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Dolly Parton: Albums
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Country music superstar Dolly Parton talks with DJs at Kiss Country Radio to promote her new album "Backwoods Barbie" and talk about her upcoming plans. Her single "Better Get to Livin'" is currently available. 11/19/07 - Erin Brethauer, ebrethau@citizen-times.com
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No matter how flamboyantly pop Dolly Parton's music became in the early Eighties, she was always a country girl at heart. Today it's the reverse: No matter how back-to-basics-country her recent albums have been, her heart still sparkles with glitter and sequins.
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Dolly Parton's new label Dolly Records will be solely for her. No other artists will be signed to it except for the buxom Southern belle, according to her manager and GM of Dolly Records, Danny Nozell. "It's really the first mainstream country record Dolly has done in 17 years," Nozell told Billboard.com of the album which is due in February of 2008. The first single "Better Get To Livin'" hits radio on September 24th. MORE
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As the queen of country music, Dolly Parton is a legend in her own right. Born in 1946 in rural Tennessee, Dolly began performing as a child and was heavily influenced by the music of her church. When just 18, she moved to Nashville in search of fame and fortune. Forty years on, she has succeeded in every way - and is still going strong. Over the years she has received seven Grammy Awards, recorded forty-one top-ten country albums, and has been awarded countless accolades including induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Living Legend Medal presented by the U.S Congress. She is famed for her incredible talent, vivacious image and wry sense of humour.
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[B]y 1985 many old-time fans had felt that Parton was spending too much time courting the mainstream. Most of her albums were dominated by the adult contemporary pop of songs like "Islands in the Stream," and it had been years since she had sung straightforward country. She ... continued to explore new business and entertainment ventures such as her Dollywood theme park, which opened in 1985. Despite these misgivings, she had continued to chart well until 1986, when none of her singles reached the Top Ten. RCA Records didn't renew her contract after it expired that year, and she signed with Columbia in 1987. Before she released her Columbia debut, Parton joined forces with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris to record the rootsy Trio album. Trio became a huge hit, earning both critical and popular acclaim, selling over a million copies, and peaking at number six on the pop charts; it also spawned three Top Ten country singles: "To Know Him Is to Love Him," "Telling Me Lies," and "Those Memories of You."
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Parton later had commercial success as a pop singer, as well as an actress. Her 1977 album, Here You Come Again, was her first million-seller, and the title track ("Here You Come Again") became her first top-ten single on the pop charts (reaching No. 3); many of her subsequent singles charted on both pop and country charts, simultaneously. Her albums during this period were conceived specifically for pop/crossover success. With less time to spend on her songwriting, as she focused on a burgeoning film career, the early 1980s found Parton recording a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy, and Carole Bayer Sager. In 1978, Parton won the Grammy award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance for her Here You Come Again album.
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