Burlap & Satin/Real Love

Dolly Parton - Burlap & Satin/Real Love

Burlap & Satin/Real Love
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Artist: Dolly Parton
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-03-19
Music Label: RCA Victor Europe
Soundtracks:
  1. Ooo-Eee
  2. Send Me the Pillow That You Dream On
  3. Jealous Heart
  4. Gamble Either Way
  5. Appalachian Memories
  6. I Really Don't Want to Know - Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton
  7. Potential New Boyfriend
  8. Cowboy's Ways
  9. One of Those Days
  10. Calm on the Water
  11. Think About Love
  12. Tie Our Love (In a Double Knot)
  13. We Got Too Much
  14. It's Such a Heartache
  15. Don't Call It Love
  16. Real Love - Dolly Parton, , Kenny Rogers
  17. I Can't Be True
  18. Once in a Very Blue Moon
  19. Come Back to Me
  20. I Hope You're Never Happy

Music reviews of Burlap & Satin/Real Love

Music Review: Two under-rated Hollywood era classics
Rating: 5 Stars

To coincide with Dolly's European tour of 2007, there were several CD releases including yet another best of compilation and three twofers (of which this is one) featuring six albums, five of which had never been released on CD while the other had only briefly been available in the early days of CD. Three of Dolly's older albums were also released with bonus tracks although only the bonus tracks were new to CD, the main albums having already been made available on earlier releases. Among those Dolly albums not available on CD before 2007, the two Hollywood-era albums I most wanted to have on CD were the two selected for this twofer. I was therefore particularly pleased with this CD.

The first album here, Burlap and satin, dates from 1983 - a time when Dolly felt depressed about various aspects of life. Although Gregg Perry produced this album, he compounded Dolly's woes by quitting the music business altogether soon afterwards. Mellow, reflective songs dominate the album but there are some interruptions to this mellow mood, especially with the disco-styled Potential new boyfriend. A very infectious, upbeat song, it nevertheless only scraped into the country top twenty. The basic theme of the song - one woman's warning to another woman to keep away from her man (or, in this case, potential man) is typical of the songs that helped Dolly, Tammy and Loretta break all the stereotypes of female country singers in the sixties. Of course, the who arrangement and delivery are very different.

There are covers of two country oldies (Send me the pillow that you dream on, I really don't want to know), the second being a duet with Willie Nelson. Apart from the seductive opening track (Ooo-eee), Dolly wrote all the remaining tracks. It seems that Appalachian memories, an outstanding song about Dolly's childhood, has become popular among fans of Dolly's live shows, so one can but wonder what it might have achieved as a single.

Another song that must surely have been considered for single release is One of those days, a song whose sadness is emphasized by the use of plaintive steel guitar, more prominent here than on any other track on this album. As it was, only one single was released from the album, probably because Islands in the stream (included on the Kenny Rogers album Eyes that see in the dark, released later that year) was released as the follow-up to Potential new boyfriend. Even so, another single could have been released instead once that classic had finished its chart run.

Jealous heart, A gamble either way and A cowboy's ways are other brilliant mellow songs. The album concludes with Calm on the water, which despite its title picks up the tempo somewhat, more so as the song progresses. This gospel song is a nice way to end the album.

The second album here, Real love, dates from 1985 and provides a stark contrast with Burlap and satin. It has nine relentless upbeat songs, which are interrupted only by a cover of Once in a very blue moon, a song most commonly associated with folk-country singer Nanci Griffith. I love that song (and Dolly's cover of it) but part of me wishes that ten upbeat songs had been selected. Being Dolly's last RCA album, it might not have been properly promoted (last albums often suffer that fate) but it is clear that this album received its fair share of the RCA promotions budget. Two singles (Real love, Think about love) made number one in the American country charts, another (Don't call it love) wasn't far away and a fourth single (Tie our love in a double knot) made the country top twenty. The title track was released on the album as a duet with Kenny Rogers and was also released that way as a single, but Dolly also recorded a sol version, which was eventually released on a compilation (I will always love you - the essential Dolly Parton volume one) that is long out of print. That collection also includes another rarity - Dolly's original 1976 recording of To Daddy.

Of the other songs, It's such a heartache (written by Even Stevens and Hillary Kanter) is much more cheerful than the title suggests - and don't confuse it with Bonnie Tyler's It's a heartache, a song that several country singers have recorded, but not Dolly - at least not yet. Dolly wrote the remaining songs (We got too much, I can't be true, Come back to me, I hope you're never happy), every one of them an upbeat, fun song whatever the title might suggest.

Two of my favorite Hollywood-era albums on one CD make this pairing my favorite among the three twofers in this batch of Dolly releases.

Description of Burlap & Satin/Real Love

2007 UK pressing of this two-fer from the talented and beautiful Country legend featuring a double dose of her classic albums on one CD. The albums featured in this series were all originally released during the most creative and successful period of her career in the late '70s and early '80s. Burlap & Satin was originally released in 1983 followed two years later by Real Love. 20 tracks. Sony/BMG.

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