Dolly Parton – Coat Of Many Colors (1971/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 27:32 minutes | 577 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Buddha Records
Dolly Parton had a number of hits in the late ’60s as Porter Wagoner’s duet partner, yet solo success eluded her until her 1971 album Coat of Many Colors. The title track was a Top Ten single, and it effectively became her signature song, largely because it was a sweetly autobiographical tune about her childhood. That song, along with its two hit predecessors, “Traveling Man” and “My Blue Tears,” were evidence that Parton was a strong songwriter, but the full album reveals the true depth of her talents. She wrote seven of the ten songs (Wagoner wrote the other three), none of which is filler. There isn’t really a theme behind Coat of Many Colors, even if its title track suggests otherwise. Instead, it’s a remarkably consistent album, in terms of songwriting and performances, but also remarkably diverse, revealing that Dolly can handle ballads, country-rockers, tearjerkers, and country-pop with equal aplomb. And while it is very short, clocking in at under a half-hour, there isn’t a wasted moment on the album. It’s a lean, trim album that impresses because of succinctness with its ten songs, it announced Parton as a major talent in her own right, not merely a duet partner.
Dolly wrote all the songs here except for three (If I lose my mind, The mystery of the mystery, The tender touch of love) that Porter Wagoner wrote. The title track is, of course, a classic. Perhaps the real surprise is that it only made number four on the American country charts, but music charts (whether country, pop or any other) have never told the whole story. The only other single taken from the album, My blue tears, made the country top twenty.
Tracklist:
1. Dolly Parton – Coat Of Many Colors (03:06)
2. Dolly Parton – Traveling Man (02:41)
3. Dolly Parton – My Blue Tears (02:18)
4. Dolly Parton – If I Lose My Mind (02:31)
5. Dolly Parton – The Mystery Of The Mystery (02:27)
6. Dolly Parton – She Never Met A Man (She Didn’t Like) (02:42)
7. Dolly Parton – Early Morning Breeze (02:56)
8. Dolly Parton – The Way I See You (02:48)
9. Dolly Parton – Here I Am (03:20)
10. Dolly Parton – A Better Place To Live (02:39)
