If Ignorance leant towards musical grandeur, its sister album, cut live in three days, is understated, with no drums or percussion to add muscle to her piano, or her band's subtle guitar, double bass and woodwind.ĭespite the absence of rhythm, there are some beautiful moments: To Talk About, a duet with flautist Ryan Driver, has all the hallmarks of a jazz standard.
The upshot is an LP she sees as a companion piece rather than a sequel. Not sure whether she even wanted to release them, she logged the songs on a page labelled 'ballads' in her notebook before returning to them later with musicians from the Toronto jazz scene. As its title suggests, this one could run and run.Īctress-turned-singer Tamara Lindeman won plaudits for last year's Ignorance, her fifth record as The Weather Station.Īs she was making that record, the Canadian also came up with a clutch of softer, more intimate songs that didn't quite fit the mood. With the songs and story in place, the scope for a spin-off stage musical (and perhaps a film) is there, too. Elvis Costello created one to accompany his 2015 memoir, Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink, but that was made up largely of previously released songs, with just two new tracks. The concept of a soundtrack LP to a book is unusual. The latter is her partner on Love Or Lust, a schmaltzy finale that reiterates her fondness for a sweet, but corny, ending.
As she showed on her Christmas album, Dolly remains a dab hand at duets - and there are three more here, as she teams up with Ben Haggard (son of country legend Merle), Arkansas singer Joe Nichols, and her co-producer Richard Dennison. The optimistic numbers that follow - notably Dark Night, Bright Future - at least suggest that our fictional heroine ultimately prevails. Things take a more tragic turn on Blue Bonnet Breeze, a bluegrass waltz that tells of 'a rich city boy and a poor country girl', two star-crossed lovers whose romance is doomed from the start.
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Big Dreams And Faded Jeans finds the same singer full of optimism before her hopes are dashed on the guitar-driven Snakes In The Grass, a metaphor for the pitfalls of the music business. Opening track Run tells of an aspiring musician desperate to escape from the 'trash and rubble' of her old life. At 76, her high-pitched voice is raspier than it once was, but she carries a tune with classy aplomb, skipping between hoedowns, rockers and ballads with all of her familiar showbiz razzle-dazzle. She remains a highly accomplished songwriter, able to express complex emotions with a simple, human touch. Its 12 songs, all penned by Parton, have little in common with the crossover styles of her Christmas record, harking back instead to the country and western tunes of the 1960s.ĭolly's book, also Run, Rose, Run, is out next week and it tells the story of a singer, AnnieLee Keyes, who moves to Nashville in search of fame and fortune.Īs she makes her way in Music City, AnnieLee meets an older female singer who becomes her mentor - and many of the songs here are handed down as pearls of hard-won wisdom, passed on with all of Dolly's insider knowledge of the Tennessee music scene. Released as the 'soundtrack' to her first novel, a thriller written with best-selling author James Patterson, Run, Rose, Run is an old-school Nashville treasure trove. Her latest album offers a different kind of remedy. That was 15 months ago, around the same time as the indefatigable Parton was helping to fund the Moderna coronavirus vaccine.
When we last heard from Dolly Parton, she was singing with Michael Buble, Miley Cyrus and talk show host Jimmy Fallon on a Christmas album, A Holly Dolly Christmas, that was a mix of kitsch country and mainstream pop.
When we last heard from Dolly Parton, she was singing with Michael Buble, Miley Cyrus and talk show host Jimmy Fallon on a Christmas album, A Holly Dolly Christmas, that was a mix of kitsch country and mainstream pop
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