Live And Well

by

Dolly Parton

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First of all, I'm NOT a Country Music fan, but I can't help but love Dolly Parton. You'll hear why if you buy this 2-disc set.

Dolly is not only a great singer and performer, but a master lyricist and storyteller. Her incredible commentary between songs explains her thoughts and you really get a feel of why she wrote that song. Her simple grace is amazing. She loves to entertain and that shows loud and clear in this set. When she talks about her childhood, her family and her home on the foot of the Smokey Mountains, she really shows why she is an icon.

I did shed of couple of unexpected tears while this was playing. "My Tennessee Mountain Home", "Smokey Mountain Memories" and "Coat of Many Colors" are killers. They draw such emotion and with a lyric like "..so we hitched our station wagon to a star", it's a wonder there was a dry eye in the house.

I'm so proud to own this collection. Buy it and I think you'll see why.

First of all, Dolly's wonderlful, a criminally underrated songwriter. I was so excited to see she had a live CD, but when i listened it just didn't do it for me. i think the main reason was I couldn't help comparing it to her 1994 live CD, Heartsongs. Now that is the best live CD I have ever heard and possibly my favourite Dolly CD. I was hoping for a sequel to Heartsongs, but this didn't come close. Maybe if I had never heard Heartsongs, I'd love Live and Well as much as everyone else. Live and Well sounds too much like talking and then singing, and while Heartsongs has both, the talking is more meaningful and joins the singing so much better--it flows better. Give it a listen and you'll see what I mean.