Fabulous country star DOLLY PARTON who celebrated her
80th birthday last month scored a major hit with 9 TO 5.
She topped the US Singles Charts today 45 years ago, on 23 February 1981
and stayed there for 2 weeks. It also went to #1 in Canada, top-10 in Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa and several European countries, but only #47 in
the UK.
The track was taken from the 1980 comedy film of the same name
with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly herself in her film debut.
The song garnered Parton four Grammy Award nominations, winning
her the awards for Best Country Song and Best Country Vocal Performance.
For a time, the song became something of an anthem for office workers
in the US.
World-famous country shero DOLLY PARTON was born
in Pittman Center, Tennessee, U.S. on 19 January 1946.
Happy 80 to one of the greatest voices ever,
to a tremendously flamboyant artist, and
utterly cool personality.
She’s in the music business since she was only 10-years old.
She wrote most of her songs herself. She has released no less
than 49 LPs and multiple collaborative albums (so far).
One of her biggest and best known hits.
More tha 880 million streams on Spotify.
For the occasion, the Californian gang re-recorded a version of the album’s huge
power ballad hit HOME SWEET HOME (more than 275 million streams on Spotify).
The surprising fact is that they invited iconic country star Dolly Parton to do the vocals.
I love it for 2 reasons. The weird but cool collaboration itself and Parton‘s always-striking voice.
The new version of the song will be on a forthcoming greatest hits collection called From The Beginning.
Wake up, people
here comes mötley
sweet Dölly Crüe
At the age of just 20, giant country starDOLLY PARTON married her boyfriend Carl Dean.
Although Parton does not use Dean‘s surname professionally, she has stated that her passport reads Dolly Parton Dean, and she sometimes uses Dean when signing contracts
Dean, who ran an asphalt road and driveway-paving business in Nashville for
decades, shunned publicity. He rarely accompanied his wife to public events.
In 2016 Dolly announced that she and Dean would renew their vows in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary. Last week she announced on her social media that Dean had died in Nashville at the age of 82, and wrote this affecting, lovey-dovey ode IF YOU HADN’T BEEN THERE for him. Endearing.
Mega country star DOLLY PARTON, now aged 78, who drew a lot of attention with her Rockstar album last year, covering multiple hits of big names such as The Police, Prince, CCR and Aerosmith, released her huge, self-written hit JOLENE this day in 1973.
The White Stripes played it live frequently in
the early 2000s and recorded it and released
it as B-side of ‘Hello Operator‘ in 2004.
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Check the 10 new rad cuts just
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From his new, forthcoming album Drama King. More infohere.
“Fun Guy” shares Bibby’s perspective of his recent turn to an alcohol-free
lifestyle and the subsequent challenges faced to his social standing and
chaotic live performance. It’s a drum-machine-fuelled, hard and fast, punk
banger taking notes from Suicide and Throbbing Gristle.
Expect a maddening missile that races like a 4-motor hotrod on the run.
Newest shared piece from Leonard‘s upcoming album Real Home out on April 17. Pre-order info here.
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A flood of diverse percussion, acoustic guitar and jittery vocals create a both
chaotic and intriguing flow. Capriciously fascinating, waywardly impressive.
This British collective, formed in 2012, have 3 albums
and 6 EPs on their résumé. Discover it all via Spotify.
New single Small Joys is a brisk guitar pop symphony that sticks instanly. Beautifully orchestrated with moony vocals floating all over it. The accompagning video is quite remarkable.
Manley about Save Your Own: “In the chaos of addiction and treatment,
sometimes the best you can do is take care of yourself first–put on your own
oxygen mask first. It’s a plea to my partner Anna to take care of herself and
let me go.”
Despite the dream pop vibrancy, think Vampire Weekend, the sentiments at
play here are alarming. An awe-inspiring, real-hard-life inspired tune that’ll
boggle your mind.
Hohlbrugger: “It’s about that someone you’ll never be with and that you allow to remain
inside you as a perfect unspoiled thing, yet still you measure and hold your real relationship up against it. It’s a dream, an illusion, an unfair fantasy. Nothing and therefore able to be perfect.”
It’s a yearning, gripping, melacholic ballad for the midnight hours. The bittersweet duet perfomance features the sensuous vocals by critically acclaimed Norwegian indie artist Frøkedal. Think murder ballad duo Nick Cave/Kylie Minogue, but also legendary 60s duo’s Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazlewood and Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg. Heartfelt romanticism.
I’ll feature 20 covers by a star-studded cast of country artists such as George Strait, Steve Earle, Willie and Lukas Nelson, Marty Stuart, Luke Combs, Chris Stapleton, Wynonna Judd, and Carly Pearce.
Parton: “I was fortunate enough to get to know Tom over the years. He’s such
an iconic artist and important songwriter. I’m so honored to be a part of this
special album and to be able to share my version of one of Tom’s best songs,
‘Southern Accents’.”
At 78 Parton‘s voice is still as impressive as the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
The accompanying video features some nostalgic Tom Petty home
footage.
WATCH/LISTEN
TRACKLIST
01“I Should Have Known It” by Chris Stapleton 02“Wildflowers” by Thomas Rhett 03“Runnin’ Down A Dream” by Luke Combs 04“Southern Accents” by Dolly Parton 05 “Here Comes My Girl” by Justin Moore 06“American Girl” by Dierks Bentley 07 “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” by Lady A 08“I Forgive It All” by Jamey Johnson 09 “I Won’t Back Down” by Brothers Osborne 10 “Refugee” by Wynonna Judd & Lainey Wilson 11“Angel Dream No. 2” by Willie Nelson & Lukas Nelson 12 “Learning To Fly” by Eli Young Band 13“Breakdown” by Ryan Hurd feat. Carly Pearce 14“Yer So Bad” by Steve Earle 15“Ways To Be Wicked” by Margo Price feat. Mike Campbell 16“Mary Jane’s Last Dance” by Midland 17“Free Fallin’” by The Cadillac Three feat. Breland 18 “I Need To Know” by Marty StuartAnd His Fabulous Superlatives 19“Don’t Come Around Here No More” by Rhiannon Giddens feat. Silkroad Ensemble and Benmont Tench 20“You Wreck Me (Live)” by George Strait
(Tom Petty image: cover of his ‘American Treasure’ album)
Sad news came in a couple of weeks ago. L.A.’s blues rock tandem Deap Vally – Lindsay Troy and Julie Edwards – one of the most exciting
and dynamite acts, of the past 10 years call it a day.
But not without a big bang. They say farewell with an extensive North America tour.
They’ll release a new vinyl edition of their superb debut LP Sistrionix, out Spring 2024.
And their recent roasting cover of The Stones‘ VENTILATOR BLUES
track from their 1972 LP Exile On Main Street is spot-on awesome.
Sounds like this classic was written for them.
Musical Nashville legend Leon Russell, born
Claude Russell Bridge in 1942, passed away in
2016, at the age of 74.
To celebrate the genial, all-around, eccentric-looking icon, a 10-track
tribute album came out last September, titled A Song For Leon.
The imperishable noise rockers Pixies are part of the LP’s celebrity cast,
with a red-hot-blooded version of Russell‘s 1971 classic boogie woogie cracker Crystal Closet Queen.
British famous singer-songwriter-producerTREVOR HORN (now 74),
who scored a No 1 UK hit in 1979 with his one-time project Buggles
and their pop earworm Video Killed The Radio Star (more than 323 million
streams on Spotify) released an album of 11 covers early this month. It’s
titled Echoes: Ancient & Modern.
One of the covered songs is Personal Jesus, the 24-carat Depeche Mode classic
from 1990. Horn invited eternal punk Iggy Pop to do the singing. An inch-perfect
decision. At the age of 76, he still sounds like he wants to be your dog.
Since their reunion in 2010 glam pop legends Suede got
tremendously active with 4 albums and constant touring.
Last February they did something really amazing. They performed
at the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios for their Piano Room Month‘s series
with artists’ playing the piano room with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Suede choose to cover the 1978 classic cracker Beacuse The Night,
co-written by Bruce Springsteen and recorded for eternity by Patti Smith.
The band’s take is astonishing. The orchestral magnificence is grand and
frontman Brett Anderson‘s vocal effort is phenomenal. Pure tour de force.
A tribute album for the legendary, singular, and utterly charismatic Marianne Faithfull came out a couple of weeks ago.
One of the most notable interpretations of Faithfull songs is by Garbage‘s Shirley Manson and queer queen Peaches who turn the explicit 1979 song WHY’D YA DO IT into a disco stomper.
Folk songsmith Drake (1948-1974) was/is an inspiration for many singer-songwriters.
His 3 LPs Five Leaves Left (1969), Bryter Layter (1970) and Pink Moon (1972) were and
are still widely lauded. The trouble artist died following an overdose of amitriptyline,
an antidepressant, aged only 26.
New Irish post-punk heroes Fontaines D.C. were invited too. They picked‘Cello Song
from Drake‘s 1969 debut LP Five Leaves Left. The Irishmen’s version is just splendid in
their own haunting way.
At the age of 77, the fabulous country superstar
still is working longer than 9 to 5 per day.
And to prove her never-ending productivity, she released her
49th (!) LP last month, named Rockstar. Yep, Parton‘s first rock LP.
It features several big-name collaborations.
I don’t own a Dolly album, I didn’t follow her career but as so many million people
I know her hits, and I do love her formidable voice – the heroine again on this record –
and her I do what I want attitude.
The supreme standout track is her version of Purple Rain,
the 1984 blockbuster hit by late musical genius Prince.
Last June the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the wayward mastermind of underrated
indie mavericks Gun Club from L.A. would have celebrated his 65th birthday.
Last March, a country rock tribute album for the immortal Stones was
put together by renowned producer Robert Deaton. It features 14 covers
of 14 classics of one of the greatest bands in history.
