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Dolly Parton My Tennessee Mountain Home (Remastered + Expanded) (1973)
My Tennessee Mountain Home (Remastered + Expanded)\n2007 RCA Nashville/Legacy\n\nOriginally Released April 21, 1973\nRemastered + Expanded CD Edition Released April 3, 2007\n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: At some point, after a successful career and a comeback or two, certain singer/writers like Dolly Parton become artists above and beyond criticism. If her past work in pop and country hadn't accomplished this for her, her recent string of roots albums on Sugar Hill certified her status as a senior statesperson of American music. Interestingly, reaching this exalted position also has a retroactive effect, bestowing the word "classic" on one's earlier work. My Tennessee Mountain Home was originally released in 1973, and unlike 1971's Coat of Many Colors, it follows a theme and feels like a real album. After reading a letter she wrote home in 1964 after she'd first arrived in Nashville, Parton sets the tone of the album with "I Remember": My Tennessee Mountain Home will serve as a memory theater, recalling and lifting up the ideal of a modest, simple life in the country. This simplicity is evoked in small everyday details, like the "Old Black Kettle" and "Daddy's Working Boots," while the underlying values of hard work, God, and family are declared over and over. While one would never call Parton or most '70s country artists postmodernists, the music here is very self-conscious of its rural roots and how the principles it sets forth are both different and at odds with the outside world. Parton has written all the material, and producer Bob Ferguson has done a much better job integrating songs and arrangements than on the previous Coat of Many Colors. And while there are a number of impure additions -- cheesy background singing being the most annoying -- acoustic guitars and Dobros play a prominent role. The 2007 reissue of My Tennessee Mountain Home is skimpy on bonus material. The sole extra, "Sacred Memories," was originally issued on Love Is Like a Butterfly, and even with this one addition, the album is not quite 35 minutes long. Still, the album qualifies as classic Dolly Parton, and it's nice to have it on CD. -- Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. \n\nAMG EXPERT REVIEW: My Tennessee Mountain Home is one of the rootsiest records of Dolly Parton's career. With its affectionate homages and salutes to her childhood in Tennessee, the record is a direct and moving slice of mountain music that isn't dressed up in cosmopolitan production. Parton wrote every song on the record, creating a loose, musical autobiography with its 11 songs. Though the sound of the record isn't particularly rowdy, it is heartfelt and rootsy and Parton's songs -- "Old Black Kettle," "The Letter," "The Good Old Days When Times Were Bad," and "The Better Part of Life" -- are among her best, most affecting songs, much like My Tennessee Mountain Home itself. -- Stephen Thomas Erlewine\n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nAnother Dolly Gem!", April 8, 2007 \nBy Terry Richard "Terry Richard" (New Brunswick, Canada)\nOriginally a poor seller when it was first released in 1973, but crtically acclaimed, "My Tennessee Mountain Home" has through the years become one of the best Dolly albums ever. This marks the first North American release of the CD. It's amazing and comes with the original album being repackaged with the liner notes and photos and comes with the bonus track "Sacred Memories" that was dropped from the album and later added to Dolly's 1974 LP "Love is Like A Butterfly". There are also some rare photos from 1970 that were taken during the recording of Dolly's "A Real Live Dolly" LP. A must for any true country fan and Dolly fan. One of the best Parton compositions "Down on Music Row" is included here as well. Chet Flippo also has added some new liner notes. A perfect CD! \n\n\nAMAZON.COM CUSTOMER REVIEW\nSubdued album looks home from Nashville, April 4, 2007 \nBy redtunictroll (Earth, USA)\nThis 1973 entry in Parton's catalog has previously been available as part of an import two-fer (winningly paired with the following year's "Jolene"), but this is the first domestic reissue. Parton was a star on the Porter Wagoner show in the early '70s, but solo recognition was arriving more grudgingly. Her chafing under Wagoner's contractual control didn't help, and her songwriting exhibited a streak of homesickness, starting with the spoken word opener on this LP. \n\nParton sings lovingly of her parents ("I Remember" "Daddy's Working Boots"), home ("Old Black Kettle" "My Tennessee Mountain Home" "Back Home"), and remarkable neighbors ("Dr. Robert F. Thomas" - the man who brought Parton into this world). The album's homespun sounds form a bookend with 1998's "Hungry Again," particularly in the traditional, acoustic backings. The album's title track is a perfect example of Parton's craft, evoking images so real that you can feel yourself longing for a return to Smoky Mountains you may never before have visited. \n\nThe remainder of the album failed to catch on the charts, but Parton's nostalgic and wistful songs are quite charming. The story of her arrival in Nashville, "Down on Music Row," is a a great example (along with the title track and career standouts like "Coat of Many Colors") of how Parton could turn her personal history into memorable, engaging songs. The lone bonus track on this reissue, "Sacred Memories," was recorded during the album's sessions, issued as a B-side, and reappeared on the LP "Love is Like a Butterfly." \n\nLegacy's reissue (along with accompanying versions of "Jolene" and "Coat of Many Colors") fills out the packaging with newly struck liner notes by Chet Flippo and chart and session information. Aside from the title track, this is a more subdued and subtle entry in Parton's catalog and its lack of previous domestic reissue leaves it fresh to many fan's ears. Most of Parton's albums of this era are essential, and this one's no exception. [

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