- Category: Music » Country » Nashville Sound
- Format: CD
- Release Date: February 26, 2008
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Dolly Records
- UPC: 805859009323
- WAPI (Tower ID): 111773913
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Average Customer Review:
(5 customer reviews)
- Tower.com Sales Rank: #919 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
- #105196 in Country (See Top 100 Country Bestsellers)
- #1 in Nashville Sound (See Top 100 Nashville Sound Bestsellers)
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Dolly Parton (Artist)
Review
Entertainment Weekly (p.94) - "There's a nice middle grond here between her crossover ambitions and mountain-mama classicism." -- Grade: B+
Title Note
The inaugural release on her own Dolly Records finds the ever-mercurial Dolly Parton moving away from the bluegrass/acoustic-oriented sound she explored on her albums for the Sugar Hill label from 1999 to 2005. Never content to stay in one place, she traverses a wide array of styles on BACKWOODS BARBIE. Opening track "Better Get to Livin'" has an anthemic, contemporary-country feel that's overtly radio-friendly. The jazzy, piano-flecked "The Lonesomes" adds an easy swing to the proceedings. "I Will Forever Hate Roses" and "Made of Stone" offer proof that Dolly still has a way with a good old country ballad.
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Customer Reviews for "Backwoods Barbie (CD)" by
Dolly Parton (Artist)
Most Recent Customer Reviews Simply the BEST, March 3, 2008
By dblount
If country radio chooses to ignore this latest project by the most gifted woman
in country music history, it will be beyond shameful. Dolly Partons new cd is
simply stunning! From her incredible songwriting skills to that unmistakable
beautiful soprano, she still towers over all the other competition. Dolly, you
are simply untouchable! Fantastic job on this one!!!
Dolly is Brilliant!, March 3, 2008
By ironbutterfly
Dolly - you are a genius! I cannot stop listening to this CD! Better Get to
Livin really makes me get off my butt and get to changing my life. Made of Stone
is filled with such emotion and I love it. Dolly can really turn an old favorite
into a new favorite with Drives me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals classic) - Dollys
version rocks and will make you want to get up and dance! Tracks of my Tears is
a Smokey Robinson classic and Dolly makes this song 100% better. There is
nothing Dolly cant sing and this CD proves it with everything from pure country
to new mainstream country to jazz (The Lonesomes). this CD gets an A+ from me!
Dolly is AWESOME in Backwoods Barbie, March 2, 2008
By Scottie
Dolly is better than ever!!! A solid masterpiece!!! You "Better Get To Livin"
and you better get to buying this one. You wont regret it!!!
Backwoods Barbie - Diamond In A Rhinestone World, March 2, 2008
By dollyfanuk
Better Get to Livin’ is the track that has been unbelievably available since
August last year!!!! It is a fantastic song with as much impact as a Country-pop
song can give. This track sits nicely in the album and has you tapping your
feet and clicking your fingers (and I dare anyone to try and not do this). It’s
Dolly’s own ‘’kick ass’’ song –telling us all that life is worth Livin’ and to
pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and live life to the full!!
Made of Stone
is a wonderful song. The emotional content in that song is so heart-wrenching.
Dolly’s tearful vocals towards the end makes you want to press the ‘’back’’
button and hear it ‘’just one more time’’ before I see what gems are on the rest
of the CD. The track is about a man who blatantly acts selfish, sleeps around
and just treats the woman who really loves him like crap…….No other artist could
sing this with such feeling and emotion.
I Will Forever Hate Roses. This is my
second favorite song on the CD. It reminds me of a song Tammy Wynette once did
called ‘’Liar’s Roses’’ and indeed the story is similar. This guy sends Dolly
Roses to tell her he is breaking up with her. Dolly loves all the flowers of the
world. The rose however poses as a flower of hurt. ‘’The Pain it Imposes’’ is
a brilliant play on words. Yes, Dolly will Forever love the Tulips, the Posy’s
but she will Forever Hate Roses……. Makes me cry so hard.
Somebody’s Everything.
Dolly craves to be everything to someone in this song. Apparently she has read
too many fairy tales and lives her life in make believe in this one. Dolly is
looking for passion, fire, reality – they should all be one in the same –
Somebody’s Everything. Almost a gospel type of track this is a powerful ballad
where Dolly reaches the highest notes her voice can reach. I could see her using
this song as the closing tune for her upcoming World Tour. It’s one of those
where the crowd would be on their feet after the first few sentences and the
whole auditorium would be filled with electric emotion. Dolly hangs the ‘’Moon
and Sun’’ in this amazing song.
Now, what can be said about the track
‘’Cologne?’’ This must be the best song on the whole CD. This is the one I
personally put on repeat over and over and over and over and over again. In this
song Dolly is the ‘’other woman’’ and I cannot put into words how moving and
highly emotive this song is. Goodness me, this must go down in history as a
Dolly Parton classic. ‘’I’m not out to hurt someone, not you, not her not
anyone –but I got Heartaches of my Own, why, I can’t even wear Cologne. This
will receive many a standing ovation if Dolly sings this in her upcoming world
tour.
The cover art for this CD is also outstanding. The vibrant pink cover
is extremely girly –it will go down well with Dolly’s myriad gay fans all over
the world and rightly so. The pink sticker on the front of the CD highlights
‘’Better Get to Livin’’ and ‘’Jesus and Gravity’’ as the singles from the album.
The booklet is full of lyrics and even has some of the little plastic ‘’Dolly
Dolls’’ of yesteryear featured inside. Anyone noticed the nice little touch with
the car mirror on the back of the cover... This is a classic Dolly Parton CD.
Joe Skelly
http://www.dollypartonfans.net
(Home of DOLLY PARTNERS UK)
 Parton me Dolly.., February 25, 2008
By Sally
Far from classic Dolly but you have to give it up to the Queen of Country, she
is constent!
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