Dolly Parton – Little Sparrow (2001) [Reissue 2003]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:49 minutes | Scans included | 3,39 GB
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Though Dolly Parton had been exploring her musical roots to various degrees throughout the last half of the ’90s, her true return to form didn’t occur until the release of the Grammy-winning The Grass Is Blue, and its 2001 follow-up, Little Sparrow. Critics and fans alike agreed that the latter record was easily among the best Parton had ever recorded, and that was certainly saying something. One of the leading tracks on Little Sparrow was its love-wary title track, which kicked off an album that was filled with enough heartache-related songs to cover three separate country records. Parton’s lyrics use the familiar folk metaphor of symbolizing a bird as freedom and rebirth, and she looks to it wishing to escape a world that has crumbled due to a insincere lover. She grippingly moans, “Little sparrow, flies so high, feels no pain,” while fantasizing, “If I were a little sparrow, oe’r these mountains I would fly/I would find him, I would find him/look into his lying eye.” Besides simple escape, Parton also wants justification for her sorrow, singing “I would flutter all around him…I would ask him/why he let me love him then.” By the end of the song, however, she realizes she is merely a victim of an “evil cunning scheme,” leaving no other lesson to pass on to her “maidens fair and tender” other than “never trust the hearts of men, for they will crush you like a sparrow.” By this time, Parton has realized that even the sparrow is a victim of man’s evil, and it is only free until it meets up with a man, who will casually destroy it. It’s an ingenious metaphor that, along with a slow, aching melody, and a flawless production and performance, helps round out what is truly one of the best songs Dolly Parton has written in years.
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris – The Complete Trio Collection (Deluxe) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:26:53 minutes | 2,43 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino
The threesome released two albums together, Trio (1987) and Trio II (1999), which have combined to sell more than five million copies worldwide and win three Grammy® Awards. Both of these classic albums have been newly remastered for a three-CD collection packed with rare and unreleased music produced by Harris. The bonus disc is loaded with 20 songs, including alternate takes and completely unreleased recordings from the trio spanning both album sessions.
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris – Trio (1987/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 39:48 minutes | 1,41 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino – Warner Records
Trio is the unbelievable collaboration between music legends, Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris. This multi-Platinum release topped Billboard’s Top Country albums and reached #6 on the Billboard 200. It includes the standouts, “To Know Him Is To Love Him,” “Wildflowers” and “Those Memories Of You.” It was nominated for Album of the Year and won the GRAMMY® for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.
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Dolly Parton – Touch Your Woman (1972/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 25:24 minutes | 536 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Records Label
Touch Your Woman is the ninth solo studio album by American country entertainer Dolly Parton, released in March 1972 on RCA Victor. The title song was a top ten country single for Parton in early 1972. The album was produced by Bob Ferguson and, as was generally the case with Parton’s early albums for RCA Records, contained mostly Parton’s own compositions, along with a couple of covers. This may be the very moment where Dolly Parton emerges as a masterclass singer. Goosebump-inducing vocal trills elevate an already excellent composition. Listen closely, and you can hear the styles of Reba McEntire and Lee Ann Womack being born.
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Dolly Parton – The Great Pretender (1984/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:36 minutes | 723 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
The Great Pretender is Dolly Parton’s 26th solo studioalbum, released in January 1984, and is composed ofcovers of hits from the 1950s and 1960s. The albumwas produced by Val Garay. It made heavy use ofsynthesizers and had a decidedly pop sound. The firstsingle, a remake of The Drifters’ 1960 hit “Save theLast Dance for Me” was a top ten country single forParton in early 1984 and came close to making thepop Top 40 as well. Dolly Parton’s cover of the 1965 Petula Clark hit”Downtown” was the album’s second single. The title song was originally ahit for The Platters in 1956.
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Dolly Parton – The Collection (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:04:21 minutes | 6,08 GB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA/Legacy/Sony Music
Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actress, author, businesswoman, and philanthropist, known primarily for her work in country music.
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Dolly Parton – Pure & Simple (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:13:05 minutes | 818 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Records Label Nashville
The 2016 release from legendary voice Dolly Parton. Pure & Simple will be her 43rd studio release.
Dolly Parton may have spent a good portion of her career being treated as a novelty act, the sweet hillbilly girl with the big smile and the big hair, but it’s clear she’s had the last laugh. Very few country acts working today have approached Parton’s career longevity, and at 70 years old she’s still a force to be reckoned with. She doesn’t have to play the summer state fair circuit, she hasn’t had to re-record her back catalog, she’s now acknowledged as a great singer and excellent songwriter, and as much as she likes to pretend she’s a dumb blonde, she’s a wealthy multi-media magnate who has played the game her own way and won. In 2016, Dolly Parton makes music in large part because it’s good for her brand, but her album Pure & Simple is also the work of someone who still has fun writing and recording new stuff, and is still putting her heart and soul into her work. Parton co-produced Pure & Simple with Richard Dennison and Tom Rutledge, and she wrote and arranged all ten tracks, with songs about love dominating the set list. For someone who has been making records for over 50 years, Parton sounds remarkably good on these sessions; her voice is a bit weaker than it was in her glory days, but she can still hit her notes comfortably, and her gift for making her stories sound sincere and heartfelt is as strong as ever. When Parton sounds giddy about love in tunes like “I’m Sixteen” and “Head Over High Heels,” her joy fills the room, and it’s been some time since anyone has written a cheating song that takes the consequences of an illicit relationship as seriously as “Can’t Be That Wrong.” And Parton wisely sidesteps the sort of slick production that’s the current norm in Nashville, opting instead for a clean, straightforward approach that serves the melodies and stays out of the way of her vocals. In many respects, this sounds like an album Parton could have made in the mid-’70s, before she made her bid to become a cross-genre superstar, and for fans who want to hear “the Real Dolly,” Pure & Simple will hit the spot like a glass of iced tea on August afternoon.
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Dolly Parton – My Tennessee Mountain Home (1973/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:01 minutes | 678 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RLG – Legacy
My Tennessee Mountain Home, released in 1973, is the 11th solo studio album by Dolly Parton, the title track of which became one of her better-known compositions. Largely a concept album about her childhood in rural East Tennessee, the album began with a recitation of the first letter Parton wrote to her parents, shortly after moving from her hometown of Sevierville, Tennessee to Nashville in 1964. Though neither the album nor the title single were huge commercial hits for Parton — neither cracked the top ten on the U.S. country singles or albums charts — they remain fondly remembered by her fans; the My Tennessee Mountain Home album is among the most critically praised albums in Parton’s catalogue.
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Dolly Parton – Joshua (1971/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 28:01 minutes | 591 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
The title track on this Dolly Parton album was the first to top the US Country Billboard charts. The album itself landed at an admirable #16 on the Country Album charts, and even appeared at #198 on the Pop Album charts.
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Dolly Parton – In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) (1969/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 29:37 minutes | 656 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad) is the third solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. It was released on February 3, 1969, by RCA Victor.
The album was reissued on cassette in Germany in 1987 and CD in Portugal in 1997. It was released as a digital download on July 26, 2019.
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Dolly Parton – I Believe in You (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 31:29 minutes | 363 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Records Label Nashville
I Believe in You is the first children’s album from Dolly Parton due out digitally on September 29 and physically on October 13. All 14 tracks were written and performed by Dolly and the final track is a special reading by Dolly of her famed “Coat of Many Colors.”
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Dolly Parton – Heartbreak Express (1982/2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 35:42 minutes | 708 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RLG – Legacy
Heartbreak Express is Dolly Parton’s 24th solo studioalbum. Released in April 1982, the album returnedParton to a more fully realized country sound, afterher late 1970s pop recordings. The album’s firstsingle, “Single Women”, a slow-tempo honkytonkballad about a singles bar, was written by SaturdayNight Live writer Michael O’Donoghue, and hadpreviously appeared in an SNL skit in late 1980. Thesingle provided a top ten single for Parton. The title cut also was a top tenhit for her. “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind” appeared as a double-A-sidedsingle, and reached #1 on the country charts in August 1982.
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Dolly Parton – Greatest Hits (1984/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 39:31 minutes | 778 MB | Genre: Country, Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
This is a good sampling of Parton’s work in the first few years that she deliberately chased a crossover career in Hollywood. The country-pop stuff might offend purists, but it still gets the toe tappin’. “Hard Candy Christmas” and her updated version of “I Will Always Love You” (both from The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas) show her growth as an interpreter.
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Dolly Parton – Great Balls Of Fire (1979/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:31 minutes | 721 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RLG – Legacy
For years, Dolly Parton wanted to be a big star, and there’s no arguing that she had the talent, the smarts, and the drive to be as famous as she wanted. What Dolly didn’t have was a handful of records that would get her airplay on pop radio, and she set about changing that with 1977’s Here You Come Again, in which she hired a producer who could give her a Top 40 hit. Released in 1979, Great Balls of Fire upped the ante by delivering an aural smorgasbord of pop styles disco (“Star of the Show”), soft rock (“You’re the Only One” and “Sweet Summer Lovin'”), ballads (“Do You Think That Time Stands Still” and “Almost in Love”), slinky R&B (“Down” and “It’s Not My Affair Anymore”), and even a credible attempt at full-on rock & roll (the title cut). Considering how well (and how sympathetically) Parton produced herself on her last few pre-crossover efforts, the aggressive polish of Dean Parks and Gregg Perry’s studio settings is a bit disconcerting, but they thankfully seem aware at all times who is in the spotlight, and Dolly, professional that she is, rises to the challenge on all ten tracks. However, Parton only wrote four songs for this set, and it seems ironic that the most purely country cut on the LP is a cover of the Beatles’ “Help!,” which is given a sprightly neo-bluegrass arrangement, showing Parton certainly hadn’t lost touch with her musical roots but was finding unusual ways of expressing them.
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Dolly Parton – Golden Streets Of Glory (1971/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 25:52 minutes | 547 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA Records Label Nashville
Dolly Parton’s sixth studio album, originally released in 1971. Features a country/gospel crossover style.
Ask any long-time Dolly Parton fan what is the one album they have been searching for for years and they have come up empty and they will tell you her 1971 “The Golden Streets of Glory” LP is her hardest and most rare album. The album art of this record is one of Dolly’s most beautiful with Dolly adorning the right side and a painting of the Golden Streets on the left. The album is a collection of gospel songs, including “I Believe” and “How Great Thou Art.”
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