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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
January 26, 2012 by Simon Sweetman