Dolly Parton - Just Because I'm A Woman
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Artist: Dolly PartonEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2011-11-23
Music Label: RLG/BMG Heritage
Soundtracks:
- You're Gonna Be Sorry
- I Wish I Felt This Way At Home
- False Eyelashes
- I'll Oilwells Love You
- The Only Way Out (Is To Walk Over Me)
- Little Bit Slow To Catch On
- The Bridge
- Love And Learn
- I'm Running Out Of Love
- Just Because I'm A Woman
- Baby Sister
- Try Being Lonely
- Just Because I'm A Woman
- Coat Of Many Colors
Music reviews of Just Because I'm A Woman
Music Review: The headwaters of all that is Dolly Parton
Rating: 5 Stars
Having waxed an earlier LP for Monument, this isn't Parton's official solo debut, but with her meteoric rise to prominence as Porter Wagoner's duet partner, and her transfer to RCA, this 1968 release marks the true spiritual start of her solo career. It not only lays out the spare sound that would make her early recordings so powerful (and distinct from the countrypolitan records being churned out by Nashville at the time), but stakes out the songwriting prowess that would continue to shine to this very day.
In addition to a few of Wagoner's band members and fine Nashville studio hands (including stellar, and recently un-retired, steel player, Lloyd Green), Parton was lucky to have Chet Atkins' assistant Bob Ferguson at the producer's desk. In contrast to Atkins, Ferguson used a lighter sound that kept Parton and her background singers (including Anita Carter) front and center. Parton penned four of this set's tunes (the title track, the self-empowered "You're Gonna Be Sorry," the Bakersfieldian "I'll Oilwells Love You," and the powerful love-to-abandonment parable "The Bridge"), but she's also very well served by like-minded songs collected from others. "False Eyelashes" is a twangy tale of failed ambitions, and the self-discovery of Neal Merritt's "The Only Way Out (Is to Walk Over Me)" fits Parton's combination of fragility and resolve to a tee.
RCA's CD reissue adds two previously unreleased live tracks from 1970, one is the title tune, and the second of the first-ever recording of "Coat of Many Colors." While the latter doesn't have the heartstring-production of the subsequent hit single, it's sparse acoustic guitar accompaniment (rendering this nearly an a cappella performance) starkly frames its hymnal qualities. This is probably the only time you'll ever hear Parton announce on stage, "I'd like to do a song called 'The Coat of Many Colors'" and not hear the audience thunder with applause (until the end, of course). You can sense the breathless discovery of Parton's audience hearing this gem for the first time, and Parton's emotion in singing it for an audience that hasn't already heard the true-life story.
As great as Parton's hits are, it's even greater to hear them in the context of all the other fine songs she wrote and sang. A few of her later albums (e.g., 1971's "Coat of Many Colors") may edge this one slightly in overall strength, but this is a truly essential part of country music's heritage and a great place to begin one's appreciation of Parton's entire catalog.
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