The Very Best Of Dolly Parton

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The highlight on this album for me is the final song Free Bird which lasts just over 11 minutes but is the stand-out track.

She began her music career at the age of 13 and has since become a legendary figure in the industry. Her sassy songs about leaving useless, cheating men for a better life have also given her endless opportunities to say the same thing to her listeners: dump the dude and get to living. Her worst albums of the seventies and eighties were weak exactly because she lost that sense of humour.Slant Magazine 's Dana Poland wrote that "to her credit, Parton still manages to make Rockstar sound and feel like a Dolly Parton album, thanks in large part to her distinctive twang. She sounds great on the downhome southern rock of Freebird and duetting with goddaughter Miley Cyrus on Wrecking Ball. We try to list as many as possible, but the chances are that you'll want a Dolly Parton album from around the top.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It is a bold move to try a new genre after all those great country albums but for me it does not quite work. The third single, "Bygones", featuring Rob Halford with guests Nikki Sixx and John 5, was released the following day.

After 55 years as a recording artist, Parton had her first release hit a rock-themed chart, with "World on Fire" debuting at number 13 on Billboard 's Rock Digital Song Sales on May 20, 2023. Rockstar is set for release on November 17th and will be available as a 4 LP set, 2CD set, digital download and on all streaming services.

Her bluegrass albums also allowed for her to work with musicians whose talents help to bring hers into ever sharper focus.Some of her notable hits include "What Do You Think About Lovin", "Happy Happy Birthday Baby", "Don't Drop Out", and "Joshua". She has charted 25 Number One songs (a record for a female country artist), 41 Top 10 country albums (a record for any artist) and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide, making her one of the best selling female country artists in history. Popularly referred as the " Queen of Country" by the media, she is also widely recognized as the most honored woman in country music history.

What I did learn about her music and her life might already be obvious to others, but I thought I would share some of my conclusions here about what Dolly’s music can teach us about how to live a good life. Dolly claims to have no particular religion, she doesn’t attend a church and yet she has a strong faith in God which is reflected in her music. It looks like a forced march through the results of a Radio 2 poll to find The Nation’s Favourite Rock Anthems: We Are the Champions and We Will Rock You, Stairway to Heaven and (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, Every Breath You Take, Free Bird, Let It Be, Heart of Glass and – there’s no accounting for taste in these polls, is there? She has asserted her primacy over the reactionary forces of Nashville’s music industry, sold 100m records, written umpteen classic songs, broken into Hollywood, opened her own amusement park and had a species of lichen, a Soviet battle tank and a cloned sheep named in her honour. Contains six previously unreleased live tracks: "Baby, I'm Burnin'", "Two Doors Down", "The Grass Is Blue", "Jolene", "9 to 5", and "Hello God"; and five new studio recordings: "Coat of Many Colors", "These Old Bones", "Little Sparrow", God's Coloring Book", and "I Will Always Love You".This album features Parton's January 18, 2001 performance on Austin City Limits (which aired on March 24, 2001), with bonus tracks performed by various other country artists. 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. Contains remixed/alternate version of "Think About Love", "She Don't Love You (Like I Love You)", "We Had It All", "Do I Ever Cross Your Mind", and "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)".