- Name any recording that you immediately associate with Country
music legend Dolly Parton and there’s a better than average chance that
she not only sang it, she wrote it too. Dolly has been recording regularly
since the mid-60s and almost every major hit she has ever had (and quite a
few minor ones too) she wrote or co-wrote.
- Somehow this important component
of her overall musical skillset is all too frequently overlooked by the
public at large, who know Dolly for her luminous public image and gregarious
personality without necessarily realising that she is also a brilliant songwriter.
- Dolly Parton wrote hit songs for other artists before she really
had any hit records of her own. The ink in her pen has never gone dry and
although she’s not as prolific as she once was, she still writes songs –
these days mostly for herself – that other artists are happy to
record. A generous sampling of her
best work from more than half a century of song-writing is collected here in
Ace’s latest instalment of our long-running and highly-regarded ‘Songwriter
Series’.
- It would have been easy to fill this compilation with covers of
her songs by Dolly’s country peers but, as can be seen from the track
listing, her work has been embraced by a variety of artists – from Percy
Sledge to Nana Mouskouri to Tina Turner to the Incredible String Band –
and across a variety of genres. The versions used here have been selected
to demonstrate the breadth of Dolly’s catalogue and to show how
comfortably her songs fit any artist who chooses to cut them.
- As always, our CD booklet overflows with rare images and a generously-worded
track-by-track annotation by our legendary compiler and scribe Tony
Rounce.
- Dolly remains an iconic artist and her popularity remains undiminished
as she edges towards her 80th birthday. It’s to be hoped that Ace’s
sincere salute to her words and music will help to ensure that they preserve
a formidable musical legacy.
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