4/11/2023 0 Comments Dumblonde lose mymindThe others come from throughout her long career and display different aspects of her musical roots. Wherever I am, then that’s where I belongĬountry is as country does, and I’m country to the bone.”įive of the 12 tracks are recent compositions written for this project. “I can live in a mansion or a double-wide In a typically Dolly-esque twist on the current faux outlaws’ boasts about how country they are, Dolly sings in “Country Is as Country Does”: The album also shows Dolly updating her style to current music practices and viewpoints. I am taking what’s mine, I’ll be fine, I am second to noneĪnd when the losing’s all done, I’m gonna shine like the sun.” When it’s all said and done, I won’t be at your mercy no more “I’m gonna shine like the sun when these clouds roll away from my door On Better Day, in the song “Shine Like the Sun” (written for 9 to 5: The Musical), she emphatically declares: They’re mere pikers compared to the original Brave Little Soldier, all tarted up like Mae West. If any show business figure ever totally invented and reinvented herself, it has been Dolly Rebecca Parton. The most memorable thing Dolly ever said to me in an interview was, “I’m a brave little soldier,” and that still holds true today. Since its beginnings in 1996 in her home county in Tennessee, it has spread across the United States and now includes Canada and the United Kingdom. That worthy endeavor sends a free book every month to every enrolled child, from birth through kindergarten. But for me, her shining achievement has been the founding of the Imagination Library. That career involves movies, Broadway, business ventures and many awards. In a sturdy career that has spanned decades, she first appeared on the Billboard record charts in 1967 with “Dumb Blonde,” and she has charted over 100 country singles, including 25 No. The ever-irrepressible Dolly Parton is back with Better Day, a portfolio of feel-better, lift-yourself-up, rejoicing sermons. After a recording hiatus since 2008’s Backwoods Barbie, she returns with a sun-dappled romp through fields of dazzling musical flowers. She’s still the original big rock candy mountain. (NASHVILLE SKYLINE is a column by CMT/ CMT.com Editorial Director Chet Flippo.)
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