Dolly Parton Halos and Horns.(Sound Recording Review)

From: Sing Out! | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Lupton, John | Copyright information

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For more than 30 years, Dolly Parton has been not just an icon of mainstream Nashville music, but of American pop music and culture on the whole. So when the news broke a couple of years ago that she would record an album of bluegrass-based acoustic music for the independent Sugar Hill label (The Grass Is Blue), many assumed it to be a brief detour from her major-label Nashville and Hollywood ventures. Even after the followup Little Sparrow, the naysayers...

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