1. (Your Life Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
  2. Life's Like Poetry
  3. Help!
  4. Boulder to Birmingham
  5. Release Me
  6. Once in a Very Blue Moon
  7. In the Ghetto
  8. Harper Valley Pta
  9. Games People Play
  10. Put a Little Love in Your Heart
  11. Starting Over Again
  12. Even a Fool Would Let Go
  13. Great Balls of Fire
  14. Time for Me to Fly
  15. Save the Last Dance for Me
  16. Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On
  17. D-I-V-O-R-C-E
  18. The Carroll County Accident
  19. Detroit City
  20. Wings of a Dove
Music CD 3
  1. Just the Way I Am
  2. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
  3. What Will Baby Be
  4. Daddy's Working Boots
  5. JJ Sneed
  6. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
  7. Daddy Come and Get Me
  8. Take Me Back
  9. Blackie, Kentucky
  10. Robert
  11. Chas
  12. My Tennessee Mountain Home
  13. Chicken Every Sunday
  14. Mama Say a Prayer
  15. I'm Doing This for Your Sake
  16. Early Morning Breeze
  17. Green Eyed Boy
  18. Daddy's Moonshine Still
  19. Daddy Was an Old Time Preacher Man
  20. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
Music CD 4
  1. Romeo
  2. I Really Don't Want to Know
  3. Islands in the Stream
  4. Full Circle
  5. Rockin' Years
  6. Whenever Forever Comes
  7. When You Tell Me That You Love Me
  8. Do I Ever Cross Your Mind
  9. I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby
  10. Everything Is Beautiful (In Its Own Way)
  11. Lovesick Blues
  12. I Still Miss Someone
  13. I Feel the Blues Movin' In
  14. Love Is Strange
  15. Baby It's Cold Outside
  16. When I Get Where I'm Going
  17. More Where That Came From
  18. Hush-A-Bye Hard Times
  19. A Violet and a Rose
  20. Jeannie's Afraid of the Dark

Free Music Notes for The Tour Collection

Free Music Review: Fascinating compilation for collectors
Hit: 5 Stars

The first thing to say about this collection is that although some of Dolly's hits are here, a lot of them are missing including Jolene, 9 to 5, Here you come again, Coat of many colors, Two doors down, Joshua, Bargain store, The seeker, Old flames and You're the only one (to name a few). This is not, and was never meant to be, a hits collection. Plenty of those are already available. I'm sure that a lot of fans would have been happy for this collection to completely avoid the obvious classics (I know that I would) but I guess that commercial reality necessitated the inclusion of some of them.

At the other end of the spectrum, nine tracks (Bubbling over, Love with me, Because I love you, Most of all why, Robert, Chas, I'm doing this for your sake, Take me back, Blackie Kentucky) are making their debut on CD here while there are others that have appeared only on CD's that are now out of print or only available at a premium price (Love you're so beautiful tonight, Just the way I am, Daddy come and get me, Carroll county accident, Cowgirl and the dandy) and if you didn't buy those CD's, may be hard to find now outside this boxed set. There are also some duet tracks that are making their debut on a Dolly compilation, but which have appeared on albums by the various duet partners.

This really is, for the most part, a collection for country music fans. Aside from those that focus exclusively on the early stuff (notably Mission Chapel Memories 1971-1975), most Dolly compilations tend to lean towards the more pop-sounding material. While this has some of her pop-sounding music (most famously Islands in the stream, Save the last dance for me), I don't think fans who enjoy that music to the exclusion of her more traditional sounds will find much to get excited about here.

The packaging is different from any boxed set I've previously seen, although I don't suppose it's unique. I'd heard that it was going to be housed in a tin box, but this was not to be. Instead, it comes in a cardboard gift box with a lid. Inside, there are four digipacks each housing a single CD with a 30-page booklet sitting on top of the lot. A ribbon attached at one end to the inside rear base allows the contents to be removed easily. The booklet gives extensive notes about Dolly's career as well as a track listing for each CD. The track listing for the covers CD helpfully lists the original artist for each song, but there is at least one major blunder (Engelbert Humperdinck did NOT record the original version of Release me). Apart from the track listing, these notes are not directly relevant to the contents and could just as easily be included in a greatest hits compilation; however, there are further notes on the inside of each digipack that discuss the contents of the CD contained therein. The four CD's each have a different theme, these being love, covers, mountain memories and duets. Some songs fit more than one category and you'll notice (for example) that there are duets on three of the four CD's.

One way or another, even the most die-hard Dolly fan (and that includes me) will find plenty here of interest. Of course, the two questions that all such die-hard fans have to ask are (a) is there enough they haven't got on CD to justify the cost? and (b) will more of the hitherto-rare songs be released again as further original albums are made available on CD? Each Dolly fan can only answer for themselves, but while I pondered long and hard, I knew that I couldn't resist once I decided I had just enough money to be able to afford it. Perhaps this collection will have greater appeal to those who are less committed, and therefore don't have as many of these songs elsewhere.
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The Tour Collection Poster

UK four CD box set, released to coincide with Dolly's 2008 UK tour. This deluxe collector's tour edition boxset contains 80 tracks including nine previously unavailable on CD and nine previously unavailable in the UK. The four discs are broken down into musical themes close to Dolly's heart: Love (Disc One), Covers (Disc Two), Mountain Memories (Disc Three) and Duets (Disc Four). More of a career overview than just a collection of hits, this set contains fan favorites rarities and a handful of hits including 'I Will Always Love You', 'Love Is Like A Butterfly', 'In The Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)', 'My Tennessee Mountain Home', 'Islands In The Stream' and many more. BMG.

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