Track Listing

1. Better Get To Livin'
2. Made Of Stone
3. Drives Me Crazy
4. Backwoods Barbie
5. Jesus & Gravity
6. Only Dreamin'
7. The Tracks Of My Tears
8. The Lonesomes
9. Cologne
10. Shinola
11. I Will Forever Hate Roses
12. Somebody's Everything

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #942 in Music
• Released on: 2008-02-26
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
Parton's first mainstream album in 17 years appeals to all her fans without sounding insincere or compromising. The title track, a fiddle-and-piano colored two-beat that's a sympathetic bit of autobiography, belies her campy doll-like cover pose. The debut single "Better Get to Livin'" is a page from her own upbeat canon, and when she's downhearted in the steel-guitar weeper "The Lonesomes" and the cocktail lounge arrangement "Made of Stone," she draws on the influence of earlier country queens like Kitty Wells and Patsy Cline. Parton's vocal tones remain equally pure, distinctive, and captivating over grinding six-string power chords as she blasts out Fine Young Cannibal's "Drives Me Crazy." She's especially affecting on a faithful rendition of Smokey Robinson's "The Tracks of My Tears." The bottom line is that Parton's one of America's greatest enduring vocal stylists, whether she's revisiting her roots in bluegrass or making commercial hay. --Ted Drozdowski

Customer Reviews

Sounds good to me
I have a few of Dolly Parton's Cds from Greatest Hits to soundtracks of
9-5 and Straight Talk and of course the Christmas Cds. No matter what she sings her voice sounds flawless. This Cd only proves age has no boundaries in singing.. A great cd with a cool mix from a legendary songbird has a little of everything and then some

Dolly at her best!
This album is truly one of the best albums that Dolly has ever done! Songs range from classic country of Backwoods Barbie, reminiscent of the Coat of Many Colors era, to the poppy remake of Drives Me Crazy. No matter what your favoite type of Dolly music is (she is her own genre!), you will find songs that you will love and cherish! Dolly wrote most of hte songs on the album and she is at her best songwriting and singing as well! It's a must have!

She just gets better with age.
I have been listening to this lady for over 40 years. She just gets better & better. This is a great one. She is unique & one of a kind. America needs Jesus & gravity. You can always count on Dolly she has never let me down in the entertainment department. You go girl!