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: #1146 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

Hello Dolly
The cover art and title of the CD is enough to make me say "HELLO DOLLY"! I also love how straight forward she is and how much emotion she puts into her music and this CD did not disappoint!

Backwoods Barbie
Dolly Parton has done it again, she has made a masterpiece, This album is wonderful, it makes me yern for home! It is a brillant piece of work!
Go Dolly!

Disappointing
I was very disappointed with this album...I was expecting a bit more of Dolly's original 1970's style of music/vocals, but this album was like 1990's pop/rock/country. The vocals were kind of weak, and it just wasn't as good as some of the older albums.