[ourplace] Re: Fw: Dolly Parton's new album is all about love

From: "Linda Gehres" <ljgehres@xxxxxxx>
To: <ourplace@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 09:34:12 -0700

What a wonderful lady she is.  When I lived in Sacramento a couple of decades
ago, I went to a concert she performed, and though her voice was a bit hoarse,
she overcame that hurdle and put on a fabulous show.  Sure hope country fans
will get this album.  I’m sure she’s well aware with the changes in radio, and
with so many people buying things online, it’s not as it used to be where you
promoted an album country-wide to a bunch of FM station program directors.
Don’t know how many current country stations there are on terestrial radio these
days.

Linda G.

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Dolly Parton's new album is all about love Bob Doerschuk, Special to USA TODAY
After half a century's worth of performance, Dolly Parton's voice still
bubbles like a freshly popped bottle of champagne. Perhaps some of its
infectious appeal can be attributed to her marriage. She and Carl Dean met by
chance
in a laundromat 52 years ago and have remained in a spin cycle of happy
infatuation ever since. 'We had our 50th anniversary this year,' she explains.
'In fact, Carl and I got married again! Now we like to say we've each been
married twice but only to each other. Anyway, when I started writing this song
called Pure And Simple ,'I thought, well, maybe my next album should just be
about love. I'd never written just an album that was completely about love.
Of course it turned out that a whole lot of songs in there have a lot to do with
us. Listen to an exclusive stream of Can't Be That Wrong : The album,
also titled Pure & Simple and out Friday, ended up being about a lot more than
Dolly and Carl. 'As I was getting into it, I realized I had to write about
all the colors of love,' Parton says. 'There's your cheatin' love; that's Can't
Be That Wrong . There's a couple of corny little songs, like Outside Your
Door . Head Over High Heels '-- that's how you feel when you first all in love.
Parton, an eight-time Grammy Award winner,'wrote each song alone.'. 'When
you write with somebody else, it may be musically better than if you did it on
your own, but personally it mostly never is. I do enjoy writing with other
people but I especially enjoy writing alone because that's like my personal time
with God: I open myself up and see where it goes. Generally, those songs
that celebrate the sunny side of love came quickest, while the one most likely
to raise eyebrows took a little more work. 'I rewrote Can't Be That Wrong
'a lot, I guess because it's my cheatin' song. Maybe I was just feeling guilty!
Parton, 70, says'with a laugh. 'I was thinking, 'I 'better get this right
or somebody's gonna think I'm screwing around! Dolly Parton's new album (Photo:
Handout) What makes Can't Be That Wrong' especially remarkable is its lack
of judgment. 'I wrote this song from true feelings,' Parton says. 'It's about
someone I know very well, who loved the person they had at home but they
fell head over heels for someone else. This was so overwhelming that they were
both just torn to pieces. I saw firsthand how sincere they were in their
love. I mean, love is love: Whether it's right or wrong, you cannot stop it. I'm
not one to judge what's right or wrong, but I know what they felt was
real. One line at the end of the song drives this point home. 'The tag line
says: 'To hell with Heaven if it means I lose you,' Parton says. 'Somebody
told me, 'You cannot say that! You're Dolly! And I said, 'Well, I can say that
because I'm Dolly the songwriter. I don't have to make excuses as a songwriter.
If somebody wants to condemn me for it, fine. I was just as excited because I
thought it was a great line! With pure love conspicuously absent as a topic
for many modern country songs, Parton admits that Pure & Simple may not get a
lot of radio airplay. 'It would be wonderful if it did but I'm not expecting
it because I had to write what I feel. She pauses long enough to laugh once more
and reflect, 'I guess my main hope is that some people buy it, do some
Viagra and have a big old time listening to it! Parton begins a 60-stop Pure &
Simple tour Sept. 9.

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