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November 6, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dolly Parton – 50 Years At The Opry: DVD

Dolly Parton: 50 Years At The Opry Director: Ashley S Gorman Man Alive Entertainment / Madman It’s been a huge year or two for Dolly Parton – a range of celebratory docos, biopics and biographical stories including a brilliant podcast series. Dolly is always there. And for many of us she’s one of music’s true […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 50 Years At The Opry, Ashley S Gorman, Concert, Documentary, Dolly, Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton - 50 Years At The Opry: DVD, Dolly Parton: 50 Years At The Opry, DVD, DVD Review, Grand Ole Opry, Man Alive Entertainment / Madman, Review, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 10, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Five Songs For Friday: 34 – 2020 – 1st Edition

It’s a new year – welcome, belatedly to 2020. You’ve arrived already of course, but here now is the first edition of the staggeringly inconsistent Five Songs For Friday for the new year. No theme. Just songs that are on my mind at the start of this year. Or on my turntable. Or in my […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged [OST], 1st Edition, 20/20, 5, Anthology, Billie Holiday, demos, Do It Again, Doc, Doco, Documentary, Dolly Parton, Five, Five Songs For Friday, Five Songs For Friday: 34, Five Songs For Friday: 34 – 2020 – 1st Edition, Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You, Main Theme, Marriage Story, Netflix, Ragtime, Randy Newman, Score, Soundtrack, Strawberry Fields, Take 1, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Grass Is Blue, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Dolly Parton – Here I Am: Film

Dolly Parton: Here I Am Director: Francis Whately Man Alive Productions / BBC / Netflix Dolly Parton is hosting a victory lap for herself. She’s always been a great and tireless self-promoter that understood the power of your personality as your brand long before ‘storytelling’ became a buzzword – but right now she’s leading a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 2019, BBC, Country, Doco, Documentary, Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton - Here I Am: Film, Dolly Parton: Here I Am, Film, Film Review, Francis Whately, Here I Am, I Will Always Love You, Jolene, Man Alive Production, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Netflix, Porter Wagoner, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 287

Dolly Parton, Great Balls of Fire (1979) Dolly, Dolly, Dolly…I’ve probably bashed everyone over the head with Dolly Parton lately – listening to almost everything she’s ever done (some 63 studio albums) for a recent chat on the radio about how Dolly is great. But here’s the funny thing, I own precisely two Dolly LPs. A cheap TimeLife compilation with the obvious hits […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, Country, Crossover, Dolly, Dolly Parton, Great Balls of Fire, Help!, LP, Pop, Record, RNZ, Star of the Show, The Vinyl Countdown # 287, Vinyl ·

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June 16, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Dolly Parton: Dumplin’ [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] 

Dolly Parton  Dumplin’ [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] RCA Records Label Nashville First off, it’s a great movie – really worthwhile. Strong, subtle performances, an interesting set of themes and more grit and heart than the typical Hollywood comedy fare. It’s funny too – but has more than just humour. And one of the big themes of the film […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, Dumplin, Dumplin’ [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack], Jennifer Aniston, Mavis Staples, Miranda Lambert, RCA, Rhonda Vincent, Sony, Soundtrack, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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December 7, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Don’t Give Up…

The original plan Peter Gabriel had for his song Don’t Give Up was for it to be a duet between him and Dolly Parton. He wrote it with Dolly in mind. She gave up before she began; she had no interest in recording the song with him. Gabriel heard it, in part, as a country song. You hear the song […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1980s, Classic Album, Dolly Parton, Don't Give Up, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Sinead O'Connor, So, Song, Willie Nelson ·

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October 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Margo Price: Weakness (ep)

Margo Price Weakness (ep) Third Man Records I haven’t been this excited about a ‘new country’-type artist since first hearing Neko Case; there’s a touch of that early Neko Case sound on Just Like Love, one of four songs here on Margo Price’s new (stopgap) EP. By the time you read this she’ll have released […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bobbie Gentry, Bobby Gentry, Country, Dolly Parton, EP, Loretta Lynn, Margo Price, Margo Price: Weakness (ep), Mid-West Farmer's Daughter, Neko Case, Third Man Records, Weakness ·

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May 22, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Buckle Up: Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening

I started this thing a while ago where I decided I was going to name ten albums important to me (and important for me) in a particular musical genre. I started with hip-hop (see here). And then I decided to do my list of seminal and sentimental metal albums (see here). And most recently it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 89/93: An Anthology, American Recordings, Buckle Up, Buckle Up: Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening, Car Wheels On a Gravel Road, Country, Country Music, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Essence, Gold, Hank Williams, Heartbreaker, Johnny Cash, Little Sparrow, Lucinda Williams, Modern Sounds In Country And Western, Patsy Cline, Patsy Cline’s Greatest Hits, Ray Charles, Ryan Adams, Teatro, Ten Important Country Albums In My Life of Listening, The Ultimate Collection, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, Willie Nelson, Wrecking Ball ·

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August 10, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 655

Emmylou Harris, Gliding Bird (1969) I love Emmylou Harris. Have done for many years. I first knew about her as a name and voice – a backing singer to the stars; there she was on albums by Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson and many others and though I knew about her, the legend, the Gram […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1969, Black Gypsy, Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Duets, Emmylou Harris, Gliding Bird, Gram Parsons, Linda Ronstadt, LP, Record, The Vinyl Countdown # 655, Trio, Trios, Vinyl, Western Wall, Willie Nelson ·

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August 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974

Various Artists: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974 Light In The Attic The first volume – one of Light In The Attic’s masterstrokes in the compiling/reissuing game – was the introduction of a genre that might have seemed to some like a Buzzfeed–styled click-bait headline; a fake genre you just had to hear – even […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Wilson, Billy Swan, Compilation, Country, Country Funk, Country Funk Volume II 1967-1974, Dolly Parton, Donnie Fritts, Doug Dillard, First Edition, Funk, Gene Clark, Great Speckled Bird, J.J. Cale, Jackie DeShannon, Jim Ford, Kenny Rogers, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic Records, Reissue, Shotgun Willie, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Townes Van Zandt, V/A, Various Artists, Willie Nelson, Willis Alan Ramsey ·

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April 27, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Dolly Parton: Blue Smoke

Dolly Parton Blue Smoke +180 Records She’s been at it over 50 years now and as the opening title track here shows – and the immediate follow up, Unlikely Angel for that matter – Dolly can still write a song; a darn good one at that. And her cover of Dylan’s Don’t Think Twice shows […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blue Smoke, Bob Dylan, Bon Jovi, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson ·

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January 26, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1649

Dolly Parton, Country Music [Time Life] (1981) I reckon I was unfairly put off Dolly Parton growing up in Hawke’s Bay in the 1980s. Back then (and there) you could tell a country music fan by the way they smiled – you only needed the fingers on one hand to count the teeth. (Possibly you’d […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1981, Country Music, Dolly Parton, Jolene, LP, Mule Skinner Blues, Time Life, TradeMe, Vinyl ·

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