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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Dumb Blonde
2. Just Because I'm a Woman
3. My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
4. Mule Skinner Blues (Blue Yodel No. 8)
5. Joshua
6. Coat of Many Colors
7. Touch Your Woman
8. My Tennessee Mountain Home
9. Jolene
10. Please Don't Stop Loving Me - (with Porter Wagoner)
11. I Will Always Love You
12. Love Is Like a Butterfly
13. Bargain Store, The
14. Seeker, The
15. We Used To
16. All I Can Do
17. Light of a Clear Blue Morning
18. It's All Wrong, But It's All Right
DISC 2:
1. Here You Come Again
2. Two Doors Down
3. Heartbreaker
4. I Really Got the Feeling
5. You're the Only One
6. Starting Over Again
7. Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle to You
8. 9 to 5
9. But You Know I Love You
10. Single Women
11. Heartbreak Express
12. Islands in the Stream - (with Kenny Rogers)
13. Save the Last Dance For Me - (with The Jordanaires)
14. Tennessee Homesick Blues
15. God Won't Get You
16. To Know Him Is to Love Him - (with Linda Ronstadt/Emmylou Harris)
17. Why'd You Come in Here Lookin' Like That
18. Rockin' Years - (with Ricky Van Shelton)
19. Shine
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers, Linda Ronstadt, Porter Wagoner, Ricky Van Shelton | | Producer: | Al Quaglieri (Compilation), Bob Ferguson, Dolly Parton, Gary Klein, Gregg Perry, Porter Wagoner, Steve Buckingham | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel include: Dolly Parton (vocals); Emmylou Harris, Kenny Rogers, Porter Wagoner, Ricky Van Shelton, Linda Ronstadt (vocals).
Liner Note Author: Holly George-Warren.
Recording information: 1966 - 2000.
One of the most successful and versatile artists in country music, Dolly Parton is a true icon of the genre. With a recording career spanning more than four decades, Parton epitomized country, while always venturing into other territories, including pop and bluegrass. Columbia/Legacy's THE ESSENTIAL DOLLY PARTON (not to be confused with other similarly titled compilations) begins with the striking performer flaunting her charmingly assertive nature with 1966's rollicking "Dumb Blonde," and proceeds in chronological fashion through Parton's slew of '70s hits, including the gentle, folk-like "Coat of Many Colors" and the gorgeous 1974 version of "I Will Always Love You." (The latter two songs, like many on this collection, were written by Parton herself.)
Parton's hits from the late '70s, '80s, and beyond continue on the second disc. Runaway '80s hits "9 to 5" (from the titular film starring Parton) and "Islands in the Stream" (her Bees Gees-penned duet with Kenny Rogers) represent her commercial peak, but the remaining latter-day songs reveal that Parton's talents--particularly her distinctive high, clear voice--were still going strong into the 2000s (most notably on her bluegrass rendition of Collective Soul's rock hit, "Shine"). For those looking for the best overview of Parton's career, this 37-track set is it.
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