The Very Best Of Dolly Parton

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Shattered Image’ is one of her best songs because she admits the truth of how hurtful the attacks have been, concluding ‘the world is cruel and people are cold’. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Parton pursued Mick Jagger to provide vocals on her Rolling Stones cover, but he had a scheduling conflict [16] and failed to reunite Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Robert Plant for her new cover of " Stairway to Heaven", a favorite of her husband Carl Dean. Her versatile singing style allowed her to explore different genres such as rockabilly, soul pop, blue-eyed soul, and ultimately finding success in country music. But from the perspective of a listener tearfully pleading for mercy midway through a version of Aerosmith’s I Want You Back – on which Parton and Steven Tyler both deliver their vocals with such torrential force it sounds less like a duet than a systematic attempt to damage each other’s hearing – the chewy-accented naysayers start to seem not closed-minded gatekeepers but the voices of common sense.

Contains seven previously unreleased tracks: "Gonna Hurry (As Slow as I Can)", "Nobody But You", "I've Known You All My Life", "Everything's Beautiful (In Its Own Way)", "God's Coloring Book", "Eugene, Oregon", and "What Will Baby Be".We have also listed the titles of the above Dolly Parton CDs in case you'd prefer to look for the album you're after by title. Parton performed the album's lead single "World on Fire" for the first time at the 58th Academy of Country Music Awards on May 11, 2023. By laughing at herself, loudly and freely, she showed herself to be amiable in the face of any attacks on her character. Classic Rock described it as "a monumentally hideous, yet strangely glorious album", [29] while Mojo felt that "even if there are moments when Rockstar seems under-amped, you have to admire her chutzpah".

I started my project to listen to all of Dolly’s albums in 2018 and I admit it took me much longer to finish this than I had anticipated ( see the full list of reviews here). Popularly referred as the " Queen of Country" by the media, she is also widely recognized as the most honored woman in country music history. With steady success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s; Parton's subsequent albums in the later part of the 1990s were lower in sales.What surprised me most about the Dolly project was how much I enjoyed her gospel music, and how much religion seemed integral to both her appeal and her songwriting. Her favorite collaborator was fellow country musician Chris Stapleton, [18] who stepped in when Bob Seger was unable to join Parton on " Night Moves" due to experiencing problems with his voice.