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Dolly Parton - My Tennessee Mountain Home [Bonus Track] [Remaster]

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Format: CD
Label: RCA VICTOR EUROPE
Catalog: 82876815292
Rel. Date: 04/03/2007
UPC: 828768152928

My Tennessee Mountain Home [Bonus Track] [Remaster]
Artist: Dolly Parton
Format: CD
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DISC: 1

1. Letter, The
2. I Remember
3. Old Black Kettle
4. Daddy's Working Boots
5. Dr. Robert F. Thomas
6. In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)
7. My Tennessee Mountain Home
8. Wrong Direction Home, The
9. Back Home
10. Better Part of Life, The
11. Down On Music Row
12. Sacred Memories

More Info:

Dolly Parton's roots were never deeper than on this 1972 effort. Starting off with the heartfelt "The Letter" and topping off with "My Tennessee Mountain Home," this Dolly at her most personal, and perhaps her best.

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''My Tennessee Mountain Home'' was a 1973 Dolly Parton album, the title track of which became one of her better known compositions. Largely a concept album about her childhood in rural Tennessee, the album began with a recitation of the first letter Parton wrote to her parents, shortly after moving from her hometown of Sevierville, Tennessee to Nashville in 1964. Most of the songs were fond reminiscences of her youth and family, though in one song, "In the Good Old Days (When Times Were Bad)", Parton candidly admits that though she is grateful for the lessons the poverty of her childhood taught her, she is no hurry to repeat the experience. The final cut on the album, "Down on Music Row", recounts her first days on Nashville's Music Row, scrambling to get a record deal, and thanking those who helped her along the way (making specific mention of Chet Atkins and RCA's Bob Ferguson).

Though neither the album nor the title single were huge commercial hits for Parton — neither cracked the top ten on the U.S. country singles or albums charts — they remain fondly remembered by her fans; the ''My Tennessee Mountain Home'' album is among the most critically praised albums in Parton's catalogue.

In later years, Parton has used the song "My Tennessee Mountain Home" as something of a theme song for her Dollywood theme park.

The house pictured on the album cover was the house the Parton family lived in during late 1940s and early 1950s. - Wikipedia

        
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